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.:.! a. I ' ifill-Comers Swini Meet Scheduled for Friday Night The annual La Grande All-Comers Swim Meet, previously .postponed because of cold weather, will be held at 7 o'clock Jfriday night this week, La Grande Swim Club coaches an nounced today. ... :; The meet is open to all boys and girls of the area up to 16 years.' Contestants will be divided by age groups, 10 and under, 11 and 12, 13 and 14, and 15 apd 16. ' l'.- Ribbons will be awarded to the first six place winners in each event and any new pool re- Koufax Fan Sixteen In Dodger Win By FREP DOWN United rest International "'" They always Raid It couldn't be 'done but Sandy Koufax can make "rival batsmen look like 'Worse hitters than ho is. :' It's no mean trick, too, when Jfou consider that the 23-year-old isputhpaw sncedballcr thinks noth ing of striking out 10 times in a i row or going a full season with ojie or two hits. It's a joke, son', when he's hit- tin' but it's not so funny when 'Sandy is pitching and getting the bull anywhere near the plute. Koufax, a Brooklyn-born $20,-000-bonus baby who once sprained an ankle when ho "tripped over the foul line", at Ebbets Field, looked like he finally is coming of age as a major league pitcher Monday night when he struck out IS batters while pitching the Dodgers to a 6-2 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies. Shy of Dean's Mark Koufax' performance fell one strikeout shy of the National League mark set by Dizzy Dean in 1933 but he did earn a couple of lines in the record book: The 16 strikeouts snapped the major league record of 14 for a night game previously held by Johnny Vanden Meer, Bob Feller, Bob Turley and Sam Jones. .The total of 16 strikeouts in one game also equalled the all time mark by a left-hander-shared by Kube Waddell, Nun Itucker, Jack Harshmun and Herb Score. At the same time tho total equalled . the club single-game strikeout record held by any Dodger pitcher in this case, Mucker, July 24, l'JO'J. Koufax struck out at least one bntter in every inning up to the ninth. Three strikeouts in the fi nal frame would have set a new major league mark, two would have tied Feller's existing record and one would have lied Dean's N.L. mark. But ho couldn't get them. Clinch Win In Fifth The Dodgers clinched the vic , lory when they scored three runs In the fifth inning, the key blows being a two-run single by Oil Hodges and a run-producing sin gle by John Roscboro. The Dodg ers made only nine hits compared to 10 for the Phillies but they got seven walks. Eight Dodgers struck out, the game total of 24 for both clubs equalling a major league record. Mickey Muntle drove In six runs wijh two homers and a trl pic to lead the New York Yan kecs to an lt-6 victory over the Kansas City Athletics and rookie Kddie Fisher won his major league debut as the Son Francis co Giants downed the Pittsburgh Pirates, 4-1, in the only other big league action. Mantle sent the Yankees off winging with a two-run homer in the first inning, tripled with two aboard in the fifth and connect ed for his second two-run homer in the seventh. Bill Skowron also homered for the Yankees to help roller pitcher Bobby Shantz win his second game. Fisher yielded only three hits in seven innings and Al Worthinglon cleaned' up in the eighth nnd ninth for the Giants, who handed Ron Kline his fourth loss by scor ing four runs in the seventh inning. ELGIN BRIEFS Mr. and Mrs. Morris Kcuhn returned homo Thursday evening ufter spending two weeks in Alaska visiting members of their family and fishing. Mrs. Lawrence Nedrow 'managed the store in their absence with the assistance of their son Larry. John Rysdnm Jr. enjoyed his eighth birthday party Thursday afternoon with 20 boys his own age attending. H received many gifts, and the boys report a won derful time. o Elgin firemen were called to tho Western Stud mill Friday after noon about S o'clock when smoko started coming from the sawdust fuel bin. No blaze resulted from the smoke,' and with the firemen standing guard Tor a spoil, the smoko also quit, ' cords will be recognized providing tho record breaker swims against competition. ' " '' 1 ' Interested boys and girls are asked to sign up for events at the start of the meet at th Veterans Memorial Pool. Entrants will be limited to three individual swim ming events, plus relays and diving. Decision to hold the All-Comers Meet this Friday was made last night wh?n plans to hold a home-and-home meet scries with the strong Selah, Wash., club fell through. Events scheduled for the Fri day night meet are, by age groups: 10 and under boys and girls freestyle, hrcaststrokc, backstroke and butterfly, all 25 yards. 11-12 boys and girls freestyle, breaslstroke, backstroke and but terfly,1 all 50 meters. 