La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, June 25, 1945, Image 6

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Newspaper Page Text- Beavers Lengthen Lead by Winning Three-Game Series By Unilod Press The "pressure kids" from Port land were back with a four and one-half game lead in the Pacific fnnst lfiflKue race today as the result of an action-filled week end in which they took three straicht from the San Diego Padres. While the runner-up Seattle Rainiors were dropping two out of three to Cacramento, the Ben ' vers knocked over San Diego 4-3 on Saturday and twice Sunduy, 5-1 and 4-2. Seals Take Pair Meanwhile. Sun Francisco was consolidating its third-plac? posi tion by taking two out of three from Hollywood, 4-1 on Satur day and splitting Sunday, win ning the first, 7-0 and dropping the second 3-4. Los Angeles took the odd game of the week-end from Oakland, copping Saturday, 1-0, dropping the first game Sunday, 3-11, and winning the finale by another 1-0 count. " " Scuttle won from Sacramento Saturday, 2-1, but dropped a twin bill Sunday by scoi'es of 5-4 (in JO innings) and 2-0. Jt was the second consecutive week-end in which the pitchers were able to whittle down the baiting averages. ; Cornelius Blanks Oaks Jorge Cornelias, the Angel hur ler who was returned by the Chi cago Cubs just a few weeks ago, came up with n two-hitter in the nine-Inning nightcap against the Oaks for the best of the Sunday performances. In the opener, the Oaks collected 14 hits, icludihg Gabby Stewart's home run. Rip Russell clouted one for the Se raphs in the same tilt. .' The Beavers got two fine mound performances yesterday from the veteran Syd Cohen and lean Don Pulford, the latter rack ing up his 12th win of the cam paign. In the two games the Tadies got only 11 hits. Gene Bannit posted a three-hit shut-out for Sacrumcnto In the short game at Seattle. In the first tilt Ted Norbart clouted his Ilth home run for the year to tie the score and send the battle into an extra inning. At Hollywood, Frank Seward hurled a shutout for the Seals in the opener, allowing only five hits as the Seals pounded out 13 off four Star moundsmen. In the second, Vein Reynolds, Holly wood shortstop barely missed on n chance for the coveted unas sisted triple play. '- With runners on first and sec ond, Gus Suhr lined the ball to Reynolds, who tagged second and then set out to catch Emil Mailho coming down from first. But he lost ground and was for ced to throw to first for the out. Stella Walsh Heats Own Sprint Record CLEVELAND, June 25 (UP) Stella Walsh, former Olympic track star rounding out 20 years of competition, .held a new world record for woman in the 100- lneler dash today with n time of 11.2 seconds. Smashing her own mark of 11.5 by three-tenths of a second, she made the run in the northeastern Ohio senior women's amateur athletic union championships.' FLAGER INJURES LEO PHILADELPHIA, June 25 (UP) Shortstop Wally Fluger of .me I'luiacioipnin Phillies awaited mo outcome oi x-rays today lo learn whether his leg was broken when he stumbled rounding third base in the first game of Sun days double bonder with the Giants. Attention Pea Growers Airplane Crop Dusting ROTBNONE DUST AVAU.AIJLE Contact C antral Aircraft P 0 ' Room LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER , l'hne 000 Complete Local Reports Monday, June 25, 1945 Yanks Win MetlieneyV Slugging NEW YORK, June 25 (UP) lo forget ahout Arthur (Bud) Metheney's disappointing past. if he will just break loose a few more double victory over the Athletics.'