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!!! LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER Phone 600 SPORTS Complete Local Reports Baseball Standings By United Presi AMERICAN LEAGUE Saturday, August 25, 1915 lloh FelSer Wins Ills First Return Game w Detroit C8 Washington 87 St. Louis : 00 Chicago 00 Cleveland 50 New York 56 Boston 50 Philadelphia 36 L 40 40 55 56 57 55 63 77 Pet. .581 .57U .522 .517 .509 .505 .460 .319 NATIONAL LEAGUE By CARL LUNDOUIST NEW YORK. Aufe'. 25 (UP) Out of a world of war to one of friendly strife where the most potent weapon is his own bullet ball came ex-sailor Bobby Feller lo bid anew for immortality as the greatest pit. her ol all lime. They made it tout!h on the corn-field kid from Iowa last night in his first appearance with the Cleveland Indians since be fore Pearl Harbor. He had to pitch against the lop pitcher in the major leagues, Hal Newhous er of the league leading Detroit. Tigers. Foller Wins : But Feller met Ihj challenge and handed Newhouser, the only Langford, Bates Win Pro-Amateur Golf Tournament - PORTLAND, Aug. 25 (UP) A "dark horse" team of John Lang ford, assistant professional, and Harry Bales, champion of t h r Portland golf club, swept n field of 40 toams yesterday to win the $2,000, 30-hole Pacific northwest pro -amateur golf tournament with a 134 best ball total. The Portland club duo went thiough two hectic rounds of 07 lor a 134 tbtal, 10 under par. in snatching their upset vic tory, the Portland team defeat ed such teams as Pvt. Bob Ham ilton, 1044 national PGA cham pion, and Ken Black of Vancou ver, B. C, Canadian amateur champion, and the pro-amateur combination of Bobby Litton, un attached, and Joe Ahern, Colum-bia-Edgewatrr. Litton and Ahern played i ex ceptional golf to finish one stroke behind the leaders with a 135. Their close margin was made possible by a sensational 05 on the second II!. Pvt. Hamilton of Fort Lewis and Evansville, Ind., and Ken Black had ruunds of lill-OH for a 130 total and third place. Defending champions Gordon Richards and Harry Givan of Su btile placid fiflh with 130. The winning team luttrd a $500 war bond, the n e x t nine highest teams were awarded 1,500 in war bonds lo share among themselves. Harold Wist, Tualatin club pro of Portland and Hay Honsbcrger, of Portland, shot 137 for fourth. Oilier teams in the first II) piize money wore Hoy and Buddy Moe of Spokane, Joe Mozel and Sid llerner, Chalie Summers and Vie Ripley, all of Portland, lied for sixth at l-lll: and two Seattle t?ams, Bob Belt o ami Chuck Thomas and Henry Garlells and Erv Parent, tied for ninth with 141. 20-game winner in cither league, his eighth defeat, 4 to 2. He let D( trail's sluggers have only four hits and he struck out I'! bat ters, using his spirited curve moie i.'gularly than his famous last ball He was in trouble just once when a double by Paul Rich ards, a walk lo Jimmy Outlaw and singles by Ed Boroin and Roger Cramer lied the score at 2-all. Gelling first class cooperation from his teammales, Feller got off to a two-run lead in the first inning on Pat Seerev's 13lh hom er with a man abase. Promptly after the Tigers tied the score Mickey Rocco's double and two infield outs gave the Indians the deriding run in the third. They added another in the fifth. Half Game The Cleveland victory reduced f troit's lead lo a hare half game and gave Washinglnn's second place Senators a rhancc to take over first place today. The Cardinals also tightened up the National league race, win ring the first of their all-important 12 games with the leading Cubs, 1 to 0. The Cards scored the only run after Lennie Merul lo made n wild throw on a grounder by George KurowskL The win put the Cards four and a half games out of the lead. Last year's American league champions, the Brownies, con- linued to be hot, too, winning their 10th game in their last 13. 3 to 1, over the visiting White Sox. Al Hollingsworth pitched a six-hitter to put the Browns into third place ahead of Chicago. In the only other game played in eilher circuit yesterday the Reds ended a six-game losing streak with a 2 lo 1 triumph at Pittsburgh. Chicago 74 St. Louis 71 Brooklyn 04 New York 04 Pittsburgh 63 Boston 54 Cincinnati 40 Philadelphia 35 .043 .002 .552 .530 .516 .450 .397 302 PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE Portland 1)2 50 .622 Seattle 87 50 .590 Sacramento 7il 70 .527 San Francisco 70 73 .510 Oakland 70 79 .470 San nil '.wo 60 Bl .400 Los Angeles 62 87 .416 Hollywood 50 80 .399 Phyllis Otto To Meet the Babe In Golf Finals CHICAGO, Aug. 25 (UP) Phyllis Otto, 21-yeur-old daugh ter o( a small-town Iowa bank er, waited five years for the chance she gels today when she tecs off against Mrs. Babe Didrik- son Zaharias in the 36-hole finals of the women's western amateur golf tournament. The Atlantic. Ia., girl has been lwaiting "another shot" at