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H"!S 4- T-"V -4 JS?ss VIM V . -,-.-'..' i . ' V X J JibelU-d his llilh and 17tli homers y f 'tr : .. ti ' , ' ' ' "'' I f f A of the season Wednesday night us ' ' r-- ; '"-11. Jw,- ' . V 1" V '', , ''?"'Y V 'H:he led Sookane to a 9-4 win over L I V.'1f V- 1 ! Portland. ' . " ' . 'Zl - - i - tt -"-r- -"l? r- fV v .'.-3i But Steve, who led the WL- in pt.,.'-' -m-'Ls'i . dr'-l" .""J. ''' v ' 1 ;'a W55-5GS7 with 37. 55, and S B--"- .. ' , v ""A ' ' ','4. ?'V 4 "-'- v ' v- - J homers, is still one behind pace READY Tim Dodson, Yanks, White Sox Gain On Indians United Press Infernatienal Don't just stand there, do some thingand now that Kalph Terry finally has, Casey Stengel is con vinced things are looking up for the Yankees. "I gotta find me another pitcher before we can get back up there again," Casey has been saying all ulong. Stengel never mentioned any names but the implication was plain he was waiting on Terry, who was obtained from Kansas City on May 26. The skinny, 23-year-old right hander certainly looked like the answer to Casey's problem Wed ' nesday night when he pitched a four-hitter, struck out six and walked only one in a 4-0 victory over Baltimore. That victory was only the first for Terry since coming from the Weekend Fishing Conditions 'Good' Fishing conditions throughout the norlhciUit 'portion of , the state arc rensidered generally good. Fourth f July weekend anglers can expect good results on local streams. The Oregon Slate Game Com mission report follows: All streams in Wallowa coun ty arc dropping and clearing and angling is improving. The trail on the cast fork of the Wallowa river la Aneroid lake is in good condition and angling is good at Aneroid. The trail up the west fork of the Wallowa is in good condition to Horseshoe lake Horseshoe, Lee, Knit. Lilly. Doug las. and Frawr lakes arc free of ice and anulmg for brook trout is good. All other hih lakes in the basin are partially or romple lelv covered with ice. The Hurricane creek trail to the high lake basin is closed by deep snow. Deep snow remains In the I.ostine watershed and trail conditions to these high lakes are poor to impassable. The upper Grande Hondo river in becoming low and is slow for rainbow. Uuner Catherine creek is dropping and clearing and rain bow angling should be good. The lower Grande Kondc rivr and the Wenaha river ait" good for salmon. The Imnaha river is also producing good catches of sal mon. Wallowa lake is good to excellent for rainbow and Ko kance to beat trollers. Bank angling is slow. The Wallowa river gorge above Minam and the Imnaha river a bove the Imnaha bridge should be excellent for stocked rainbow. Dug bar on the Snake river is fair for channel catfish and Emallmouth hass. The Brown lee pool is fairly good for small and largemouth bass. Iine creek is high but clearing and trout angling is improving. Upper F.agle creek is clear and high but angling is good and should be excellent this weekend for stocked trout, Ixwer Eagle creek is high and angling is slow. The Balm creek reservoir wa ter level is dropping and angling la good to excellent. Angling is excellent at Anthony lake for rainbow to 11 inches and small er brook trout. Grande Ronde lake is also producing good catches of rainbow. Angling for locked rainbow to 11 inches should be good m the upper Pnwder Hiver. Best angling In the north fork of the Burnt river is In the area nf the dredne holes above vnit ney. The south fork of the Burnt river is low and angling is pour tlnitv Reservoir is fair for rain bow to 13 Inches for both boat nri bank antlers. Murray is alow and lliggins is low and be eominc weedy and angling is poor. , , . . ' V. V . . A 5 .... . ) . M I :.tSl FOR PENDLETON MEET TONIGHT John Moser, Steve Fedor, Jim Haydock. A's, hut it moved the Yankees into third place, only three games off the pace, and dropped the Orioles into fifth place after they hud oc cupied a first -division! berth for 70 consecutive days. .; ? 