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Or ! 1 Ii u ii th a hi to C sti dt G. sb nl ch r ' ii i k I s "! S ! I i 2 z s 4 , a s i : S 1 I? ' a . I s ! i i Jr Observer, La Grande, Ore., - ut?n: , S M i " t OBSTACLE San Francisco Giants' catcher Hobi Lan drith uses a football block to stop Cincinnati's Johnny Temple at the plate only Hobie doesn't have the bail as it has slithered between his legs. Action occured in first game of a twin bill in Cincinnati as Temple came home from second on Vada Pinson's single to short left. Giants won the first game, 5-3; lost the second, 7-1. . . Rocky Knocks Orioles Oyt Of Coveted Spot By MILTON RICHMAN 1 UPI Staff Wrlttr They say "don't knock the rock" in Cleveland, and you can bet your bottom dollar they'll never do it again in Baltimore. A Baltimore fan tried it Wednes day night and Rocky Colavito of the Indians responded by slam- mine four home runs In succes sion to beat the Orioles, 1-8, and knock them out of a tie fur first place in the American League The fans needled Colavito and then spilled beer on him from the right field bleachers in the fourth inning.' "That made me mad," said the usually easy-going Cleveland out ficldur. So mad, in fact. Hint the 25-ycar-old Colavito proceeded to be come the second man in modern major Icngue history to hit four homers in consecutive times up during a single game. Lou Gehrig of the Yankees did it in 1932. . - Colavito drove in six runs in bringing his season home run to la! to 18. Minnie Minoso and Billy Martin I also homered for the Indians as I Gary Ucll gained his fifth victory with an assist from Mike Garcia. The White Sox took over undis puted possession of first pluce by defeating the Senators, 4-1; the Yankees scored their 11th victory in 13 games by beating the Ath letics, (M, and the Tigers re mained in a fourth-plucc tie with the Yanks by out-lasting the Kcd Sox, 10-9. The Giants climbed to within a game of the National League lend with an 11-7 decision over the l'i rates; the Cardinals topped the Braves, 5-2; the Dodgers nipped the Phillies, 2-1, and the Keels clipped tho Cubs, 8-4. Early Wynn pitched a five-hitter and struck out seven Washington butlers in registering his eighth victory against four defeats for Chicago. The White Sox guve him oil the margin he needed by scor ing two runs off Hal Woodcshick in the first inning. A hit bats man, Al Smith's triple and an er ror by catcher JIal Naragon did tho trick. Elston Howard's two-run double sparked a four-run seventh-inning rally that gave the Yankees their triumph over the A's. Winner Art ' Ditmnr and loser Bud Daley were tied at 2-2 in the seventh when ALMOST TIES RECORD " NEW YORK lUPn-JJully Ache camp' within a secondo flying the five-furlong mark at Belmont Park Wednesday while " winning the t3S.500 Juvenile Slakes ' in 58 4-5 seconds.' OLD TIMERS SAY NEW YORK (UPI 1 The New York Yankees have invited rep resentatives of every Yankee and ' opposing National League club who. mvl ; in a World Series ' to participate in its annual Old ' ""imer's DaV program Aug. 8. The , Yankees hnvc' played in 24 World Series sinfl! 1921. .