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V 111 '' j''i'lf' f 1 Tl ? , f r W.'W, fiv Nationals First' All " PITTSBURGH (UPI - The fa vored National League sends 22-year-old Don Drysdale against the American League's 3-year-old starter. Early Wynn, today in what . may be the last All-Star game as the current baseball gen eration remembers it. Some of the glamour already has been rubbed off today's clas sic by the fact the two leagues will, for the first time in history, play a second All-Star game dur ing the same season on Aug. 3 at Los Angeles. Nevertheless, a capacity crowd of 34,000 is expected to jam Korbes Field today to witness the latest renewal of an annual mid summer event begun way back in 1WJ. Drysdale, the h a r d-throwing right-handed ace of the Los An geles Dodger who has won nine Karnes and lost six so fur this season, was manager Fred Hun ey's choice to face a preponder antly right-handed hitting Ameri can League line-up for the first three innings. Burdette to Follow "After that," said Hancy, man ' aging in his second All-Star game "I lean toward Lew Ourdvtte. And after Burdette, of Haney's own Milwaukee club, it's almost Bourne, Pratt Pace Pacific NW Golfers PORTLAND UPI Two Washington staters, Jim Bourne of Seattle and Bob Pratt of Ren ton, paced a field of 206 Monday as first-round qualifying got the 58th annual Pacific Northwest Golf Association championships underway at Portland Golf club Bourne took a two-stroke lead with a 33-36 e over the wet, windy course. Pratt, captain of the NCAA champion University of Houston team and Co-medalist two weeks ago at Eugene, came in with a 71. - In women's qualifying at the Columbia-Edgewater course Mon day, IS year old Oregon Idaho champ Shirley Knglchorn of Cald well, Idaho, dominated the field by carding 36-3672, three-under par. This put her six strokes ahead of the rest of the field of 150. Alter Miss hnglehorn caine Elaine I'orritt, Kugene, and Maude Borst of Portland. Both had 78's. 1955 National Amateur champion Mrs. Pat Lesser liar- bottle had trouble on the back nine and carded 40-41 at. Jerry Cundari, Portland, and Joe Jeroski of Vancouver, B.C., followed Pratt in the men's with 73 each. The second and final day of quabfying was today. Match play starts Wednesday with the nnal round Saturday. Portland U. Schedules Home And Home Series PORTLAND (t'PIi Universi ty of Portland Monday announced a 1960-61 home-ond-home Basket ball seris with Marshall College of Huntington, W. Va. The con tests will be the first between the two schools. A! Negrattl, Pilot athletic di rector, said Portland wilt ploy at Huntington Feb. S next year and tha Pilots will host Marshall in a return game Jan. 27, idol (TO, BE CONTINUED), L 1 Given Edge In -Star Game a cinch that little Elroy Face of the Pirates will finish up. Face is the National League's No. 1 re lief pitcher with a glittering 12-0 record and Hanvy undoubtedly wishes to give local fans a chance to see their home-town pride in All-Star competition. In choosing the crafty Wynn. of the White Sox to start, Cusey Stengel appeared to veer away from his original intention of opening up with Baltimore knuc- klcballer lioyt Wilhclm, who won his first nine games this season, then lost his next four. Wilhelm suffered his latest loss Sunday and Stengel wasn't sure the veteran right hunder would be rested suffiicently to start. Sten gel, with a r-jro'-l of three vic tories and five defeats in cif.M previous All-Star games, did not say who would follow Wynn but did make clear that Ryne Durcn Buick Open Title Won By Art Wall Jr. GRAND BLANC, Mich. OII Art Wall Jr., golf's top money winner, was $.ooo richer today because history did reeat itself. Wall, 35-year-old Masters' cham pion from Poeono Manor, Pa., fired a one-under-par 71 Monday for a two-stroke victory over Dow Finsterwald, Tcqticsta, Flu., in their 18-hole playoff for the Buick Open title. Exactly one year earlier to the day, Wall and Finsterwald had tied for first place in the Rubber City 0cn at Akron. They teed off in a sudden-death playoff and Wall was the winner on the sec ond extra hole. Wall, who has won four tourna ments and been runner-up in six others this year, never trailed in the Buick Open playoff on which M.400 was at stake the difference between first prize and the run ner up take of $4,600. Wall ranks as golf's top "pres sure player." He has engaged in six playoffs during his pro career and has won five of them. The big purse swelled his earn ings for 15 to $55,286. He will skip the Western Open at Pitts burgh starting Thursday because. he said, he needs a rest. It will be seven tournaments he has missed this year,. Finsterwald, last year's PGA king, has appeared in 'four play- ons ana has won only one. Phil Moyer Favored In Calif .