1 . Two Yanks Homer Norm Sicbcrn and Gil McDouglad each homered as Skinny Brown suflered his third loss of the sea. son and the Orioles, their fourth in a row. The second-place White Sox shaved Cleveland s lead to one game with a 8-5 victory over the Indians; Washington beat Boston. 4-1; and Detroit defeated Kansas City. 5-4. In the Nationul Leoguef Phila delphia nipped Pittsburgh, 1-4, and Chicago moved within a half game "of fourth place with a 6-5 decision over St. Louis. Mai post poned the only other scheduled game between Milwaukee and Cin cinnati. Turk Lown hud to put down a ninth-inning rally by the Indians to save the White Sox victory. Lown retired the side in order aft er Woodie Held' two-run homer in the ninth off Gerry Stuley had drawn the Trile within a run of the White Sox. Starter Barry Lut mnn was credited with his second victory. Tito Francona and Earl Torgeson also homered. Jim (MudcaO Grunt was the loser. Pascual Wins Seventh Camilo l'asrual paced the Sena tors to their third straight victory with a four-hitter over the reeling lied Sox, who lost their fouvth in a row and their sixth game in the last seven. Washington scored all of its runs otf Jerry Casale. including a three-run rally in the seventh. It was I'ascual's seventh victory against the same number of losses. Detroit starter Paul Fin lac k hud a one-hittur until the eighth against Kansas City but then re quired Hay Narleski's aid in the ninth atler tugged for homers by Kent Dudley and Hob. .Cerv. Gene Conley out-pitched Honnie Kline in the Phils' triumph over the Pirates. Conley hurled n five hitter and struck out eight in bringing his record to 6-4. The Phillies scored the only run of the game with two out tithe third inning when Joe Koope walked, stole second and came around on Richie Ashhum's single. Kline suffered his sixth loss against six victories. Bobby Thomson's; ninth-inning single scored Emie Hanks from second base with the . run that gave the Cubs their Victory over the Curds. Thomson came through with his game-winning hit oft re liever l.indy McDnniel, who wus lagged with his ninth loss against six victories. St. Louis hud a 5-1 lead until Chicago tied the score with a four-run rully in the eighth to chase starter Ernie Ilroglio. Don F.lston, the Cubs' third pitch er, won his fifth game in six de cisions. Jim Shanley Quits Green Bay Packers FT. LEWIS, Wash. (UPI Ex Oregon football ace Jim Shanley. a Green Bay Packers pro football team member now on six-months duty with the Army, said Wednes day he planned to quit playing and would coach and teach at llighline high school in Seattle, Shanley is a 2nd lieutenant sta tioned here. At llighline he will take over as assistant football and track coach. The Webfoot star was coached by Oregon mentor Len Casanova. RETURNS TO NL CLEVELAND lUPH Third baseman Willie Jones returned to the National League Wednesday when he was sold hy the Cleve land Indians to the Cincinnati Keds. Jones was purchased from the' Philadelphia PIwUhm June 5 to strengthen Cleveland's third base post. A it ; i - swung Willie .iiLvuvi'j. ui ine f ' Observer, La Grande, Ore., Thurs., July 2, 1959 Page 2 Hitters Day In Have Little Wednesday's Results Hi-Way Cafe 6 Jr. Old Timers 16 Graham's 6 Eldridge's 4 Tigers 13 Cardinals 3 . Little league batters continued their wholesale attack on the pitch ers in Wednesday's action. The Jr. Old Timers slugged their way to a 164 victory over the Hi- Way Cafe with Dave Knight getting the win. Knight fanned the Chow hounds in the first inning. Hi-Way caught up with Knight in the sec ond and scored three runs on two singles, three walks and an error. The Jr. Old Timers had gotten six runs in the bottom of the first on six walks and two singles. The Chowhounds bounced back with two runs in the third to cut the margin to 6-5. Dave Huntsman started the inning with a home run. A double by Jerry Allen, a single by Dove