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a Grande Swwimers Grab, Second In WITH A SPLASH Dale Feik enters the water after Scompleting a dive during the district swim meet held at the Veterans Memorial Pool Saturday, La Grande finished second in the meet. f after taking a deep breath. . i f i 0t rvr, La Grand, Of., Mon., Aug. 10, 1959 Pag 2 ihicago-Giants Get itrhinri Fnr Pennant 1 JThejr ' s; say. nitehiiiB wins pen nants and both the White Sox al)d Giants are (jetting it these dflys in pennant-winning style. The White Sox, of course, al nst.. always .'hive gotten fine pjclilng while San Francisco's liilrling has been the teahi's bit; 0 Jestionmark. Now,, however. Jk Sanlord has come along to bolster the Giant staff and it may bj that he'll help just enough in til- stretch to spell f l a g. Jloth front-runners increaMvl tlttir leads Sunday, the White Sox boosting their American League margin to three games by whip ping the Washington Senators, ,4-3 aijd 9-0. and the Giants increas ing their lead to l'i Karnes in th National League with a 4 3. lUrinning win over the Cincinnati Iitds. perry Slaloy pitched shutout ball for 4 1-3 innings to win the odener for the White Sox and tlwn Early Wynn fired a three hitter for his 15th victory of the season and the 264th of his ca reer. Sanfo'd, meanwhile. turned in 'his fourth straight victory with a !powcrful five hitler. The New York Yankees went ino a third place tic wi'h Unit i mpre by winning a marathon dou blthcuder from tlio Kansas City Adiletics, 4-3 and 3-2. and the De trait Tigers beat the Huston Rod Sa, 7-3, in other AL games. Ito liujf ace Elroy Face won his 15th straight game as the rjttsburgh Plates defeated the Chicago Cubs. 5-3, and Ihe Philadelphia Phillies whipped the St. Louis Cardinals. 8-3 and 4 2, in the other NL games. . (The White Sox won their 27th oiie-run decision when Jim Lan dit' singled, a wild pitch by Dick Hdo and an error by Roy Sie vars enabled them to snap a 3-3 tie In the eighth inning of the first game. Earl Torgeson drove m three runs with two singles arjd a sacrifice fly and Nelson Fox and Wynn each had two hits hi' the nightrap for the White Sox. H4rmon Killebrew hit his 35th homer for Washington. i Orlando Cepeda homered in the low inning to give San Francisco the victory alter Jerry Lynch's l&lh homer tied the score in the nialh. It was the fourth straight victory for Sanford since recov ering from a fractured hnnd suf fered on June 11. The loss went to Don Newcombe. Milt Pappas, brilliant' 30-year DOORS I Fir. Mahnenny and Birch ' j ALL SIZiiS IN STOCK jUiller cabinet shop "' Greenwood and Joffetsoo ' reiK puns nis cneeKs out (Observer Photo) OBSERVER ...... f Neil Andarsan j: w - - - old right-hander, scored his 12th victory for the Orioles when two Cleveland errors proved Jim Per ry's undoing. The Orioles pushed over the winning run alter two out in the seventh when Bob Boyd singled, Joe Ginsberg walked and George Strickland let Brooks Robinson's grounder go through him for an error. Joe Adcock's three-run homer and Ed Mathews' two-run circuit enabled the Itraves to pile up an 3-0 lead bat Bob Buhl finally needed ninth-inning relief help from- Don McMahon to win his ninth game. Hank Aaron, Bill Bruton and Felix Mantilla con rihutcd two hits each to the Mil waukee attack while Wally Moon had three hits aid Duke Snider had two including a homer for Los Angeles. Gil McDougald .singled with the bases filled and two out to win the 14-inning opener for the Van koes and then Klston Howard wallooed a homer to take the 11 inning nightcap. Yogi Bcrra horn cred with two out in the ninth to send the second game into over time alter Russ Snyder's first major league homer gave the Athletics a 2-1 lead in the eighth. Relievers Ryne Duren and Bobby Shantr were the winning pitchers. Dick Groat's loth-inning single snnped a 3 3 tic and paved the way for Face s 20th straight win dating hack to last season. The little Pittsburgh relief star who hadn't won a game since July 12 is four victories short of Rube Marqttard's single season major league record of 19 straight wins. And he also is four