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About La Grande observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1959-1968 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 17, 1959)
t ? i m f I C a t I Z i I s I I i t i I ! i r i II i t t li i i La Grande Swimmers Pace EQ Clubs In State Meet OBSERVER I Nail Andersen Observor, La Grande, Ore., Mon., Aug. 17, 1 959 Page 2 Gold-Blue Teams lie 114 In Scrimmage The QMii team tied (he Illue 1414 as the Kast team went through its first Kme scrimmage under ttiu light Friday night. The Colds took the ball on their own 20 yard line and march ed HO yards up the field with Bob Lorsnce, l.'malilla, (imiiK over from the two tto score. The Blue team came back to si-ore twice and take a 14 7 lead. The Blues started their drive up the field with a 30 yard pass to Dick Ruhl, lleppner. Ruhl scored a few minutes later on a 'short pass over the line. . Ruhl also scored the second pro Gridders Grab Last Second Wins United Press International That "sudden death" clussic the Baltimore Colts and New York Giants played last December ap parently was just a hint of thrills to come in the National Football League. NFL teams played four exhibi tions during the week end. Each was won by four points or less and each was decided in the final minutes. ven in steaming August weath er, these tight warmups remind ed pro football addicts of last Dec. 28. That was the day Balti more tied New York with seven seconds to go at Yankee Stadium and won the league title in over time, 23-17. in what some observ ers call the best football game ever played. In Saturday night's action, Walt Kowalczyk's 43-yard scoring dash in the final minutes gave the Philadelphia Eagles a 21-17 vic- lory over New York; Zeko firut kowski's 37-yard puss to Kick Ca-i sares with 41 seconds to go en abled the Chicago Bears to edjjo the Green Bay Packers, 19-16. and John Crow's 71 -yard run in the lost four minutes gave the Chicago Cardinals a 21-19 triumph over the Detroit Lions. Just 10 seconds remained when Sunday's only game was decided. Eddie LeBuron, the league's smallest quarterback at 165 pounds, directed .a drive that gave the Washington Kedskins a 24-20 lead with less than a minute to go. Y.A. Tittle, the bald-headed 32-year-old who runs the San Francisco Forty-Niner offense, then fired a 10-yarder to Clyde Conner with 10 seconds remaining for a 27-24 triumph. In the only other exhibitions matching NFL teams this sum mer, the Lions and Los Angeles Rams played a 20-20 tie while the Pittsburgh Steclers snapped a 20-20 tie. in tho final minutes to beat the Cleveland Browns, 34-20 Those first six exhibitions indi cate the league's 1959 division races will be as tight as new shoes. Blue touchdown on a pata. The Gold team marched back just before the scrimotage fin ished to push across another six noints and tie the game. John Huskins. Merrill, went 13 yards ijff tackle to score. I.orence, llaskins, and Bud Maupin, MerriU, were praised by Coach Al Keck fur their good of fensive showing. Keck comment ed that all the backs looked good and several backs considered as reserves were outstanding. A replacement for Bob Ball, Huntinyton. was called up by Keck.. Don Shaffer, Condon, a 100 pound halfback was named tn the squad. Ball strained an elbow during practice last week and will nut be ready in time, fpr the game. Line Coach Milt Durand was reluctant to pick out an outstand ing lineman in Friday's scrim riaiie. "There were no real outsand ing boys as in previous years. They all did a real good job during the scrimmage. The pur suit by linemen once they found the ball was very good," Durand said. Starting positions for the game are pretty well set according to Keck. The quarterback position that had given coaches trouble during last week's drill is shap ing up good. Deh Hall, Umatilla, and Bill Ransome, Culver, will probably go against the West in Saturday's game. In the line the battle for the center post is a toss ua between Lawrence Jackson, Klamath Falls, and Tom Ellis, Bonajia, Standings United Press International Major League Standings United i Press International National League W. L. Pet. 66 50 .569 6453if.H7 San Francisco Los Angeles Milwaukee Pittsburgh Chicago Cincinnati St. Louis Philadelphia 57 '58 .539 496 .4 56 62 .475 11 55- 4 V.462 12 49 68 .419 17'j Sunday's Results Phila. 8 Cincinnati 5 i.lstl Phila. 