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ObMi-var, La Grande. Ore., Mon., July 27, 1959 Page 2 Prayes Comeback; Yanks Long Gone United Press International The Braves are coming ami the Yankees may he gone. That's the trend of the pennant races today as the straining de fending champions stnis'jjie to organize late - sea.so.1 d ues. It looks like the Braves are nomy to make a fight of it. But there s no sign that the Va .ikees can snap out of the coma that now has them drifting out of the race. The Braves, bouncing hack from a seven-game losing streak, ran their winning streak to four games Sunday when they heat the Pittsburgh Pirates. 4-0 a id 2-1. They're now only two per centage points behind second- place Los Angeles aid two games behind first-place San Francisce. The Yankees, meanwhile sul fered a 1-0 loss to Frarrk l.ary and the Detroit Tigers and Ml one game below 500, nine games behind the Cleveland Indians, who took over lirM place with a 9-0 and 4-3 ivreep of the Wash ington Senators. The Yankees' problems were furttier complicat ed by the news that first base man Bill Skowron is loit for the Slugs Down Players In Cuba Park United Press tnttrnetienel Pop bottles and beer cans, okay, but slightly nervous Inter national Leaguers said today they'll take a raincheck on those flying bullets. Many International League 1 players voiced a marked reluc tance today about returning to ' ' Havana where two of them were - shot by celebrating rebel soldiers Saturday night during a game between the Cuban Sugar Kings and Hochester Hed Wings. - Rochester infielder Frank Ver di was struck by a stray bullet above the right temole nd short stop Leonardo Cardenas of the Sugar Kings was winged on the ' right arm. "If that bullet had been two inches to Ihe left.'' said the still shaken Verdi, "all .the team would have had to chip in five bucks apiece for flowers." As a result, the lied Wings re fused to take the field for a scheduled double-header with the Sugar Kings in Havana Sunday and League President Frank Shaughnessy said in Montreal that the Hed Wings "acted with my permission because I could not order them to play if they thought they were in physical danger." But the Ited Wings weren't the only club in the league that was frightened. "1 doubt if we could get our ball club down there right now," said Manager Peper Martin of the Miami Marlins. "We have a three-game series in Havana starting Aug. 24th. That's a long way off. Things will have proba bly quieted down there by then. But it looks like dangerous 'ground to treai on right now.'' I Manager Steve Souchock of ' Richmond said he heard some of his players say "they're not in terested in going back." "I don't blame them," he add ed. "I would say that it is a lit tle bit dangerous there." Souchock also said Toronto players had told him their en tire team signed a petition say ing they would not play in Ha vana any more this season. The next team scheduled to play in Havana is Montreal on Aug. 11. Shortly after the shooting inci dent, Umpires Frank Uuzzetta and Harry Schwarti ordered the game suspended with the score tied 4-4 in the 12th inning and telephoned a full report of the incident to Shaughnessy MOSS WINS PRIX CLERMONT. - France (UPIl -Stirling Mass of Britain won the Auvergen Grand Prix auto race Sunday in a Cooper-Borgward with an average speed of 76.631 miles per hour. Ivor Bueb of Brit ain suffered several broken ribs and Bruce Halford of Britain suf fered a broken hip in accidents during ihe race. HOW! ! ! THE FAMOUS rnciiELm steel-cord "x The Super Tirt For European & American Cars !k . j- " ' At Your Local Recapping Headquarters TURLEY'S TIRE SERVICE I lii-rit-' r . I . '. I OBSERVER ! season with a broken wrist ! The C hicago Cubs scored a 7-3 victory over ihe Giants, the ! Doducrs whipped the St Louis Cardinals, h-2. and the rh.Iadel phia I'hillies beat the Cincinnati Keds. 6-3. after a 4-2 loss in other Na'.ional League games. The Baltimore Onole4 knockel the While Sox out of lir- place. 