short ef Carl IliibbeH's 24 straight win achieved at the close of the 1938 season and the beginning of the 1937 campaign. NEAR MISS VAX JO. Sweden U'PI When Sweden's Dan Waern beat Brian Hewson of Britain in the 1,000 meter event in an international track meet here Sunday, v he missed by only one tenth of a second of tieing his own world record of 2:18.1. In other events, Ray Norton of Oakland, Calif., won the 100-meter dash. Jim Graham of Tulsa. Okla., the pole vault and Warren Crawley of Farmington, Mich., the 110-meter high hurdles. HOW! 1 THE FAKOUS" MICHELI1I STEEL-CORD "X Th Super Tira For European A American Cars At Your Local Recapping Headquarter TUHLEY S TTJIE SERVICE District Meet STEVE FEDOR PACES TEAM WITH 3 ' RECORDS Superior depth enabled Ikrmiston to retain its team title and La Grande nipped Pendleton at the close of the meet to take second plate in the Eastern Oregon Swimming and Diving Championships held at the Veterans Memorial Pool Saturday afternoon. Final team scores showed: Hermiston, 435; La Grande, 389: Pendleton. 382. The 50-i vent meet, watched by a fair-sized crowd throughout the five-hour u flair was closely contested throughout. Winner of the high point boy trophy was La Grande's Steve Kedor, who wen thro individual events and swam a leg on two winning relays. New district rec ords were set in every event in which Kedor participated. He scored 28 points. Winner of the girls' high po'" troghy was Pendleton's Ruth Horning, who scored two first and a second, swam on two first place relay teams and took second in the diving. Her point total was 31. Her relays set records. Of the 50 events, Hermiston scored first in 19. La Grandt, 17, and Pendleton, 14. A complete listing of La Grande performances in the vari ous events of Saturday's cham pionship swimming meet will be carried In tomorrow's sports page. Thirty siX 'new district records were set on the program, with La Crande leading the way with 14. Hermiston set 13 records and Pendleton, nine: Runnerup to Homing for girls' high point honors' was- teammate Mary Morgan, with 30. She took three firsts, swam on two winning relays and took a fifth In diving. Four records were set in her events. Third highest girl scorer was Hermiston's Jerri Jeppe, who took three firsts and swam on two win ning relays for the total o,' 28 points. Records were set in every one of the five events. La Grande's boys dominated the boys' events. Art Samson. Slew art Lundgrcn and Mike Cliallis tied with Hermiston's Billy Graham fur second place high.poiqt honors linqs United ris International Major League 'Santdints United Presar. International National League i W. CV f tt. CB I1 2't 9-4 San Francisco l.os Angeles Milwaukee ; Pittsburgh ' i Chicago St. Louis Cincinnati 63 47-.I7S K 49 ,5f9 9 48 ,531 55V4H6 12 ST .477 10t 53 60 .469 ll'i 51 58 4fi8 11 Mi 48 64 .407 17 Philadelphia Sunday's Results Phila. 8 St. Louis 3Ulst game) Phila. 4 St. Louis 2 (2nd game Pittsburgh 5 Chicago 3 10 inns. I San Fran. 4 Cinti. 3 HO innings) Milwaukee 8 Los Angeles 7 Saturday's Results Pittsburgh 4 Chicago 3 St. Louis 4 Philadelphia 3 St. Louis S Philadelphia 4 Cincinnati 9 San Francisco 6 l.os Angeles 4 Milwaukee 2 Pacific Coast League W. L. Pet. GB Portland 61 55 '.526 Salt Lake 61 57 .517 1 Sacramento 61 58 .513 l'i Vancouver 61 58 .513 It San Diego 60 60 .500 3 Phoenix 59 60 .496 3'i Spokane 58 62 .483 5 Seattle 53 64 .453 8' it SundayS Results Salt Lake 2 Vancouver 1 Portland 4 Phoenix 3 (1st 12 Ins.) Portland 4 Photnix 3 (2nd 7 ins.) Spokane 5 San Diego 4 (lst-7 ins.) San Diego 13 Spokane 2 (2nd) Seattle 10 Sacramento 8 Northwest League Standings - W. L. Pot. GB. Yakima 23 19 .560 Eugene 21 20 .512 l'l Lewiston 20 19 .512 VM Wenatchee 20 20 .500 2 Salem 19 20 .487 2'4 Trl-Cily 17 22 .435 4' Sunday's Games Yakima S B Eugene 0-1 Trl-City 7-8 Lewiston 8-1 Wenatchee 4-4 Salem 3-8 -, American League - . . - W. L. Pet. GB Chicago Cleveland New York Baltimore Detroit Kansas City Boston ' Washington' 66 41 .611 .Jl 64 46 .582 3 53 54 .505 ll'i 56 55 .505 114 54 58 .482 14 51 58 .473 IS 50 60 .455 17 44 68 .393 24 II with 20 each. Samson