6 Cincinnati 0 2nd Pittsburgh 2 Milwaukee 1 (1st) Milwuukee 5 Pittsburgh 2 I2nd St. Louis 5 Los Angeles 3 Chicago S San Francisco 4 American League W. L. Pet. CB Chicago Cleveland Baltimore New York Detroit Kansas City Boston Washington 69 67 57 58 57 55 54 48 Sunday's Results Boston 6 New York 5 Lst New York 4 Boston 2 (2nd) Washington 6 Baltimore 1 Kansas City 7 Chicago 2 .605 ... .578 3 .496 ll'i .496 12' .487 IS'4 .470 lS'.a .462 16'l .410 22'i La Grande Swim Club swim r-ers and (livers scored 44 points 'jturday and Sunday at the Ore gon Open AAU Swimming and Diving Championships at The Dalles to lead all other Eastern Oregon swimming clubs at the btate's biggest competitive swim ming event. , An outstanding 1 performance was turned in by Stewait Lund grenn of the La Grande club. He tied a state record, look a second in another event and a race which saw a new mark es tablished. Lundgrea accounted lor 16 of the club's points. Bonnie Scott took third place in the women's diving lor the third cunsecutive year. The event, extremely close all the way, saw the first three place winners separated by only one point. Bonnie, who scored 139, lost out to Axlene McCloud of Seattle, 141, and Kathy New- berg, Tacoma, 140. Laury Dodson, backstroke spe cialist, took second in her event, 10 and under girls division, in the excellent time of 46.7. Steve Fedor, 13-14 division, chased Eugene Spence Alpert right down to the wire to take second in the 100 meter breast-stroke. The 13-14 boys 200 meter free style relay, team of Lundgren, Fedor, Mike Jones and Art Samson gave Mulnomah Athletic Club's relay team a battle all the way but was nipped at the touch by West Seattle V to lose out for second. Mike Challis, 15-16 division, barely squeezed into the finals ol the 100 meter freestyle with a 1:07.4, but in the finals pour ed it on to take third in the time of 1:04.9. Lundgren, undefeated in out door competition this season pri or to this weekend's meet, met his match in MAC's Pete Halli nan in the 50- meter freestyle. The little Portland speedster raced down the course in near record time with Lundgren just off his shoulder. Lundgren took a close second in tne last time of 31.2. his best of the year. In the backstroke Lundgren posted the second fastest time in the preliminaries, but in the fi nals he won by a yard in the record-tieing time of 38.2. The La Grande star wasn't give- en much of a chance to get in the trophy class in the breast time in the prelims, but in the finals he took ttnrd. in t phote finish in the time of 44.0. The winner set a new record. High winds and stiff board threw Bonnie Scott off ber cus tomary poise in the women's div ing and the La Grande lass lost out to two girls she defeated several weeks ago at Spokane. The biggest heartbreaker for La Grande was Art Samson's loss in the 100 meter freestyle, 13-14 boys. Samson went into the fin als with the third best time. Ten yards from the finish he was in third place but he lost bis usual strong drive to the wall and was nosed out. .He took fifth in the lime of 1:10.4 to score two point (or the team. Bevos Split Twin Bill ' With Bees United Press International Unless the: is a swift change of form, the winner of this year's Pacilic Coast League race will finish with the lowest winning percentage in the loop's 50-year history. Seattle grubbed the flag back in 1924 with a .545 murk, the low est to date. This season, Portland heuds the league with a .528 aver age with Vancouver and Salt Luke hot on the Beavers' trail with respective marks of .524 and .520. In U'lclition, this season's chase in which just about every team hus had a shot at the challenger's tole, may be the closest top to botlom finish in league annals. Only eight games separate the Beavers from the lust pluce Phoo nix Giunts. Beavers Split With Bees Sunday's actio l well-reflected the race's tightness. Portland and Salt Lake split a pair of cruciuls. The Beavers nipped the Bees in the opener, 6-5, and the Bees won the afterpiece, 4-3. Seattle had its 11 game win ning streak halted by San Diego, 2-0, in the first game of a twin bill but the Ruiniers grabbed the nightcap by an identical,. 2-0 score. Vancouver nipped Phoenix, 2-0, and Spokane beat Sacramen to, 11-10, with a barrage qf homers. Portland won the first game when Salt Lake reliefer Jim Um- bricht wild pitched Milt. Gruff home in the bottom of the ninth. The Bees hud bombed starter Marty Kutyna for five runs in the second inning but the Beavers tied it in the seventh. Jim Baumer tripled home the winning run in the top of the sev enth inning to give the Bees the nightcap. Stigman Pitches Three-Hitter San, Diego's hot and cold Dick Stigman pitched a humid three hitter . while stopping Seattle's shreak in the opener. It was his eighth win against 13 losses. He struck out six and walked three. In the second game. Bob Mabe out-dueled Bill Werle in a one hour and five minute affair. Mabe gave up (our hits and loser Werle allowed six. George Bamberger scattered six hits while pitching Vancouver to its win over the faltering Phoenix Giants. Pacific Coast League W. L. Pet. CB PorUand 66 59 .528 Voncouver 66 60 .524 Vi Salt Lake 66 61 .520 1 Sacramento . 