4-0. alter Chicago won the first gaine, 4-1. and the Kar.sas City Athletics ran their winning streak to seven games with a 5-4 deci sion over the Boston ited Sox in the other American League games. ! : Wa'reri Spahn tossed the 47th shutout of his career and won hi l:ilh c:im tJ the Kfawin in tlhe first game and then Bob' Buhl gained his seventh win for Milwaukee in the nightcap. Lary. who has beaten the Yan kees four times this year and is 20-5 over them lifetime, pitched an eignt-hitler and struck out seven. Art Ditmar matched ze roes with the Alabama bulldog for nine innings but the Tigers won in the 10th. Banks Slam Homer Krrie Banks hit a two run homer and pitcher Bob Anderson singled home two runs for the Cub who dealt San Francisco's Mike McCormK-k his eighth de feat. Don Drysdale pitched a seven hitler and hit a two-run homer as he won his 13th game for the Dodgers. Jerry Lynch and Willie Jones hit homers to spark an eight-hit attack that brought Brooks Law rence his sixth win but then Gene Conlcy pitched a seven hitter for his ninth triumph to earn the Phillies a split. Rookie Jim Perry pitched a two-hitter and Woodie Held hit two homers for the Indians in the 12 inning nightcap when Minnie first game and the Tribe won the Minoso doubled and scored on Jim Baxes' single. Karly Wynn pitched a two-hitter to run the White Sox's win ning streak to five, games but then Miit Iu:,as turned in a five-hitter (hat sr;iped the Ori oles' losing streak at six games. Ha-ry Chiti snapped a 4-4 tic with a homer in the eighth in ning as Kansas City's Hay Her bert won his loth game. Players Added All-Star Game BOSTON ITI '-Manager Ca sey Stengel today named three new pitchers and three more oul tiplders to the American league squad for the second. All - Star game at Los Angeles. Aug 3. Stengel was allowed to raise tiie siuad limit dun 2S to 28 for Hie game to be played at the for the second game. I'nder Ha ney. manager of the National League sunad, also will have three additional players available (or the second game I'nder Ha ney's direction, live National League won 5-4 in the first AII htar game held this year at Pittsburgh July 7. Stengel, in a statement issued by Ame-ican league headquar ters here, selected pitchers Cal Mcl.ish of Cleveland. Hilly O'Dcll of Baltimore and Camilo I'ascuul of Washington to replace Jim Bunning of Detroit, his own Yan kee hurler Whitey Ford and Billy Pierce of Chicago. The squad also will include four pitchers named for the first All-Star game Bud Daley of Kansas City. Hyne . Duren of New York. Huyt Wilhclm of Bal timore and Karly Wynn of Chi cago. Boh Allison of Washington, lioger Maris of Kansas City and Gene Woo-.lling of Baltimore will join the American League out field, which includes Ted Wil liams of Boston, now benched with an aching shoulder and neck. This is a recurrence of an early season ailment, According to the mlrs of the second All-Star game, the man agers were required to retain the same IB non-pitchers that played in the first game, but could make any changes they chose in the pitching staff for the Los An geles game and could aid three players, regardless of position. II 71 I Arh 0 u - :, "list ''- r 1 - Si , V GETTING READY FOR THE ANGLER Hurry Voss, left, watches Ralph Kay dip trout from a hatchery pond into tubs. The Wallowa Trout hatchery plans to plant 15,000 trout in August and 150,000 next spring. Virgil Wagner, with bucket, looks like he'd like to take a few home for din ner (Observer Photo bv Joe Diehl) Golfer Says 300 Yards MINNEAPOLIS aTPH Jimmy Thomson, the first of the golf siege guns, was talking once about distance hitting and star tled his audience by proclaiming that no man could hit a ball more than 300 yards. It was an arnain statement from one of the most amazing sluggers of them all. Because Thomson won the 1037 North American driving championshipH by averaging 316 yards with II) balls and at lola. Kan., in 193. walloped a tee shot which end ed just 10 yards short of the green on a 475-yard hole. For Second In LA Ilar.cy made nu changes in his pitching staff for the second name, and selected