. . Metheney, an anemic hitler ever in 1043 hailed as a second Charley Keller, was the busiest batter in the lot yesterday in the 13 to 5 and 0 to 3 Yankee victories. He batted in eight runs in the two games with his first two homers of the season, a double and single, and boosted his batting average 14 Horses Remain On Starting List in Santa Anita Derby ARCADIA, Calif., June 25 (UP) Only 14 horses out of an orig inal (12 possible starters remained today as candidates for Satur day's $100,000 Santa Anita handi cap, the turf's richest race. J. K. Houssel's Bymeab'ond, riddrn by Jockey Georgle Woolf t. n surprise victory In Satur days $00,000 Sunlu Anit'u derby, will be shipped east and will not compete. Louis B. Mayer's filly Busher, second place winner in the del by, will probably pass up the big handicap. Mayer, however, will have Thumbs Up entered Saturday. Thumbs Up, to carry top weight of 130 pounds, will probably be the post lime favorite. Woolf, whose great ride on Bymeabond beat out the favorite Busher, will be on Gay Dalton, the Mexican Cinderella horse so far yet to be impressive in two starts. Charles S. Howard's Sea Sov ereign, scratched from the derby, will probably have a crack at the Santa Anita handicap. Remaining on the list are Best Effort, third in the derby; Bric-a-Bac, Paperboy, Lou-Bre, an other Howard horse, Broadcloth, War Allies, Triplicate Shut Up, Bull Reigh, Sirde and Autocrat. Baseball Standings By United Press NATIONAL LEAGUE W. Brooklyn 37 St. Louis 33 Pittsburgh 32 New York 33 Chicago 2!) Boston 28 Cincinnati 24 Philadelphia 10 L. 22 25 20 28 25 28 30 48 Pet. .027 .500 .552 .541 .537 .500 .444 .250 AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit 35 22 .614 New York 33 23 .580 Boston 30 27 .528 Chicago 31 28 .525 Washington 27 28 .401 St. Louis 25 211 .403 Cleveland 23 31 .42(1 Philadelphia 20 30 .357 PACIFIC COAST Portland 51 33 .007 Seattle 40 37 .554 San Francisco 43 42 .500 Oakland 42 43 .404 Sacramento 42 43 .404 Los Angeles 41 43 ..4118 Kan Diego 41 40 .471 Hollywood 33 52 .388 GO;) PORTS Page 6 Two On Yankee fans were willing today limes like he did in Sunday s since he came up from Newark 10 points, to .238. The two wins, vital because Detroit also swept its twin bill at SI. Louis, left the Yankees a game and a half behind the lead ing Tigers. Hank Borowy won his ninth game in the opener as Bob Newsom was losing his 10th for the A's. Hal Newhouser kept ahead of his 1044 pitching time table by winning his Ilth game, 5 to 1, for the Tigers In the opener. Paul (Dizzy) Trout won the 'second, 4 to 3, in a three-inning relief stint. Ferriss Wins Again Rookie stars Dave Ferriss of the Red Sox and Marino Pieretti of the Senators won their gamos at Washington. Ferriss gained his 10th triumph for Boston, 0 to 5, in the opener and Pieretti won his seventh for Washington, 5 to 2, In the second game lo split the bill. Eddie Lake's three-run Boston homer provided the mar gin in the opener. Steve Gromek won his eighth game for the Indians, 7 to 3, over the White Sox at Cleveland, but Chicago put on a seven-run rally in the third to win the second game, 7 to 4. Dodgers Hold Lead Brooklyn maintained its three and a half game lead in the Na tional, winning its eighth straight game, 0 to 0, from the Braves be fore the streak ended with a J to 1 Boston victory in the second game. Vic Lombard!, getting 12 hit support, breezed to his fifth victoiy in the opener. Giants Down Phlllli The Giants were the only Na tional league team to show a profit for the day, winning both of their games at Philadelphia, 7 to 0 and 5 to 1. Joe Bowman, waiver - priced pitcher from the Red Sox, won his fifth straight game since joining the Reds, beating Pitts burgh, 4 to 3, in the second game after the Pirates took the open er, 7 to 5. Manager Bill Mc Kcchnio of the R e d s started Elmer Riddle for the first time since May, 1044 in the opener and wildnoss kept the one-time star right bander from being ef fective. Truett (Rip) Sewell won his ninth game for the Hues. Pete Coscarart got a two-run homer for Pittsburgh in the second game. The currently hot Cardinals won their fourth straight at Chi cago, 8 to 2, before dropping the second game, 6 to 3. Charley Bar rett won his fifth game since coming to the Cards from the Braves while Claude Passeau picked up his sixth victoiy for the Cubs. Sam