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OBSERVE! Otntrver, La Grande, Ore., Toes., June 9, 1959 Page8 RECUPERATING BRAVES Del Rice (leit) and Eddie Haas, catcher and inficlder respectively for the Milwau kee Braves, listen to Braves-Giants game on bedside ra- dio in Milwaukee hospital. Rice suffered a broken leg in a recent collision witfi Willy Mays of the San Francisco Giants, and Haa.? broke an ankle in spring training. All The Pirates Need Is Face-Lift To Look Like Champions Again By MILTON RICHMAN UPI Staff Writer All it takes is a Face-lift to make the Pirates look like champs again. There are days the Pirates look like pushovers, and there are oth er days usually when little Klroy Face is pitching that they look like legitimate pennant threats. , ' Face, whom his teammates call "the man with the golden arm," has a sparkling 8-0 record in re lief and is Pittsburgh's answer to George Freese Retains Coast Batting Title SAN FRANG1SCO (UPI) George Freese. Portland slugger retains the Pacific Coast League batting leadership with an aver age of .349, according to statistics released today and including Sun day s games. Dick Hall, Salt Lake City hurl er who has pitched four shut-outs, leads the earncd-run division for moundsmon with a 1.12 average. . Freese, appearing in 46 games, has clouted 60 hits, including 10 home runs. He has 27 runs bat ted in. Steve Bilko, Spokane, and Billy Wilson, Phoenix, are tied for the lead m runs-battcd-in with 44 each, Wilson also Is tops in horn ers with 11. ' Eddio Fisher of Phoenix has the most mound victories nine against three defeats. Bobby Locke, San Diego, leads the loop in strike-outs with 51. , Swimming Meet Here Thursday Weather conditions permitting, the All-Comers' Swim Meet will be held this Thursday night starting at 7 o clock nt the La Grande Memorial Pool. The meet Is open to nil boys and girls of La Grande and the surrounding area, 16 years and younger. . Events will consist of freestyle, backstroke, butterfly and breast stroke Individual events; individual medley, relays and low board diving. Entrants may sign up ut the pool the night of the meet prior to start of competition. , Sponsored by the Youth Activ ities Council, the All-Comers' Meet annually is the first meet of the competitive season for the Ln Grande pool. Baltimore's Iloyt Wilhelin, owner of a 9-0 record. In fact,. Face's winning streak is 13 games dating back to last year. A possible "mcetin' of the un beaten'' shapes up for the All-Star game at Pittsburgh on July 9th because Casey Stengel already has indicated he will pick Wil helin for the American League team and Face is practically a sinch to make the National League squad. Face Wins 8th Face picked up his eighth straight triumph and lowered his earned run average to 1.03, inci dentallyin Pittsburgh's 11-innlng 12-9 victory over Sun Francisco Monday night. Motilities Pushing Be vos For Fourth Position In PCL Bv UnitoW Prrti International Th PnrtlnnH Rpavers still held down third place in the Pacific wast League today but mey nuu a new rival hreathine on their necks in fourth. A ninth inning Portland rally tell short Monday night ana rori land rl-nnnr.rl a 1-6 decision to Salt Lake Citv. ' Vancouver, behind the steady pitching of 41-vear-old Joe Batten defeated San Diego 4-2 and moved into fourth nlace ahead ot rnoe- nix, which dropped a 16-9 slugfest to Seattle. The Mounties are just half a came back of Portland. Leacuc-leadinc Sacramento lost its third straight, a 7-3 decision at the hands of Spokane. But the Solons held on to their 2 1-2 game lead because of San Diego s loss Home Runs by Dick Barone and , Standings Major Loaguo Standings United Press International National League W. L. Pef. Milwaukee San Francisco Chicago Los Angeles Pittsburgh Cincinnati Philadelphia at. Louis ,615 556 ,519 ,519 32 20 30 24 28 26 28 26 28 26 .519 25 28 .472 20 30 20 31 400 11 .392 11V4 Monday's Results Milwaukee 9 Chicago 5 Pitts. 