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lea In I vers. Soli At Fourth Place With 1-0 Victory wild pitch in first inning scores perez PORTLAND (UPI) A wild pitch in the first inning by Salt Lake pitcher George Perez scored Milt Graff from third base to give Portland its second straight 1-0 Pacific Coast League win over the Bees and a 3-1 series win Thursday night. The win put Portland solidly in fourth place. ; George Brunet of Portland limited Salt Lake to two hits In registering his first victory of the season against six de- A single by dick Bar one or Salt Lake in the eighth inning halted Brunei's bid for a no-hitter... '' Loser was Perez, who now has a 3-5 season record.' 4'r - -. ; n i Edstrom Attempts Lead Hold KINGSBURG. Calif. UPli- Dave Edstrom, a 20 year old de cathlon veteran, will attempt to hold onto a narrow 20 point lead tonight during the second half of the National . A All Decathlon championships. Edstrom ran up 4.287 points during Thursday night's opening round.' He was trailed . by C ' Yang, a 25 year old Chinese Na tionalist attending ' UCLA, who had 4,267. In third with 4,111 was ener gelic Mine Herman, a 21 year old newlywed from NYU, who is out here on his honeymoon and thought he would give the decath Ion a "first fling." The 1959 championships were dulled somewhat by the absence of Rafer Johnson who suffered minor injuries during a recent auto mishap. Johnson, however, is expected to be ready for next month, s ' U.S. -Russian track and field meet in Philadelphia. World Mark Threatened Both Yang and Edstrom were in position to shoot for the new world decathlon ' mark of 8357 points claimed by Russian Vas sily 'Kuznetsov. That' mark is 55 point more than Johnson scored in defeating Kuznetsov last July in- Moscow. ' But' most experts felt neither could achieve the mark with such .difficult tests as the 15.000 meter run and the- pole a unit on tup for tonight. - . , , Yang and Edstrom, a hand some University of Oregon stu dent, both set career marks dur ing a wind blown 100 meter dash Thursday night. Yang was clocked in 10.6, Edstrom at 10.7. h'"i S-VKj - 1 Standings Major league Standingi United Pratt Inrarnatienal National League W. L..P c GB ' Milwaukee 40 29 .580 . . Sun Francisco 39 32 .549 2 Los Angeles . 40 33 .548 2 Pittsburgh , 38 34 .528 3'i Chicago 35 34 .507 9 St. Louis 31 37 .456 8'4 Cincinnati 31 38 .449 9 Philadelphia . 25 42 .373 14 Thursday's Rt suits St. Louis 3 Milwaukee 2 Pittsburgh 3 San Fran. 1 (12 inn.) Chicago 6 Cincinnati 2 (night) Los Angeles 5 Phila. 2 might) American League W. L. Pet. GB Cleveland Chicago Baltimore New York Detroit Boston Kansas City Washington 36 29 36 31 36 32 35 32 35 33 30 36 29 36 30 38 Thursday's Results Cleveland 3 Baltimore 2 .554 ... .537 1 .529 14 .522 2- .515 2'i .455 6't .446 7 .441 7'i Portland scored the only run of Jv" the game in the first inning when p '.'-' -.i-v on Charlie Secrest's single, and ; "r "4rt.iV scored when Perez fired the wild! -'(.','-. pitch when facing Portland's f-u: George Freese. " : - ' Ui'- vjT . .jm&v. ,'. , the 'giime was played lforeV;.',. YjtJ."'J'f na i arm. v After ploying'dead for the past two weeks, the seventh place Phoe nix' Giants are showing signs of waking much to the dismay of the pennant hungry ' Vancouver Mounlles:' '"' , '" ' ' The Giants, who tumbled from third to seventh recently on the strength of some1 terrible baseball, won their third straight' from the Mount ios Thursday night, 7-5. " : Vancouver is now 3m games be hind league-leading Sacramento, which nipped ' Spokane'1 'Thursday night, 5-4. tn other action',' 'Port land defeated Salt' Lake by a 1-0 score for the second straight night and last-place Seattle nicked San Diego, 5-1. ;' ' '.', '"' : Bobby Prcscott hammered a pair of homers,' a triple and a double to lead the Giants to their win:' Willie' McCovey smashed a double and a triple and matched Prescott's four rbi's for the eve niug. ' .' ''- Zanni Gets First Dom Zanni, recently sent down to the , San Francisco