Byrd Takes Golf Medal Match From Byron Nelson DETROIT, June 25 (UP) Sam Uyrd, who couldn't beat Byron Nelson on the winter golf cir cuit, agreed today that there's no place like home the Plum Hol low course where he whipped Nelson by nine strokes to win the big fore modal match title. Byrd's 72-hole total was 200 10 strokes under par. He set a new course record of 04 on Sat urday and tied it in yesterday's morning tround. Nelson's first round Sunday was tho one that hurt, an over-par 73 that put him 12 strokes behind the former New York Yankee nutfivlder who has made good as a golf professional. The Toledo, O.. shotmaker pick 1 ed tip three strokes on Byrd in the afternoon round, i It was a contest between Byrd , and Nelson all the way. Harold : (Jug) Mi'Spadcn, Sajiford, Me., end national open champion Craig Wood, MainaronecVt N. Y., loll tar behind during Saturday's shooting. M Sili,vien ended with 2M), iw-o under par, ujid 'od siiarod to 312 $4) over par. (Vi'MrserralicO play nullified llyrd'a sparking shotmaking and enal'd W.''Mt oytd Mi'Spadcn to itswnn ingle uiu.Tlicial prolcsMun al "doubles" championsKTIi Dv a single stroke. T wimrsys were live down lo Byrd and Wood starting the firfi)l 18 holes, b(Q uou nice) sK.v-nign. IV i. from.41'0 DM roil mutches, SDitiU'sscrt yesterday by 5.000 persons, go to IVicy Jinv army convalescent hospiGL at I inattle Creek, Mich. O I hM;f .JUL o Coasting Along PRESIDENT GOES FISHING President Harry S. Trumo.i is pic lured above as he fished in Pugel Sound, but the picture below is not part of his catch. He caught only a single dogfish, and the big salmon he holds was a gift, which is being admired by U. S. Sena tor Magnuson of Washington. Accompanying the president on his profitless iisning expedition was Gov. Mon C. Wallgren of Wash ington, who is second from the right in the upper camera shot. Today's Sport Parade By JACK CUDDY NEW YORK, June 25 (UP) As Metropolitan racing shifted from Belmont Park to Aqueduct today, it became apparent that (1) Pavot is a strong challenger for the three-year-old championship, (2) little Eddie Arcaro certainly is one of the greatest jockeys of all time, and (3) the public is betting heavier than ever on the gee-gees. - . Pavot, king of last year's two-year-olds, entered his bid for an other crown Saturday by winning impressively the Belmont Stakes. Walter M. Jeffors' chunk brown colt not only beat out seven other good three-year-olds over the English derby distance of a mile and a half, disclosing Ins staying power, There was nothing startling about his time of 2:30-15 on a fast track; but Jockey Arcaro ex plained that the clocking would havo been better if he had not ridden Pavot under restraint un til the tar turn. Arcaro, who never before had piloted the son, of Case Ace in a race, explained: I didn't dare turn him loose be cause I didn't know how far he could go or how much he would have left in that tough last quar ter ol the mik'-and-a-half route." Former Showings Poor Arcaro's uncertainty about Pavot was heightened by the fact that though the Jefford's coll was unbeaten in eight straight juve nile races in 1044, he had been the biggest disappointment of tho current season. He had lost to Polynesian in the Withers, and was badly beaten by Polynesian and three others in the Preak n ess. But under Arcaro's masterly handling Pavot certainly came into his own on Saturday. He finished about six lengths ahead ol Joseph M. Roebling's Wild Life, and about eight lengths ahead of Col. C. V. Whitney's Jeep, the 0-5 favorite. It is title that neither the in jured Hoop Jr., Kentucky Derby winner, nor the ineligible Poly nesian, Preakness victor, com peted in the Belmont. But it is extremely doubtful if either of those winners of shorter classics could have challenged Pavot at a mile and a half Satuiday. He took the distance like "the best horse m training," according to many experts. While considering distance, jt should be noted