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3 eavers Two Games Of Second EVENING OBSEIVEI Observer. La Grande, Ore., Wilhelm's Boosts The Orioles By Dumping Chicago "They lit torches and exploded fireworks for Hoyt Wil helm, and you gotta admit the guy rates even Roman candles for pitching Baltimore to within a half game of first place. All this to-do took place Tuesday night when the veteran 35-year-old knuckleballer reeled off his eighth straight .vic tory without a defeat by beating the Chicago White Sox, 3-2. . . ... Wilhelm scattered seven Hits boosting the Orioles into second I place, but it turned out to be the toughest game he hurled all year. The reason for that was gnats. That's right, bugs. They swarmed all over Wilhelm in the first inning as he tried to pitch io the White Sox at Comis kcy Park. Wilhelm said they were so thick he couldn't breathe, let alone pitch. -Firework Do Trick First, Baltimore coach Al Vin cent tried getting rid of the gnats with a towel. That didn't help. Then the umpires burned torches but that was no good, either Finally, a group of fireworksjex perts exploded a huge smoke bomb. That did the trick. The Senators defeated (he slumping first-place Indians, 3-2. in 10 innings; the Tigers blunked the Yankees, 2-0, and the Athletics topped the Red Sox, 5-3. Milwaukee stretched its Nation al League lead to 2'4 games with a 3-0 triumph over San Fran cisco; Cincinnati nipped Los An geles, 5-4, and Harvey (Perfect Came) lladdlx of Pittsburgh shut out St. Louis, 3-0, after the Cardi nals beat the Pirates, 3-1, in the coniplction of a game suspended on Muy 3. Itnin postponed the Philadelphia-Chicago game. Homer Scalps Indians Hon Samford's loth inning hom er for Washington sent Cleveland down to its fourth straight defeat. . Don Mossi of the Tigers limited ' tile Yankees to four hits In post ing his third victory against the same number of losses. Detroit collected only three hits of( loser Duke Mans and two relievers. Ted Williams slammed the 2,500th hit of his career but it wasn't enough, and the Athletics came from behind to overcome the last-place Red Sox. Williams reached the milestone with a first-inning doublo that formed part of a three-run rally. Hob Rush of the Braves set the Giants down on five hits to gain his fourth victory without a loss. Rush struck out eight, didn't walk a man and never allowed a Giunt bascrunncr to advance past first. Johnny Templo's sacrifice fly with the bases loaded in the eighth inning snapped a 4-4 tie and gave the Reds their victory over the Dodgers. Haddix, making his first ap pearance since his "perfect'1 12 inning feat against the Braves on May 28, gave up eight hits andjStruck out six in blanking the Cardinals fur his fourth victory of the year. Prior to the regulurly scheduled game, Lindy McDuniel of" the Cards pitched three scoreless In nings to preserve Gary Blaylock's third victory in the suspended game of May 3rd. Standings United Press National International League , W. L. Pet. OB Milwaukee 2!) 17 .030 .. San Francisco 27 20 .574 2'i Pittsburgh 25 22 .532 4'ii Los Angeles 25 24 .510 5'j Chicago . 23 24 .4119 6'4 Cincinnati 22 25 .4(i 7!i St. Louis 19 27 .413 10 Philadelphia 17 28 .378 11V4 , - American League W. L. Pet.GB Cleveland 25 19 . 568 ... Baltimore 28 21 .553 'j Chicago 25 2! .543 1 Kansas City 22 21 .512 '2'i Detroit 22 23 .4119 3!i Washington 22 28 .458 5 Now York 19 24 .442 S Boston 19 25 .432 8 PCL Standings W. L. Pet. GB Sacramento 30 18 .025 San Diego 27 20 .587 2 '-4 Portland 23 20 .535 1 4',i Phoenix 24 24 .500 6 Vancouver 22 24 .478 1 7 Spokane : 20 26 .435 9 Seattle 1 " ' . 20 27 .426 . 9 SsJl'taJku i 10 .422 9'4 Move Within Wed., June 3, 1959 Page 6 Kn ana strucx qui eignt wnue ' j ,v Major League1 Ail-Star Tilt T Set For Coast MILWAUKEE (UPI) Base ball Commissioner Ford Frick's okay and ironing out such de tails as radio and television. com mitments is all that stands be tween a second major league All Star game in Los Angeles In Au gust. .' ''j Executive Vice President Bir die Tcbbctts of the Milwaukee Braves said Tuesday club owners and players had approved a sec ond game and tentatively selected likely date is Aug. 3 an open date for both leagues. ' . ! The regular All-Star came is set for July 7 in Pittsburgh. Frick has indicated he will go along with a second All-Star game which was advanced by player representative Robin Roberts, of the Philadelphia ' Phillies . as a means of increasing the players pension fund and providing cash for minor league aid and youth baseball programs. ' ' Tho