as his three! additions right-hander Sam Jones of S:m Frftncisoo, shortstop John ny Logan of Milwaukee and han dyman .Inn Gilliam of los An geles. Haney originally chose Gil Hodges of i.os Angeles, instead of Gilliam, but switched when Ihe big Dodger first baseman suf fered a severely sprained ankle in a game last Thursday SWIMMER SETS RECORD WAI.LW1.KK. Holland iUI'D Itia Van Velzen of The Nether lands broke the world record for the women's 100-yard backstroke Sunday when she won the event in a dual meet with Britain in 1:11.7, two tenths of a second fast er than the mark of Britain's Judy Graham TRABERT WHIPS KOSE BAASTAD, Sweden i ITI ' Tony Trabert of Cincinnati, de feated Mervyn Hose of Australia. 6-3. 6 1. and Pancho Segura of Kcuador defeated Ashley Cooer of Australia, 6-3, 3-6, 7-5. in pro fessional tennis mutches here ' Sunday. I NOW THRU TUES. kPAUL ENDS TONITE DORIS DAY "PAJAMA GAME" CARY GRANT "INDISCREET" f ? fr.-r JhW f.- A.' ft Plus L j -. J -. : 4 I J Ball Can't Be Hit But He Does Better But those, as they say in the trade, were "downhill with the wind behind them on a concrete highway." PGA Driving Wednesday Making this of particular mo ment is that the Professional Gnflers Assn. will hold its annual driving championship at Die Min neapolis Goll Club on Wednes day, the day before the opening hf its tour-day -championship. This is of exceptional interest because eervbody loves to knock the cover off the ball usually to the detriment of their game and the men who can do just that are top drawing cards. Thomson set the vogje and was followed by such as Sammy Snead, Chick llarijcrl and, cur rently, massive George Bayer Bayer, the 240-pound, sax - foot, five - nxh lonr.cr t'ltiversity of Washington grid tackle, smashed the !:na!l l!nti.--h ball nearly 500 yards at Sydney, Australia, in lD.v; hut .adr.iit.s ll'.a: he had a "tre.iu-iHloiis following wind and the grotiad was like pavement." which makes it something like rolling a bowling ball down Pike's Peak. George Can Bust It Don't think big George can't bust it. He cracked the ball 420 yards at Las Vegas, 400 yards- at Tucson and drove the 3!Vyard first hole at Brackenridge Park Golf Club in San Antonio. How ever, all were favoring, baked out surfaces. Mike Soiichak and Frank Stran ahan, two other big hitte-s, fin ished one-two in the Masters driving champio.nshin and it may come, as something of a surprise to know that chunky Lionel lle licrt is the defending champion hi the PGA driving contest the big one of the year because it uuracls all the pros. WHEN YOU ARE PAST 40 T Your Pharmacist is working in your be ' half, keeping stride with new miracle drugs which help maintain good health and increase life expectancy for you. Prescriptions filled promptly! I GOOD HEALTH TO : it- r. J 1 , . h Little Lionel whacked it 307 yards, 17 inches to pick up the PGA marbles at Llanerch Coun try Club last year. Souchak was second with a blast of 300 yards, 24 inches. The surface was av erage but there was a downhill roll at the tail end of the shot good for anything from 10 to 15 yards. As Thomson said, on dead flat, ni nial turf, and in a dead calm, nobody is going to cuff it the big 300. Country Club Hosts Golfers, Bridge Players The "ladies of the La Grande Country Club will play host to the. Pendleton and Walla Walla golfers at the local course to morrow. Rolls and coffee will be served at 8:30 and there will be a tee off on all holes following the snack. While members of all three clubs arc putting and pitching in the hot sun the weatherman has predicted, the bridge play ers from all three clubs will tangle in the club house. Bridge matches arc scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. 