that J. K. Hous sel's Bynnabond which regis tered a surprise victory Satur day in the Santa Anita d-.'ibv at Santa Anita, Calif. was" re. tinned to inn only a mile and a Itlrlong. Jockej't Third Victoiy While Pavot romped home in the tUlmont stakes, it marked the third time that Arcaro had ridden a winner in that event. He won it on Whirlaway in '41, and on Shut Out in '43. Moreover, Sat in day's triumph was the little Italian's fourth straight victoiy this season in a major stake race. He had won a section of the Wood .Memorial on Hoop Jr., the Kenlky Derby (for tRo third DEC JOINS PIRATES Cincinnati. June, iup- t'lteher Waiter (boom - boom) Deck, unconditionally (TVleased by the Cincinnati Reds last week, joined the Pittsburgh Pirates to day as replacement for Ray Starr, so(ff)lo the Chicago Cubs. Deck, a 40 ye.u old righthand er, won two and lint four for Cincinnati. UP Staff Correspondent time) on Hoop Jr., and the Sub urban on Devil Diver. His three triumphs in the Derby enabled him to equal the feat of Earl Pande and Isaac Murphy. And each passing week adds more proof thai Arcaro certainly must be ranked as one of the greatest riders of all time. After tho dust settled Satuiday on Belmont s big track, officials of the plant disclosed that a new world record for daily average wagering had been set during Belmont's 18-day mooting. The average mutuel handle per dav was $2,741,324. This bettered the previous average record of $2, 500.407, established at the recent Jamaica meeting. Belmont's average was helpjd some by the fact that it staged eight races a day, whereas Jamaica ran off only seven. RAINIER ROAD OPENS SEATTLE, June 2.1 (UP) Tourist automobiles vyill begin to wind up the road to Mount Rai nier national park Sunday with the opening to public travel of the road to Paradise, Wash., it was announced today. Park officials said the east side road, between Chanapecosh hot spring, Chinook pass, and White river, now is open. Buck in the historic east the skyscrapers tower against the sunset the capitol at Washington and the historic battle fields still beckon to a travel hungry America. Now the war demands that every American put his utmost into the fight and that essential travel be given the right of way. But when the war is history, Overland Greyhound will take you in new, comfortable Luxury Liaers to tee the eastern wonderlands aj they f Phone J'JSacajawea Annex- V"'" SSli ' H Opiralftd by UNION PACIFIC JTAGtS, fNCORFOHATED By JULES MAITLAND PORTLAND, Ore., June 25 (UP) Stanford university's one time all-Amerian fullback Bobby Grayson, who romped to football glory in 1033, '34 and '35, may agair? play a prominent role in his alma mater's football history. Grayson, now a lieutenant com mander in the navy got his start in the city of roses at Jefferson high, winning honors in 1031 as the city's most valuable high school grid star, along with 14 other assorted sports letters, tro phies and medals. Since then the ol' scrap book has expanded. It contains clip pings of his first days at Stanford in 1932 and from there the rest is history. Stanford went to the Rose bowl for three successive golden years in 1033, '34 and '35 on the strength and prowess of Grayson's unstop pable ball - packing. Football, Grayson, Stanford and Rose bowl became synonomous in the world of sports. In 1035 Grayson was made as sistant to Coach Tiny Thornhill at Stanford, resigning in March, 1930, to go into business. Since the start of the war, Stanford has neglected football entirely. The recontr withdrawal of head coach Jim Lawson, a navy lieutenant, to join the pro fessionals; and reports that Marchy Schwartz, the heir appar ent, would not return to the Cardinals, shifts the spotlight to f Grayson. There has been quite a bit of serious talk that Bobby may be the next Stanford choice a se lection that would be popular, say ihe sports writers, because of his seemingly "eternal" youth. With Stanford holding back this fall