Mrs. Zaharias ever since 1940 when the Babe walloped Phyllis, 8 and 7, in the women's western open the first and only time they've met. Mrs Zaharias, bidding for her first women's amateur title, end ed Dorothy Germain's two-year reign as western amateur champ and 3. Miss Otto was nosing out Louise Suggs of Atlanta, Ga., the tournament medalist, in the other semi-finals match, 2 and 1. SALMON PACK INCREASED WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 (UP) Seeietaiy of Agriculture Clin ton P. Anilii's'in annoum-rd to day civilian allocalioii of (he IIMfi cauiK'd salmon pack had been in cicascd hv 7,riliil,ooii pounds. To lal civilian allocation of all kinds of canned lish from the l!i.ri pack will now he 21111.5(11111110 pounds. Anders:tii said. Suarcz Wins Main Event Over Lacey PORTLAND, Aug. 25 (UP) Johnny Suarez, CIS-pound lighl wi ighl boxer of Portland, won a 10-round decision over "Snooks" Lacey, 129 pounds, in the main eivnt al Portland auditorium last night. Neither boxer hit the canvas once in a slow 10 rounds. Manuel James, l.r)7. Denver, substituting for Kay Miller, Kan sas City, III., with ptomaine poisoning, lost to Frank Ogg, 163, Sacramento, Calif. James broke his hand in the fourth hut last id until the end of the seventh when Ihe fighl was called in Ogg's favor. Nelson Ahead Hy Four Strokes in Kndxville Meet KNOXVILLE, Aug. 25 (UP) Things were back to normal among the professional golfers today Byron Nelson was out in front of the field by four strokes in the $10,01)0 Knoxville open. His closest challenger was am ateur Fred Haas, the New Or leans sensation who beat him at Memphis last week. Haas shot a 72 to go with his firsl lound card of 08, giving him a total of 140. Nelson was back in his usual brilliant form, shooting a three- i i..i , i. .. 1 1.. i.. i.... I liiiiui jitii u;f iivi-i u:-j iiuiaieu hills layout to go with his first lound card of 67. That gave hini I a 36-hole total of 130, eight strokes under par. Haloid (Jug) McSpadcn of San- Bob Joyce Barely Wins Game at His Big Party Friday Bs United Press They gave a parly for Pitcher Bob Joyce Friday night in San Francisco coincidental with the culmination of his sale to the New York Giants for spring de livery and in iccognition of his hurling efforts for the Seals thus far this season. This same party was almost spoiled in the last two innings when Sacramento grabbed a 6-5 lead until Catcher Joe Sprinz came along with the evening's top present for Joyce a single that drove home the winning run, gave San Francisco a 7-6 victory and Joyce his 2th pitching vie lory of Ihe season. Beavers Win Throughout the rest of the league Portland maintained its four-game league lead with a 7-3 triumph over Los Angeles; Seat tle trimmed Oakland for a fourth straight time, 7-3, and San Diego dumped Hollywood 4-2. Joyce and the Seals coasted be hind a 4-0 lead going into the top half of the eighth. Sacramento bunched five base knocks good for three runs. They repeated the trick in the ninth after the Seals picked up a run in the eighth. Going into the last half of the ninth inning, the Sacs clung to a shaky, but good look ing, 0-5 margin. Husky Ted Norbert's grand slam home run in the sixth pro vided the Rainiers with their vic tory over Oakland. The game was Joe Demoran's 11th straight mound victory and Seattle's sev enth in a row. Wins 13th Norebert's clout over the left field wall 305 feet distant off re lief pitcher Jack Lotz was his second of the series with the bags drunk and his fourth of the sea-; son. A two-run San Diego rally ac counted for pitcher Jim Brill heart's 13th victory. A timely one-bagger to left field with the bases loaded in the eighth inning by Mel Nuncs to night carried the Portland Beav ers to a 7 to 3 victory over the unlucky Los Angeles Angels. The series now stand 4-1 in favor of, the Beavers. " ' Nunes' hit, coming as it did with bases loaded and the teams tied at 3-3, drove home a pair of runs, preparing for Ad Liska to follow with another single to cen ter which scored two more runs and set the Beavers on the road to victory. ford, Me., shot a two under par (0 to go into a third place tie with the veteran Tony Penna of Dayton, O., at I'll. CHOCRANE LOSES i NEW YORK, Aug. 25 (UP) ! Fledllli (Redl Coehrane's welter- j weight lilli was a hollow Ihmi: li.d.iy in Ihe light of bis second knei l.nol in .-- i s v, i -k;. at Un hands of wild '..lugging lioi l ( :,i aiaro. New York i-a.l shirt. , ho In Id , ,mt the champion in i "l ly loth round lasl night. Horace .1. Nelson i. ike - I'liii-: - ,rm Quality Insurance Service Tel. 3SI-W 703 K Ave J La Grande. Oro. Tonight "A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN" Starling SUNDAY SUNDAY MONDAY and TUESDAY ?S TVAflVOOd & COLUMBIA PICTURES kr.rHWw-tKr, - 1 -t PI. US SECOND I'lliSI'-Kl'N hit; .,.'.! 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