-Contest ' RICHMOND, Calif. (UPI-0ak lund's Tony Dominguet and favor ite Phil Moyer clash tonight at Richmond Auditorium in a mid dleweight contest. Moyer. brother of Denny Moyer. who fights for the world welter weight title in Portland Friday night, was recently t beaten by Varna Bahama in a nationally televised fie,hL The Portland lad boasts a 10 2-1 record. Dominguei Is unbeaten in 11 professional fights. PITTSBURGH PAINTS! Stay Brighter . . . Longer! Pittsburgh For All Purposes 0BM Millar't Cabinet Shop Greenwood and Jtfftrton of his own Yankee staff "will be in there." most likely for the last three innings. Casey to Un Lefties Left-handers Whitey Ford of the Yankees and Billy Pierce of the White Sox appear the best bets to pitch the middle innings for the American Leaguers, who are 13 to 10 underdogs in the game although they have won 15 of the 25 All-Star contests. The American League has won the last two games by one run They won the 1S68 game at St Louis, 6-5, and last year's contest at Baltimore, 4-3. Most baseball men feel the American League's best chance today lies in home run threats Harmon Killebrew of Washington and Rocky Colavito of Cleveland, both of whom are. in the starting lineup. ' Big drawback for the American Leaguers, however, is that they have only one left-handed hitter in their starting line-up. That's second baseman Nellie Fox of the White Sox, whose specialty is sin gles. The other American League starters are leftfielder Minnie Mi noso of Cleveland, centerfielder Al Kalinc of Detroit, first base man Bill Skowron of the Y'ankees. catcher Gus Triandos of Balti more, and shortstop Luis Apari cio of Chicago. The National league has two left-handed hitters in its starting lineup third baseman Eddie .Mathews, who has hit 25 home runs so far for Milwaukee, and left-tielder Wally Moon, batting .2S9 with Los Angeles. Johnny Temple of Cincinnati will start at second base, Orlando Ccpeda of San Francisco at first base, Ernie Banks of Chicago at shortstop, Willie Mays of San Fran cisco in center field, Hank Aaron of Milwaukee in right field and Del Crandall of Milwaukee behind the plate. "That lunatic made me mad!" When tempey starts , to drive your car, you're heading: for att accident! Sure, the jerk who cuts you off, or passes on the right, or rides your tail is maddening! But when your temper takes over from your judgment, you can do something foolish, or deadly 1 Last year, nearly 37,000 were killed on our roads many by good drivers who simply lost their heads. Don't lose yours it could cost you your life! r:- J - Vf--'M; ' J" Puhtishrd in an effort to mi lit, in cooperation . ivitk th Nationai Safety Council and Tht Adtxrtiiing Counci. , LA GRANDE OBSERVER The Lip' Maybe 111 PITTSBURGH UJPli Leo Du rocher is closer to returning to baseball today than he has been since he left the New York Giants four years ago.i The United Press International has learned that an American League club, quite possibly the Chicago White Sox, has dangled the tyie offer that could bring "Leo the Lip" back to the game a high salary as manager and substantial stock in the club. Durocher confirmed he is seri ously considering the offer, which would make him u combination field and general manager. Durocher was startled when UPl put the question of his re turn to baseball to him, but he did not evade. "If the terms ore right, there's a strong possibility I'll come back,'' he replied. "I've had sev eral offers since I've left the Giants but I wouldn't consider any of them unless certain condi tions were met. The offer I'm thinking over now comes the clos est of any to satisfying me." Durocher tried tb .sidestep fur ther questions but finally conced ed under the UPl's cross-examination: "I'm very hapoy with what I'm doing now. But this proposition is almost too good to turn down. We'll see how it turns out. Could be I'll be back." Durocher, who'll be 54 years old on July 27, left as manager of the New York Giants just before the end of the 1955 season. He said then he never would return to baseball but modified his stand later to say he would if an offer Standings Pacific Coast League W L Pet. Gb. Sacramento 47 37 .560 Vancouver 43 38 .531 2V4 Portland 40 39 .506 4'4 Spokane 42 41 .506 4Vj San Diego 43 43 .500 5 Salt Lake 41 42 .494 5i Phoenix 39 45 .464 8 Seattle 37 47 .450 10 Monday's Results Phoenix 11 Sacramento 5 Spokane at Vancouver, postponed,, rain. (Only Games Scheduled! Northwest League Standings W. L. Pet. CB. Yakima 3 2 .666 Wenatchee 3 2 .666 Salem 2 2 .500 Lewiston 2 2 .500 Tri-City 2 2 . 