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Ingo Gains TKQ Win; Floors Champ 7 times In Third United Press International NEW YORK (UPI) Ingemar Johansson of Sweden, who looked like Jack Dempscy and tied his knockdown record in winning the world heavyweight championship, is per fectly willing even eager to tiy it again in September if dethroned Floyd Patterson thinks it was a fluke. Johansson and his handlers made that clear today even as they celebrated his stunning third-round technical knock Spahn Wins As Braves Down Cubs United Press International Fred Haney still says he's going to auit after this season, and that's his privilege, but 38-year old Warren Spahn keeps pitching as if he plans to go on forever Shooting for a 20-victory season for the 10th time in his career, the veteran Milwaukee southpaw reached the halfway mark by beating the Chicago Cubs, 11-1, for his 10th triumph of the season Friday night. ' Spahn, now ahead of his game- winning paco for any year since the Braves came to Milwaukee in 1953, helped his own cause by hit ting tli 22nd home run of his ca reer, in the seventh inning. He already holds the National League record for home runs hit by a pitcher. With 256 victories already under his belt, Spahn now is aiming for the all-time record of 266 by Kppa Jeptha Rixey, only other NL left-hander to exceed him in total wins. . . ' Braves Collect If Hits The Braves pounded out 19 hits in retaining their two-game lead. Wes Covington drove in three runs With three hits and Johnny Logan, who also had three hits, knocked in two more. , Second place San Francisco downed Philadelphia, 8-0: Los An geles won its fifth straight by de feating Pittsburgh, 6-5, and Cin cinnati beat St. Louis, 7-8, in 10 innings. Cleveland remained a game in front in the American League race with a 11-5 decision; Balti more moved into second place by sweeping a twi-night doubleheader from Detroit, 12-7 and 4-1; New York climbed into a third-place tie with Chicago by topping the White Sox. 8-4, and Washington licked Kansas City, 8-4. Mike McCormick of the Giants shut out the Phillies for the third time this season to keep San Fran cisco in second place, two percen tage points ahead of the third place Dodgers. Dodgers Win On Homer , The Dodgers-Pirates game was a battle of home runs with Charlie Neal's two-run circuit in the sev enth furnishing Johnny Podres the margin for his eighth victory. Johnny Temple's 10th inning double led the Itcds to their tri umph over the Cardinals. , Cleveland scored five runs in the first inning against Boston and then made the game a runaway with homers by Woodie Held and Dick Brown. bob Nicman was the big man in Baltimore's opening game vic tory over Detroit. He drove in five runs with a homer, double and two singles to help Billy O'Dell to his fourth victory. Winner Jerry Walker ami reliever Billy Loes combined to limit the Tigers to six hits In the nightcap. Home runs by Hector Lo;cz and Gil McDougald featured a 14-hit attack that powered the Yanks to nieir rourth straight victory over Uio While Sox. Washington's , "dime store mur derers row" was responsible for its win over Kansas City. Fyc Throncbcrry homered in the sev enth and then in the eighth, Bob Allison hit his 20th homer, llnr ijion Killcbrew his 25th and Jim Lemon his 18th. j Bowling Results Wednesday Afternoon Ltaeue ... Total Won Lost Pins Cutter Gang . Nameless Ones Pin Ups 18 18 10 10 14 16 16 8,628 7,209 7.331 8.319 7.730 7,000 14 McCoy's Bandits 12 liucky Strikes 12 The' Duds to 18 'Gutter Gang: Rosemary Teusoh or 398, 144. ; Nameless One: Gloria Nelson 396. 161. :Pin Ups: Lou Burke 870. 129. McCoy's Bandits: June Forry 4i3, 165. :Lucky Strikes; Gloria Telfair 44. 