Klien and two walks accounted for the other score. The Jr. Old Timers exploded in the second inning for 10 big runs. Fivve walks, 2 errors, a fielder s choice and two hits accounted for all the runs. Dave Huntsman, the losing pitcher, struck out the sides between runs. Hi-Way Cafe came back with a single in the fourth on a single, an error and a walk. Gary Girrard was the night's hitting star with three 11131s on two singles. In Pee Wee league action Brazilian Runs All U.S. Final At' Wimbledon WIMBLEDON. England (UPD Maria Bueno, 19. Brazilian bomb shell of tennis, ruined the prospect of an all-American Wimbledon women's singles final today when she defeated Sally Moore, 19, Bukersfield, Calif.. 6-2. 6-4. That left U.S. hopes for a 16th consecutive all-England women's championship strictly up to Dar lene Hard, Montcbello. Calif., who faced Sandra Reynolds. South Af rica, immediately afterward in the other semifinal match. Miss Bueno sought to become the first Brazilian player ever to win the women's championship. Latin America also had a repre sentative in the men's title round in Alex Olmedo, the Peruvian who played for the U.S. Davis Cup team. Olmedo plays Rod Laver of Australia Friday. An erratic service hampered Miss Moore's chances of winning. She double-faulted eight times during the 45-minute match. Miss Moore was seeded seventh in' the women's division. Miss Bueno sixth. East-West Football Ticket Sales Open Tickets Tor the Shrine East-West football game to be held in Pendle ton, August 22, will go on sale July 1 at the following places: Mr. Home, Uomson Drug. Enter prise: S. W. Begley. Wallowa Shrine Club, Joseph: Dr. William J. Kubfer, 1510 Walnut St.. La Grande and Tom Burton, Freight Depot, Elgin. All proceeds of this game go to the Shriner's hospital for crippled children in Portland. BOOTS FIVB WINNERS NEW YORK turn Jockey Manuel Ycaza booted home five winners Wednesday at Balmont Park. Ycaza's winning mounts were Doe ($8 50), How Are Things i$?.10, Matisse $8 00, Tufnnhai ifcl lO1. and Past Due H 60'. one, Salt Lake In PCL Action United Prttl International Burly Steve Hilko, a three-time home run leader in the Pacific Coast League, appears to be making his move toward a fourth championship. UilLn 'HI lull, tuitiulia I'linu. JU. i.w n.ig.H. .UI.I.IJ i qrji n.,.i.i,lu mul tt:.nilu K' I" Hhoenix Uiauts. McCovey hit No. 18 Weiinesday night while his mates were taking a -ti defeat from San Diego. Mc Covey, who is 21, 6' 4" and weighs MI8. is also locked in a duel with Biliio for the runs-hatted-in crown. Both had 58 rhi's at the last offcial count of games th:ough lust Sun day. Bets Defeat Sacs In the only other I'CL game played Wednesday night, first place Sacramento was beaten by OBSERVER Neil Andersen Field League Graham's downed Eldridge's 6-4. Winning pitcher, Bill Whittemore. got eight strikeouts without issuing a walk, while loser, Tom Hammer, Sot six strikeouts but gave up 10 walks. After Bob Spears had fanned to start the second inning for Graham's, Mike Kline, Dick Clarke. Billy Spears and Bobby Skyles walked for one run. After Steve Whittemore forced Clarke at the plate Gary Graham walked to score the second run. In the third Graham's got a single run but Eldridge's got three to go ahead 4 3. Gary Fincher was safe on an error, Duane Hilliard doubled to score Fincher, Ted Hil liard, S-for-3, tripled for another run and Bunny Trice doubled to finish the scoring. Graham's got the clinchers In the top of the fourth. Gary Graham walked to op?n the inning and Bill Whittemore was safe on an error. Huntsman, who also tripled, go a three run producing homer to provide the games win ning margin. The Tigers swamped the Car dinals in the night's other action, 133. The Tigers took the lead in the first with one run. The Cardinals came back in the second inning to go ahead 2 1. Andy Rauwolf dou bled and Buddy Hilliard singled to drive in the run. Lowell B-aman then fielded Ed Frias' ground ball