La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, May 19, 1959, Page 2, Image 2

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over a national network.
The Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh
president of Notre Dame, said the
10 games will be televised over
a minimum nf n: . .. . : i
coast to coast. The telecasts will I ? ' 1 " ' - V"
originate from WNDU-TV, univer-! r V ': r..jL'W .f.v.--sity-owned
station, k" 7.'
cihties will be provided by Sports ! 'fFT?, i Zt
Network. Inc.. of New York. Be-
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UjUegiate Athletic Associa
NCAA governing telecasts
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telecasts of fcC,,., rSW,' ,
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for delayed broadcasts. Jf ,
Richard Bailey, president of:.r
SDOrtS Nnluinrlr ln c,i,l Ihsl I EaUoUl
while no definite times for the
telecasts have been determined,
most of them probably will be
carried an hour before the tele
casts of the Sunday games of the
professional National Football
League.
Sale and distribution of these
telecasts has been assigned to
United Press International. The
package will be produced by
Newspix. Inc., of New York, with
Harry Wismer, one of the na
tion's leading sportcastcrs, hand
ling ' the play-by-play. Edward
t (Moose) Krause, director of ath
letics at Notre Dame, will supply
the color background.
Mims Thomason, first vice
president and general business
manager of United Press Inter
national, hailed the television ar
rangement as one that "will en
able fans to see more college
football games this season than
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By FRED DOWN
UPI Staff Writer
It's no idle chatter when Ealy
ynn and Warren Spahn say they
may wind up their careers in the
charmed circle of 300-game win
ners. Only six modern pitchers have
reached that majestic total but the
seemingly indestructible W y n n
and Spahn just keeo rolling along
toward the goal. Wynn, 39, is
pitching his best ball in three
years this season and Spahn, 38,
is rolling again after a slightly
faltering start.
Wynn pitched the Chicago White
Sox into first place in the Ameri-
ELGIN GETS SPORTS FIELD
M. Gale Boals, left, general manager of Mt. Emily Lum
ber Company stands with school Superintendent Ray B.
Osburn of Elgin at the site of Elgin's athletic field of the
future. The field is part of a 12-acre tract donated to the
VALSETZ DONATES LAND
school district ,by the Valsetz-Mt. Emily lumber com
pany., The company will also donate the use of equip
ment to develop the athletic area.
Elgin
For
Plans
School
12-Acre
Sports
iGolfers Go
EIJ J For Positions
I ICIU
Teams
any year since the NCAA began
restricting the live telecasts of
college football in 1951
Green forests once, not so long
age, lowered over an area of El
gin that will soon ring with the
voices of happy youngsters in
friendly combat.
For Elginites can look forward,
in the not too distant future, of
"Now the fans each week will seeing one of the finest athletic
be able to see Notre Dame setups in the state, thanks to the
against one of the top teams in
the country," he added, pointing
oat that the 1959 Irish schedule
includes these opponents:
Sept. 26, North Carolina homc
Oct. 8, Purdue, at Lafayette, Ind.;
10, California, at Berkeley, Calif.:
17, Michigan State, at Lansing,
Mich.; 24, Northwestern lhome;
31, Navy (home i; Nov. 7, Georgia
Tech home; 14, Pitt at Pitts
burgh: 21, Iowa, at Iowa City;
28, Southern California (home).
Thomason also revealed that
United Press International is plan
ning other television sports pro
grams in collaboration with
Newspix', Inc., which is a sub
sidiary - of Bert L. Colemnn As
sociates, Inc., of New York.
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Giants Lose
5th Straight
By SCOTT BAILLIE
UPI Staff Writ.r
SAN FRANCISCO UPI A
disease known as "too Much
Spahnie" had the San Francisco
Giants running a temperature to
day but manager 'Bill Itigney
hoped to recover against the Mil
waukee Braves tonight by sending
Jack Sanford (5-3) into the pit.
The crew-cut right-hander t will
Do ' opposed oy joey jny u-i
who sparkled Inst season with the
Braves as a rookie until being
layed low by injuries.