500 Eugene 1 3 .500 l'i Monday's Results Wenatchee 8 Yakima 3 Only game scheduled Wenatchee Takes Over League Lead By United Press International The Wenatchee Bears took ad vantage of a slack night in the Northwest League Monday and parlayed an 8-3 victory over Yak ima into a tie with the Bears for first place in the second-half standings. Wenatchee's win put the two teams one-half game ahead of the fpack. West Linn Football Star Enrolls At UO EUGENE (UPI Chuck Starr, honor student and Shrine football choice from West Linn will enroll at the University of Oregon this fall. Starr announced his choice to Duck Head Coach Ken Casanova Monday. He will compete at guard for the Metro squad in the Shrine High School All-Star game in Portland next month. Speaks; Be Back that involved stock ownership in a club were included with an of fer to manage. ITl has learned, however, that White Sox big-wigs Bill Veeck and Hank Greenberg think Durocher is just what the While Sox need. Veeck tried unsuccessfully two years ago to talk Leo into man aging the Cleveland Indians. Often called "baseball's bad boy," Durocher rose to playing stardom as a shortstop with the G a -ihou.se Gang St. Louis Cardi nals of 1934 and subsequently managed the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Giants. He led the Dodg ers to a pennant in 1941 and pi loted the Giants to flags in 1951 and 1954. Dui other resigned in late 1955 and embarked on a radio and TV career that appears to have occu pied all his ambitions until now. Puff Derby Goes Into Fourth Day SPOKANE, Wash. iUPI) Six ty Powder Puff Derby planes were ready to swing back into action in the fourth day of the annual trans-continental all-Women a i r race. Planes were tied up between here and Rochester, Minn, await ing action. , Four planes touched down at the Terminus City here less than 46 hours after taking to the air 2,740 miles away Saturday morning in Lawrence, Mass. Unofficial counts Monday night had eight planes awaiting sun-up and the final leg of the gruelling race in Helena, Mont.. 34 were reported in Miles City, Mont., 11 at Bismarck, N. D. and one be lieved at Rochester, Minn. Mrs. Margaret Ray Ringenbcrg and co-pilot Lois M. Layman, both of Fort Wayne, Ind., were first to cross the finish line, arriving here early Sunday morning. Three other planes dropped wheels early Monday morning, about 24 hours after Mrs. Ringen berg. Marian Schorr Bctzler and co-1 pilot Mrs. Kathleen Wood, both of Columbus, Ohio, arrived at 5:48 a.m. Landing within the next half hour were Mrs. Lois Zdenek, Tar zana, Calif., and co-pilot Mrs. Au drey M. Schutte, Conoga Park. Calif., and Mrs. Ruth Nitzen, Pa los Verdes, Calif., and co-pilot Carol Kennedy, San Andreas, Calif. Elly Beinhorn, the Amelia Ear hart of Germany, was forced to turn her craft back to Helena Monday because of tluinderstorm activity. Mrs. Ringenberg said she and her sister in law arrived in Hel ena Saturday night only 60 sec onds away from disqualification because of a rule that planes must be on the ground by official sun set. "We made lousy time because of bad weather." she said. "But we decided in favor of safety rath er than time." Winner of the annual trans-continental dash will be announced Thursday afternoon. The . plane logging the best time under a pre determined handicap is the win ner. Starts Wednesday KIRKDOK mi jill LAST TRAJN FROM .GUN Hi LI TECHNICOLOR A PWMOUN! POTJRE WliVlSttl PLUS Robert Tiylor "THE HANGMAN" ENDS TONITE Deborah Ktrr "COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS" ALSO LET'S ROCK Today Thru Thursday Gary Cooper ' 10 NORTH FREDERICK ALSO WYOMING RENEGADES I Neil Andersen Observer, La Grande, Ore., Tue July 7, 1959 PagC2 Lumberjacks Stop Farnam's; Dodgers, Laurence's Win Monday's Results Van Patten's H Farnam's Laurence's 5 Falk's 3 i Dadssr't 7 Cardinals 2 Van Petten's parlayed Dave Cash's all-around ability and Jim Lilly's power into a 16-6 victory over Farnam's in midgcf league action Monday night. Lilly came up with a hitter's dream when he homered, tripled, doubled and singled in four times at bat. Cash, who struck out 12 Farnam batters for his second Inching victory, got four singles m five trips to the ptate. The opposition was equally im pressive. Jerry Jackman. although he got the loss, struck out 10 bat ters and got three hits in three at bats in the free swinging contest. Jackman got support for his home run, double and single from Tom Craig who had two singles in three