major , leagues held two All-Star games during the' war with tho second game against for mer major leaguers in service. Tcbbctts said the plan next year will bo to hold the two games in American Lcngtio cities and ex tend the normal All-Star break to four days to permit playing of both contests. "I'm sure the people on the West Coasf will be anxious to see some of the American League stars in action," he said. But Frlck said that if In' his ef forts to sell television and radio rights for the second game he ran into evidence that It was regarded as of lesser importance "I would vote against It." mm GARY (n 7" uckler 0km fff Plus 'THE LAST T0SlEvHT Family Nighl '1.00 III LA GRANDE DRIVE IN "THE SUN ALSO RISES" Tyrone Power Also "HARRY BLACK THE TIGER" Stewart Granger San Diego Is Having Troubles SAN DIEGO UPI Portland scored three runs in the sixth In ning here Tuesday night ito down San Diego 5-3 and move within two games of the second place Padres. It was the fourth win in a row for Portland. Portland's three-run rally began when Dave Melton doubled and went to third on Russ Snyder's single. George Frecse got an in tentional walk to load the bases and Jack Littrell singled to bring in Melton and Snyder. Jim Green grass singled in Freese. In the seventh inning Portland again scored when Clarence Moore walked, Melton singled him to third and Snyder singled in Moore. The fifth run came in the eighth when Greengrass belted his fifth home run tf the season. San Diego's scoring was paced by two runs in the sixth. 'Gene Leek singled and Steve Jankowski smashed his fourth home run of the season. The Padres' other run came in the first when Dick Smith walked and Bill Renna and Leek singled. Howie Reed of Portland hurled a seven-hitter for his fifth win against, two defeats. The experts say San Diego fig ures to overtake the Sacramento Solons in the PCL pennant race, but the Padres are having trouble picking up ground. Sacramento was beaten by Sc- attlo, 3-2, Tuesday night. The Pa dres failed to take advantage of the situation by ' losing to- Port land, 5-3. The Solons still hold the same 'i game edge over the Padres they've Held for the past week. What makes the PCL observers feel the Padres will win out In the end is the fact the Padres have been getting a continual supply of new talent. Additions like long-ball hitting Gene Leek, a young in ficlder with sure big league ability and John Briggs, who has twice pitched Victories over the Solons, make Padre stock look good. Other Results In other games Tuesday night, Phoenix cashed in on three hom ers to defeat Spokane, 5-3, and Vancouver whitewashed Salt Lake, 7-0. Young Jay Hook pitched a five hitter for Seattle against Sacra mento. Hook gavo up a run in the first inning and had smooth sailing until the ninth when the Sacs loaded the bases. Rainier Manager Freddy Hutch inson pulled Hook and brought in Bill Kennedy who promptly struck out pinch hitter Cuno Bar- ragan. Jack Ditmer, Doe Fondy and Ed Winceniak each singled home a run for the Rainiers. Benny Valcnzucla,- Bill Wilson and Sal Taormlna socked homers to lead the Phoenix Giants to their win. STARTING TODAY COOPER maria SCHELL Only a bullet could get close to Joe Frail! Amm AM Starring KARL MALDEN . JOHN DIERKES . KINS DONOVAN And hrtreduoMa ' BEN PIAZZA BLITZKREIC" The Dalles Meets Jeff For A-l Title By United Press International The Dalles will meet Jefferson in Portland Saturday night for the state class A-l high school base ball crown..' Also to be "decided at Multno mah stadium Saturday night are the A-2 and B titles. Sutherlin will play Sherwood for the A-2 crown and Adrian tangles with Gaston for the class B championship. Four of 'the teams battled their way into the finals Tuesday. Jef ferson and Gaston had won their spots earlier. The Dalles, playing on its home diamond, edged Medford 4-3 in 12 innings. Sophomore shortstop Bob Porter broke up the game with a bases-loaded single when two men were out in the ninth inning. Por ter earlier made four errors in the game. Sherwood ..and Sutherlin won games away from home to earn their A-2 berths. Sherwood down ed Bandon, 15-1 at the, coastal town and Sutherlin traveled to eastern Oregon to take Mac-IIi 5-1. , Adrian, the defending champ in class B, overpowered Maupm 13-1 on its home diamond. NAVY WINS TROPHY NEW YORK (UPI) The East ern Intercollegiate Baseball League announced today that Navy won the Hanks Trophy as. the league champion and that two Navy players, outfielder Fred Marsh and pitcher Chuck Davis, led the circuit in batting and