Sam Jones, who figured as Rig
ncy's ace in the hole to get the
Giants off to a good start against
the National League champs.
didn't hnvc it Monday. He was
cuffed for 10 hits as a crowd of
17,524 watched Milwaukee ham
mer out a 4-2 victory. Warren
Spahn went the route for his fifth
triumph.
. ', "No Excuses"
"Nu excuses," Sam Junes de
clared afterward in (he club house.
"I hud all my stuff hut they just
lieat inc."
"Youh, it was a case of loo
much Sualiiiie," Hignfy said, re
ferring to the .sterling Milwaukee
southpaw. "And the Bruves arc
a tough club. You have to get
the right hits at the right time
if you're going to beat them."
Willie Mays clubbed his seventh
homer of the campaign in the
fourth inning with nobody aboard
lo pull the Giants even, 1-1, after
Johnny Logan's single had tallied
Frank Torre in the Braves' half.
Then Milwaukee moved ahoal
to stay with another run in the
fifth oil Wcs Covington's single and
picked' up two more in the sixth
to ice things.
Spahn, . who collected two hits
off Jones, sturted the sixth inning
disturbance by getting a one
bagger after two were out. lie
came sliding home on the aid of
singles by Bill Bruton and Ed
Mathews. Hank Aaron, who now
has hit safely in 22 straight
games, scored Bruton with a long
double off the left ccnterfield
barricade that sent Jones to the
locker room.
. ' Rally Snuffed Out
' Ho was replaced by Al Worth
iiigton who retired Torre on a
grounder after intentionally walk
ing' the dangerous Covington to
load the bases. .
The Giants staged some fire
works in the seventh which pro
duced one , more run with Andre
RodgcrS" sjnglo driving it across.
Then the rally conked ou with
two aboard as Leon Wagner
bounced into a double piny.
Both Spahn and Jones said brisk
Winds that lashed thp field af
fected their' curves.
setz besides being general mana
ger of Mt. Emily Lumber Com
pany at La Grande, took a per
sonal interest in Elgin's schools
in 1957 when plans for the new
high school were formulated. A
tract of 12 acres, the former Reed
Mill site later operated by Willis
Spool, and owned by Mt. Emily,
was one of four sites considered
for the new school.
Elgin school district No. 23 re
ceived the 12-acre site as a gift
from Valsetz company, largely
through the efforts and interest
of Beats. After the school was
constructed and opened last year,
the problem of improving the re
mainder of the property was left
temporarily to the future.
This spring when the . school
board sought means of grading
the site for a new athletic field,
Mt. Emily Lumber company of
fered the use of a large dirt mov-
assist in the
generosity of the Valsetz Lumber
Company, and their general man
ager. M. Gale Beals, of the Mt.
Emily La Grande branch of
Valsetz.
The site is close by the new
Elgin high school, dedicated last
year. The new field, which will
cover about 12 acres of land, will
have a football gridiron, several
Softball diamonds, a 440-yard
track and parking areas.
Valsetz Lumber Company don
ated the land to the Elgin school
system and the Union Pacific
Railroad, the City of Elgin, and
others have also donated material ing machine to
and will donate time to developing project.
the athletic playground. Mt. Emily With donated labor, about 8C,-
will also donate equipment to as-j000 yards of dirt were moved by
sist in improving the area. . jthe machine and the field was
Beals, a vice president, of Val-(smoothed and landscaped. The parties.
City of Elgin also donated time
and labor for the work involved.
The Union Pacific Railroad,
through local agent Tom Burton,
then gave the school district top
soil along the right-of-way near
Rhinehart. As soon as summer
vacation starts, the district will
begin hauling the soil to the field.
When work is completed, the
football field and Softball dia
monds will be turfed, and it is
hoped an automatic watering
system can be installed. A circu
lar 440-yard track will be con
structedit will have a 220-yard
straight stretch. Parking space
will be provided at both ends of
the new school.
A baseball diamond will be pro
vided at the nest edge of the
property and eventually lights,
now at Husky field, will be'moved
to the yet unnamed athletic area.