took Iwo firsts, one second and was on two winning relays, setting two records and helping to set two more. 1 Lundgren had a Meld day in his division maintaining his record of never having been beat en in his outdoor comp.titiv? swiming. He took three firsts, setting records in each, and swam anchor leg on two second place relay teams. Mike Challis took two firsts, one second and swam on two rec ord relays. II'.' set a record In ono event. Billy Graham took three firsts. one of them a record, and swam on two second p'ace relays. Several La Grande swimmers electrili'd the crowd with upset wins and near wins. In the 1314 girls 100 meter breaststroke Susan Fisk matched stroke for stroke with Pendleton's Virginia Morgan and Diane Alkio and Hermiston's Barbara Moore. First Moore dropped off the pace, then Alkio, leaving to Morgan and Fisk the battle fur first. In the stretch drive for the finish rope the superb conditioning of the Pendleton girl told and she won by two yards. In the 13-14 girls 100 nWor free style Judy Kain brought the stands to their feet when she took the lead from leaders Ruth Horning and Virginia Morgan, both of Pendleton, faltered and came on again only to lose out in the finishing drive to take third. It was only the second time she had swam the event this season. Lynn Challis upset favored Horn ing and Morgan to win tho 13-14 Kirls 50 rr. Ji'.r backstroke in a hot ly contested match. The winning 'margin was. two feet.-: Margaret Gregory, one day out Of bed after three days' confine ment with a severe cold, hung on tenaciously to take second to Pen dleton's Jean Fossatti in the 200 meter freestyle. Sha beat Becky Weissert of Pendleton, gaining re venge for her loss to Weissert two Weeks ago at Pendleton. Nine-year-old Karen Goss a new comer to th? team, scored an Upset in taking 'second in the 10 and under girls'; 25 yard breast strcke. ' ' '' Jennifer Smith won her, spe cially, the 100 meter backstroke, 15-16 girls, in handy fashion, took second to Mary Morgan in the in dividual m.dley and third in the 200 meter freestyle, as well as swimming legs on two second place relays. Bonnie Scott, La Grande's out standing diver who has not been defeated this season, won the girls' 1-meter board diving with out difficulty. She faces her sea son's biggest test Saturday at the Oregon AAU Championships at The Dalles. Laury Dodson, another 9-ycar-old, got off to a slow start but Came on with a rush to win th" backstroke and set a new record. Her brother. Tim. took an easy second place to teammate Steve Fedor in the breaststroke and a surprising third in the backstroke. ms4 41 Unitype & Belt-Drive AUTHORIZED DEALER INDUSTRIAL Machinery & Supply MlOAd'msPh. WO 3-4623 I J VTJ iskJa1 ""il Beavers Up Lead With Two Wins Uni'd Press International That's rot "Mandrake Ihe Ma gician'' manag'ng the league-lead ing Portland Beavers its roly- poly Thomas George Heath. Hea'h. h his eighth campaigi as a Pacific Coast laiiue man- anger, has a wide refutation for being able to nurse along second rate outlits and get them to fin ish higher tha.i they should. He's definitely adding to that "rep" this year. His Beavers, a slow running and not hard-hitting crew wiin med:ocre pitching and the lowest lidding average in th? league, increased their league lead Sunday night as they bopped Phoenix twice by identical 4-3 sco: es. The Beavers now hold a full game lead over Salt Lake City, which jiimiied into second place with a 2-1 win over Vaicouver. Seattle handed Sacramento its fourth straight setback by 10-8 in II innings. Spokane defeated San Diego 5-4 in the first game of a doubled'. ader and the Padres took the second, 13-2. Opener Goes Twelve The Beavers had to go 12 in nings in the first game before Jack Bloomfield singled home Jim Westlake with the winning tally. Ken Johnson, the Beavers' mound mainstay, was Credited with his 14th win against five los ses as he worked all the way, giving up just seven hits. Jim Greengrass socked a three run homer in the first inning for the other Portland tallies. The Beavers won the second game on a three run rally in the sixtii inning in which