49ERS LOSE CURTIS MORAGA. Calif. l'Pl Offen sive end Bill Curtis was believed lost to the San Francisco Forty Niners today for the 1959 season as a result of a ruptured achilles tendon suffered when he was practicing sprints Sunday. Curtis underwent two hours of surgery at Mary's Help' Hospital in San Franciscco. Al Ll FROM REXAll Beavers Pfop Pair; Miss Chance At 1st By United Pre twlsnialisoat The Portland Beavers missed a chance to go into a first place tie in the Pacific Coast League Sun day by dropping a pair of fames to San Diego, 6-3 and t-S. Portland is now two game off the pace with Vancouver and Sac ramento in a deadlock fur the top spot. ' . , George Freese. slugging Port land third sacker, regained his home-run hitting eye and smack ed three out of the park Sunday, one in the first game and two in the second. That gives him 16 for the season Jim Greengrass also homered for Portand in the first game, his 17th of the season. Jiniw Effective The Portland losing pitchers were Tom Gorman in the opener and Glen McMinn in the second game. Larry Jansen relieved Gor man in the first game and pitched scoreless ball for six innings. Steve Jankowski, wbe homered Standings United Press International Major League Standings National League W. L. Pet. CB Sal Francisco SS 43 .Ml . Los Angeles 55 46 .545 l'i Milwaukee 51 43 343 2 Chicago 49 48 .505 S'j Pittsburgh 49 49 .500 6 St. Louis 47 50 .485 7', Cincinnati 43 54 .443 ll'i Philadelphia 40 56 .417 14 Saturday's Results Milwaukee 3 Pittsburgh 0 St. Louis 4 Los Angeles 2 110 inn.) Philadelphia 6 Cincinnati 3 Chicago S Sao Francisco 3 Sunday's Results Cincinnati 4 Phila. 2 (1st game! Phila. 6 Cincinnati 3 (2nd game) Milwaukee 4 Pittsburgh 0 Osti Milwaukee 2 Pittsburgh 1 (2nd) Chicago 7 San Francisco 3 Los Angeles 8 St. Louis 2 American League WL. Pet. CB Cleveland . 56 39 .589 Chicago Baltimore New York Detroit Kansas Citq Washington Boston 56 40 .583 V 49 49 .500 84 48 49 .495 9 48 49 .495 9 46 49 .484.10 43 54 .443 14 40 55 .421 If Saturday's Results New York 9 Detroit 8 Cleveland 8 Washington 1 Chicago. 3 Baltimore 2 (17 inn.) Kansas City Boston 0 Sunday's Results Chicago 4 Baltimore I (1st game) Baltimore 4 Chicago 0 (2d game) Cleveland 9 Wash. 0 (1st game) Clev. 4 Wash. 3 (2d game. 12 in.) Detroit 1 New York 0 (10 inns.) Kansas City 5 Boston 4 Pacific Coast League ' W. L. Pet. CB Sacramento 55 48 .534 Vancouver 55 48 334 Portland 51 48 .515 2 Salt Lake 53 50 .515 2 Phoenix 52 51 305 3 Spokane 50 54 .481 54 San Diego 49 56 .467 7 Seattle 47 57 .452 8'i Sunday's Results San Diego 4 Portland 3 (1st) San Diego 6 Portland 5 (2nd 8 ins) Seattle 9 Sacramento 1 (1st) Sacramento 2 Seattle 0 (2nd 7 ins Vancouver 3 Salt Lake 2 (1st 7 in) Vancouver 5 Salt Lake 4 (2nd) Spokane at Poenix, ppd. rain. Northwest League Standings By United Press International W. L. Pet. GB. Wenatchee 15 10 .600 ... Yakima 15-12 .555 1 Lewis! en 13 12 .520 2 Salem 13 12 .520 2 Tri-City 11 14 .444 4 Eugene 10 16 .384 54 Sunday's Results Yakima 9 Tri-City 6 Eugene 3 Salem 2 (1st) Salem 6 Eugene 2 (2nd) Lewiston 8 Wenatchee 0 (1st) Wenatchee 11 Lewiston 8 (2nd) Sprinkler Systems FOB FARMS RAINBIRO SPRINKLERS AND PARTS ANDERSON-MILLER ' PIPES COUPLINGS AMES PIPES AND ' COUPLINGS GENERAL ELECTRIC , MOTORS, e : OATES PULLEYS AND BELTS PACIFIC PUMPS .vCAV Authorized Dealer inDUSTBJAL Mac-inery 6 Supply 1410 Adams ' Ph, WO 3-U2 J ut the first game, drove in the w inn jig run in the second. . , Despite injuries all season. Van couver was back in a first-place tie with Sacramento after down ing Salt Lake City 3-2 and 5-4 Sunday. Sacramento split with Se attle, losing 9-1 and winning 2 0. The Spokane Phoenix game was rained out. ..! Pagliaronl Joins Injurtd The Mounties played Sunday without regular catcher Joe Pag Uarooi, the newest member of Vancouver's ailing corps. ; The Mounties lost Joe Durham for the season last week when he was in jured in an outfield collision. Earl ier, Charlie White, a .291 hitting catcher last year, was also lost for the season. And outfielders Len Tucker and Joe Frailer have had long term injuries. Barry Shetrone hammered a pair of homers while Wes Stock pitched a three hitter to give the Mounties their 3-2 win over Salt Lake in the opening game. Shet rone's blows came in the first and third innings off loser Dick Han Ion. Palica Notches loth Erv Palica picked up his 10th victory of the season in the sec ond game after being