13-14 boys and girls freestyle and breaststroke, 100 meters: backstroke and butterfly, 50 met ers; Individual medley, lfiO yards; 200 meter freestyle. ' ' ' 15-16 boys and girls freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke and but terfly, loo .meters: individual med ley, 100 yards; 200 meter free style. 16 and under boys and girls diving, 1-meter board, 5 dives each. . Belays for all age groups boys and girls I GO yard freestyle and ICO yard medley relays. Pool length Is 40 yards and eight float rone lanes comprise the width. Signup will start promptly at 6:40 Friday night at tho pool. Delayed because of one post ponement, several cancellations and inability to . agree on dates with prospective opponents, the La Grande Swim Club competitive swimming schedule for the sum mer was onnounccd today by George Chnllis, meet director. The schedule includes the ap pearance here of the strong Bois? YMCA team, the Washington Open AAU championships at Pasco and tho Oregon Open AAU champion ships at The Dalles, as well as the Junior Olympics at Portland on two successive weekends. The schedule follows: June 18, Thursday, llermiston, at llermiston. June 26, Fridny, La Grande All- Comers Meet, 7 p.m. July 2. Thursday, Pendleton, nt Ln Grande. 7 p.m. July 8 or 10, Wednesday or Fri day, four-way meet between Boise, llermiston, Pendleton nnn La Grande, at La Grande. Date of this meet to' be confirmed. Time: 7 p.m. July 17-18. Friday and Saturday, Washington Open AAU champion ships at Pasco. July 23. Thursday, open, nt La Grande. To be announced if op ponent is found. August 1, Saturday. Recreation Commission Meet, at The Dalles. August 8, Suturtluy, Eastern Oregon Swimming & Diving Championships, at La Grande, Time: 1:30 p.m. August 1516. Saturday and Sun day, Oregon Op'-n AAU champion ships, at Tho Dalles. August 21-22, Friday and Sat urday, Junior Olympics, short course, at Portland. August 28-20, Friday and Sat urday. Junior Olympics, long course, at Portland. September 8-7, Sunday and La bor Day. Luke Oswego swim meet, at Lake Oswego. Dates to be con firmed. : ' ' ' t'di' on nSSr- iu Beavers Swat Bees Motilities, Suds Win Iff LITTLE BUT MI3HTY , Ted Sidor helps Gary Fincher get ready for action. OBSERVER I Neil Andersen Observer, La Grande, Ore., Tues., June 23, 1959 Page 2 SPORTS ACTION FOR LOCALS SETS RAPID SUMMER PACE Sports Briefs noSTON iu'P! The American League lies recalled Umpire Bob Stewart from the Amcricnn Assn. where he had been on option. The contract of Umpire Frank Tabac- chl was assigned by the major circuit to the American Assn. MECHANIZED RELIEF CORPS MILWAUKEE (UPH-The Mil waukee Braves will have a mech anized relief corps beginning to night. Bullpen hurlers Wll! arrive from their center field shelter on a scooter. RIDES THREE WINNERS . BOSTON (UPI i Jockey Warren Snyder had three winners at Suf folk Downs Monday. Snyder's tri ple included Puzzler. Sunglittcr ami Massacre in the feature race. APPOINT HEAD COACH CINCINNATI (UPIl-Ed Dolier ty, former Boston College star quarterback, has been appointed head football conch at Xavier Unl- j versity. lie replaces ex-tenmni.ilei Harry W. "Mick" Connolly. I The summer grows hotter and so does sports action for local participants. In golf yesterday, Wendy Mo berry lead local qualifiers in the state junior golf championships in Portland. Miss Moberry fired an 88 over the Columbia-Edge-water course. . Three other girls from La Grande also participated in first day action. Maureen Devaney shot a Ul, Susan Schriver a 107 and Denise Wagner, 108. Gordon DeVore shot a 100 to pace tho efforts of the boys rep- tescnting La Grande. Murph Karns putted and pitched for a 114 and Lurcn Fihn shot a 12!). Bobby Lyman, Elgin, got a 47 for nine holes. Local littlo league action con tinues at the high school field in the mornings. Practice hours were changed too because of the afternoon heat. The boys will be grouped this Week by ability and position and then assigned to teams. This is HarveyMutchWins Rifle Match Honors Harvey Mutch of F.ntcrprisc walked off with top honors in a smallbore rifle match held in Springfield June 14. Mutch scor ed 11!)7 of a possible 1200 points with 83 X s or hits in a small circle inside the bullseyo while besting 37 topflight marksmen. Charlie Smutz of La Grande won the Expert division with score of lli)2 in the meet sponsor ed by the McKenzic Rifle and Pistol Club. Guy Davis, Enterprise and Charles Bowles, Pendleton, also were entered but did not place in any event. Horry! Horry! ENDS TONIGHT fad MacMllRRAY-Jean HA6EN STARTS WEDNESDAY DEBBIE REYNOLDS TONY RANDALL PAUL DOUGLAS " .Jew mo j nenne ClNBMASCOP ( in METROCOLON ALSO "GOOD DAY FOR A HANGING" t insure that no one team will be overloaded with "stars." With the jamboree only five days away, the sluggers seem to have the advantage over pitchers. Yesterday