- PATTERSON SCORES KO ' CHATHAM, N'.j: (UIMi-Floyd Patterson knocked out 259-pound sparring partner Ed Bunyan Wednesday while training Xor his June 25 heavyweight title defense against Ingemar Johansson of Sweden. . OBSEtVEt Thurs., Juno) 1, 1959 Page 2 the Yanks leaded the bases. A passed ball by catcher Frank House allowed the tie-breaking run to score and Howard followed with his double for two more. Detroit trailed Boston, 6-3, until it came up with five runs in the seventh. Itookic Larry Osborne then homered in the eighth and Al Kaline drove in what proved to be the winning run wilh his fourth hit of (he game. Ike De lock, the Red Sox starter, and Gary Geiger also hit homers. Tom Morgan was the winner and Mike Korniclcs the loser Willie Kirklnnd drovo in three runs for (he Giants on three hits, including his eighth homer, and Orlando Copcda also hcliied sink the Pirates by accounting for two more runs with a single and his 14lli homer. Sum Jones notched his seventh victory although Stu Millor hud to bail him out when Pittsburgh rnllied for five runs in the seventh. George Witt, fresh off the disabled list, dropped his fifth straight game. Bill White of the Cardinals boosted his average to .342 with three hits and Lindy McDaniel took over for winning pitcher Alex Kcllncr in the sixth inning and blanked the Braves the rent of the way. Hank Aaron and Del Cran- dull each homered for Milwaukee but Unit wasn't enough to keep Bob Rush from suffering his sec ond loss against four victories. Gene Cunley, who hadn't beaten (he Dodgers since 1957, held them to four hits and picked up his third triumph in pitching I ho IJIiils to their victory. Philadelphia put together three singles and an er ror by Churles Neal for, both its runs off loser Danny M'cDevitt in the fifth inning. k-, - Home Jims by RoynMcMillan and Frank Robinson, tyho went four-for-four, paced Cincinnati to its victory over Chicago. Bob Purkey yielded only four hits be fore leaving the game with a blis ter on his fingor in the eighth. Orlando Pena finished and was rapped for a homer by Ernie Banks in Ihe ninth. Sammy Tay lor homered for the Cubs. Purkey was credited with his sixth victory while Glenn Holibie siiffered his seventh setback. .. Buckhorn begone ! Now It's easy lo-banish lawn tpoilinii weeds like dandelions, plantain, buckhorn. Apply 4-xn. Clean, granular no mixing, no measuring. Takes just half an hour to apply wilh the Scotti .Spreader, your year-round lawn aid. CHERRY'S FLORISTS n WOODS & RIPPLES The Umatilla river has been fair for rainbow on ilies and halt. Cold Springs reservoir has been good for small bass and fair for craonie. Rainbow angling at Mc hay reservoir remains poor. The north and south forks of the Walla Walla river are producing good catches of rainbow for bait and fly anglers.' The upper Grande Ronde river is providing liood angling for small, wild rain bow. The Vogcl an Roulct ponds are slow for rainbow. Koulet is producing bullhead catfish Tt inches in length. Isolated portions of the Catherine creek and Grande Ronde sloughs arc providing good to excellent angling far large mouth bass, crappie, porch, and bullhead catfish. The best meth od of angling is to boat .drift between Union and Jmbler. Sal mon angling on Catherine creek is improving and should he good this coming weekend. Wallowa lake is providing good angling for Kokanee and fair ior rainbow with an occasional mackinaw be ing taken. Boat anglers are hav ing best results. All streams in Wallowa county are high and murky and trout angling is poor. The Wenaha river is high but salmon angling is fair. Angling in the mouths of all tributary streams of the Brownlee pool is excellent for large and small mouth bass, crappie, blucgills, yellow perch, and channel catfish. Eagle and Pipe creeks are high and muddy and treat angling is poor. The Sparta pond is poor but should be good for dry fly tingling early in the morning and in the late evening. Good catch es of smallmouth bass, 6 to 8 inch is in length, are being taken from Baldcck pond. Bass angling' is fair to good in the Airport pond with one 3-pound bass reported. Trout angling in the North Pow der pond is good. The Haines p:nd has been fair for trout. Highway 