12 S. Fran. 9 (11 inns, night (Only games scheduled) Wednesday's Games - Los Angeles at Phila. (night) San Fran, at Pittsburgh (night) Cincinnati at Chicago Milwaukee at St. Louis (night) American League W, L. Pet. GB Chicago Baltimore Cleveland Detroit Kansas City New York Washington Boston 29 23 28 24 26 23 26 25 24 24 24 25 23 29 22 29 .558 .533 .531 .510 .500 .490 .442 .431 Monday's Results s Detroit 6 Boston 3 (night) (Only game scheduled) Wednesday'i Games Chicago at Washington (night) The five-foot, seven-inch Pirate ' Cleveland at Baltimore (night) relief ace blanked the Giants over tho last three innings and' rookie Harry Bright broke up the game with a three-run pinch homer in the 11th alter two were out. Bright was batting for Facek who was ap pearing in his third straight game lor tne rirntcs. 1 The victory snapped a four- gume losing streak and moved the Pirates into a three-way tie for third place. Milwuukee defeated the Chicago Cubs, 9-5, and increased its lead to three games in tho only other National League game scheduled., Tigers Move Up Only one game was scheduled In the American League, and in it the Detroit Tigers moved Into the first division lor the first time this season by beating the Boston Red Sox, 6-3. Lew Burdctte posted his ninth victory while driving in four runs in tho Braves' triumph over the Cubs. Burdette helped himself to iwu uguuiua unu lu ailiuius Willie blanking the Cubs for seven in nings. The Braves put tho game away with a seven-run rally in . the fifth. Burdette drove in three of the runs with a buses loaded dou ble. Eddie .Mathews contributed his 20th homer of the season. Skinny Jim Bunniug of the Ti gers fired a slx-hlter at the' Red Sox in pitching Detroit to within 214 games of first place. Boston tied the score at 3-3 m the fifth inning but the Tigers scored the deciding run in the sixth when Bunniug hit into a dou ble play with the bases loaded. Sddie Yost singled home an insur ance run in the eighth and Al Ka- ine socked his lllli homer off re- iever Leo Kicly in the ninth. Bill Monbouqiiette was the loser. Kansas City at New York Detroit at Boston PCL Standings United Press International W. L. Pet. GB 'Sacramento "83 22 .600 ... San Diego 30 24 .556 2',4 Portland 26 24 .520 4'4 Vancouver 27 26 .509 5 Phoenix 27 28 .491 6. Spokane 24 29 .453 8 Salt Lake 23 29 .442 8Mi Seattle 23 ' 31 .426 D',4 R. C. Stevens ruined Portland. Ken Johnson, the strong armed righthander down from Kansas City, was the Beaver loser. Nini Tornay hit a home run, a double and two singles for the Beavers, who got two runs in the ninth be fore Jim Umbricht came on to put down the uprising. Stevens' homer In the eighth ac tually provided the winning mar gin while Barone clouted a two run blast in the seventh. Vancouver sewed up its game in tne eight n inning witn a pair of unearned runs which were set up by Rudy Regalado's error. Joe Taylor was safe on the USC alumnus' boot, went to third on Jim Dyck's one bagger and tallied on a wild pitch by R, W. Smith. Then Joe Durham singled in Dyck for the second run which wiped out a 2-2 tie. It was a tough loss for Smith who struck out 11. Chuck Churn pitched and batted Spokane to victory over Sacra mento in a game that saw man ager Bobby Bragan of the Indians get the bounce in the second inning., Churn cracked a bases loaded single in the sixth to bring home two runs which broke another 2-2 deadlock. Then he resumed keep ing the Solons in check with five hits as he won his third against no losses. Stuck with the defeat was Chuck Hickman, who dropped his second decision. The Solon right-hander gave up an inten tional pass to get at Churn in the sixth. Everybody Hits Thirty-four hits, five of them homers, reverberated around the Phoenix orchard as Seattle showed the baby Giants that it can explode even if stuck in the basement. Two of the round-trippers were belted by the Suds Jack Dittmer, who helped Phoenix win the pen nant lost year. Dittmer collected five hits and drove in five runs while teammate Hal Bevan pro pelled six more across the plate with a double, homer and sacri fice fly. Bill Kennedy got the win in relief, his fifth, and Roy Wright was charged with the defeat. Home runs by little Dick Barone and R.' C. Stevens beefed up an 11-hit attack which carried Salt Lake City to its win over Port land. However, Hugh Pepper was not sure of his fourth victory until Jim Umbricht came o'l in ' the ninth to subdue a Beaver up rising. Ken Johnson was charged with his fourth loss. Monday's Results