Elgin, just recently turned A-2
in state competitivesports, will,
in due time, have one of the fin
est athletic (ields in Oregon
thanks to the generosity of Val
In U.S. Open
By STEVE SNIDER
UPI Staff Writer
NEW YORK (UPI ) Most of the
nation's better golfers survived
preliminary qualifying skirmishes
fcr bertlis in the U.S. Open golf
championship but among the fa
miliar names missing today were
Jimmy Demaret, long - hitting
George Bayer and big Tim Hol
land, who created a sensation last
season by reaching the semi-finals
of the British Amateur. '
They were the leading casual
tics as more than 2,000 pros and
amateurs in 56 cities battled for
the 403 places available in a sec
ond series of trials coming up
June I. Another 21 will qualify at
Chicago today plus four more at
Des Moines, Iowa, where heavy
rains forced postponement of the
second 18 Monday.
With 69 leading players exempt
from Monday's tests, the firing
ran iairiy irue 10 lorm. rros
Gardner Dickinson, Bill Collins
and Ewing Pomeroy paced the
nation with brilliant 3-hole totals
of 135 and failures among "name"
players were infrequent.
But some of the glitter went out
of America's biggest champion
ship, scheduled at Mamaroneck,
Viks Capture
Playoff Berth
With Victory
MC.MIN.WILLE l'PI Port
land State defeated Oregon Col
lege of Education, 7-2, on the Lin
field diamond Monday to capture
district 2 NAIA playoff berth after
the game was halted at the end
of three innings by rain at Mon
mouth and moved here.
OCE was leading 2-0 when the
play was halted on Its home field.
After half an hour the rival
coaches agreed to move the" con
test to McMinnville to finish up.
None of the Portland State runs
were earned. OCE's five errors
figured in the Viking tallies.
Portland State will join Port
land, Southern Oregon and Lewis
and Clark ' in the playoffs this
weekend ' at Sckavone field in
Portland.
EVENING OBSERVE
" Buck Buchanan
Observer, La Grande, Ore., Tues., May 19, 1959 Page 2
CORDIAL NAMED
KLAMATH FALLS UPI
Jim Cordial, former Oregon
State football captain and
present coach at St. Helens
high, has been named back
field ceach and head baseball
coach at Oregon Tech, the
school announced Monday.
setz Lumber and other interest' "'?' , ,7 , h rf .
w.V., June 11-13, .when Demaret
ANCESTOR OF PHILOSOPHER
MOLDS '60 OLYMPIC GAMES
By HAL WOOD
UPI Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO (I'PIi The
guiding genius behind the UKiO
Olympic Winter Games is II. D.
Thoreau strangely enough a man
fashioned in the mold of his
famous ancestor philosopher, Hen
ry David Thoreau.
Thoreau (modern version i is
listed as assistant executive di
rector ol the organizing commit
Ice tor the Squaw Valley event. On
his shoulders rest the rcsponsibili
ty of making the show click.
,11c is the only man in an exec
utive caoncity for the games who
is on ex(ert in the field of sports.
At 35, it is generally conceded
that Thoreau, a Stanford graduate,
knows more about amateur sports
than any other man in this coun
tryand possibly in the world.
sports publicity director at South
ern California: executive assist
ant to the commissioner of the Pa
cific Coast Conference, with the
Although a genius in the world National Collegiate Athletic Asso-
of numbers. H. D. has devoted his ciation in New York and for the
lite to sports possibly making past three years with the Olympic
oniy one-iomn as mucn money as I Games.
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Standings
M.iior League Standings
United Press International
National League
W L Pet. CB
Milwaukee
San Francisco
Cincinnati
Chicago
Los Angeles '
Pittsburgh
St. Louis .
Philadelphia .
20 in .m
IR 15 .515 3'i
17 15 .531 4
in 17 .514 4'j
18 17 .514 4'i
15 10 .4111 5'i
12 20 .375 9
11 111 .367 9
Monday's Results
Milwaukee 4 San Francisco 2
Cincinnati 9 Los Angeles 7 ( night i
(only games scheduled)
American League
W. L. Pet. GB
Chicago
Cleveland
Baltimore
Washington
Kansas City
Boston
New York
Detroit
21 12 , 636 . .
til II .633 j
til 14 .576 3 '
17 18 .4,'W 5
14 16 .467 54
13 18 .419 7
12 17 .414.7
11 20 .355 8
talents in another direction
Many Talents
Since getting out of college aft
er World War II, he has been
Monday's Results
Detroit 14 Boston 2
Chicago 9 Washington 2, night
Baltimore 3 Cleveland o. night
'Only games scheduled.)
