La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, June 26, 1945, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextLA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER Phone 600 SPORTS Complete Local Reports Tuesday, June 2fi, 1915 Pase 8 Standing Switches Loom as Coasters Open New Series By United Press The Pacific coast league's 1945 baseball campaign ncared the half-way mark Tuesday with the Portland Heavers still well up in front, Manager Marv Owen's club has hud its losing streaks, but some how always has managed to re cover enough to retain an advan tage. This has varied from a full six games to a fraction of a point. At present it stands at four-and-a-half games. This week tha Beavers travel to Sacramento to open a seven game series tonight. The fourth place Solons just finished knock ing off Sent) k-, runner-up in the league standings, twice Sunday, and arc out for blood. There is plenty of room for ma jor changes in the standings of the third, fourth, fifth and sixth place clubs. Only three' games separate sixth place San Diego from the third place Seals. In between are Oakland and Sac ramento, lied for fourth at a game behind San Francisco, closely pressed by Los Angeles, a gnme-and-a-balf behind the Seals. , The cellar-dwolling Hollywood Stars, under new management, paradoxically may turn to to be rough hosts to Oakland, und it may not he all beer and skittles for the Rainiels at San Diego. The Uis Angeles Angels make their first appearance of the sea son in San Francisco in what promises to !; one of the liveli est scries of the week. -'ft; try, 1 ' J i M W j 'ill -1 L m GIs in Europe May See Baseball Stars In Action PARIS, June 20 (UP) There was mounting evidence today that the annual American major league all-star game may be brought to the European theater by air transportation to be play ed before more than 100,000 serv ice men. Col. Kenneth E. Field of Bos ton, director of the European theater athletic program, said in revealing a huge slate of sports for war-weary G. I.'s that Frank McCorniick of Minneapolis, the former dir.'clor, had gone to the United States in an attempt In gel the all-star baseball game transferred to Europe. Because of the increased rail transportation burden in the stales, the all-star game, sched uled for Boston on July U, was cancelled. The game would he played in Germany's Nuernberg Nazi party stadium, which has a seating ca pacity of more than 100.000 and which is centrally located for most of the soldiers in occupa tion armies. The football program would he climaxed this fall in a game be tween men picked from the third and seventh armies in the Nuern berg stadium. Baseball competition is broken up into leagues with nine divi sions of the seventh army having selected teams for games In he played in various Bavarian parks, lteprcsctitativcs of track and fi.'ld competition, golf, tennis, and swimming are being selected in every unit. NEW BELT LINE You'll probably gel a big bolt out of the latest thing to hold up your trousers. Sported and prob ably first-worn by the Duke of Windsor, above, duri.ig a business-golf trip to Cleveland, Ohio, it is a rope affair with a couple of nautical loots. By the way, that middlo is getting rather mlddUvaged. Baseball Results By United Press National League Cincinnati at Boston, post poned, rain. No other games scheduled. Perry rEBUY (Special) Harold Car son, Harold Green and Mrs. James Walker were re-elected to the board of the Perry school dis trict at the recent election. Mrs. Dorothy Fowler was re-elected clerk of the board. The board adopted the budget for the year, and engaged Mrs. Mary Kail as toucher for the next school year. Mr. and Mrs. Adin Sloan and son, Donald, are visiting relatives in Pendleton. Mrs. Kenneth Hound and small son of Monument are guests in the Harold Fowler home. Kenny Buhl of Walla Walla is visiting his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. C!ns Fowler. Mrs. Jess Vermillion was called to Boise by the illness of her aunt, Mrs. William Anderson. Mrs. James Walker is recover ing from a recent illness. Mrs. Ilo.sic Mathson returned .Sunday froi-. Portland where she has been visiting reu' rives. NOVA IS KNOCKED OUT BOSTON. June 2H (UP) Tami Maui iello of New York wondered today whether he had delivered the blow to end the career of California heavyweight Lou Nova. whom he knocked out in one round last night. So tiny are some of the parts of precision instruments used in linmliers (hat microscopes are used to inspect them. What Cioes Up Must Come Down JUjLJf (. ALONG SO t-i "w-r JTwn iszj cv New Batting Stars Rise on Horizon Of Major Leagues i, NEW YORK. June 20 (UP) Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown at least as far as the various major league baseball champions of 1944 ore concerned. With the current season draw ing close to the half-way mark today, most of last year's indi vidual leaders were bogged down while new and sometimes sur prising gentlemen have risen to lake their places. Swinging a bat with plenV of hits in it, Tommy Holmes of the Boston Braves indicates that