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About La Grande observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1959-1968 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 1959)
I Ntli Anderseni ObMrwr, La Grande, Ore., Mewcombe Tops Giants; LA Wins United Prtts International Although they now wear "San Francisco'' across the front of their uniforms, the Giants are still the blankety-blank Giants to big Duo Newcombe. And because of this, hatred for Bill , Kigney's crew, which joes buck to his glory days in Brook lyn, the big Cincinnati rifcht band er indirectly u helping his old Dodger teammates in their bid to Donations Asked For Swim Trip A drive to raise $300 to send three members of the La Grande Swim Club to the Far Western Swimming and Diving champion ships has gotten underway. Ken Goss is heading the drive to send diver Bonnie Scott and swimmers Steve Fedor and Stew art Lundgren to San Francisco's Fleishhacker pool to compete against 2400 participants fiom the 12 western states. Bonnie Scott is winner of the Washington State AAU diving championship, both women's and girl's. She also captured the senior and junior women's diving title in the Spokane Chronicle meet. She has finished third three seasons running in the Oregon State AAU swim meet. Stewart Lundgren, a 12-year-old in his first season of competition, has set district records in three events. He holds the Veteran's Me morial pool record in four events. Last weekend at the Oregon State AAU meet, h? tied a state record In the 50-meter backstroke. He a'so picked up a second and a third in the meet at The Dalles. ' Steve Fedor, 14 years-old, was last years 100-m?ter breaststroke champion in his age group. He finished second in this years meet. Fedor set district records In the three, events he competed in at the pool a couple of weeks ago. He also set pool records in three events. Fedor also picked up the High Point boys trophy in the district meet. Persons interested in helping send these representatives of La Grande are asked to mail their checks of money orders to Ken Goss, Box 609 or bring them to the Goss Motor Co. office. The Youth Activities program can't aid in sending the three swimmers to the meet. The money in YA is used to benefit all La Grande's children and officials fell this was not the case when it in volved only three children. . The three swimmers will leave La Grand o Tuesday morning under the supervision of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Lundgren. The money will be used to pay the room and board of the swimmers and to help de fray automobila costs for the Lundgrens. They are scheduled to arrive in San Francisco Thursday in time to give the competitors a chance to work out in the pool. The pool is heated salt' water and it will be !'.fv Webb Pierce 1. : I v:.- Dance at Armory at 9:30 P.M. tame date, with Judy Lynn and her band. Adult $1.50 Webb Pierce IHcca Recordings Jimmy Newman MUM Recordings Smokey Pleacher Comedian Don Slayman Jackie Moffitt Don Sponsored by La Grande Jayteet. Tickets are available at Birnies, Orhm$, KLBM, the Chamber of Commerce and thru local Jaycee members. , , OBSERVER Wed., Aug. 19, 1959 Page 2 catch the Giants in the current National League pennant cbase. Newcombe, backed up by a 15 hit Cincinnati attack, turned in a 7-0 shutout victory over Sao Fran cisco Tuesday night while the Dodgers pulled to within two ga r.es of the pace-setters by out lusting the Milwaukee Braves, 7-0, in a 13 inning, 4'i hour marothon. Repulikl Raps Spahn The Dodgers scored their win ning run against the Braves on a triple by Wally Moon and Rip Repulski's single off ace Warren Spahn. the seventh Milwaukee pitcher. Spahn, who entered the game in the 11th inning, now has an 0-5 record against Los Angeles this season. - , In the only other Nl. actioi, the Philadelphia Phillies downed the St. Louis Cardinals, 11, on a run-scoring single by Richie Ash burn in the seventh inning. It was Ashburn's first RBI since July 30. The Chicago While Sox opened a i'i game lead over Cleveland in the American League race by edging the Baltimore Orioles, (-4, while the Washington Senators handed the Indians their fotirth straight defeat, 11-4. The New York Yankees turned back the Detroit Tigers, 5-3, and the Bos ton Ked Sox nipped the Kansas City Athletics, 5-4. j Fox Paces Sox A two-run double by Nellie Fox in the eighth inning carried the White Sox to their comeback vic tory over the Orioles. Baltimore chased Early Wynn in opening a 4-2 lead in the fifth inning but Gerry Staley took over in the sev enth and pitched one-hit shutout