Spokane 7 Sacramento 3 Salt Lake City 7 Portland 6 Vancouver 4 San Diego 2 Seattle 16 Phoenix 9 Los Angeles All-Star Game Is Expected To Set Record NEW YORK (UPI) - Commis sioner Ford Frick is expected to announce today that the major leagues' second All-Star Game of the year will be a twi-light affair "rigged" to draw a record crowd of at least 80,000 into the Los An geles Coliseum. Frick's announcement, which olso will include ticket prices and other details, will come after a meeting with League Presidents Warren Giles of the National and Joe Cronin of the American. The possibility of 90-degrce heat on the Aug. 3 date selected seeks to rule out the chance of drawing a huge crowd for a day game and the leagues hardly could sell tele vision and radio rights for $2f0, 000 if it were a regular Los An geles night game which would not start until 11 p.m.. Eastern time. The first All-Star Game of the season will be played at Pitts burgh oil Jtily 7. FricK stressed that the decision to ploy a second game was ap proved for this year only but Na tional League player representa tive Robin Roberts of the Phila delphia Phillies Indicated the players hoped the second game miuht Do played for iu years. Roberts explained that the addi tion of a second All-Star Game each year should enable- the pen sion fundi to pay off about 111. million in back service to retired players In 10 years. Roberts said it would take 17 years to pay off the same amount If only one game were played. Frick denied published accusa tions that a "greedy motive in spired the players to think of the second game. In my heart I Know tnose charges are not true, said trick. The plnyers have a proniem. They need money. I know the feelings of Roberts and the others when they first suggested a sec ond game. , Jeff Has Easy Time Winning State A-l Title PORTLAND (UPI) An easy win and two close ones marked the 1959 state high school base ball championships in Multnomah stadium here Saturday night. Jefferson' of Portland annexed the ,A-1 crown with a 7-1 romp over The Dalles, Sherwood nicked Sulherlin 6-5 for the A-2 title and Adrian captured the B champion ship for the second year ln a row by defeating Gaston 5-4. Terry Baker hurled a three- hitter to lead Jefferson. He fanned 14 batters and walked only two. All of Jefferson's runs came on two homers, one a grand slam mer by Dave Ereeland in the third and the other, an out-of-the park four-bagger, by Jerry Walk er in the fifth, good for three more tallies. Jerry Richwine and Rod Klrk- patrick accounted for five of the six runs batted In for Sherwood. In the Adrian Gaston battle, Henry Mendazona hit a single with two out to socre the winning run for the defending champions. Swimming Pool Dealership Told Announcement of his dealership representation of Esther Williams swimming pools for eastern Ore gon was made-today by Dale Har- gett, coach at Enterprise high school for the last six years. Hargctfs firm will sell and In stall the pools, made in a variety ot sires for home, resorts and commercial enterprises. Currently residing In Enterprise, Hargett plans to moVe with his family to La Grande In the fall. He is a former resident of this community. CLICKS ON BLACK LANES BROOKLYN. N.Y. (UPD-Don Carter of St. Louis, Mo., first bowler to use e mottled white ball in ABC competition, test the solid black lanes used on the major league bowling television show re cently and clicked for a 298. Astounded, he tried again and rolled a 299! .... Illness Keeps Roscoe Cook Out Of Meet EUGENE (UPI) Roscoe Cook, University of Oregon sprint star who recently tied the world rec ord of 9.3 seconds in the 100-yard aasn, win miss the NCAA cham pionships in Lincoln, Neb., this weekend because of illness. Coach Bill Bowerman said Cook has suffered a skin rash since the Modesto Relays and later a lymph gland swelling. He has not been able to rest or practice enough in recent days, the coach said. STARTING WED. I IANA TURNER Emk i JOHN GAVIN V jj SANDRA DEE J; DANO'm ( 1 ofjife M a..!i9!S:,5E!iI, f-0 ENDS TONITE ORSON WELES "COMPULSION" also "Terror in a Texas Town" at. - . ..... . i TODAY THRU THUR. RAZANNO BRAZZI IN "A CERTAIN SMILE" ALSO "THUNDER ROAD" WED. 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