he means business in his efforts to annex the mujor league butting championship. And as far as last year's champ, Fred (Dixie) Walk er of the Brooklyn Dodgers is concerned, Holmes apparently doesn't need to worry. The Bos ton outfielder has a .31)0 average while Walker is 2'Jth among Na tional league regulars with a puny mark of .278. Boudreau Drops Behind Lou Boudreau, Cleveland Indi ans' manager and 1944 American league leader, is little better off. Replacing him is the amazing Tony Cuccinello of the Chicago White Sox. Cuccinello has a ..'142 mark and Boudreau is 24th among Amcrian league regulais with a .2C5 figure. One of the few likely to suc ceed himself is Hal Ncwhouser, crafty Tiger southpaw, who is ahead of his 1044 pitching time table with 11 victories and four defeats. Going at that pace he will win more than 30 games whereas in 1944 he picked up 29 wins while losing nine times. Russ Christopher, the one-nuin pitching staff for Philadelphia's white e';?phant Athletics, has won 11 while losing only two and rookie Dave (Boo) Ferriss of the Boston Red Sox lops Ncwhouser in percentage with 10 triumphs and t-wo losses. Mori Cooper Leads III the National league Ted Wilks of the Cards, who won 17 and lost four, has equalled his 1944 record on the losing side with four defeats, but he has mustered up only four wins to Bo with them. His ex-team mate, Morton Cooper, now of the Braves, is the current National league leader with six triumphs and one loss, but that is a long way from big Mort's 1944 total of 22 and 7. Then of course there are the Browns and Cjards. The 1944 in sixth place and secon respec pennant winners, they now are lively in their currnt campaigns. There were no major league games in either league yesterday. - W Y r, i, , -j V 7 f-'H3UL Cry H V;, 1 if I rntbLrn VERSATILE Charles W. Bidwell, manager of Chicago Bluebirds of National Girls' Softball league, gives last-minute instructions to pitcher Agnes Schleuler, of St. Louis (right), and catcher Betty Moczynski, of Milwaukee, his Bluebird battery. Bidwell also owns Chicago Cardinals pro football team, five dog racing strips in Florida and is director of Hawthorne race track. Otherwise he's a man of leisure. Today's Sport Parade By JACK CUDDY UP Staff Correspondent Eddie Leishman to Coach Acorn Nine OAKLAND, Cal., June 26 (UP) There is a strong possibility that general manager Vic DLvin cenzi of the Oakland Acorns has scored another ten-strike. The big poobah of the Oaks has signed Eddie Leishman as a full time coach and scout. Eddie is rated by many to possess one of the keenest baseball minds in the major leagues. Leishman has inked a contract as a "full time, year-around" scout and coach with the Oak land entry in the Pacific coast league for the remainder of the jvar, officially joining the family July 1. Eddie in his day was one of the finest infielders in the land, but he never could hit the size of his hat and despite his fine fielding and baseball instinct, he languished in the minors all through his career except, as he says, "for a cup of coffee" with the New York Yankees in l!VM. His way-stops, all in the Yan kee farm chain, included El Paso in the Arizona-Texas league: Erie. Penn.. in the Central league: Binghamplon, N. Y., in the East ern; Newark in the Internation al; St. Paul in the American, and Seattle and Oakland in the Pa r i fie coast. By JACK CUDDY UP Staff Correspondent NEW YORK June 26 (UP) Brooklyn, that beautiful borough of churches and chowder houses, a paradise of its natives and a para dox to the rest of the world, provided baseball today with what could be one of the greatest diamond mysteries of all lime "dom breaih-laki'ig bums, the Dodgers." There always is something new and different in Brooklyn never a dull moment but the evolution of Manager Leo Durocher's sev enth place "dodderers" of 1944 to the current crew of dandies who are threatening to steal the National league pennant lakes every slice of cake on the place. Always before the team Jiascbfll I School lo supposed to be good and the Eb-, ,, . . . bets field raithtul went to the;- " ' n 'J"!Jl " park to swear at and not by the EUGENE, Ore., June 2(i (UP) players when they failed to live j Tryouts in an annual baseball up to expectations. This year , school held here by the Cincin the whole thing is in reverse. The : nati Rods of the National league baseball experts, viewing the j is expected to attract a number Dodgers in spring training at ; of boys and young men from all Bear Mountain. N. Y., shook their parts of the state, Ed Brauner, heads sadly and said that the ' Linnnnati representative and di fans would have to "wait 'til next year Court Order Halts Ward Case Action CHICAGO, June 28 (UP) Montgomery Ward A: Co.'s feud with the government over labor p.iliein assumed a s.V-tus quo position today after the U. S. cir cuit court of appeals stayed a mandate reversing a lower court ruling that government seizure of Ward's was illegal. The stay was ordered "until further notice" while the com pany appeals to the supreme court. The mandate instructed Judge Philip