PCL Standings
W L Pet. GB
23 10 .697
Sacramento
San Diego
Phoenix
Spokane
Vancouver
Portland
Salt Lake
Sent tie
19
17
16
' 14
13
14
17
16
15
16
12 IB
13 20
.576
.500
.500
.4B.1
.448
.400
.375
La Grande
Junior High.
Wins Game
La Grande's junior high school
baseball team defeated the Her-
niiston JV's 9-7 in a game played
here yesterday. II was the second
win ol the season for the local
squad over the JV's.
The junior high nine sewed up
the game In the last of the sixlh.
as they broke out of a 7-7 dead
lock on Walt Lilian 's double, with
a pair of runs.
Rick Gerry, winning La Grande
liurlcr, relieved Andy Kauwolf in
the second inning when llermis
ton had a 3 1 lend, and allowed
but five hits throughout the re
mainder of the contest. Gerry
struck out five-:
' Dale Feik blasted a home run
for the local team and also drove
in three runs with a double. 'Andy
Rauwolf hit 2-4 and Elhart got
2 4 including four runs batted In.
La Grande gut eight hits and
bubbled two balls. Hermislon also
collected eight hits and had three
bobbles.
WAR ON LITTERBUO
NEW YORK 'L'PI The city
launched a . drive against litter
bugs Monday and 733 persons col
lected tickets. They face fines of
up to $25.
as an authority on track and
field;- has done nation-wide an
nouncing on radio and TV: and
has written articles on the chances
of United States in the summer
Olympic Games for such big mag
azines as the Saturday Evening
Post.
Facts On File
His mind is a complete file
of facts and figures on the I960
Winter Olympic games, on track
and field, college football, baseball,
boxing, or H)SMbIy liddlywinks.
An example:
Recently II. D. was silting in Ihc
stands watching a track meet in
the Los Angeles Area. Parry O'
ISrien put the shot something over
62 feet. A man sitting in front of
Thoreau said:
"I think that must be the great
est shot-putting exhibition 1 ever
saw.
Asked Thoreau:
"Were ycui in Goitenburg. Swe
den. Juno III, 195JI?"
'Of course ' not." replied the
stranger.
'Then it wcs Ihe greatest shot-
putting exhibition you ever saw."
thoreau knows every record
date it was set, where, who set it
and, probably, who finished second
and third.
His hobby is attending Olvmnic
Games competitions. And he'll
do anything to see a sports show
of any kind. Last week, for in
stance he was en route to Rome
to attend an International Olym
pic lummuiee meeting
However, he arranged his sched
ule so that he "detoured" through
Los Angeles to see the hig Colise
um Relays on Friday night.
Bayer and Holland failed to get
their names on the qualifying
losters in their local sections.
Demaret was entered at Hous
ton and Bayer at Little Rock. Hol
land made a hot late run in the
Long Island, N.Y., section but lost
out in a three-way playoff for the
final Open berth.
Horton Smith missed at Detroit,
Toney Penna failed at Cincinnati,
Dale Morey grabbed a shaky al
ternate's spot at Indianapolis and
.Marvin iBud) Ward missed out at
San Francisco.
Two surprises: Quarterback
John Brodie of the San Francisco
Forty-Xiners led the San .Francis
co section with 71-70147 and for
mer big league pitcher Lou Kret-
low of Edmond, Okla., got in with
154 at Oklahoma City.
rorty-nine of the 69 exempt
from Monday's trials will have to
play in the next eliminations June
1. In that group are Sam Snead,
Mike Souchak, Art Wall Jr., Ar
nold Palmer, Doug Ford, and Ken
Ventiin.
Another 20, including defending
cliamp tommy Bolt, Ben tlogan.
Lary MiddlccoH and Dow Finstcr
wald. automatically qualify for a
Ixrth in the Open s starting field
ol l.it) al Winged Foot June 11.
