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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (June 30, 1923)
Saturday, June 30, 1923 THE LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER PAGE THREE I Crews To Be In Game With Powder Boys ocr urance that YV. C. Crows, man of the La Grande Pirate, will ha in the line-up against North Pow der at North Powder tomorrow, came tvjtuy upon his return from Port h'4 where he has spent the past vjtuk. Crews, who in addition tc be- I lug manager of the Pirates, is one j of the strongest fielders and hitters, on the team, will probably play at shortstop. With his return La j Grande is assured of seeing the fast est Piiate aggregation of the year1 in action at North Powder and from j indications, quite a number cf fans j are planning on making the trip to i the rodeo tuwn Sunday to witness! the game. j Selection of the pitcher who will 1 fitait against the Powderites Sunday has not been made but with four to pick .from the hurling material is not lacking. Martin, White, MaGce and Vote ought tc hold any team in Eastern Oregon at their mercy. The Pirates will leave La Grande about 12;o0 o'clock in the afternoon from the Home Plate, and will make the trip in cars. The standing of the Intermountain league at present is Cove, won 7, lost 3, .875; Laker, won 7, lost 2, .777; La Grande, won 5, lest 4, .555. Baker plays Cove tomorrow at Baker. COAST BASEBALL pwus to make o showing uguinst Juck in the boxing lint.'. Two colored hcuvk-a Uutlu in un othcr U-n-round fntfaifoiuciit. Gcoir- Godfiiy, protiBu of Juck Johnson's und uIbo u volerun of tlio Di'inpacy camp, mee ts Juck Thompson of llos ton. uodfii.-y Is tho best of tho col- .oi-cd hi'uvica in tlio opinion of John son, who worked with him dully for nix months. Thompson recently foiiKht Johnson In lliivanu, going the full dls tunce. lie has done most of his fight- ling through the south. lie Is de jscribed us u I'u-pounder with a punch i in eimer mitt. I 11ml (iormun, who holds a decision lover Kddie JliCioorty, will buttle Ilur jry Druuke in un elghl-round prellm jinUry opening the show. Ciurinun, wiiIIiik urouml 2011, Is the heaviest jmun is tlie Dempsey camp, lie is fust jund sillily for u big fellow, und the daily instruction from Tom hus Im j proved him greully. jruuket un Kng lishmun, is the cleverest mun In the I ncmpscy camp. Ie will outshine Gor Initu from this angle, but lacks the 'punching power of Bud. I The first preliminary is carded to start at o'clock noon. Preceding this, the two hands on opposite sides of the ring will blare out jazz and semi-classical pieces to entertain tho crowd before tlio contestants in the opening fight climb into tho ring. Clubs ' San Francisco Sacramento Portland . Salt Lake .. . Ih)s Angeles . Vernon Seuttlc Oukland . Won Lost Pet. ....67 31 .048 ....40 39 .Ml 44 42 .612 ....41 4;t .488 40 43 .482 ....40 44 .470 HO 47 .434 .,..34 51 .400 BAKER TO PLAY COVE TOMORROW DEMPSEY-GIBBONS BATTLE ASSURED San Franeiscc K. II- E. Salt Lake .'. 7 13 0 Sun Francisco 8 10 1 Catteries, Gould, Meyers, Coumbe ujid Peters; Scott and Yelle. Senators Outrun Angels Los Angeles iH. H. E. Sacramento 8 12 1 Los Angeles 5 11 2 Batteries, ,Prough, Fittery and Kfiphlpr' CriiniiHll. Thnmns nnil Bv- Her. Vernon Hits Gardner. Seattle R. II. E. Vernon ,.5 14 2 Seattle 7 7 0 Batteries, James, iKciger and D. Murphy; Gardner and Tobin. Oaks, Beavers Hit Heavily. Portland B. H. E. n..n..,i t 7 u i Iportiami '. '!!.'!!!.'!!.'.!!! !n 17 1 I Batteries, Alett, Murchio and 0a- f ker; achrocder and On slew. j BAKHR, June 30. One gamo from the top and a hard gamo to beat. That is tho way things look for Man ager Hunt und his Colts Sunday. The Cove Cherry Pickers are coming neve and ccming much stronger than they were when Baker beat them 4 to 1. If Baker .wins- Sunday they will be; tied with Cove for first place and I in order to win the pennant they must beat La Grande a week from Sunday and down Covo again on their homo grounds. There is a pos sible chance that La Grande will grt one game from Covo, but Manager Hunt does not car to take the chance sc is out to win the next three games if hunt work can do