s practice was high lighted with several long pokes by the pre-teen players. Tentative plans arc being made for a banquet and trophys at the end of the season. In addition to championship trophies for each winning team there will be trophies for the outstanding bat ter, pitcher, and most improved player In each league. Two All-star teams will be se lected at the end of the season in each league and a best of three series held climax action for the summer. The Shriners' Hospital an nounced the lineups for their fifth annual East-West game in Portland August 25. From the area around La Grande six players were selected. Gary Marr from Enterprise was the only back named. The five linemen nominated to the East si(uad are Ellis Cheney. Elgin, Frank Fruilts, Cove, David Hock ett, Joseph, Clifford Johnson, Wallowa and Ronald Itobinson. Union. Trainer for the East squad will be Archie Dunsmoor of EOC in La Grande. Named as manag ers of the team were Ron Walk ur.d David Wylde, both of La Grande. United Press International A six-run outburst in the fifth inning powered the Portland Bea vers to a 6-4 victory over the Salt Lake City Bees Monday night in the opening game of a Pacific Coast League series. The win was Portland's second in 10 contests with the Bees and left the Bea vers in fourth place. Winning his fourth game in sev en decisions was Art Houttemaii He was relieved by Howie Reed in the ninth inning when the Bees scored one run and had the tying runs on base with only one out, The loser was Hugh Pcnner who now is 5-5. Beavers Ice Game Salt Lake opened the scoring in the fourth frame when Carlos Bernier singled to score Keri Toothman from second base. The Salt Lake lead was short lived. however, as the Beavers came back in the fifth to put the game on ice with the six tallies. The fireworks started when Len Noal and Houtteman singled and Milt Graff walked to load the bases. Consecutive singles follow ed by Charlie Secrest, Russ Sny der and Jim Greengrass. At this ooint Salt Lake manager Larry Shepherd took Pepper out and brought in reliever Dave Wicker- sham who was greeted with a triple by Clarence Moore. Bernier's single in the sixth drove in two Salt Lake runs and narrowed the score to 6-3 and R. C. Stevens narrowed the gap to 6-4 in the top of the ninth when he hit his second round tripper of the season for Salt Lake. The significance of sound relief pitching was brought sharply into play last night. In all three scheduled contests, bull penners played paramount roles. Darrell Martin turned in a per fect ninth inning relief stint to choke of a San Diego threat and give tho last place Seattle Rain icrs a 2-1 victory over the Padres. Howie Reed came onto relieve Art Houtteman in the ninth in ning to save a 6-4 decision for Portland over Salt Lake. Connie Johnson saved Fred Besana's win as he worked three-plus in nings as Vancouver beat Phoenix, 5-2. Martin Spectacular Ma-tin, appearing in his 22nd game this season, was the most spectacular. Ho came with the bases loaded, nobody out and with Seattle leading, 2-1. He got Bill Renna to line to shortstop for the first out. He fired a .third strike past Al Jones and then made Bill Hunter ground into a force play to. end the threat. Jay Hook, who pitched eight in nings of good baseball, was cred ited with his seventh win against six defeats.' . . Seattle pushed across tho win. ning tally in the fourth when Dee Kondy and Buddy Carter singled and Hook belted a sacrifice fly. Salt Lake had already scored one tally on Art Houtteman when Reed came into put down the threat. It was Portland's second STIFF LAW TO STAY SYDNEY, Australia (UPD Aus tralia has refused to relax the stiff quarantine laws prohibiting importation of horses from over seas. At present, only horses from New Zealand or the United King dom may enter Australia without a: six-months prior residence in the United Kingdom. mmmmmmmmimMmKiiiiimmmmmsmmiiimmmm Travel Hapfcy trouble-free A magic carpet might seem to be a pleasant mode of travel; actually, we understand they're rather drafty. 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Besana hadn't given up any runs and Vancouver led 5-0, but the Mounties, who are now only one and a half games be hind Sacramento, played it safe. Johnson was able to hold the lead though he did give up home runs to Bob Speake and Roger McCnrdell. Veteran Joe Frazier, out with injuries for much of the season and hitting around .150, hit his first homer of the campaign and a single to drive in two Mountie runs. Ray Barker hit three singles to also contribute heavily to the Vancouver scoring. Standings ' Major League Standings United Press International National League W L Pet. GB Milwaukee San Francisco Los Angeles Pittsburgh Chicago St. Louis Cincinnati Philadelphia 38 28 .576 38 30 .559 37 33 36 33 33 33 30 35 30 36 25 39 .529 .522 .500 .462 .455 8 .391 12 Monday's Results San Francisco 4 Pittsburgh 1 Los Angeles 6 Phila. 