Giants, hurled the win. He pitched the first six innings before retiring with a st iff shoulder.' Brooks Rob inson collected four of Van couver's eight hits. Seattle pushed over four un earned runs in the fifth inning and Mark Frecnun scattered six hits in going the distance on the mound for Hie Rainiers. .' ' , ' i Error Ruins Padrat A two out error by San Diego third sucker Gene Leek opened the gates for the Rainier rally that broke up a 1-1 tie, Seattle got only two hits in the inning singles by Freeman and Hal Bev and. Three walk and a hit bat ter aided their cause. Cuno Barragan, who was traded by Sacramento to Siwkane be cause the Solon had plenty of caicners ana tnc Indians had none, almost mined his old team mates. He smashed a three-run nomer in tne eighth inninc to make it a 5-4 ball game. But the Indians could score no mare and Winston Brown, who got an assist from reliefer Roger Osenbaiigh, was credited with his "sixth win against nine defeats. w.-v" --------- !Vv.'f ;;";;':'' i ". s. .;"',,,. ..,.) "- . :; ; -. - - . ,. .. l ' -. - , .- - t ' . ' " V "" - - - . .. ti . . , ' .-M ws.'A. -:'": 1 I : V? a v . .:-t'--v' Patterson-Johansson Fight Is Definitely On Tonight FIRST GAME SUNDAY Tom Harris reaches out for a fly ball in Little League practice as youngsters get ready for the first game Sunday. (Observer Photo) OBSERVER Neil Andersen Observer, L Grande, Ore., Frl., June 26, 1959 Page 2 'Little Bit' Chucks Himself Another Win ' By MILTON RICHMAN UPI Staff Writer Here's a toast to pint-sized El roy Face, who now owns the long est winning streak of any re- Dodgers made it four in a row over the Phillies, 5-2. Cleveland widened its American League lead to a full game by defeating Baltimore, 3-2; the lief p.'lcher in major league his-.White Sox bounced back into sec- lory. The five-foot eight, 150-pound Face,' sometime scalled '"Little Bit" by his Pittsburgh team mates, won his 12th straight game ond place by beating the Sena tors, 4-1; the Tigers snapped a four-game losing streak with a 10-5 triumph over the Red Sox. "d the Yankees climbed back NEW YORK (UPI) Promoter Bill Rosensohn announced at 10:35 a.m. e.d.t. that the Floyd Patterson Ingemar Johnsson fight "is definitely on for to night" at Yankee Stadium. "The stadium's special weather infor mation says every thing will be ok," Rosensohn said. . Thursday's postponement of the 15-round bout between champion Patterson and Swedish Johans son, champion of Europe, - was caused by rain and wet grounds at Yankee Stadium. Many Sought Refunds After the switch was announced, many ticket holders sought re funds at the fight ticket-office on Broadway; but most of the re quests were rejected. Rosensohn said then, "there'll be no refunds while this fight is still scheduled to be held." Ticket prices range from $10 to $100. ' .- . s. - -. Chairman Melvin L. Krulewitch of the Athletic Commission noti fied Rosensohn's secretary, Mrs. Doris Carnot, "the box office would have to refund,'! she sp'd. Buxom Mrs. Carnot said that innocently and sweetly Thursday niyhl nl a nrpss conference, much to Rosensohn's surprise, alter he has asked her about Krule witch's visit. Both Fighters Limber Up Rosensohn said, "if the fight is held tonight, there'll be refunds only in hardship cases wiiere out-of-lown visitors have airplane tick ets and must return immeditely to their homes." Meanwhile, Patterson and Jo hansson remained at their hotels, where they did limbering exercises late Thursday. They need not weigh-in again unless the hout is shifted to next week. At Thurs day's ceremonies in the Commo dore Hotel, Ingemar weighed 196 pounds to Floyd's 182, for an ad vantage of 14. Patterson Was still favored at TO REPRESENT GIANTS I 1 SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) Da ryl Spencer has been elected the San Francisco Giants' player rep resentative to the Baseball Play ers assn. Spencer, who succeeds pitcher ' Johnny ' Antonelli will begin his 'two-year term at the All-Star game July 7. 