pitching. ' ' mmmmtxmvst -'v P5Sswh " .; A. M. Lee has been a resident of La Grande for twenty three years and knows the problems faced by the farm ers in the region. He is the first and oldest oil distribu tor in La Grande and has been in continuous service since his establishment. He is an ardent sportsman and a professional trapshooter. He Is a Master Mason and takes an active part in community affairs. New York Boxing Commission Okays Sugar Ray's Title NEW YORK (UPI) Sugar Ray Robinson won a big argument when he retained New York recog nition as world middleweight champion, but it began to appear today thai he may nave lost a Dig pay day. The ''sugar man," who has won many a tough decision in the ring, was handed a surprise vic tory Tuesday when the New York State Athletic Commission re fused to go along with the Na tional Boxing Assn., which has stripped Robinson of his c own for failure to meet Carmen Bnsilio. But Dasilio now indicates that the decision means little as far as he's concerned he's going ahead with plans to fight ex champ Gene Fullmer in a bout to be recognized as a title tight by the NBA. That could mean a big -jolt in the pocketbook for Robinson. Al though Robinson then would be free to defend his New York ver sion of the crown against some iOther opponent such as Germany's Gustav Scholz, a Robinson-Scholz bout doesn't figure to make nearly as much money as Robinson-Ba-silio. ' The New York commission is sued its ruling after a public hear ing on whether Robinson had met its May 15 deadline for signing for a title fight against Basilio. Technically Robinson didn't meet that deadline a contract he signed for a proposed fight with Basilio in Philadelphia on Sept. 21 wasn't signed until May 16. But the commission ruled that "to va cate the title of a champion" on III . - Vi . : ClciDlboD LA GRANDE SWIM CLUB SETS WORKOUT SESSION First workout of the season for the La Grande Swim Club today was announced for 9 a.m. tomor row at the city pool. Aspirants to the team will sign up and hold a brief workout under, direction of Betty Raff Turley and Marilce Meppen, assistant coaches. Due to a prior commitment to the Eastern Oregon College swim ming class for use of the pool to morrow morning the opening work out will be Tmited to one hour, Larry Scachrist, pool manager, an- such a "technical ground would be inequitable." ANNOUNCING Something new in the line of special service! We can now couple hydraulic hoses using factory methods. Immediate service any length any quantity See this equipment in operation in our shop NOW! No more patch jobs on your hydraulic hoses. Your only factory method applicator in this area. G & H Welding & Machine Shop ISLAND CITY A. M. LEE & SON NEW MOBIL FARM AGENT IN LA GRANDE FARM COMMUNITY X The General Petroleum Corporation has appointed A. M. Lee & Son EXCLUSIVE MOBIL FARM AGENT to serve the Union County farm community with a complete line of MOBIL products. Northwest farmers have been using MOBIL gasoline and fuels, MOBILOIL, DELVAC oils and MOBIL gear oils and greases, as well as other fine ; MOBIL products for over a quarter century. .. . PERSONAL SERVICE ' 4. You'll get prompt and personal service, dealing with a neighbor. MOBIL FARM AGENT A. M. Lee & Son offer competitive prices on r -wiia' warn -yv- , -JB these known products at time of delivery. as near as your telephone WO 3-2822 Island City Hwy. nounced. : " Use of the pool will be available to the swim club through Saturday. June 13, under the following schedule, Scachrist said: Tomorrow 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. and 5 to 7 p.m. Friday 10 a.m. to noon and 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday 10 a.m. to noon. Monday through Wednesday, June 8-1010 a.m. to poon and 5 to 7 p.m. , Thursday, June 1110 a.m. to noon and 6:30 p.m. for the La Grande All-Comers meet. Friday, June 1210 a.m. to noon and 5 to 7 p.m. WO 3-3931 , Saturday, June 1310 a.m.,Nto noon. . The swim club schedule for June 15 and after will be an nounced following completion of plans for the Icarn-to-swim classes, Seachrist said. The team, without the services of Don Campbell as coadh this season, will be coached by the pool staff, Seachrist, Mrs. Turley, Miss Meppen and Dot Ann Anson, and George Challis, swim meet di rector. Campbell will study this summer at the University of Colo- raHn The pool has been completely repainted and restriped for he new season by the city. OLD AMERICAN STRAIGHT (OURION WHISKEY Fifth THE AMERICAN DISTIUINO CO., INC f EKIN, IU. ' SAU5AUTO. CAL p I .-J I--ta30