and beat him to lirst base. Hil liard taking advantage of the long run to first came all way around to score. The Cards got their only other run when Walt Elhar was sate at first on an error. The ball was still in play and Elhart continued around to third. The throw from first to third was wild and Elhart scored. The Tigers tied the score in the third and came back with four in the fourth. In the seventh after three sin gles, two errors, a fielder's choice and a walk had produced five runs and left the bases loaded, the losing pitcher issued walks to Mik? Thomas and Don Moore. The Ti gers were ahead by 10 runs and the game was called. CM JULY 4 & 5 1-10 p.m. Exhibition Water Skiing Horse Drill BOAT PARADE Air Show Pageant Boat Racing Amateur Water Ski Competition Free Parking FIRE WORKS . On Wallula Lake Rt. 730 Near Hermiiton A Hat Reck State Park Admission by Numbered oester Burtons $1.00 A SOc Tickets at Cite 75c A 3S each day. Salt Lake, 7-4. The scheduled Seattle at Vancouver contest was postiwned by rain. Sacramento's loss cut the Sol- ons. lead to three games over Vancouver. George Perez tossed a six-hitter at the Solons. Sam Miley collected u pair of singles to drive in three runs in the early going to give the Heus a lead they never gave up. Ca'l Greene was lagged with his fifth loss against seven wins. Perez is now 4-5. San Diego exploded for seven runs in the third inning in its ganie with Phoenix but ine Cadres had to call on Kuss lie man to come in and put down a ninth inning Giant rally. Ilemun got Ben Valeimielu out to end the game after the Giants had scored two runs on four straight hits to chase starter John liriggs. Friend Smacks Eleventh Owen Friend hit his 1 1th homer of the season for Phoenix. At Spukane, Bilko's first homer came in the tilth witn none on and it put Sukane ahead 4-1. His second, with Chuck Essegian aboard, finished off the Indian scoring. Both blows were hit over the left field fence at around the 340 mark. Frank Howard, who asked Los Angeles to send him to the minors last week, made his first appear ance in rightfield. The 6' 6" Texas league star singled, grounded out walked and struck out. With Howard and Bilko, the Indians, who are definitely on the rise in the PCL, may have the strongest one-two punch in minor league baseball. Standings United Press International Major League Standings United Press International National League W. L. Pet. Milwaukee 42 43 43 39 37 35 33 27 .575 .566 .551 .506 .500 .473 .446 San Francisco Los. Angeles Pittsburgh Chicago St. Louis Cincinnati Philadelphia .375 14 Wednesday's Results Chicago 6 Stt Louis 5 Phila. 1 Pittsburgh 0 (night) Milwau.-Cinci., night, ppd., rain Only games scheduled:) American League W. L. Pet. GB Cleveland Chicago New York Detroit Baltimore Washington Kansas City 40 40 38 39 38 34 31 31 31 .563 .548 .521 .520 .514 .466 .437 .431 Boston Wednesday's Results Detroit 5 Kansas City 4 New York 4 Baltimore 0 night) Washington 4 Boston 1 (night) Chicago 6 Cleveland 5 (night) Pacific Coast League W. L. Pet. CB 3 4"4 4'j Sacramento Vancouver Spokane San Diego Salt Lake 45 41 40 41 38 37 35 35 .570 .532 .513 .513 .494 .493 .443 .443 Portland Phoenix Seattle 10 Wednesday's Results San Diego 9 Phoenix 6 Salt Lake 7 Sacramento 4 Spokane 9 Portland 4 Seattle at Vancouver, postponed. rain. Thursday's Probable Pitchers Portland (Tom Gorman, 0-0) at Spokane (Connie Grob, 9-5). at Salt Lake iDick Hall. 8 3). NOW Thru SAT. amir I1SB Dorft I Give upuie Ship" Plui "LIFE BEGINS AT 17" Ends Tonite Cary Grant Deberah Kerr "AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER . Alio "3 HOURS TO KILL" I I FIREWORKS! July 4lh (0 Mi innia Stitch In . Time' Packs Sawyer Away LOUISVILLE. Ky. I UPI 'wel terweight Kudell Stitch, a packing house worker with a right hand like a meat cleaver, was looking for more and better fights today after bludgeoning unranked Kudy Sawyer to a halt in less than a round. Stitch, ranked No. 2 among the welters by the NBA and No. 9 in The King ratings, netnled just 2:15 of the first round of Wednesday night's nationally teelvised bout to send Sawyer crashing to the lloor uiree times tor a manaaiory i nu. 