184. iThc Duds: Bonnie Benzol 371, 143. - GIANTS SIGN TACKLE (NEW YOHK (UPU Jon Je lcic. 230-pound former "captain of the University of Minnesota foot tell team, has been signed by the New York Giants of the National Football League. Jclacic. a tackle v(ho stands 8 feet, 3 Inches, can pliiy on olfcnse or defense. out over j-aucrson hi jaimee sta dium Friday night in which hand- som! "Ingo" tied a Dempscy mark :by storing seven knockdowns in one round. Edwin Ahlqvist, Johansson's "advisor" from hometown Gote borg, Sweden, said, "We want the contracted return fight at Yankee Stadium before 80.009 people in September. They didn't come out to sec him at the drenched sta dium last night, but now they will next time." Burly Ingemar scapegoat of the 1952 Olympics but now an in ternational idol said, "Yes. they've seen my right hand and so has Patterson. Never Saw "Thunderbolt But Patterson actually didn't see that right fist that "Gotcborg thunderbolt" early in the third round when it exploded on his chin as part of a left-right, one two punch, and dropped him to the canvas for the first of seven electrifying trips. It was the heavy, booming right that dropped hnn five tunes, left hook once and a lcft-righl-lcft once. Handsome, dimpled, brown haired Ingemar, at 26, became Sweden's first world champion in any division when referee Ruby Goldstein refused to count over the numbed Patterson the seventh time, but waved his hands in sig nal that the fight was ended, that Johansson had won on a technical knockout. The time was 2:03 of the third round. It was unbeaten Ingemar's 22nd straight victory and 14th knockout. The fight, threatened with a sec ond postponement by two hours of rain at the stadium Friday night, turned the 5-1 underdog into the first European world heavyweight champion In a quarte- century since Italian Primo Camera lost the title to Muxie Baer in 1934. Patterson's Second Lots Patterson, with blood flowing from his nose and his eyes glazed with grogginess, stilfered the sec ond defeat and first knockout of his career of 37 fights and in his fifth defense of the crown. A return-bout contract provides that Ingemar give 24-year-old Floyd a return shot at the title within 90 days somewhere in the United Slates. And the contract stipulates definitely that Johans son's entire purse from Friday night be held in escrow until he fulfills the contract. Promoter Bill Rosensohn, who estimated he lost about $75,000 on Friday night's hard-luck bout, has Johansson under contract for the return Patterson fight. Slender, young Bill said today, "I haven't decided where to put the return fight. It might take me a week or so to pick the site. Johansson scaled 196 pounds to Patterson's 182. Machen Kayo Not Fluke , The amazing Swede proved dy namically that his first round knockout of previously unbeaten Mdic Machen the top contender, at Gotcborg, last Sept. 14, was not a fluke. It was that kayo by Eu ropean champion Johansson which won him Friday night s world title shot. Johansson's victory climaxed the greatest claim-to-glory in ring history. His own country branded him a coward after the 1952 Olympic boxing finals at Hel sinki. Ingemar was toss?d out of the ring for running and refusing to fight in the second round of his bout with the late Ed Sanders of Boston. In training Mr Friday night's fight, Ingemar refused to throw his right hand full strength, "be ciiusc I don't want to hurt my spnrrlng partners." Moreover, he np)cnrcd amateurish. But he threw the right Friday, night. Promoter - Hosrnsohn had not announced any official figures this forenoon, (Mil he estimated the crowd at 30,000 and the gate at $425,000. , No official theater-TV figures were announced either. . , , j Johansson was guaranteed $100, 000 against 20 per cent of the net gate up to $50.000 and 20 per cent of "promotional nets" from theater-TV, radio and movies. Patterson was to receive 30 per cent of the net gate and various percentages on a slkling scale, ranging up to 80 per cent, on the promotional nets, from theater-TV movies and radio. FAVORS RULE CHANCE MONTICE1.LO, N. Y. (UPI