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Wednesday, September 21, 1932 Page Two LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRANDE, ORE. Ducks Run Wild to Trounce Los Angelas 17 to 6 While Hollywood LosestoJ)akland I CI D v p ii ti PORTLAND LEAD IN COAST RACE UP TO 3 GAMES Four Angel Hurlers Par ade to Mound in Vain Attempt to Stop the Reavers' Slugging. By the AMOrlateil Press Tnoso pennant-mad Ducks went wild at Portland Tuesday night to trounce Los Angeles 17 to 6 and in cre'aso' their league lead to three full gamea over the Hollywood Btnrs, who lest to Oakland 3 to 2 at Los An geles. Pour Angel hurlers wero sent to the mound la a vain attempt to halt the Portland attack, but all tour wero hit freely, together allowing 15 hits end J4 walks. The Ducks cinched tho gams In the fourth Inning when they scored eight runs on five sin gles, a double and three walks. They scored tlireo more In the sixth and six in the eighth. Batteries: Los An geles, Baccht, Ward. Mlddledorf. Cur tla and Campbell: Portland, Peter son and Palmlsano. Steengraf of Oakland had a slight edge over Tom Sheehan of tlui Stars in 4 pitchers duel at Los Angeles that gave tho Oaks tho series open er. 8 to 3. Jack Sherlock's homo run Was tho only earned run scored off the young Oakland pitcher. Bat teries: Oakland, Steengraf and Kul mondf; Hollywood, Sheehan ond Strange. San Francisco's Seals found Seattle pitching to their liking Tuesday night and pounded out 19 hits to defeat the Indians, 11 to 8, In the series opener at Seattle. Tho Seals scored In every Inning but tho fourth, eighth and Mlnth. Seattle, scoreless for four innings, put on a drivo in tho fifth end sixth but failed to catch up with tho visitors, jiatlcries: Ban rran- :isco. Davis and Brenzel; Seattle, Kai- ,lo and Cox. Pitcher Chcllni of tho Missions was PRESENTING SOME OF THE COUGAR MATERIAL Kmno of tho miHtilal Vmvh Ihiho IUllhiRln'r.v () s tiulliliuK Into tlm 1IKW morti'l WumiIiikIoi. Hlnlu rollcRo rhi(lml tiMiui. (J) Mrntir Uulilvii, qiiartorlnnki Sinn ritllmnv fMlUmrk; (I) Dun lt(-li. UAkU", r,y Mike liuN, Imirtmik; (ti) Trunk WnlLulLs, ttuklp; (7) Frank ItiRnun, reutrr; (H) (lrrR Slimier, lmtriunk; ) WulhT C'ump, taiklc, Ut) vm Kcnn, gimnl. Dy NBA Service PULLMAN. VhM., Sept. 21 These Coynarfi doy't look m l;ul rlut now. On paper nmt In the llcsh, tho IntlR out to mako tho WnxhinKton State Colloye toum look con.sUior ahly butter than Coach Hahc Hoi-Jingborj-'a nniU-iinl Uun your, i Tu bcHln with, there nrc (?t tor mcn hack somo lor every ,1cm. Aurt tho 1031 freshmen Imvc con .trlbuted a lot ot K'wl ftKhtinc nm tcrtnl. laHt your W. y. c. finished brhlnd tho Trojims. CuliroriiU nnd Oregon. i This yorir they expect to be hlKher. , The Cougar backflelcl h.n upeo:!, power nnrt versatile attack In abund ance. Kxcopt for Mel Heln out. through sickness there nre six ex pprlcnced ends leldoH tho frush. But in tho middle of tho Uneweli there's whi.ro tindnnii.m hn ii,J Contra. Rlward., Ilurl.y and Paro.ll. ,,,iar,l. f.,r ,.v " are . 80 Is CcnU-r Joo IL.n.on. fhi .prlK practice and early work here ha, been toward atrenKlhonlnR the . ' rviawitier, valluus, stnRnaro, Hon Kelley, John By. and frank Wll- lard - letlermcn ends are back. stingy with hits but generous with walks Tuesday and Sacramento won a hard-fought pitcher's duel, 3 to 0 from tho San Francisco team. Che llnl allowed the Senators only five hits but granted eight bases on balls. Two of these walks were di rectly responsible for the scores. Bat teries: Sacramento, Bryan and Wlrts; Missions, C'hellul and Olsen, Rlcct, Baseball Standings By the Associated Press COAST LEAOt'K W. L. Pet. Portland .101 76 .674 Hollywood B8 78 . .657 San Francisco Dl 8a .623 Sacramento Bl 85 .617 Lou Angeles 90 80 .611 