a double by Dave Melton scored two runs. Heath used three pitchers in the fray and Glenn McMinn got the win. A seventh inning double by shortstop Dick Barone gave Salt Lake its 2-1 win over Vancouver. Laurin Pepper went the route for the Bees, gave un five hits and Is now 9-9 on the season. Losing pitch er Wes Stock tossed a wild pitch to give the Bees their first run in the third inning. Joe Taylor homered for the Mounties. Catcher Cuno Barragan sparked Spokane to its first game win over San Diego. Barragan drove in a pair of runs and tallied the win ning run on an error in the sixth. Reliever Dave Patrick got the win. The Padres crashed 18 hits in the second game and hurler John ny Briggs had an easy time scor ing his 10th win asainst three los ses. , Rudy Rejjalodo's .second homer of the night, a two run job in tho 11th inning, gave Seattle its 10-8 win over Sacramento. Bill Ken nedy, who pitched the final four innings, got credit fo.- his seventh win against three losses. 0 krTKiZP?'' - - ---tl I 'Jeep' vehicles are completely engineered for 4-wheel drive, not just 2-wheel drive modifications or conversions. They go more places, do more jobs, cost less to own, have higher resale value! tOvtr Adams & Third East Team Checks I i .. . t in For Shrine Game Twenty-four brawny football players civ eked into Hunt Hall en the Eastern Oregon College campus yesterday and today began drills for Ihe eighth annual East West Shrine football game. The players posed lor photogra phers this morning, red and whit uniforms brilliant in the morning sun, and talked and joked about poses and the game in general. After the photographers were thrcugh, players donned their work clothes and drills b?gan in earnest. The two-a-day drills will continue through the week. Wed nesday and Friday the second practice will lie held under the lights. The team was official w.lcomed to La Grande and the campus at a dinner held last night. The Archie Moore, Challenger End Heavy Drills MONTREAL UPII World light-heavyweight champion Arch ie Moore and- challenger Yvon Durelle ended their stiff training schedules today and concentrated on light exercises, a good indica tion that both were in peak con dition for Wednesday night's 15 round title fight at the Montreal Forum.- With only 48 hours to go before the official weigh-in, both cham pion and contender confined themselves to light drills at the St. Jean Baptiste gym, the train ing headquarters shared by both. On Sunday, after Moore worked out lightly. Jack Kearns, Moore's manager, announced that Ageless Archie had completed his training for the title re-match. Since the champion often has been known to work hard until fight day it self, his decision to stop now in dicated peak condition and a weight hovering just around the 175 pound mark. Kearns told United Press Inter national Sunday night that Moore weighed "around 174 and we don't expect any trouble at the official weigh-in on Wednesday." Durelle, also appeared to be around the weight limit. The fighting iisherman from Baie Ste. Ann, N B , completed his training during the week end. and was scheduled for a light drill today and Tuesday. Durelle's manager, Chris Sha- ban. said his boy is in far better condition now than a few days before the Dec. 10 fight when he floored Moore four times before being stopped in the 11th round. There were about 7.1 per cent more full-tim: freshman students on the nation's college campuses during the 1958-'59 semester than there were the year before. CI i VEHICLES BY WILLYS MOTORS . . .WORLD'S LARGEST MANUFACTURER OF 4-WHEEL DRIVE VEHICLES - ...on of ttw inxrlm KAIJU Com in for a demonstration Fune-ln MAVERICK Son. Evening, 6:30 P.M. LOW COST AUTO La Granda, Oregon ' Ph. WO 3-3548 team was presented shirts, jackets and tickets to the game Aug. 23. Thomas Burke, father of th? B school classic, was tha Toast master. Dr. Frank Bennett told the beys that this is one of the mcst unique privileges they will have in their lifetime. He recognized the sacrifices that the boys h;d to make and told them they will make friends for lile. Dr. Bennett told the team that their visit to