63 64 .496 4 San Diego 63 64 .496 4 Spokane 63 65 .492 i'i Seattle 61 65 .484 54 Phoenix 59 69 .461 8'i Ernie Banks Leads Chicago To 5-4 Victory Over Giants United Press International The Chicago Cubs are banking on Ernie Bunks to achieve one ol the most unique three - ply feat in National League history. At the rate that he's been pounding the ball, Ernie could wind up the NL's biggest KU1 producer in 22 years, breuk his own homer record lor shortstops, and become the first man ever to win (he league's Most Valuable Player award two straight sea sons. All this and help the Cubs fin ish in the first division for the first time since 1946. Ignoring a bruised back. Bank; hit a two-run first-inning homer and Lee Walls followed with a three-run fourth-inning blast that gave the Cubs a 5-4 victory over the league-leading San Francisco Giants Sunday. The triumph pre vented the Giants from widening their J'j-game lead over the Los Angeles Dodgers and Rave the Cubs a 5-3 record against the league's three leading pennant contenders. Banks Swats JeHt Banks' blow, off lefty Johnny Antonclli. was his 36th of the year and raised his riuts-balted-in production to 112. Project that ever a 154-game schedule and the totals are 47 homers and ISO RBIs. ' ' Willowy Ernie sc4 the major league homer-hitting record for shortstops lust season with 47. While the Cubs were making the most of Bunks' hitting to move into a tie for fourth place with the Pittsburgh i'iiales, the threo lop contenders in the NL oil missed an opportunity, to gain ground. ' The St. Louis Cardinals sty mied the Dodgers' attempt to close in on the Giants by beating Los Angeles, 5-3; and 'the Mil waukee Braves could gain only a split of a double header , w ith the Pirates, winning the nightcap, 5-2, behind Warren Spahir' after drop ping the opener, Phila delphia Phils swept a twin bill from the Cincinnati ltoV 8 5 and 6-0. I ' . In the American League, the Chicago White Sox also lost a half-game of their lead by suc cumbing to the Kansas City Ath letics. 7-2. The runner-up Cleve land Indians were ruined out aft er taking a 5-0 first-inning lead over the Detroit Tigers. The New York Yankees divided a double header with the Boston Red Sox. losing the opener. 6 5. and then winning the second game, 4-2. The .Washington Senators defeat ed the Baltimore Orioles, 6-1. Spahn, bidding fur his 10th 20- victory season,, ran his record to 16-11 with an eight-hit nightcap victory over Pittsburgh. Dick Stuart's 400-foot-plus homer drove in the two runs for Pittsburgh's opening game triumph against Juan Pizu,rro. , Rookie Gene Oliver drove in three St. Louis runs and Bill White hit a homer to sink Roger Craig and the Dodgers. . Gus Bell hit two first game homers for Cincinnati, but the Phila exploded for a six run sixth - inning rally to win the opening game for Robin Roberts. Don CardweU'a six hit shutout pitching in the nightcap complet ed the Phils' sweep. In the . A's victory over the White Sox, Preston Ward, Bob Cerv and Russ Snyder hit home runs to make Ned Carver an easy nine-hit winner. Mickey Mantle's 24th homer sent the Yankees off to a second game victory that snapped a five game losing streak. Mantle also hit a first-game homer, but a six-run second - inning outburst clinched the Boston victory. Three Baltimore errors gave the Senators five unearned runs that sent young ' Jerry Walker down to defeat. Elgin Little Leaguers Bop LaGfdrfde 9-2 ELGIN (Special Elgin's Pec Wee All-Stars scored eight runs in the third inning to down La Grande 9-2 under the lights at Elgin Thursday. Bill Hays pitched the victory for Elgin blanking La Grande until the fourth inning and al lowing only two hits. Billy Spence got the loss for La Grande. Bill Whittemore and Herkie Maldonado doubled for La Grande's only hits. Bryan lead the big eight run uprising for Elgin with a pair of singles in the third. The Union team, sponsored by the Western Stud Mill, captured the pee wee league title in the Elgin league. Chevron was sec- ind and the Fire Department third. In the little league, VFW ;rabbed top spot with Bob's Jrocery second and . Snyder's cafe third. The little leaguers wound up the season Friday night with a watermelon feed on the city hall awn. ALL NEW: HO ME LITE DIRECT. 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