staked to a five run lead in the first in ning. The Bees scored three times in the seventh and Jim Baumer led off the ninth with a homer but the Bees eouH not close the Sap. Bob Mabe pitched a three'jiit ter for Seattle in the oinie: against the Solons. Lou Skias belted a two run homer in the first and the Hainiers coasted in from there while collecting 12. hits in all off three Solon hurlers. Joe Stanka, Sacramento's ace, was charged with the loss. He's now U-7. c f - Carl Greene gave the Solons their first place tie with a four hit shutout in the second tilt. Bob Roselli homered for the Sacs in the third and the Solons added another run in the fourth. Dave Stenbouse was the loser, though be and two other Rainier hurlers gave up only two hits in the seven inning contest. Four Men Win Honors In Better Nine Everett Reynolds, Harmon Wolfe, George L'dy and Del Conrad walked of i with top honors in men's belter nine competition at the La Grande Country Club last Saturday . Reynolds captured top honors in the 1st Division with a 33'. . Bob Howard was runnerup in the di vision with a net 35'i. Dave Baum and Bob Fallows finished third and fourth in the class. Baum fired a net 3? and Fallows was one setroke back with a net 38. . Tie for first place honors in the second division went to Harmon Wolfe and George L'dy. both with net 34 s. Earl Thebeau finished only 4 stroke back with a net 344. Claude Hand finished fourth with a net 354. Del Conrad beMed the third division golfers with a net 35 and Jerry Trumblo was second with a net 37. . GIANTS OBTAIN BYERLY ' SAN FRANCISCO tUPD El- dred 'Bud Byerly, 28-year-old re- lief pitcher who formerly ap- """ si:? rrx cmi t ir PUT IT TO THE TEST! Come in for a demonstration and discover -'Jeep'. 4-wheel drive vehicles go more ' places do more jobs cost less to own! FIRST IN " i i t "i "" -'-i Com In for a dmenatratle4i LOW COST AUTO Adams A 3rd ' La Grand Tunft-ln ' HAVERICK Sun. Evenings 6:30 p.m. 4 I I jrd League May Be Told Today NEW YORK ilPli -The for maiiua of a third major league is expected to be announced to day at a special press confer ence called by William A. Shea, chairman of Mayor Robert Wag ner's baseball committee. , Shea had said ea'lier that he would announce the make-up of the new circuit sometime this month and reiterated his belief that it would .be ready to oper ate by 11. ' Five areas, in addition to New York, are virtually certain to be included in the new league on which Shea estimates 100 million dollars will be spent. Those areas are Toronto. Houston, Denver, Dallas-Fort Worth and Minne-apolis-St. Paul. Other cities known to be under consideration are Atlanta, Seat tle. Montreal, San Diego, Buffalo and Miami. According to Shea, Flushing Meadow in Queens. N Y., would be the home of New York's new franchise. The city is prepared to build a 12-million-dollar stadium there with a seating capacity of 52.000. Samuel Lefrak, largest multiple dwelling builder in the city, al'-o has said he is ready to build a stadium at cost "to fill the void left by the depar ture of the Giants and Dodgers." Officials of the third league are expected to meet with a joint committee of the American and National leagues on Aug. 8 in ei ther New York or Boston to dis cuss a formula for working to gether MEXICAN WINS SINGLES GSTAAD. Switzerland iUPI Yolanda Ramirez of Mexico won thewomen's singles title in the Gstaad International Tennis tour nament Sunday by defeating Mary Keitano of Australia, 7-5, 6-1, and Luis Ayala of Chile de feated Jan Erik Lundquist of Swe den in the men's final, 6-1, 6-2, 6-L peared in the majors with the Cards, Reds and Senators, was obtained by the San Francisco Giants Sunday from Minneapolis Special Bus' to Chief Joseph Days PARADE AND RODEO Saturday, Aug. 1 s2.5 BOUND TRIP Bus leaves La Grande 7 a.m. Bus leaves Joseph 6 p.m. Make Reservations Before July 30 Wallowa Valley Stages TRAVEL SERVICE , Foley Hotel Building RODEO SEATS AVAILABLE 4-WHEEL DRIVE VEHICLES BY WILLYS MOTORS... WORLD'S LARGEST MANUFACTURER Of 4-WHEEL DRIVE VEHICLES - (jjp.tli i I