i Coach Adrolph Rupp of Kentucky said Thursday he thinks pro bas ketball's 24 second offensive pos session rule, or a modification of It. should be introduced in the col lege game. Rupp said the play ers seem to like it and the play er should have final say. Observer, La Grande, Ore., STEVE FEDOg Sets Breaststroke Record Four Records Set In All-Comers Swim Meet Four new pool records were established last night as age group swimmers of the La Grande area splashed their way through a fast-moving All- Coin ers Meet at the Veteran's Mem orial Pool. , Due to the scarcity of entries in some events meet officials were able to telescope . several events in one in a number of in stances and keep the meet mov ing along, . All performances and points were on an individual basis; no team scores were kept. New records were set by; , Laury Dodson, 10 and under girls, 19.7 in the 25 yard back stroke. The old record of 20.0 was held by Kit Harvey of Boise, set last year. Steve Fedor, 1314 boys, 1:32.0 in the 100 meter breaststroke Kedor broke his ownccord, 1:33- ,u, sei last yi-ai. Artie Samson,' 13-14 boys, Standings Major League Standings United Press International ' National League Milwaukee San Francisco Los Angeles Pittsburgh 41 29 .586 40 32 .556 2 41 33 .554 2 38 35 . 521 4 35 35.500 6 32 38 .457 9 31 38 .449 9 25 43.403 15 Chicago Cincinnati St. Louis Philadelphia Friday's Results Cincinnati 7 St.L. 6 no inn. night Milwaukee 11 Chicago 1 might' SanFran 8 Phila 0 (night) Los Aug. 6 Pittsburgh 5 (night i American League Cleveland 37 29 .561 Baltimore 38 32 .543 36 32.529 36 32 .529 35 35 .5(10 31 38 .449 30 37 .448 29 37 .439 Chicago New York Detroit Washington Boston Kansas City Friday's Results Halt 12 Detroit 7 (1st game twi-N Halt 4 Dot 1 (2nd game, night Cleveland, 11 Boston 5 ( night i New Wk 8 Chicago 4 (night) Washington 8 Kaus City 4 might) Pacific Coast League GB 2 2' 3 5 5 8', 10 Friday's Results Portland 3 Sacramento 2 (1st game, 7 innings) Portland 5 Sacramento 0 (2nd game Salt Lake 6 Spokane 0 Seattle 5 Phoenix 3 Vancouver 2 San Diego 0 J NEW Savings I Two-Car Families! W. L. Pet. Sacramento 42 33 .560 Vancouver 40 35 . 533 Portland 37 33 . 529 San Diego 38 35 .521 Spokane 36 37 .493 Salt- Luko ' 36 37 .493 Phoenix 33 41 .446 Seattle . 32 11 ..427 iru MtT4t on , bodily Injury and property damage collision coverage medical payment . FARMERS INSURANCE GROUP AUTO LIFE FIRE TRUCK Doug Holman Insurance OBSERVER Neil Andersen Sat., June 27, 1959 Page 2 ARTIE SAMSON Competes in Freestyle 1:12.9, in the 100 meter freestyle breaking the record of 1:14.4 set last year by Jim Johnson of Hcr miston. Mike Chailis, 15-16 bey;, 1:05.3 in the 100 meter freestyle. Chal iu broke his own record of 1:07.1 set last year. . Meet officials said that the re cords for Samson and Chailis, who swam unopposed in their events, will be accepted because past practice here and elsewhere in the Eastern Oregon Swimming Association has been to accept records established in regularly scheduled and officiated meets, even though the record breaking swimmers were unopposed. Outstanding performances in their respective divisions were turned in by the following: 10 and under division: Mike Pcrrine, Barbara Gray and Laury Dodson; 11-12 division: Stewart Lundgrcn, Ken Chrusoskic; 13-14 division: Steve Fedor, Artie Samson, Su san Fisk and Lynn Chailis; 1516 division Jennifer Smith and Mike Chailis. First three place winners in each event, by divisions, were: 10 and under girls; 25 yards, freestyle; Barbara Gray, Laury Dodson, Karen Swart; breast- stroke: Barbara Gray, Karen Swart: backstroke: Laury Dod sun, Barbara Gray, Debbie Gray. 10 and under boys, 25 yards, freestvle: Mike Perrine, Brant Nightingale. Nils Osteiholme; I reast.strokc: Hal Carman, Brant Nightingale, John Craig; back stroke: Mike Perrine, Nils Oster holme. Hal Carman. 