L. Sullivan to issue a judgment upholding federal seizure of Ward property. So what has happened? With only scattered change's, few of which were supposed to have been for the bettor, "dem bums" rise to heights sublime. They have been in first place for nine days now. In the recent set of games with their eastern rivals they won 16 out of 19 games, a pennant pace in anybody's league. During that time they had winning streaks of eight games and seven games, but ol course both of those were "small stuff" for this year's Dodg ers. Earlier in the season they ran up an 11-game string, and though they have had their los ing lapses, the most they have lost is a skein of six games on teir last western junket. Goody Rosen, who wasn't even a regular last year, is leading the hitters with a .366 mark and the help of Luis Olmo at driving in runs can't be overlooked. IL-'s leading the league in that im portant department with fi-l. Yet the Dodgers have only lluee regulars, Rosen, Olmo, and infielder Eddie Basinski bitting above .3110. The tipoff. though, move be in the fact that collec tively the club now leads the league in batting with a .2i'. mark. Afield, however, they still are the Dodgers, seventh in team fielding with only the Jaybird Phillies outranking them in mak ing errors. The pitching, which was sup posed to have been collapsible and may be the team's "Achilles heel" is made up on a staff th.it is "very old" at one end and "very young' at the other. Key men are oldster Curt Davis, who has won six and lost six and youngster Hal Gregg, who hi, won niiv and loi four, but the miseries ill his back prevent nun from being at his best. j l'jctov of the school, said today Tne school, which will be held at Civic stadium in Eugene next Monday and Tjuesday, will be limited to those from Hi to 23 years of age. Baseball hopefuls must pay their own traveling and living expenses and furnish per sonal equipment. EOUT IS POSTPONED PHILADELPHIA, June 26 (UP) The 10-round bout be tween Ike Williams and Gene Burton, scheduled for the outdoor arena tonight, was off indefinite ly today because of injuries suf fered by Williams in his recent defeat bv Willie Jovce in New Yolk. First biography to be printed in English was that of Sir Thom as Moore, executed in tlie reign ot Homy VIII. TODAY :md WKDNKSl) Y Wo llnv it Supply df Wallboard IliNHinty and mmutt'l with this well known insulation hoard. Many colors aviiilah: Plain- your oi'drr now. Ted's Paint Store 1308 Adams o Hfwussir THRIIUK IN TECHNICOLOR! PETER LAWFORD M-G-M DOfKALD CRISP Granada LAST TIME TONIGHT STARTS WEDNESDAY 1 rffWSfflt,"-!?!?"!! lilr PICTURES i fi8. w ul . rmM lift DMfffll line ! lllWtt'liriiPiMS.Niiti FOCK it is HUNItR ! I Jimmy Llovd lorf n TrnJin . Cofole Mjthf i i 0",ml Sofin rts bi Mur 1 Ha Bolton Pro- I J 6) III) KICHM0ND . D.ittlU t, DU 10K0 ' Enjoy the best vacAtIiqn YOU'VE EVER HAD! i !LSs5ioji OuR NATION fces, these . next few months, a cross -country transportation job of magnitude unprecedented in all history. Present battle nlans require that our armies be transferred .1,. r par;r within 10 months. This means civilian travel slashed to a trickle! President Truman himself recently asked that no one take summer trip tht ye. Naturally, this does not mean uo vacation!. It wi -.mean the best vacation you've had in the best of all possible places'. . . right here. in our own Pacific Northwest. Start planning your vacation at home with as much care as you ordinarily plan a vacation trip . . . and see the fun you can havej There't your garden ' :1' ' Up to now you've only bad time to work In it. Now take the time to enjoy lis beauty I And your ear... ' s . . t give it break! Spend a Utile time walking, waxing and ppliihingl Don't forger the odds and end around the hdUie ' Thoie countleii little thing that you've never had nine' to do , .'i oiling squeaky doon, refrigerator motors, pulling up Krecni, paint . ing. It's lots of fun to putter. Cet acquainted with your family " Iveryone hai been io busy these last few years It's high time yoti slowed down and took a good look around you. The kids are growing up . . . and they're developing 'into p'reliy swell people. Your wife's been working hard she'll welcome your help around the house and your company, too! , ; And you'll find that your neighbors are pretty grand citizen! ', Wien you get to know them. i f Ye, there are lota of interesting things here to do at home .When you stop lo think about it. How long has it been since yoii picnicked in one of the parks, visited the public library, or did the scores of interesting things there are to do right in your own home town. After all, what it a vacation but a rest and a change and a happy mental attitude! ALL OF THAT you can get right here ... in your own home town . . . in your own home. . This iljlement bat been prtpared ami nltaitd if BLITZ-WEINHARD COMPANY with iht approval of ibt Office of Defense TrMsporljIioH. Buy, Sell, Rent or Lease the low cost way Run Classified Ads Thousands of People Hi'ittl Them Phone 600 . .' La Grande Evening Observer O O O o o o o o oo O o iry'tffis.