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Owner O'Malley is still too proud to fire Walter Alston. Compounding the confusion at Chavez Ravine is the presence of ex-manager Leo Durocher and future-manager Pete Reiser. So much for management; on the labor side there are not enough outfield jobs to keep Tom Davis, Willie Davis, Frank Howard, Ron Fairly, Wally Moon, Duke Snider (enjoying another fine spring) and Lee Walls working happily. The unemployment problem is embodied in the case of Moon, a real star who appeared in only 95 games last year, could not hit stride, and wound up with a .242 mark...
...Gonzales and the sons of Bing Crosby. He is probably the only regular at the craps tables of Las Vegas who goes off in the daytime to water-ski on nearby Lake Mead above Hoover Dam, and his go-go dynamism stops dead when the Dodgers are playing in Chavez Ravine. He takes off for the ball park...
Died. Dennis Chavez, 74, a descendant of Spanish pioneers, who served six terms as a U.S. Senator from New Mexico; of a heart attack; in Washington. Devoted to the task of getting federal funds for his water-short state, roughly a third of whose population speaks Spanish. Democrat Chavez pushed aid through Congress - $1 billion this year alone - to rechannel the Rio Grande and, among other things, to bring water from the Colorado River to create new Navajo farm land. To his responsive voters, Chavez always could say: "Soy uno de ustedes," meaning...
...Blase. To the imperious New York Yankees the only difference between their two potential series opponents was the 25,000-seat cushion of the Dodgers' Chavez Ravine over the Giants' Candlestick Park. Celebrating their own pennant, the 27th in 41 years, the Yanks were the image of champagne-sipping nonchalance. "Why should I be excited," sniffed Roger Maris, taking the series in his usual stride. "It's something we expected all along." But the Yankees do not have quite that much to be blasé about. If Maris was last year's home-run terror...
...league leaders traditionally become favorites to win the pennant,* and Angelenos could scarcely contain their pride. In Washington, D.C., the American League's Los Angeles Angels swept a doubleheader from the Senators and edged a half game past the New York Yankees into first place. In Chavez Ravine, the National League's Los Angeles Dodgers swept a doubleheader from the Philadelphia Phillies, clung tenaciously to a half-game lead over the second-place San Francisco Giants. Not since 1956, when the Yankees and the old Brooklyn Dodgers tangled in the last of New York's "subway series...