1112 girls, 50 meters, freestyle: Leslie Kline, Mary Altcnburg; breaststroke: Mary Altcnburg. Leslie Kline; butterfly: Mary At lonburg. Leslie Kline. 11 12 bovs, 50 meters, freestyle: Stewart Lundgren, Ken Chruso- skiT. Tom Carman: breaststroke; Tom Carman; backstroke: Stew art Lundgren, Ken Chrusoskic Ucn Stiff; butterfly: Stewart Lun ((grcn. , 1314 girls, 10O meter freestyle: i.nn Chailis, Margaret Gregory, Judy Thomas; 100 meter breast- stroke: Susan Fisk; 50 meter backstroke: Lynn Chailis, Mar -raot Gregory; 50 meter butler fly: Susan Fisk. 13-14 boys, 100 meter freestyle: Artie Samson; 100 meter breast- stroke: Steve Fedor, Artie Sam son, Tim Dodson; 50 meter back stroke: Steve Fedor, Tim Dcdson; ;0 meter butterfly: Steve Fedor. 15 16 girls, 100 meters, back- trokc: Jennifer Smith. 1516 boys, KM) meters, free style: Mike Chailis; backstroke: Mike C hailis. Girls diving, low board: Bonnie Scott. Boys diving: low board: Jim Huydock, John Moser, David Dod son and Paul ltiggs, tied for third. PtUB 10 Extra Discount to Accident-Free Drivers! Clf thtr are no unmam'id me drinrt vncftr 25 yeersj IT . 1107 ADAMS AVENUE (Across Street From Post Office) WO 3-371 1 Bevos Veto Sblbhs Twice; Move To 3rd By United Press International Portland swept both games of a 1 Pacific Coast League doublehead er at home Friday night with league-leading .Sacramento 3-2 and j 5-0. The wins gave Portland a 2-0 ! series edge and were the third and fourth wins in a row for the Beavers. The second game victory by : Ken Johnson, who pitched a five- hitter while taking his ninth win : against four losses, put the Bea vers within 2 1-2 games of the front-running Solons. . Losing Jiis fourth game against seven wins was Carl Greene. Portland opened the scoring in the bottom of the sixth when Russ Snyder doubled, went to third on an error and scored on a double play. The Beavers put the game out of reach in the seventh by scoring three runs to move into a 4-0 lead. An infield out by Russ Snyder with the bases loaded scored Len Neal from third for the first run of the inning. The Beavers scored two. more runs when George Freese singled home Milt Graff who had singled and Charlie Se crest who walked. Portland closed out the scoring in the eighth inning when Bob Di Pietro hit his seventh round trip per of the season. In the first game Portland scored early to gain a 3-0 lead over the Solons. Winning pitcher was Bob Droscher Named To Pan-Am Squad CORVALLIS (UPI) OSC out fielder Jerry Droscher ha been named to compete with the United States squad in the Pan Ameri can games this August. Droscher, who currently is see ing action with the Drain Black Sox, was selected for the North ern Division all - star team this spring and the District 8 NCAA squad. He is a two-year letterman for OSC and was Drain's right fielder when the Black Sox captured the National title last year. Arley Kangas, Washington State catcher and 1959 Northern Divi sion batting champion, was the only other Northwest player squad. Jones Slashes Way To Victory On TV ntW YOKK (Ui'D Kalph (Ti ger) Jones, using a clever assort ment of combinations, slashed his way to a majority lQ-round de cision Friday night over slugging Argentine middleweight Victor Zalazar. Jones, rated 10th among con tenders, drew the approval of both judges. The referee called the bout a draw. Jones, weighing 161 pounds. opened a cut over Zalazar's eye in the third round and from that point the Argentine's vision was blurred by blood. Practice Time Changed Begining Monday practice hours for the La Grande Swim Club at the Veterans Memorial Pool will be slightly altered in order to make adjustments for the learn to swim program and water ballet practice, it was announced today. Team practice sessions will be held from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 5 to 6 p.m., daily, with the veiling practice eliminated on Sat urday. Water ballet practice will be from 6 