2. night (Only games scheduled.) American League W L Pct.GB Cleveland Chicago Baltimore Detroit New York Kansas City Washington Boston 35 27 34 30 34 31 34 31 33 31 28 34 29 36 28 35 .565 .531 .523 .523 .516 .452 .446 .444 Monday's Results New York 11 Kansas City 6, night Only game scheduled.) Pacific Coast League W. L. Pet. GB Sacramento 40 30 .571 Vancouver 39 32 .549 San Diego 36 33 .522 Portland ' 33 32 .508 Spokane 35 34 .507 Salt Lake 34 35 .493 Phoenix 30 40 .429 Seattle 30 41 .423 Monday's Results Vancouver 5 Phoenix 2 Portland 6 Salt Lake 4 Seattle 2 San Diego 1 ' (only games scheduled) . Vi 3'i 4"i 4'4 6 10 10'4 Houston Leads, Oregon Sixth . In NCAA Golf EUGENE (UPD Oregon's PCC champion Webfoots led northwest teams going into today's second and final round of NCAA . team golf championships here. Oregon, with Tom Jakobsen shooting a three-under-par 6. was in sixth place with a team total of 289, five - over - par. Defending champion Houston appears well on its way toward capturing a fourth straight title. Seattle University was 10th with 297. and Oregon State held down 11th spot at the end of Monday's action with 299. University of Washington was tied for 16th pla.ie with Princeton at the end of the first round ac tion with 304. The University of Portland was in 18th place with 308 and Idaho held down 19lh spot with 309. Oregon State's Larry Copple fol lowed Jakobsen in the Northwest individual race with a one-un:ler-par 70. Leighton Tuttle of OSC and Ed Pearsall of Seattle had 71's. : Other Northwest scores includr ed: 73: Chuck Hunter, Oregon and Perry Overstreet, Washington State. 74: Tom Shaw and Keith Gu brud, Oregon; Bill Warner, Se attle; Jerry Mowlds, Portland; Gary Congdon, Washington. 75: Clint Names and Jim Shaf ro. Washington. , Freese Remains As PCL's Top Hitter SAN FRANCISCO (UPD -George Freese, 32-year-old Port land slugger, held onto his Pa cific Coast League batting lead desnite a drop from .351 to .340 during the past week. Big Steve Bilko continued his lead in the runs batted in depart ment with 58. Willie McCovey, 21, of Phoenix, was tied for the leadership in home runs. With veteran team mate Bill Wilson at 15. Eddie Fisher's 10 wfns for Phoenix was still thd top pitching record in the league, although the young hurlcr has moved up to the San Francisco Giants. Best earned run average for pitchers going 70 innings or more was held by Dick Hall of Salt Lake City with a nifty 1.47 in 12 games. NAME ATHLETIC DIRECTOR CHICAGO (UPD Loyola Uni versity has named head basket ball coach George Ireland to suc ceed Rev. John Bieri, S.J. as ath letic director of the school. Ire land, who will remain as court coach, has led Loyola teams tn 97 victories and 94 losses in eight years. Patterson's Peek-A-Boo Vulnerable ' CHATHAM. N.J. (UPD Floyd Patterson, though razor sharp at the finish of his training, still leaves openings in his peek-a-boo defense that could be disastrous Thursday night if. challenger Inge mar Johansson really has a dev astating right fist. Peeking from behind his gloves and forearms, held well up before his face, the heavyweight cham pion attempts to slide in under an opponent's left jab and launch his terrific hooking combinations at close quarters. But, as he comes in, he breaks out of the peck-a-boo to throw the first hook and sometimes leaves his face wide open. Find Four Openings Four men, none of them with Johansson's reputation as a punch er, found that opening during Pat terson's professional career and floored him, without doing him much harm. They were Jacques Royer-Crecy of Franc?, amateurish Pete Rade macher, middleweight Jose Tor res (in "training camp) and Roy Harris. And the openings may be more apparent than ever before, be cause the sometimes cautious Pat terson is eager for an impressive "killV-He. admits he'll be shoot ing for public recognition as a good, champion-agoing all, out to win public approval. Pictured At Ordinary "I'm not criticizing the sports writers," he said today. "They've pictured me as a very ordinary champion. They had two reasons for that. They considered my four challengers bums, although I did not. But I'll admit I didn't help the situation much because I wasn't sharp for any of those" de fensesnot sharp like I was when I knocked out Archie Moore.". It's a big question whether Jo hansson has enough explosives in his right to knock out Patterson whose only defeat in 36 fights was on a questionable decision to for mer light-heavyweight champion Joey Maxim in 1954. Ingemar says, "No man can stand up when I hit him with my right." Modern Slide Glass WINDOWS Made To Order Any Size Miller's Cabinet - RRRR . 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