it. Sunday's game will be tho last! game on tho home grounds in the; are in good shape, the grandstand is completed and with lots of parkin?.: space inside the grounds there should be a capacity crown, ine n.'iKen club has worked hard this week, lak-j ing an extra workout Wednesday and all tho boys are in good conili- tion. Manager Hunt announces tho fol-j lowing probable lineup: Buker, C;'l Greer und Generex, H; Robertson, L; j Bates, SS; McCullough, 3; Ansell 2; Sutherland, 1st; Ca.ssidy, C; and Koslmry or Sutherland, P. 1 GUKAT FALLS. Juno 30. Tlio of tho moat remarkable financial nrhh'VcmeulH tn the lil.story of Klove tlKhthiK. Attn all Pimm had fulled, Mr. Stanton conceived tho liliu ot up pealing to JMi men throughout the Jack In-mpy-Tom GU.bona luuvy- tt;, most of tlit-m Hfo-long friends, unities when the word was brought to him that the $luu,u0u had been raided. weight chainpionuiii) fit; lit . twieo threatened with collapse within thn last two weeks because of finunctu! ertsis, hiitt eh'ared the hint hutillo und will he ilecldeel 111 Shelby, July 4, as eheduled. The final $Uiu.(0 of lvminey'n $:tno,noo Kuarantea wan ivitH.d l-YMay night from !! lnl'luon tiul business nirii of tho state, who pledged liiMiiU each. George II. Stanton, president of the Stanton Trust fc Savings hunk, who pei-.-mnuHy advanced $Mi.nnn to make I H-mpsey'a Hecoild $ 1 00,000 Install im nt Hi days ago, made tho positive announcement that the final install ment ljml hern raised and that It would he avuilublo In cash not later than Saturday night. Mr. Stanton naid that the money, however, would not he turned over to Jack Kearnc, I lenipney'N manager until Monday, tho date on whieli the payment I'allH due. just that Tho raising of the $oo,ouo Is ono Kearim1 I to ttivo what he termed "tho honor of Montana," meaning tho heuvywolght championship bultlo at Shelby. "Tho rommltteo aiithorUes mo to announce," Mr. Stanton said, "that t liu lUio.nuo duu Jack Dempsey next Monday has been raised und will be in cuhIi in the banks hero not lator than Saturday night. Much of It has been subscribed in cash from our loy al lrhnds in Great Falls, but tho amounts nuhncrlhcd In other cities of tho State can not reach hero beforo Saturday. C'hargo Kcurtis Dodging. "It Ih our opinion, judging from K earns altitude, that K earns is not overly anxious to have IHmipsey fight Gibhons and would get out of tho light if hv could. Iioiupscy Is under enntract to fight Gibbons on July 4 and we are going to see that ho does SPORT BRIEFS Welcome Winners Home. . SEATTLE, Juno 30. A parade for evcryody than can ?ct into it, ia Mayor Edwin J. Brown's idea of the proper central feature of the wel come Seattle is to extend to th crew of tho University of 'Washing ton, which Thursday won the inter ccllcKiato rcKultu at Poughkeepsie, N. y. t: flll'C was wn'ntlio.l 111 Walsh Wins tiolf Play WASHINGTON, Juno 30. Rich ard Walsh of New York, won tho na tional public link Rolf championship here Friday by defeating J. Stewart Whitman also of New York ti up and G to play in the ,1ti-hole final round of the tournament. ' ' Preliminaries Are Glassy ; 81IKLBY, Mont., Juno 30. One of the finest cards that ever prufaeed a championship battle will be offered thy fans who flock hero next Wednes ittlay to see Jack Dempsey and Tom Glbtojis battle for the heavyweight title. Matuhmaker Mdte Collins who arranged the. big bout, also had charge of the preliminaries, and has lined up What would be an all-star card if it were not, for I he two who meet In 'the fistic climax. Jimmy Delaney not so long ago, ami beforo he was Ul year old, gave light heavy-weight champion, Gene Tunney, a floree bailie for ten rounds. Some of the critics gave Tunney a shade nnd others called it a draw. Jimmy is a pupil of Alike GibbYms. He ab sorbed much of the phantom's clever-i n ess. Jle lias been training dally with Tom Gibbons. Delaney will meet Jack j Hurke of the Dempsey camp In a ten-; round bout. Ibirke has been one of the stars of Dempscy'a training cam- paign. lie is the one boxer who ap- o e o o o o - o o ,o o ,o o o o if- to, ' 'S ' rfftf Ok! Rnv .1 ! . Uh! 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