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...throws a dipping forkball that induces rally-killing grounders. For the Yankees, fading Whitey Ford (12-9) still looks able to pitch two big games with know-how and his sharp curve, and Art Ditmar (15-9) has developed into a steady winner with his slider. But Bob Turley (9-3) now throws more benders than bullets, and Stengel may be forced to depend heavily on a 22-year-old rookie named Bill Stafford...
...York's Bob Turley and Bill Skowron, Milwaukee's Joey...
...KATHLEEN TURLEY Jackson Heights...
...That Gate. By week's end the Fourth of July standings left the Yankees teetering in fourth place by virtue of virtuous Bob Turley's one-hitter against Washington. What happens next is anyone's guess. It may not be baseball, but the fans love it. Attendance is up 15% for the league, and a ringing 38% for the Yankees at home. As for the bookmakers, all the yak about the Yankees could not be sillier. They have the Yankees as 8 to 5 favorites to win: Cleveland is 4 to 1, Chicago and Detroit...
...puny .243 v. .266 at the same time last year, when they led the league by 6½ games. The Bronx Bombers had been shut out five times in the first six weeks of 1959. The pitching was poor too. Last week Yankee Aces Whitey Ford and Bob Turley were both knocked out of the box in the first inning. Muttered Manager Casey Stengel: "Those pitchers of ours will have to do a little better or we won't get to see them around here much longer...