trips. Van Petten's opened the scoring with three runs in the first and kept pecking away. They got two in the second and a single run in the third. The Lumberjacks un leashed their power in the fourth with a five run burst and repeated in the sixth after being shutout in fifth. Farnam's got single runs in the first four innings and got two in the bottom of the filth. The game was called after the top of the sixth inning because of the 10 run rule. In pee wee action Laurence's downed Falk's 5-3. The Jeweler's got single runs in the first two innings. Falk's had gone ahead in the bottom of the first. A walk to Brian McShane, an error that allowed losing pitcher Billy Sp?nce to get on base, a walk to Steve Lyell, a fielder's choice and a walk to Mike McShane accounted for two runs. At the top of the third with the score tied 2-2 Laurence's came up Our Entire Slock of 78-RPM RECORDS CHOOSE FROM, Victor, Columbia, Decca & NGN CLASSICAL POPULAR SECULAR BALLADS Now is the time to select the records that you wished you had! Come in and look them over! ALL SALES FINAL! NO EXCHANGES, RETURNS or REFUNDS Reconditioned Used PIANOS Large Selection at Reduced Pricesl EASY TERMS! Radio 1st National Bank OBSERVER with two runs. Don Marx was safe on an error to open the inning. Herkie . Maldnnado doubled and Mark Vaughn was safe on a field er's choice. Ron Marx singled to drive in two runs for a 4-2 lead. Laurence's got a single run in the top o? the fitlh and Falk's got one in the bottom of the inning on an error, two singles and a walk. Mark Vaughn with 10 strikeouts got the win and Billy Spence got the loss although he fanned 10 Jewelers. The Dodgers jumped on the Cardinals for four runs in the first inning to capture the lead and down the Cards 7-2 in Elk s league action. The Dodgers four runs came without the benefit of a hit. Four walks squeezed between a couple of errors and a fielder's choice accounted for all ther uns. Dave Smith, who started the game for the Dodgers and got the win. banged out the first home run in Elk's league action to start the Iod of the second inning. Two errors, a single and a walk ac counted for another run and a 6-0 lead. The Cardinals, shutout until the fifth inning, put together three singles and two walks for their only two runs. The Dodger's got a single run in the sixth to end the scoring. Former PSC Football Star Joins Vikings Chuck Becker, a former Port land State football star, will re turn to the Vikings this fall as an assistant grid coach it was an nounced Saturday. Becker, who becomes the first former PSC athlete to be appoint ed to the faculty in a coaching position, will join the staff as un instructor in the Education de- partment. 1ST 5000 5) or; Tl U YOUR 11 I J CHOICE & Music Supply Co. Bldg. GEORGE TISS, Prop. Giants Get I ' , ' I. 11 5 Win United Prats International Bud Watkins. a hulking 28-year-old righthander who was such a failure in the eurly season that Vancouver tried to peddle him to Amarillo. Tex., has a new lease on life today. Watkins racked up his seventh straight win Monday night while pitching Phoenix to an 11-5 win over Sacramento. Vancouver sold Watkins to Phoenix when the righthander who hails from Richmond, Calif., refused to report to the Texas club. He'd won three in a row for Vancouver after losing his first five decisions. The knuckle bailer is unbeaten with Phoenix. Willie McCovey, who now leads the Pacific Coast League in hit ting i .349 1 home runs (201, and rbi's ifini, crucked in five runs with a homer, a double and two singles last night. There were no other games played. A scheduled game be tween Spokane and Vancouver was rained out. McCovey's hitting along with that of Bob Speake, who belted a three run homer in the second inning, made Watkins' pitching a soft touch. Watkins scattered sev- en hits, including a home run in the ninth inning by Solon catcher Clay Dalrymple. Carl Greene was charged with the Solon loss, his sixth against eight wins. The loss cut Sacramento's lead to two and a half games over second place Vancouver. Portland is in thid place and opens against Seattle at Seattle tonight. The Line Score: Phoenix 262 100 000-11 13 1 Sacramento 102 000 0025 7 1 Watkins and Stieglitz; Greene, Bowman 2, Davis (5) and Dal rymple. Portlander Scores Ace PORTLAND UPI) Chuck Fisk of Portland scored a hole-in-one at the Columbia-Edgewater Golf Club course here Monday, using a 9-iron on the 14-yard 13th hole. Witnessing the feat were Bob Donnelly, Bob Casper and Jim Chenoweth. New Famous Label Record Hi Fi, Phonographs and STEREO Reduced To Sell Quick! EASY TERMS WO 3-4232