the hosoital will make them rea'izc what a contribution Ihey are making. Tilt- college president alst added that he would l,ke to see them all stay at EOC. The next two weeks of practice will weld you into a team with spirit Bennett continued. "May you bring home the covtt ed victory to Eastern Oregon." was Bennett's concluding line. Gordon Clarke welccnrd the team as the elected head of La Grande's city government and Oliver Reve, police chief, alsu welcomed the team. Other speakers att he dinner were Bob Quinn, athletic director at EOC, Bob Oesterling, publicity director and personnel manager. Hans Snodgrass, Wayno Ferguson. Clyde Hudson, Jim Eveson ard Shrine officials Irom eastern Oregon. The roast turk?y dinner was served by members of the Rain, bow girls. . Archie Dunsmoor o' EOC, who will serve as trainer for the East Squad, got a laugh from the boys when he mentioned they were tho biggest squad yet. He told the persons present that new. scales would be needed, the Uam had broken the old one weighing in. Archie's biggest problem for tho next two weeks will be taking care of the coaches. "I don't have to worry about th? ball club," Archie said. Head coach for the East squad will be AI Keck from Merrill. Milt Durand. Umatilla, and Ray Ker foot, Culver, will be the assistants. The squad: Backs: Gerald Carlson, Culver; Delbert Hall, Umatilla; John Has- kins, Merrill; Richard Larson, Sisters; Robert Lorencc, Umatilla; Gary Marr. Enterprise; Bud Mau- pin, Merrill; Charles Myers. Echo: William Ranson, Culver; Richard Ruhl, Heppner. Linemen: Robert Ball, Hunting ten; Carl Banker, Stanfield: Ellis Cheney, Elgin; Alonzo Elder. McEwen (Athena); Thomas Ellis. Bonanza; Frank Fruitts, Cove; Laddie Henderson, Lexington1;' David Hockett, Joseph; Lawrence Jackson, sacred Heart (Klamath Falls" : Clifford Johnson. Wallowa; Marc McGowan, Pilot Rock: Ron- i aid Robinson, Union; Charles Roller, Merrill and David Schreib er, Wasco County (Maupin. Mntrla Maverick Grabs Gold Cup Victory SEATTLE LTi Bill Stead, a bronco Dusun cuuie ranener from Iteao. Xev., rode herd on the time cluck to drive the -Maverick lo a record breaking win in the Gold Cup hydro-ilane race here Sunday. Maverick beat out Miss Thrift way, driven by steel-nerved Bill Muncey. to lilt the gaudy, ancient piece of hardware Irom Seattle in a slide-rule finish by 133 sec onds, figured on elaptt'd time (or the 90-mile run. A rhuijurb over u quesion of jumping the gun by another boat, a lavender lady known as Miss Spokuiie. held u;i the decision for riioie than two hours twice us loi,g us it took to i an tho race. Tape Viewed But after oltitials viewed video taped television 1:1ms of the start of the final heat. Maverick got the nod. Maverick, owned by millionaire William T. Waggoner of Arizona and Texas, flies the burgee of the Lake Mead Yacht Club. The Maverick set a record of 104. (2 mph in copping the trophy. Maverick didn't win the final heat but she racked up -1,32.1 limits to tie Miss Thrill way in that category. Elapsed time then figured in determining the winner just as it did last month when Maverick alM edged out the Thriftway int he Diamond Cup race Thrifty in the Diamond Cup race on I.ako Cocur D'Alene, Idaho. Crowd Huge A crowd estimated by police to be upwa:ds of 500.000 watched the, contest from the shore and from boats moored along the baekstretch. After an hour of haggling on the barge, the officials moved into a mobile trailer where they viewed the pictures of the start. Norm Evans, driver of Miss Spokane, admitted he had jumped the gun on seeing the pictures. The Thriftway officially placed second. Nitrogen of Washington, D.C., finished third with 714 points. W'ahoo of Seattle was fourth with 700 points. ENDS TONITE Adults, $1.00 Children, 25c ran 3 Now Thro Tues. 5 '.'I BORN 9 m i' HELL! ip - - THE FlREnflOHSTER'Ll T or THOUSND9i CAS Plus ITEEMAG'ESJS prom 0U7EI? SPACE I DAVE LOVE . DAWN ANDERSON I STARTS WED. It started where civilization stopped I sen II COLOR by I DtLUW niMTOf-rvaifiw C3W Wm-MMftU-IOffl CWUTjar. was inns-a win. i uw'iinn Cumin, Scope" Plo Susan Hayward 'Thunder in the sun" 1 ' 2a