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L. Page Two LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRANDE, ORE. Friday, March 27, 1931 : GRAKLE VICTOR j - IN STEEPLECHASE English Bred and Owned i Horse Wins Grand Na ; tional at Aintree Today WIN RICH FRIZES LONDON, Mar. 27 () Tho first prize of about $1,772,720 in the Irlrti Bwcepstnkes at the grand na tional today went to "Isola" of Datbetvea, England. The real name 3f the winner did not appear on the- ticket. ' C. C. Woods, Buffalo, N. Y;, von approximately 9866.360 with his ticket on Orcgalach which S laced second. His ticket had cost lm about 2 50. Third prize of about $590,905 was won by George Dyamond of Capetown, South Af- rlCA, with his ticket on Annan-viale. ' AINTREE, England, Mar. 37 m Grakle, English bred and owned steeplechaser, today won the grand national steeplechase. ' Gregalach, the great Irish Jumper Which won lit 1929, was second and Annanoale third. It was a clean sweep ror Great Britain. Tho winner 1b owned by C. H. Tay lor, Is nine years old and carried 161 pounds over the gruelling four mile W0 yard course over the thirty diffi cult Jumps. .Grakle is by Jack Daw out of Lady Cronk. Jockey R. Lyall had the leg up. 'American Horse Fourth. Ryhtlcere, owned by the American, Victor Emanuel, was fourth. Gregalach is owned by Mrs. Gcm Xnell and. Annandale by Lady Glenapp. , .Swift Rowland, owned by Mra. i Beatty, one of the American owners was killed when he fell at Beecber's brook the first time around the course. His Jockey escaped serious injury. Sir Lindsay, one of John Hay Whit ney's two entries and co -favorite with Easter Hero, fell. The time of the race was nine min utes, 34 seconds, a record for the course. The last minute rush of betting was so great that the odds on the three first horses were not immed iately ascertainable. Cyl Lovon, the Czechoslovak lan bred ! horse, fell the first time around, was , remounted and then fell again a mile irom nome. ! Grakle paid off at 100 to 6. Oretr- alach's winning price was 25 to l and Annandale ux to 1. Grakle won by one and one half lengtns wun ten lengina separating urcgoiaca ana Aiinanaaie. Easter Hero Falls. Easter Hero, Jock Whitney's great fencer and favorite to win, tell when only three Jumps from home. He had led witn uregmacn and Great Span i or me urst uau oi me race. Tho winner fenced superbly and iimsnea au oy nunseu. American horses finished seventh and eighth, . K. Mellon's aiancesta leodlng M. D. Blair's Great Span across me iinisn in inni oracr. Sir Lindsay's Jockey remounted him after tho fall and finished out the course. Horse and rider were roundly cheered as they galloped past the stands. African's Immunity Although he scorns to lend a enre free existence, the life of the East African native la tot a Joy tmal layed, but scientific inveatlsullon has recently shown thut he Is en tirely Immune from the ra voces of scarlet fever and diphtheria. Ef forts to pin nt the germs In his sys tem fnlip'I Gus Kallio files Suit For Damages PORTLAND, March 27 A suit for $10,000 was filed by Gus Kalllo. proscsslonal wrestler, yesterday for damages for injuries he contends he Bunerea March 10 when two men. spectators at a wrestling exhibition in Astoria, beat him after his op ponent had thrown him from the ring. The two, identified as Leonard Get titse and "Buck" Wilson, true name unknown, are charged with having fractured his Jaw and otherwise in juring him. Training Camp News Of Today r. DID YOU KNOW THAT Scouting for baseball Ivory, says Larry Sutton, Is a hazardous gamble at best . . . Sutton at 73 has been combing the bushes for nigh onto 40 years . , . he's on the Brooklyn payroll ... Ho had to Insist that the Robins take Dozzy Vance. . . He had a fight with Charles Ebbetts before the latter would buy Jake Daubert. He picked up Jeff Pfeffer and Sherry Smith from a Grand Rapids club, paying only $3100 for both. . . . Casey Stengel was one of his $3000 buys. . . . Sutton counts nis Diggest ivory haul the one he got for the late Christy Mathews on and tho Clncy Reds. . . . During ono season he sent the Reds Jimmy Ring, Etuus oresKier ana morns nam. . . . "It's mostly luck," Sutton admits. . . . "One Just pokes around and falls into good fortune. . , . Doc Scan Ion, Leon Cadore. Nick Alt rock. Del-Blssonette. Jim Elliott and John ny Warner were others sent un bv Sutton. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., March 27 JP) Babe Ruth Is nothing if not fair with his baseball enemies as well as friends. The House of David collec tion of bearded diamond warriors who furnished the opposition for the last Yankee exhibition game here this season, appeared with a "recruit," Shortstop Heller, who lacked the cus tomary whiskers. The Babe evened ; things up, however, by playing with a full set of false foliage attached to , his chin. ! Language Has Lasted The Inngunge spoken by the an clent Egyptians was in use as Inte as the Seventeenth century A. D. and fs still used In Coptic church rftnnl. MIAMI, Fla., March 27 WV-Various rumors to the contrary the Brooklyn Robins and their star pitcher, Dazzy vance, siui are ewj apart on cue question of the Dazzler's salary. Be fore leaving here for New York last night, President Frank York said he had been in communication with Vance, who has retired to his home at Homosassa to await developments. York's offer remained unchanged at $23,000 for the season while Vance refused to reduce his $25,000 demand. JACKSONVILLE. Fla., March 27 W : Reports were in circulation today that Chuck Klein, slugging outfield- j cr of the Phillies, is to be placed on : the market unless he soon signs the i contract offered by the club. The reports lacked confirmation. j It was rumored that Branch Rickey, of the St. Louis Cardinals, had of- j fered Chick Hafey, the bespectacled ' left fielder, two pitchers and $25,000 j in cash for Klein, but that the offer ! had been refused. i Klein Is at his home in Indian- ; apolls and has asserted that he will not sign unless he Is given the $14.- ' 500 for 1931. The Phillies are un derstood to have offered him $12,500. KELLY JXZUes JiA .3aw JUr2SQ KSS n 1P1 Keep Smiling with Reliys ." ' i i ' i 3- . f I- ' . ( v! ?! i I 4 is ft i i i A La Grande's Own Store Op T1 ens 1 omorrow ATURDAV March 28 -3- With a complete line of New Spring Merchandise in every department' bought on the new lower markets. We especially invite you to inspect our new men's and boys' dept., featuring the famous Oregon City Suits and Topcoats "Oregon made from Oregon Woolens"' Special Showing of New Read y-to-W ear on Opening Day NNER'S 4 ,up. Co La Grande's Own Store l.A (iUAM)K, OUE. :aT. 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As 11 . is P?" fcr the Sau Francisco Seals. Pacific tiouf t?uc5; aI(Car"e" s contract to Coast lea8ue team in its exhibition 1 meet the Stribling-Schmeling winner, series in Sun Francisco. mp Prevent maHters from taking , ... . . , ! their more sensible course. The Seals won their second straight yesterday 4 to 3. scoring fc'j: runs f . ,, llorKVK aTri, and seven hits in five innings oK Ed : MV,t, KO hfc hTlL . ... . B " I Tr. mow or mot? nnt ho alon t f Iran t but it is nevertheless a noteworthy j "er a ,sPot' "nB for te ,Da11 Bv O. H. Keeler Norman Macbeth comes to bat with an idea for Bobby Jones' movie series. He went to George Marshall, who is uirecung screen eiiorts oi ine worm s chnmpion, with his idea. "Work something into that se ries about slow players. George," he said, "you know funeral foursomes; creeping pestilences; frozen statues standing petrified over a shot and Baecht. riffht hnnder from ixw An- Keles making his debut In the major , J S'Vs leanlue ?oirart"Se 1 probattiy neck-deep in leagues this season. Jimmy Zinn who : T.k i , is leaning raiaia me trouble. (Buckyl O'Connor, star back of last "You can help the game a lot by allowed ihe nnlv th.ir th. ..in-, i year s unecaien noire mrae eleven, enowing mat ine nnest goner in in the third. He pitched six Innings, i J"'" " -'-i""b Batteries were Zinn. Henderson and , st'r- A . , . Baldwin. Pencbskv lor San Francisco: " would appear to bolster the Im- RiK-ht. m r-mh.,ii t ,kipresslon that Adam Walsh. 1924 cubs. : iotre Dame captain ana now llrst j cf our uest young golfers in cali- aisiant Ml new Loacn mai elevens. , fonlia nnd -on the Pacific coast." ! v.111 be elevated to the main Job , saiti ne, -is toward too much dellb. ! when Stevens retires at the Close of I eratiou " tr.e liiJi season ! the world is, and always has been. a prompt, decisive player." I Marshall toofc readily to the idea. 1 1 uuuk vne leuacmy among many Timers Win in Ninth. A home run by Roy Johnson In the ninth when the score was tied and two were out gave the Detroit Tigers or the American league a 11 to 10 victory over Pittsburgh of the Na tional league in an exhibition tilt at Los Angeles. Batteries were Hovt. Sullivan and Schang lor Detroit: Wood, Grant, Wll loughby and Hemsley for Pittsburgh. The teams will continue a four game scries toduy. Heavers Victorluus The Portland Beavers of the Pa cific Coast league rallied in the 8th to break a deadlock and defeat the San Francisco Missions 7 to 4 at tsan Jose. Jack Femon started the rally with a single. It grew on an error by Eddie Mulligan. Mission third sacker. and blossomed on Bill Pcsedei's timely single. Batteries were fSillerton. Posedel and Woodall for Portland: Walsh. Barrough and Breuzel, Hoffman for the Missions. I The Seals and Cubs will play the final game lu their series Sunday, morning. Today the Cubs and Missions open a three game series, playing this, to morrow and Sunday a'fternoon. ' r.KU.I.KD Glllt) T110I GUT Yale's football coaching system has been subject to change for some time. The Ells, feeling the respon sibilities of old tradition and leader ship, have been reluctant to Join the mob and "go Warner" or "go Kockne. So it is passible that promptness ; and decision of execution may have ; part of an episode in Bobby's series. 1 Three and one-tenth seconds. SOME SLOW nOYS (iOOD . I've seen more than one golfer who averaged nearer three minutes. And not all duffers, either. I've seen some good golfers, like Cyril Walker, seemingly hypnotize them- iiiLu u sort 01 routine Irom which they could not d epart In playing a shot. There la Sandy And Sandy Is a great golfer, and the only golfer living, so far as I know, who has made 18 holes-ln-one. But the idea seems to be and I know Bobby feels that way about it that unduly hanging over a shot berore Its execution is more likely to impair the result than help It. "Don't give the ball time to get set." he once said, whimsically, "if you do, it may duck." JXtS y?? .know what old Ale" Smith said about putting: "Miss 'em quick." Ji1,?,. c5!!n,cfs reallT arc that a prompt decisive attack on the ball JL .p ,your Eame by lessening ? H .Lenslon- And. anyway, as Macbeth points out. the golden rule s a pretty good one In golf as In BOHBY PROMPT Bobby always was a prompt play er. Ten years ago If you had paired him with George Duncan and turned t rnnrca T uMtl1 h,c. ,Hllm., Some of the best features of the! ,. ty, iti.ih h m ,i. 1.. two most widely accepted schools of . an hour ana halr and never pUy gridiron opinion have been adopted : at greater than normal pace, at New Haven, plus a few of the ! Bobbv in later years has moder lostian ideas of the able Mr. Benja-)ated n,s 5pecd somewhat, but he I mm Friedman, former Michigan All- 1 atlll ,. B nromot nlaver. w i Hudson, Essex, Durant, star, Hup mo bile, Nash. Austin, whlppett. Overland. Willys -Knight have Auto-Llto Electric Generators and Starters OfricliU Service Slatlou Bl'RGESS BATTERY & ELECTRIC STATION Opposite La Oraiule OrbeerT America uarterback and lately coach of the New York Giants. The boVs can Keep guessing, mean while. Yale will do what It desires in due and proper time, not before Advertising loses its effectiveness only when it comes to the bill-bored. careiui ana statistical person re cently held a stop-watch on his shots for an entire round drives, irons, pitches and putts and what do you suppose was the average, time ho - occupied in taking his stance, addressing the ball and playing the shot? Sport Slants Uy Alan J. nonld ! (Associated Press 6port Editor) It's impossible to get wav from the fight talk, even in the baseball cmps. Ball players fellow the fistic fuss closely. Like most of the other funs, 1 they want to know how good Prtmo Camera i. whether Jack . Sharkey : will st another chance in the heavr- ' weight scramble. If Young Stribllns ran take the title away 'from Max' Sv-hmeitng. I This department professes to have no inside Information as to what the master minds, if any. propose for summer, beyond the StribUng- fecnxneur.g rracas at Chicago of Cleveland. : It la obvious, however, that the logical arrangement is to have Car- : nera aud 6arkey. the remaining brace of principal contenders, fight tu New York. Hie wiuuer to meet Ui umror oi the Su.bUii -Schawl- i Easter Will Soon Be Here Every child should have a new Easter Outfit. DRESSES HATS UNDER GARMENTS The Best at Lower Prices NORTON'S KIDDY SHOP Latest Victor Records B'ue Mountain Home In the est. song. No. 53529. 4cf,SOtt,rberTy RO!m' K- I Like a Little Girl Like That Fox Trot. No. S3015. ThatWaDt UUle Glrt Llk0 These and many more new- hits also in sheet music. ADLERS MUSIC CO. Next to La Grande Nat'l. Bank