'Now just get me some of those boys with ratings, and Sttich. who has been having a little trou ble lately getting high-ranked con tenders into a ring. Like Don Jordan?" somebody asked. "Yeah," Rudell grinned, "he got just what I want the title. But I'll take Sugar Hart or any of those boys." Sawyer mode the mistake of trying to crowd Stitch against the ropes midway in that first round, and caught a short right hook flush on the jaw. He slipped to his knees, grasping Stitch around the waist,' and was waved to a corner lor an automatic eigni count. As he came bouncing off the ropes. Stitch tagged him with a left jab that sent him flying back ward across the ring for a second knockdown, and after Sawyer again took the eight-count. Stitch put on the clincher with a long right band to the side of the head. Swimmers Set For Tonight's Pool Test Everything but the weather was in readiness for tonight's dual swimming meet between the Pendleton and La Grande Swim c'ubs. Unless it turned colder the meet would go on as scheduled. It is slated to start at 7 p.m. at the Veterans Memorial pool and swimmers and officials are asked to be on hand at 6:45 p.m. Tonight s meet, featuring sev eral of the state's outstanding ycung swimmers, will consist of a total of 52 events, made up of 42 individual swimming races, two diving events and eight re lays. Expected to continue where they left off in state champion- slap competition are Mary Mor gan, Pendletons breaststroke and individual medley tltlehold- er; Ruth Horning in the free style; Steve Fedor, La Grande's 13-14 state champion in the breaststroke: Artie Samson, sec ond place finalist for La Grande in the freestyle, and Jennifer Smith, La Grande's state back stroke titleholder. Three places will count in scoring for tdnights meet on a 5 3-1 basis. La Grande will put about 52 swimmers in the water and Pendleton is expected to bring a squad of about 50. KONOW SAILING WINNER OSLO. Norway (IIPD Magnus Konow. former Olympic sailing champion, won the six-meter class in the Aing Olav Cup regatta at Hankoe Tuesday. f XYJL Made for each other.. JL t rn .r VV i iviunsingwear i-snirt and brief What a pair) Both made for comfort and you. T-shirt has lamout Nylon-reinforced neckband that can't tag t ever. (Sixes 34-46.) Brief features exclusive support pouch for real man comfort (Size 28-44.) Get several sets today! Bath t'Tmwtlt tuttanlttd It thrink eul cj fill l in i : -iu i LUVeSlflCIU tlUUtM.B , ., v m ; Ted Williams Named Jo AL All-Star Team Bv 'Cas' BOSTON i UPI (-Manager Casey Stengel, who plays strictly to win and damn the sentiment, named led Williams to the Americun League All-Star team today while announcing tlie reserves ond pitch ers for the 1959 classic ut Pitts burgh Tuesday. "Who would you pick for a pinch hitter if you looked down - the bench and had Williams availa ble?" Stengel asked with disarm ing logic. "I ll take the big bat." lie an swered for himself. "Whether for the base hit, long fly or base, on balls. You couldn't find any bet ter around the league." The selections were announced here through Joe Cronin, presi dent of the American League. The 40-year-old Williams, who drew only 10 voles from the league players, managers and coaches, has upiieured in 14 previous All Star games. He failed to make the team only 1n 1939, as a rookie with the Boston Red Sox, and in 1944. 1945. 