203 pund is poor. The Powder river from McEwcn to Baker is' good to excellent for rainbow. ' , Small tributary streams of the Powder river have been poor. The Burnt river from ' Hereford to Unity dam has been fair with the best angling in the area of heavy willow growth. The north fork ot the Burnt river is producing good catches cf rainbow to 9 inches in length. The south fork of the i5urnt river is poor. Unity res ervoir is providing excellent angl ing fcr rainbow to 13 inches in length for both bank and boat anglers. Bank anglers are using worms and eggs: Boat trollers arc having best results with small flatfish. Boat and bank anglers are having excellent success for trout 11 inch in length at Hig gins reservoir. Murray reser voir is producing excellent catch es of trout to 15 inches in length on bait and lures. Fly anglers arc doing excellent in the early morning and late evening at Mur ray reservoir. Magonc lake is good for small brook trout with an occasional 14-inch fish taken. Best result! are by slow trolling with flashers and worms. Best success for bank in the luxurious comfort of Air Conditioning! Our new air conditioning makes bowling the coolest summer fun for all! Cool fun for mother ... for the children ... for father, too! That's bowling in our ultra modern lanes the game that helps you relax, keeps you in trim, lets the family play together. Morning, afternoon or night, drop in and enjoy bowling, Am ericas Number One Family itinl Instruction Class For ADULT BEGINNERS Thursday and Friday JUNE 18-19 Class 12:30 p.m. each day i SIGH UP NOW! 1 J Ellen Forslund BLUE Min. LANES , , Air Conditioned For Your Bowling Pleasure East Adams . WO 3-3311 Portland To Drop By United Press International The Portland Beavers move in to Sacramento tonight to open a series against the first-place So lons and they're glad of it. Portland Wednesday night lost a pair to Sajt Lake City,. 8-3 and 7-1, to drop .back into fifth place one game under the coveted .500 mark. It ;was the sixth straight time Portland has lost in Salt Lake City this season. Salt Lake, In sixth place, is just one game behind Portland. Lefty Vic Lombardi and Art Houtteman were the Portland lowers. Salt Lake City got 26 hits in cluding -five home runs. Dick Ba rone hit a pair out of the park land George Perez, R. C. Stevens and Darrel Westerfield one each. At Phoenix, the home town club pounded out a 16-10 win over Se attle. The two teams scored 70 runs in their three - game series. Sacramento upped its lend over San Diego to two games by split ting with Spokane, winning 8-: Vancouver" and and losing 3-2. George Bamberger shut out San Diego 1-0. McCovey Hit Two Homers Willie " McCovey, who has the distinction of being the second best first sacker in the San Francisco Giants' chain, bashed a pair of homers and a double and a single to lead the Giants to their win. Benny Valenzuela also homered for the Giants and he and Mc Covey each have 11 on the season. Curt Barclay, who took a solid pounding, was the winning pitch er. Jack Dittmer, Paul Pettit and Hal .Bevan : smashed homers for the last place Rainiers. Mike Krsnich collected four hits to lead Sacramento to its first game win over Spokane. He hit a two-run homer' to highlight -a four run rally in the third inning that gave Joe Stanka nil the room he needed to notch his eighth win against three losses. Phil Ortega, an $80,000 bonus baby signed by the Los Angeles Dodgers, was credited with the win in the second game for Spo kane. He hurled five innings be fore giving way to reliever Roger Craig, who was charged with the loss in the first game. Shortstop Bobby Lillie hit a two-run hotier anglers has