as all other Pacific coast conference clubs except Montana return to action, Stanford will need that popularity. Who'll grab him first is a ques tion. Reports persist that Gray son has been offered "top spot" coaching jobs by two eastern col leges. But the "wise money" says he'll grace the practice fields of Stanford again. Lassie Sequel Is Shown at Liberty Sequel to the original film story of the collie, Lassie, "Son of Lassie" is the current attraction at the Liberty theater. Donald Crisp and Nigel Bruce are seen again in the roles of "the best dog man in Yorkshire," and the Duke of Rudling, respective ly, while in the role of the boy, Joe, created by Roddy McDowell, is Peter I.awford, who is seen as the grown-up counterpart of the boy. Elizabeth Taylor has the role of Priscllla, granddaughter of the duke. On the same bill is another film in the "This Is America" series, which reals with discharged vet erans and the GI Bill of Rights. lire best scea- -by highway. 7 IUr MM lONDf I Okinawa Victory Gives U. S. Base for Final Stab at Heart of Jap Homeland Editor's Note: Okinawa island is now ours, but at heavy cost in American lives. What we learned there, what the island is worth to us, and what the pay off will be are covered in the following dispatch by William F. Tyree, veteran .United Press war correspondent who has been with American forces in the Pacific since Pearl Harbor. GUAM, June 25 (UP) The conquered island of Okinawa is America's springboard to victoiy in tho Pacific. The Unilod Stales' land, sea and air forces are now estab lished for the first time deep in side Japan's inner defense ring and the stage is set for the climax of this long and bloody war the i n v a s i o n of the enemy's homeland or China or both. The Japanese who d o o s n 'I know this is living in a military vacuum. The fiery handwriting already is appearing in the skies over Tokyo. Everywhere, in the Pacific, Gl's and generals feel the same way about it: "This is the time. J'his is the place." They say: "It's oeen one damned island after another, but now we've got a too-held where we want it." Okinawa is a jaw in tl.i snaggle-toothed trap of islands stret ching nortbward from Formosa to Japan, ready lo close when American commanders feel the victims have had sufficient beat ing from tho air. Superfortresses blows already are raining regularly on the enemy's home islands. But now the way is clear for a drumfire bombardment and tight blockade that will lay the Japanese open lo invasion. From Okinawa, it is 325 miles to Japan, 450 lo Korea, less than 500 miles to the China coast, and all these are now threatened. In other words, the capture of Okinawa is a long step toward Tokyo and victoiy. It means air fields for fighters and bombers, harbors for warships and supply Brakemen Switchmen Urgently Needed! Union Faelfie ILK. Earn While Learning Steady Work If you are between the ages of 18 and 55:'' wo will employ you as student brakemen. This is an excellent opportunity to place yourself in a good post-war occupation. Also openings in shops, various classifications, skilled and un skilled. Hoys 16 years of age and over to work as mechanics assistants during school, vacation period can earn up (o $225 per month. Must have liiilli certificate. A.1TI.Y AT U. S. Employment Service Saca.jawea Annex Certificate of Availability Required " MtiTOII 111! LJ f 1 ,m 4 T.0 ip J) l vtssols, sites for our, (e. oi wartl arsenal. That is why we ;j hern tha1. is why our marines and army troops paid in blood for Okinawa. The Japanese now are laboring under an ejiprmous strategic han dicap. They must decide which of the potential objectives will be chosen for the attack and con centrato their defenses there. And they cannot .afford to guess wrong now. .' ,' Now 1'laying NEW USSIE" THRILLER i it TECHNIC0L01! SON Iforrfng PETER LAWFORD M-G-M DONALD CRISP PICTURE Granada TONITE and TUESDAY PAUL KELLY-VIRGINIA GREYaf- and fw 1 Biir.jP'B 1 - - ' '