Seattle - 80 87 .497 Oakland 77 97 .443 Missions 80 109 .377 NATIONAL l-BAOL'K W. L. Pet. Chicago 89 01 .603 Pittsburgh -.. ..82 07 .650 Brooklyn - 79 72 .623 Philadelphia 77 73 .613 Boston 70 75 .603 Now York - 08 80 .450 St. Louis - 08 80 .469 Cincinnati - 69 01 .393 ..Mi;itU'.t.V I.KAOI'K W. L. Pet. New York 104 45 .698 Philadelphia iw o i .on Washington - 88 00. .696 Cleveland 85 63 .674 Detroit - 72 72 .600 St. Louis 01 87 .412 Chicago - 40 100 .315 Boston 4a iuo YESTERDAY'S' GAMES Coast League -: Portland 17, Los Angeles 8. Hollywood 2, Oakland 3. ' Ban Francisco 11, Seattle 8. Sucramento 2, Missions O. American League Cleveland 6-11. St. Louis 2-2. Washington 4. Boston I. Chicago at Detroit, postponed, rain. Only guinea scheduled. National League . Brooklyn 3. Philadelphia 1. Chicago 5-0. Pittsburgh 2-5. New York 13, Boston 8. Ht. Louis 3. Cincinnati 1. with noverul nootl sophs opposing them. At ttiekles. Walter Camp Is CJeoifro lllcan. fullback, have been played nt tackle this season. Dan Dech. up from tlie Iteilunon. will also nive the boys a run. For the (;uard post, two wrestlers Clem Scim, two years an alternate, and Frank. Stojak, a sophomore look like starters, ami Rood ftRhtliiK men. ico. Fred Oarrett. out last year, H.iroUl Companion ami Vtryll Oclom, who played a little In io;M. and Henry Haytlue are other yuard possibilities. Frank Ingram, last year's alternate, and lanky OAob Fehlfianihintr, a freshman, arc renter bets. Hnl Just look back of the lino- ! and you know why tho Concur cniU' pus howl in Rloc. Take tho matter ; I nt linllbacka for inataiux: ""'f" mi..iu-i. an ouumiuiiagt ' " , ,M!k, "v"' " "" , """ c",r"'r- '"' Mow., who mean i """" TZI Vl T "" "" I ' """' i '' ,., u y',"r: A' B"r"br"' nn I tXnrr and Uorlr. rx-frmh. make n atnun' (Mvt-m,.,i k.. ...... ' M. nlor I..,!,!,.,,. ,a,t, rba, k. Is another first-starter tlll available. Phillies Making Brave Fight For Place Near Top lly flayle Talbot , (Associated Press Sports Writer) Oenerally overlooked In the excite ment attending tho winning of tho National league pennant by Chicago has been tho surprising fight put up by Burt Shotton's Phillies for a berth In tho first division. 1 , Sixth when tho curtain went down a year ago. Shotton's sluggers have pounded their way Into fourth place and right now ore giving tho Brook lyn Dodgers tho battlo of tholr lives for third. Tho Dodgers pulled away a little yesterday, Increasing their leod to a game and a half by down ing tho Phillies, 3 to 1. but with four games to go there still Is & pos sibility third placo will go to the Quaker City crow. In Heeonil Place In 1917 If tho Phils do turn tho trick. It will bo the first time the club has finished that high since away back In 1917, when Pat Moran piloted them Into second place. Grover Cleveland Alexander won 30 games for tho Phils that year. ' ' All four of tho Phillies' remaining bouts ore with the New York Olants, however, ond tho Giant are finishing tho campaign with a flourish. Brook lyn has one game scheduled with the Olants ond three against the Bos ton Braves. Watson Clark, ace of the Brooklyn staff, chalked up his 19th victory In halting the Phils yesterday. He kept eight hits widely scattered after the first inning. Homo runs by Joo Strlpp and Glenn Wright accounted for nil the Dodger runs off Hollcy, Rhem and Collins. Olants Plaster llraves Tho Giants, seeking sixth - place, plastered the Braves, 13 to 3. Mel Ott led tho assault on four Boston hurlors with four hits, including his 37th ond 38th home runs, tying :hlm with Chuck Kloln for the league lead ership. St. Louis, with Tox Carleton pttcn lng five-hit ball, beat Cincinnati. 