GAME 5
CARLETON SHUTOUTS FURTRADERS; SERIES BACK TO FREMONT
MONTGOMERY, AL (AP) - Tex Carleton's allowed only two hits over nine innings in leading the
Montgomery Burns to a 4-0 win over the Fremont Furtraders in Game 5 of the DBS World Series.
The Burns reduced the Fremont advantage to 3 games to 2 as the Series returns to Fremont.
Carleton's mound opponent, Fremont's Ed Brandt, was equal to the challenge and held the Burns
offense in check, at one point, retiring ten men in succession. As has been the case all Series, both
teams had difficulty in getting their offensives moving in Game 5.
Fremont mounted the first serious challenge of the game in the top of the third when they loaded the
bases with no one out. The rookie Carelton, pitching in the biggest game of his brief career, induced
a pop up from Riggs Stephenson and struck out the next two batters to escape serious damage.
Montgomery countered by loading the bases in the bottom half of the frame with two out, but Brandt froze
third baseman Pie Traynor with a curveball to record the third out of the inning.
Neither team mounted a serious threat until the seventh where Montgomery scored, but at a cost.
Shortstop Eric McNair, leading off the inning was beaned in the head by an errant Brandt pitch,
knocking him out of the game and the remainder of the Series with a concussion. Woody English, the
starting shortstop on the last Burns championship team, replaced him at first and scored after a walk
to pinch-hitter Lloyd Waner and a single by Smead Jolley. Jolley ended his Series slump with a pair
of hits and RBI.
The run would have been the margin of victory had the Burns not added three more in the bottom of the
eighth on five Burns hits. Another hit batsman, this time second baseman Tony Piet by Paul Derringer
emptied the benches and caused some shouting but the order was restored without further incident.
The Series now returns to where it began Fremont, Michigan for Game Six. The starter for Montgomery
will be Tommy Bridges, starter and loser in Game Three. He will be opposed by Rube Walberg, the veteran
southpaw. Walberg pitched well in Game Two, allowing no runs in 8+ innings, but he was not part of the decision.
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