to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday. ...... SIGN BONUS PITCHER CINCINNATI, Ohio (UPI) Lar ry Duval, a 19-year-old pitcher from Lurny, Va., has signed . a "very high" bonus contract with the Cincinnati Reds. The youngs ter, who tossed throe no-hitters in high school, will be assigned to Nashville of the Southern Assn. It's the FOLEY GRILL For uHafaif Roast Tom Turkey Chef's Dinner Steak Baked Virginia Ham Fresh Mountain Trout $1.75 STEAKS Top Sirloin . Teabone Tenderloin $2.50 Soup Salad Dessert Relish Tray Coffee or Tea - FOLEY GRILL - Schwarzkoff who registered his second win of the campaign as against two losses. Glenn Mc Mu re! leved Schwarzkoff in the sev enth inning when the Solons ral lied for one run. Loser was Roger Bowman who now has a 2-1 rec ords Portland scored single tallies in the second, third and fourth in nings to grab a 34s lead before Sacramento could score. - What proved to be the winning tally was scored when Port'and (irst baseman DiPietro singles to score Moore who had doubled. , Lanky Dick Hall, who was once a candidate at shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates and who was too sick to play last season, tossed his fourth shutout of the season to lead Sail Lake to a 6 0 over Spokane. . In other action last night, Van couver dropped San Diego to fourth with a 2-0 win over the Padres and Seattle topped Phoe nix, 5-3, in the battle of the bot tom. Hall, who is still in the Pirate organization, appeared to be head ing toward a no-hitter last night, but Bill Parsons singled to right in the eighth inning. The big Hurl er, didn't allow a runner to reach first until the sixth and that was on an error. Hall is now 8-3 for the Bees, who are tied for fifth place. Carlos Bcrnier gave Hall his biggest support with a two run homer in the sixth inning. Portland built up an early 3-0 lead off Sacramento's Roger Bow man and the Beavers just did manage to hold on for the win' in their first game. The Sacs al most pulled it out when they closed it to 3-2 on a single by Nippy Jones and a double by Dick Phillips. Bob Schwarzkoff was the winning pitcher. Paul Pettit belted a three run homer in the sixth inning to lead Seattle to its win over Phoenix. Jay Hook, the Rainier starter, got credit for the win although he had to be relieved. Packers, Eagles Meet In 'Natural' . The professional football game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Green Bay Packers, to be played at Multnomah stadium Sat urday night August 29 will feature several first for local fans. It will be the first appearance for either team and the first local effort for head coaches. Buck Shaw and Vince Lombardi. Two players will make the game a natural. The opposing quarter backs will be Norm Van Brocklin of Oregon, the Eagle's "old pro" and Joe Francis, Oregon State star who made good his rookie s?ason wtih the Packers. State Orders . Angling Closure On Clackamas PORTLAND UPI P. W. Schneider, state game director, Friday ordered an emergency an gling closure below the River Mill dam on the Clackamas river. The move was a protection measure for spring chinook salmon that have concentrated below the Riv er Mill impoundment, he said. The order closes the Clackamas river to all angling from the Riv er Mill dam downstream to the gauging station located approxi mately 1,000 feet below the im poundment. Schneider said the closure be came necessary when numbers of spring chinook salmon concentrat ed in the area below the impound ment and failed to move upstream through the ladders. . Schneider said these concentra tions of salmon are being subject ed to heavy fishing pressure, and since the fish aro not moving up stream, catches could become ex cessive and seriously jeopardize tho Clackamas salmon runs. - The closure remains in effect until Sept. 30. fanner Little League Jamboree Set For Sunday Tomorrow is the big day for little U-agucrs. The