5-1 in vorv liaht betting if ItiLsMistilm could get good weather before tonight, the delay and its resultant publicity might help the gate, he said. He estimated the advance sale" at $500,000. SEE FIRST BASEBALL GAME TOKYO (UPI i Emperor Hi rohito and Empress Nagako of Japan saw their first professional baseball game Thursday when they attended a game between the Tokyo Giants and the Hanshin Tigers. A crowd of 45.000 sav? fhc Giants win, 5-4. - Swim Meet Is In Doubt To be or not to be was tl question confronting La Gran All-Comers Swim meet official! today as they gazed at .threaten. (iii skies. Status of the meet, open tu all some t oys and gins of the area ut to 16 years, will not be determij. ed until meet time tonight, scht. dultd for 7 o'clock. The event, which annually tf. tracts upwards of 75 competitor in ail as" fe'roups, has already been postponed once because of inclement weather and will be 'postponed again if officials fed it is too coiu, or u is raining. Swimmers and meet officials are asked to check at the Veler. ans Memorial pool between g:j and 7 o'clock t:niaht4o ascertaii if the meet win oe new. Saturday and Sunday ELGIN June 27-28 Bareback Bronc Riding . . . Bulldcgging . . . Clown .'. .' RacM . . . Thrilis and Spills DANCE SATURDAY EVENING AT 9:00 COWBOY BREAKFA?T SUNDAY 7 TO 10 A.M. Eats On The tRodeo Grounds , .mi-siii i)n"i Detroit 10 Boston S Chicago 4 Washington 1 New York 5 Kan. City 4 (night) Pacific Coast League ' W. L. Pet. GB 42 31 .575 Sacramento San Diego Vancouver Portland Spokane Salt Lake Phoenix Seattle 38 24 .528 39 35 .527 35 33 '.515 36 Still .500 33 40 .486 33 40 . .452 31 43 .419 Thursday's Results Phoenix 8 Vancouver 3 Sacramento S Spokane 4 Portland 1 Salt Lake 0 Seattle 5 San Diego 1 3'4 3'i 4'i 5'S 6',4 9 lt'i ask HEYIIOLDS v Insurance Agency I flborjt I 'Ite gap -sl "BETTER PROTECTION y All-in-one insuranco! ' . ' 'A Your lloc.3 PROTECTS 1 Pcrscsd Property UcfciKty SAVES YOUttOMY UOMt OXICI IIAItll.WMMIHfirN " COMIN& SOON Hi Late'ttl Hit Funniest! JERRY LEWIS IN DONT GIVE UP THE SHIP to Now Thru Saturday Utl MOCOLON DEBBIE REYNOLDS TONY RANDALL PAUL DOUGLAS ALSO "GOOD DAY" FOR A V- HANGING- TODAY X SATURDAY v-v'- - Gary Cooper "MAN OF THE WEST" ALSO "THE NAKED and THE DEAD" iu. v over tne Athletics. ,l i All of the Cardinals' runs against the Bru es were uu earned. SK.ond baseman Felix Mantilla set k, the first two runs with an error f- the sixth and an error by rignt fielder Hank Aaron figured in the Curds' third run Auron hit his 21st homer in the third. Barry Latman, making his first start for the While Sox since May 9, set the Senators down on five hits for his first victory of ine season. without a loss Thursday when Ko- into fourth place with a 5-4 vie man Mejias two-run homer In the 12th inning gave (he Pirates a 3-1 decision over Son Francis co. - Dating back to May 30, 1958, Face has won 17 in a row. a record no other reliever can touch. Closest ones to him arc ex- Cardinals Howie - Krist and Ted Wilto. Krist, who started occa sionally and was not strictly a relief pitcher, had a 104) record for the Cards in 1941 and won his first three games in 1942 before the Phillies beat him. Wilks was 8-0 in -1946. and 4-0 in 1947. but then lost his first game to the Reds In 1948. ' Face entered Thursday's game with the Giants in the loth and held them scoreless on two hits over tne last three innings after starter Hurvcy Haddix had yield ed a third-inning homer to Ed Bressoud over the first nine. The loser was . rookie Eddie Fisher, who relieved starter Stu Miller in the 12th. . . The defeat left the second-place Giants two games behind the league-leading Braves, who lost to the Cardinals, 3-2. The Cubs downed the Keds, 6-2. and the ". . . not a single piece was broken!" IT WAS MOVPO BY MAYFLOWER JOS' if On any move you make locally or long distance our Mayflower-trained movers and modern, standardized mettl ed: prcmiso belter protection tor your precious possessions. 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