3 to 1, and the Cubs closed the race back, and Norm Taylor, guard, and Ei Ickson and liicharda, who saw somo service last year, are back. Available as quarters also are Ollle Arbolbide, a transfer from a Cali fornia Junior college, who has speed and ability, and Jim Agee, who gen eraled tho 1031 freshmen. SUn Colburn. 100 - pountler, who made marvelous improvement in lt:U, his sophomore year, Is out for fullback again, with real competition. For Instance, there's John Eubank, tho placo kicker par excellence, and Henry Uemlolo. who did great work as an alternate. And also starting either In the lino or as a fullback Is George Theodora tits, tho U45-pound Orcck shot putter. He h.ad. the power of ikn nnnjr tank as freshman mnk tiiK proKrmw nlinost slnitle handed. win ha nita tne lino irom punt formation, something has to ptve. ami itsually, this Is the opposing line, for two to five yards. ThonsU a whala on attack, Tlieottoratna has much to learn of defense finesse. HolllnKbery wnnta to use him at full, but If he feels tho Clreek needs - ft ....mi Th'ewlorntu. at . tackle ' or gnard Job. proper with a 6 to 3 win over Pitts burgh In the first game of a double header. The crestfallen Corsairs took the second, B to 0. " Monte Weaver further established htmeelf as one of the year's greatest iresnman pitchers as ne sev Boston down with four hits and beat the Bed Box, 4 to 1. ' Cleveland completed the day's ac tivities in" the American league by beating 8t. Louis a couple,' ft to 2 and 11 to a. Joe Vosmik cracked two triples, a double '-and three singles during tho afternoon. ' Steel, Fraser Score Victories In Los Angeles LOS ANOELES, Sept. 31 WV-Out of the Northwest haa come Southern California's two latest boxing Idols. They are young Freddie Steele, of Tacoma, and Don Fraser, of Seattle, who by convincing -victories over lo cal favorites, established themselves as the now attractions. Steele, with a long record of knockouts, lived up to his reputation by putting Caferlno Garcia, Manila welterweight, to sleep In two rounds. Steele previously had ; stopped the Filipino In the Northwest, but local fans had considered it just one of those things as Gprcla had shown he was no ordinary boxer when he knocked out Alfredo Oaona, the Mexican, here In four rounds. ' Steele, However, ' had a close coll Oarcfa landed a terrific right to the chili at tho close of the first round and the Tacoma youth' was saved only by the bell. Freddie, however1, came back, outslugged and but boxed the Filipino and then put hint ' away near the close, of the second round. ' Fraser took two, lost one and drew In the other of a four-round bout to win tho decision from young Peter Jackson, California lightweight cham pion and' considered one of the best boxers at any weight In the state. 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They started taking It In the second game, and they don't nave to go back to work until they have rested. Neither do they have to rest if they don't want to. Manager Charlie Grimm almost wont right back to work in the sec ond game yesterday, although he long had planned to give Marvin Goudat a ohance as soon as the National league title was won. "Now that this battle Is over," he said, ' "I could get a ' lot of fun out of this game. I won't rest long." Hush to Pitch Opener He has definitely 'announced only one item of his world series plans that Guy Bush will pitch the open ing game, at New York. This has been common gossip ever since It looked as though the Cubs would win the championship. His other pitching selections depend on the outcome of that first game. ; ' The clubhouse celebration after the pennant winning triumph re quired a little time to develop. Billy Herman was the first player to reach tho dressing room. He wore an awed sort of smile. 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