been with worms. Strawberry lake has been good to excellent for bank anglers for rainbow to 13 inches in kuigth The upper John Day river and upper Canyon frock are provid ing good to excellent rainbow an feling. Thci John Day dredge ponds are slow but ea. ly morning and late evening fly angling is producing good catches of large fish. T-ho Sumplcr-Granite road is open to Olive lake and Koka- iice and rainbow angling is good to excellent. Best catches of, both species have been made by' boat trollers. Hubble lake and ,Rowe creek reservoir in the low er John pay drainage have been good for rainbow. Rainbow ang ling in Rhea creek is fair. Ellen Forslund will be here for 1 wk. starting June 22. Sign up now for special les sons. Also available even ' ings, 7-9. Want to bowl in summer league play? ASK US ABOUT ITI Bowl wtir you t the "MAGIC TRIANGLE" Loses Twin Bill into Fifth Place in the sixth inning, to give the Indians the seven inning nightcap Barker Scores Only Run Johnny Briggs, who gave up on ly four hits, was charged with the lus in the mounlies 1-0 decision over San Diego. Ray Barker socked a sixth inning homer to give Bamberger his second win of the year against one loss. Salt Lake pounded 26 hits dur ing its twin win over Portland to gain a sweep in their four game series. George Perez pitched a Standings Major League Standings United Press International American League W. L. Pet. GB 30 24 .556 ... 29 25 . 537 1 27 24 .529 1'4 26 25 .510 2'-i 27 2G .509 Vk 24 26 .480 4 24 30 .444 6 23 30 .434 6i Chicago Baltimore Cleveland New York Detroit Kanfas p" Washington Boston Wednesday's Results New York 6 Kansas City 4 Detroit 10 Boston 9 Chicago 4 Washington 1 (night) Cleveland 11 Baltimore 8 (night) National League ' - W. L. Pet. GB Milwaukee 32 22 32 24 .595 .571 .527 .at I .500 .473 .415 San Francisco Los Angeles 29 2-J 28 26 22 21 Chicago Pittsburgh Cincinnati St. Louis Philadelphia .404 10 Wednesday's Results Cincinnati 6 Chicago 4 San Fran. 11 Pittsburgh 7 (night) I'hila. 2 Los Angeles 1 (night)' St. Louis 5 Milwaukee 2 (night) PCL Standings W. Pet. GB 2 44 4 54 6'4 7 Sacramento San Diego Vancouver Phoenix Portland Salt Lake Spokane Seattle 34 31 28 29 26 26 26 23 .586 .554 .509 .509 .491 .473 .464 .411 Wednesday's Results Sac-amento 8 Spokane 1 1 1st) Spokane 3 Sacramento 2 (2nd) Salt Lake 8 Portland 3 (1st I Salt Lake 7 Portland 1 (2nd) Vancouver 1 San Diego 0 , Phoenix 16 Seattle 10 " im:7 -c4 r : -i - b 4 - 1" J - .v2L v w'!rS V seven hitter and smashed a three run homer to lead the Beavers to the 8-? win in me urai Dave Wickcrsham was the pitch- ina hero in the nightcap as he toiled seven and two thirds in nings in relief to gain the win. ' Shortston ' Dick Barone, 'not known for his power, belted a cir cuit clout in each contest ana x. Stevens and Darrel Westerfeld al so connected for the circuit for the Bees. " The linescorcs: (1st game) Spokane 100 000 0001 6 1 Sacramento 014 021 Oux 8 14 0 Craig, Patrick (5), Wade (8) and Backlund; Stanka and Dalrymple. , (2nd game 7 innings) Spokane 000 012 03 3 0 Sacramento 200 000 02 5 2 Ortega, Craig (6) and Backlund; Brown and Roselli. Vancouver 000 001 0001 4 0 San Diego 000 000 0000 7 0 Bamberger and Pagliarom; Briggs and Retzer. (1st game 7 innings) Portland 003 000 03 7 5 Salt Lake 031 310 x 8 12 2 Lombardi, Pillette (41, Schwarz kotf (6) and Neal. Tornay (6); Perez and Onuska. (2nd game) ' Portland 000 0ol 0001 6 1 Salt Lake 041 200 OOx 7 14 1 Houtteman, Schwarzkoff '5), Brunei (7). Pillette (8) and Tor nay; Francis, Wickersham (2) and Westerfeld. Seattle 301 111 21010 16 1 Phoenix 002 408 llx 16 16 2 Hook, McCall (6), Stenhouse (6) and Bevan; Barclay, Navarro (7), Solis (8) and Stieglitz. SIGNS WITH ESKIMOS EDMONTON. Alta. (UPI) Paul Davis, a member of the Memphis State University coach staff, has signed as assistant coach with the Edmonton Eskimos of Canada's Western Football League. WAJDA SCORES TRIPLE 'BOSTON ( UPI ) Jockey Henry Wajda scored a triple at Suffolk rvyi" wvifippn W'n, the track's third leading rider, won with Town Count in the fourth race, Dashing Squaw in the sixth and Eternal Bim in the featured Seventh. - - - " . -t : Pavis Pilots Fastest Car At La Grande's Race Track Lloyd Davis piloted the fastest car in a large field of ' entries Sunday in stock car races held on the track .east of La .Grande. . Davis, driver of car, number . 78 and sponsored by the Little -Pig DriveJn, in a time of 20.7 seconds. A complete list of (he results in all divisions follows: ' ' "; vjohn Evers, No. 88, 22.0 sec onds; sponsor, Evers and Sons. Bill Turner. 45, 21.2'A; Goodyear Tire Co. " ' Jack Bicker, 8, 21.9; La Grande Concrete Pipe Coi Lloyd DavisTO,' 20.7; Little .Pig Drive-in.--" . . , . Jim Zanelli, O, 20.9'j; La Grande Transfer, Knights Tire rvice, Leighton's. - ; ' jlarry Alexander ,3, 22.14; Fla mingo Clubi Leonard Doyle, XV, 21.44; Grange Supply. " Ken' Hall; 01, 21.64; Roy Far nam Supply. Bob WUhelm, 09, 22.4; Hand Ford Sales. Don Myers, 38. 22.2; Bailey Farm Equip. Co. . Dan Book, 98, 22.44; M. J. Goss Motor Co. Dale Cole, 61, 21.64; Meadow Goltf Dist. Art Reel, 79, 24.6, Imperial Cafe. Lloyd Anthony, 00, 22.3, Elgin Texaco. . - Jim Evers,. 77, 22.2; Coy's Auto Supply. Norm Shanklin, 34, 21.0; Jerry Williams, 2, 21.2; Williams Refrigeration. ' Jack Griffin, 8, P2.7; Allied Wrecking (Pendleton). Pat McDaniels, 33, 22.9; None. ... - . Ken Williams, 6, 22.6'A; Baker Racing Association. Walt Smutz; 55, 22.3Mt; Schriv crs Flying "A". Little League Meeting Friday Boys interested in participat ing in summer Little League baseball play should report to an organization meeting tomor row morning at 10 a.m. at the La Grande high school field. According to Manager Jim Fer- gerson. - bays need not bring gloves to the session since there will be no actual play. Regular practice will begin Monday at 1 p.m. at the Greenwood school field. Boys who wish to play but have n't sent in advance registration may register at tomorrow morji lug's meeting. - j lo sell-"talk ii up" wilh Easy ip Place Classified Ad RACE WINNERS Trophy Dath 1st Car 2, Jerry Williams. ' 2nd Car O, Jim Zanelli. 3rd Car, 78, Lloyd Davis. Trophy Girl Arlene Lech. 1st Heat Rict - 1st Car, 79, Art Reel. 2nd Car 8, Jack Griffin. 3rd Car 98, Dan Book. 2nd Htat Race 1st Car 77, Jim Evers. 2nd Car 69, Bob Wilhelm 3rd Car 55, Walt Smutz. 4th Car 38, Don Myers. 5th Car 00, Lloyd Anthony. 3rd Heat Race ' 1st Car 8, John Evers. 2nd Car 01, Xen Hall. 3rd Car 45, Bill Turner. 4th Car XV, Lcoriard Doyle 5th Car 61, Dale Coles. 0th Car 9, Jack Rieker. , 3 Main Race " 1st Car 98, Dan Book. 2nd Car 55, Walt Smutz. 3rd Car 79, Art Reel.. 4th Car 77, Jim Evers.' A Main Race - 1st Car 78, Lloyd Davis. ' 2nd Car 0, Jim Zanelli. 3rd'Car 61, Dale Coles. 4th Car 01, Ken Hall. 5th Car XV, Leonard Doyle. 6th Car 45, Bill Turner. 7th Car 9, Jack Rieker. Powder Puff Race 1 1st Car 9, Lucille Rieker. 2nd Car 45, Dclores Turner. NOW THRU SAT. FRIDAY - SAT. PAT BOONE "MARDI GRAS" ALSO Joel McRae IN ''CATTLE EMPIRE" ' ENDS TONITE Rozzano Brazzi "A CERTAIN SMILE" Also "THUNDER ROAD" UUt Mm tOHM (MM .SJUDU DIE DAN I'tEtUHT 3 W 1 TO SELL IT! TELL If! Spring brings baseball and house cleaning So if you have something an Jul Dial W0 3 3161 4 - A friendly "AD-VISOR" will ' help you. place your Ad Ask for ihe BARGAIN RATE 6 Days For The Price Of 4 t