boys will swing into action in Sundays jamboree ,v;ib games on two fields. A total of nine "gam?s" will lie played in the opening day festivi ties. Midget league play op?ns jit Greenwood field at 1 p.m. with Uu' Hi-Way Cafe going against the Jr. Old Timers. At 1:30 Hand Ford takes on Van Pctlcn Lumber and Farnams and Van Pctt?ns tangle at 2. In Pee Wee ,league action Laurence takes on the VFW at 1 Trotter's goes against E'dridgc's at 1:30. Graham tangles with glass Drug, a new sponsor, at 2 and Falks m?et Bohnenkamp's-ln the windup at 2:30. At the high school field tlicfc. will be two three-inning contest's. The Tigers take on the Cardinals at 2:15 and the winner of that gam? will tangle with the Dodger's. After the games there will be free ice cream for the kids at boti places. -i Games have been scheduled for next week with starting time set at 5:15. Forfeit time will be 5:30. The schedule: ! Monday; Hi-Way Cafe vs Van Petten's. Laurence's vs Glass Drug, Tigers vs Dodgers. J Tuesday; Farnam's vs Hand Ford, Trotters vs Falk's. Dodgers vs Cardinals. Wednesday; Jr. Old Timers vs Hi-Way Cafe, Graham vs Eld ridges, Cardinals vs Tigers. ' Thursday: Hand Ford vs Van Petten's. Bohncnkamp's vs VFW, Tigers vs. Dodg?rs. ' Next week's practice schedule has been set and all practices will be held at the high school field. Monday: 9: Trottr's. Falk's, Eld ridge's, Graham's. 10: VFW, Bohnenkamp's, Far nam's, Hand's. 11: Cardina's. Tuesday: 9: Laurence's, Glass Drug. 10: VFW, Bohnenkamp's, Ti gers. 11: Hi-Way Cafe, Van Petten's. Jr. Old Timers. Wednesday: 9: Laurcnc's, Glass Drug. 10: Farnam's, Hands, Van Pettens. 11: Dodgers. Thursday: 9: Trotter's, Falk's. Eldridges. FIREWORKS! Ends Tonite "THE MATING; GAME" Also "GOOD DAY;, FOR A HANGING" iCsl?, Minute by minute the tension builds to the screen's MOST STUNNING CLIMAX1 tot v'f lM&rJ. I V.i Give Up the Ship V II Cjf TECHNICOLOR ALSO COMING SOON I ' j 0"'ce: and Gentleman by 1 SUN., MON. . Yang Bests Edstrom By Five Points KINGSBURGII, Calif. (LTD Nationalist's China's C. K. Yang has replaced Rater Johnson as the National AAU decathlon chain pion. Yang won the distinction early today alter plodding through the 1,500 meter ruti with a slightly pulled leg muscle. The husky 25-year old just did dge Dave Edstrom, 20-year-o!d University of Oregon ace. He ran up 7,549 oints for the 10-event contest to Edstrom's 7,544. Yang had to come from behind. U was a powerful 14" 2V leap in the pole vault that gave Y'ang his eJge. "I am very happy to have won,'' said Yang, who admitted his leg tightened up during the 1,500 me ters. "I didn't think I would make a very good time." He actually didn't make a very good time, picking up only 102 points with a 5:27.8. But it was enough to win. Third place went to Mike Her man, formerly of New Y'ork Uni versy, who had 6,760 points. Phil Mulkey. Southeastern AAU champ from Memphis, Tenn., was fourth at 6,34(i. ' Yang, who plans to begin full time studies this fall at UCLA, scored less points this year than he did last year in the Nationals. He scored 7.625 in 1958. to 7,754 amassed by winner Rafcr John son who was forced out of this year's comix'tition because of in juries suffered in a recent auto accident. . Edstrom, who said he almost vomited during the 1,500 meter race and was afraid he wouldn't finish, was not unhappy about his finish. His point total was higher than any previous meet. Paint Your Own Lures The rifcht co'or on your lure can make the difference in your catch: Spray cans of quick-drying lacquer in your tackle box can make changing colors a snap. Varnws combinations can be con cocted, that will whet the appe tite of almost every fish, with three basic colors. Graham's. 10: Hi-Way Cafe, Jr. Old Timers. JULY 4TH LA GRANDE DRIVE IN STARTING SUNDAY OD'S LITTLE ACRE" Also "THE GARMENT JUNGLE" Ends Tonite GARY COOPF.R "THE MAN OF THE WEST" Also 'The Naked And The Dead"-