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Bosox Crush Cards;
Series Finale Today

THE SEVENTH GAME of the World Series—Jim
Lonborg dueling Bob Gibson. One of the most anticipated
events in recent baseball history—a true dream game—
will commence this afternoon at 1 o'clock in Fenway
Park when the all-too-unbelievable Boston Red Sox oppose
the slightly-favored St. Louis Cardinals in the game that
will decide the 1967 world championship.

Yesterday, the Bean Town Bombers came from behind
twice to defeat the Redbirds, 8-4, and make the Lonborg-Gibson
match a reality. A twelve-hit, four-homer barrage
enabled the Bosox to even the Series at three games
apiece, and once again just escape from the brink of
elimination.

A parade of eight St. Louis hurlers, tying a Series
record, was unable to silence the bats of the potent Sox
who broke the game wide open in the bottom of the
seventh. Dalton Jones, pinch hitting for pitcher John
Wyatt, opened the inning with a solid single to right.
Joe Foy then doubled Jones home. Red Sox 5, Cards
4. Mike Andrews singled to left to score Foy. Carl
Yastrzemski singled Andrews around to third. Jerry Adair
next sacrificed Andrews across. George Scott singled, then
Reggie Smith singled. And on and on. As the Cards
came to bat in the eighth, they were down by the final
8-4 score.

THE CARDS WERE DOWN BUT not out in the
eighth however. Gary Bell took the mound for the Sox.
Orlando Cepeda started the eighth with an infield single.
Tim McCarver next sent a line shot out into left field—
a sure extra-baser. Then, out of nowhere, Carl Yastrzemski
one handed the drive on the dead run. The next St.
Louis hitter, third-baseman Mike Shannon, doubled and
advanced Cepeda to third. Julian Javier was next up and
hit a Bell offering right on the nose—and into the glove
of Red Sox third-baseman Joe Foy. Then Dal Maxvill
walked to fill the sacks. Pinch-hitter Dave Ricketts connected
solidly, too, but it was Carl Yastrzemski to the
rescue again as he hauled in Ricketts' drive on the warning
track. Three Cardinal runners watched in disbelief from
the bases.

Shortstop Rico Petrocelli broke out of his Series hitting
slump by clouting two homers to pace the Sox attack.
Carl Yastrzemski, of course, and Reggie Smith also contributed
four-baggers for the victors. Lou Brock continued
to be the outstanding Cardinal at the plate, but he just
didn't get enough help from the team's usual musclemen,
Cepeda and Shannon.

BOTH LONBORG AND GIBSON have won two games
in the Series thus far with outstanding individual performances.
But today the Cardinal ace takes to hill with
one more day of rest than his Red Sox counterpart. If
the pattern set in the first six games of the Series holds,
the team which scores first will win the 1967 world championship.
Will the fairy tale called the Boston Red Sox
add a final chapter to baseball history?—John Marshall