1952, and 1953. when he was in the service during World War II und the Korean War. Ted, off to a slow start this year, is currently batting around the .200 mark. He needs 13 more home runs to enter the charmed 500 homer circle. , Stengel named four righthand ers and three southpaws to the 1 Jordan, Moyer Get Tough In Fight Drills PORTLAND UP1) Champion Don Jordan and challenger Den ny Moyer of Portland sharpened their timing and stiffened their punches Wednesday as they honed into shape for their welterweight title fight at Portland Meadows here July 10. Young Moyer's stock was given a boost Wednesday when Ring Magazine listed him second among the world's welterweights. Previously Moyer had been rank ed fifth. He hopes the 15-rop.nd title fight at Portland Meadows will make him the No. 1 welter. But Jordan, training to a fine point at lus Blue Lake Park quar ters at the northeast edge of Port land, gave ample indication that he intends to keep the No. 1 wel ter spot for himself. Sid Flaherty, Moyer's manager, after watching Denny go six sharp rounds against sparring partners, observed: "He's getting there." Flaherty predicted a victorylror nis protege. , , But the odds still favored Jor dan, 4 to 1. Jordan was reported so well along in conditioning for the fight that he confined his work Wednesday to early morning running, then punching the bag and shadow boxing. , The title fight will be nationally televised. Racing Association Meeting Tonight The regular meeting of the Union County Racing Association will be held tonight in the arm ory. The meeting, will start at 7:30 according to Association presi dent Kenneth Hall. unsingwear- CAAI f, J'' X tv .1 A I l .. I U ...III nintn squau c win manage. The righthanders are Early Wynn of Chicago, noyi wnneim of Bulti. more. Jim Bunning of Detroit and bis own reliefer Hyne Duren. Th lefties are Bud Duley, only mem. ber of the Kansas City Athletic, to make me learn, wniiey Ford of the Yankees and Billy Pierce of the White Sox. Stengel went along with th players' first and second choices with two exceptions. He chose Williams instead of long-hitting Jim Lemon of Wash ington and selected Roy Sievers n the Senators as an Infield reserve instead of Detroit s Rocky Bridg es. Sieves will be used for pinch hitting. The other reserves were Harvey Kuenn of the Tigers and Mickey Mantle of New York in the out field; Frank Mulzone and Pe Runnels of Boston, Gil McDouelad of New York and Vic Power of Cleveland in ine mrield and Yogi Berra of the Yanks and Sherm Lollar of Chicago as catchers. Prelims Needed In AAU Meet EUGENE (UPI)-So many en tries are being received for the Oregon AAU championships at University of Oregon's Hayward Field Saturday that preliminaries will be needed in many of the events to cut the fields down to manageable size for the Fourth of July afternoon finals. More than 100 entries already have been received and a few more may come in. Oregon Coach Bill Bowermon will act as clerk of the court for the second annual meet, which is co-sponsored by the Emerald Empire Track Asso ciation. Bowerman said prelimi naries would be run in the sprints, both hurdles, the shot put, discus and javelin Saturday morning. Among the sprinters will be Jim Puckett of the Oregon Duck lings, who ran the 100 in 9.5 as a prepper at Cove high school. Run ning against him will be some outstanding men including Harry Jerome of the Vancouver Olympic Club, one of Canada's best sprint ers with a 9.7 to his credit this season. Standouts in the 880 will include Don Maw, Washington State; prp aces Phil S t e i n b o c k and Ran Harp, South Salem High School, Oregon frosh ace Jerry Stubble field, and Lany Williams of the U. S. Air Force. The 220 field will include the same men plus Otis Davis, Ore gon 440 star who plans to run both races Saturday, and Herb Bolden, who now runs for the Air Force. Lt. Bill Dellinger, former Ore gon ace who is considered the finest all-round distance runner in American track history, checked in here Wednesday along with eight other members of the Air Force team from Oxnard Air Base, Calif. Dellinger will face Lazlo Tabori of the Santa Clara youth center in the two - mile, along with Dick Miller of Oregon and former Duck Pete Mundle. The oldest gambling game known to man is dice, according to Encyclopedia Britannica. .and you!