Beavers Win
Doubleheader
VANCOUVER, B.C. ( L'PI ) The
Portland Beavers got shutout
pitching from Marty Kutyna and
Art Houtteman Monday to defeat
Vancouver 1-0 and 7-0 in a day
night doubleheader.
The wins boosted Portland from
seventh to sixth place.
Ktilyna allowed only three sin
gles in the afternoon game before
4859 fans. In the night game Hout
teman duplicated the performance
before 3312 fans.
It was the second win of the
year for Kutyna; the first for
Houtteman.
Portland got its only run in the
first game -when Jack Littrell
singled, went to third on a single
by Jim Westlake and scored when
Kutyna hit intd a double play.
The Beavers got two runs in
the first inning of the second
game and then proceeded to run
up its margin as Vancouver made
six errors.
Portland moves to Seattle to
night for the start of a three
game series.
can League' J for the first time
since June 27." 1957, Monday night
when he beat the Washington Sen
ators, 9-2, and Spahn topped the
San Francisco Giants. 4-2, to help
the Milwaukee Braves stretch
their National League lead to 34
games.
Loses Shutout Bid
It was the 255th victory of
Wynn's 20 -year career while
Spahn registered the 251st triumph
of a 15-year career. Cy Young,
Walter Johnson. Christy Mathew
son, prover Cleveland Alexander,
Eddie .Plank and Lefty Grove are
the only modern pitchers who
have reached the 300-mark for
their careers.
The White Sox tagged Chuck
Stobbs for three runs in the first
inning and kept drawing further
and further away. Wynn, whose
record is 6-2, lost a bid 'for the
40th shutout of his; career when
Reno Bertoia hit a two-run homer
in the sixth inning.
The victory, coupled with the
Baltimore Orioles' 3-0 decision
over the Cleveland Indians, gave
the White Sox a three-point hold
on first place. They shared the top
spot the first four . days of this
season but this is the first time
they had sole occupancy since
1957.
Touches Off Rally
Spahn struck out six and scat
tered nine hits in posting his fifth
win of the year for the Braves.
The veteran pitcher also singled
to touch off the Braves' decisive
sixth-inning rally a rally capped
when Hank Aaron bombed a dou
ble off the center field fence in
San Francisco.
Skinny Brown and Billy Locs
combined in the six-hit shutout of
t h e Indians. Don Ferrarese
walked in the first Baltimore run
and three singles, a sacrifice and
an infield out produced the other
two Oriole tallies in the fifth.
The Detroit Tigers crushed the
Boston Red Sox, 14-2, in an Amer
ican League day game and the
Cincinnati Reds beat the Los An
geles Dodgers, 9-7, in the other
N.L. game. The other teams were
not scheduled.
Pitcher Jim Bunning drove in
five runs with a homer, triple
and two singles as the Tigers bat
tered four Boston pitchers for 16
hits.
Vada Pinson doubled home two
runs in the eighth inning after
Johnny Temple and Gus Bell ho
mered in the fifth for the big
blows of Cincinnati's victory over
the Dodgers.
SPECIAL
COAAMtlNICATION
Wednesday May 20 .
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' LA GRANDI5
LODGE NO. 41
A.F.&A.M.
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6:30 Hotcake Feed
7:30), M. M. Degree
N. L. Calvert, W.M.
Huskies Defeat
Oregon State
SEATTLE UPI Earl Irvine
:cattered six hits and was tough
in the clutch Monday as the Uni
versity of Washington Huskies de
feated Oregon' State 4-2 in a
Northern Division baseball game.
The win was the eighth against
three defeats for , the pennant
hopeful Huskies and it put them
in a first place tie with Oregon
OSC has a 5-5 record.
Irvine fanned 12 Beaver batters
two of them in the ninth inning
aitc- list had scored one run and
had another man on base. It was
the third conference win without
a defeat for the Washington right
hander. The linescore:
Oregon State 100-000-0012-6-3
Washington 000-020-20.X 4-6-1
Irvine and Walters.
. Monday's Results
Portland 1 Vancouver 0
game i
Portland 7 Vancouver 0
game)
Sacramento 4 Salt Lake 3
'Only games scheduled1
4
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