ball. The Senators staged a six-run rally in the sixth inning, featuring homers by Roy Sievers and Len nie Green, in downing the skid ding Indians. Home runs by Yogi Berra and Hector Lopez enabled the Yan kees to get an early 5-0 jump on their longtime nemesis, Don Mos si, who abC"bed his seventh de feat against 11 victories. UO Coach Joins Pupils In Chicago CHICAGO (UPIi Bill Bower man, University of Oregon track coach, arrived here Tuesday to start work as assistant coach for the U.S. squad in, the Pan-American games to be held later this month. Four present or former Oregon track stars are on the squad. They include distance runners Jim Grelle, Dyrol Burleson and Bill Dellinger and decathlon ace Dave Kdstrom. the trie's first experience under these conditions. Bonnie Scott will compete in both the girl's and women's one meter diving contests. Fedor wi'l compete in the 13 14 boys 100 meter breaststroke and butterfly. Lundgren will try his luck in the 50-meter freestyle, breaststroke, butterfly and backstroke. The trio will be in competition Friday and Saturday and will start the return trip to La Grande Sunday morning. GRAND OLE OPRY . Direct from Nashville, ' Tenn. Mammoth stage 'performance. La j Grande Hi - Auditorium . . Sat., Sept. 5, 7:30 P. ' ' M. Adults $1.50; Child J r en 6-12 $1.00. Judy Lynn Champ Yodrler - Pat Kelly Jubilee Artist ' -Joel Price Emcee Leon Richardson Howard White Windle 7 VJ ,-',-. r 11 J, "U '4.-y?''if,i-. . FACE WEST ALL-STARS SATURDAY Ron Robinson of Union and Gregg Johnson of Wallowa are two of the linemen scheduled to face the West in the annual Shrine folball game in Pendleton Satur day night. Both boys are playing good bail during practice sessioas. this week. . (Observer Photo) RAIN, WIND HAMPER SHRINE DRILLS; SCRIMMAGE TONIGHT Cold rain and a penetrating wind swept down out of the , Blue Mis. this morning and dam pened more than the spirits of the East Shrine team. Wet, slippery footing and rain- soaked footballs hampered the yridders as they worked out this morning. The quarterbacks worked on passing during the first 15 minutes of practice in ease tne ram continues tnrougn Saturday. Work on kickoffs and kickoff returns were also on the agenda for this morninii's practice. A full scrimmage was on tap for the Shriners tonight but coach Al Keck cast a worried eye Champ Feels He's Free Of Return Bout GOTEBORG, Sweden UTI' Ingemar Johansson believes the uou eastern brook trout. Louking suspension of the proinolor's li- ;,!ass lake, in the Ka?le Creek cense' of Mosensohn Kuterprises country, was stocked with 30.00C Inc. in Mew York frees him from d nhotan cutthroats and Bear his return bout contract with Floyd Patterson, so now "all new offers are welcome." Johansson, who leaves today j for Copenhagen for an exhibition said, "1 understand it will mean I am released from my contract and the return fight. "But." he added, "that doesn't mean I dou't want to give Floyd a new match. He would get a fair chance to regain the title, but first we have to wait until the ne gotiations are oer." The champion actually began training Monday but he believes; it now is impoM.ible to hold a1 return bout with Patterson on Sept. 22 as originally planned by Bill Itosensoht, former head ofjed to Rock Creek Reservoir, in Kosensohn enterprises. the Elkhorn Mountains, in an at "All new offers arc welcome," tempt to add another species and said Johansson, "and I've gotten several lately." One Beam family for six generations. ..One Kentucky formula for 164 years! What makes Beam bourbon taste so good? More than anything it is the fact that today, as for 1G4 years, it is still tho Heams who mnke BEAM, under tho same formula, in the same Kentucky rount ry where bourbon was born. That i why you can always buy Beam bourbon withtrut. 3pT. QT. KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY 86 PROOf DISTILLED AND BOTTLED BY THE JAMES 8. BEAM DISTILLING CO, CLERMONT, KY. on the leaden skies and said that if the weather doesn't improve they will fluid the scrimmage un it:! Thursday afternoon. Keck and assistant coaches Milt I Hi ran and Jtay Kerfoot Fish Stocked In High Lakes Of NE Oregon The Game Commission an nounced the release of 250,000, small trout in northeast Oregon lakes today. These fish have been Down into several high lakes during the last two weeks and re liiisrd from airplanes. Minor lake received an ex perimental plant of 20,000 rain ouw; Frances lake received 20, 'HJO eastern brook trc.ul and 19, x;0 Lahontan Basin cutthroat. Duck lake and Rock , Creek reservoir have each received 20,- lake was stocked with 10,000 more of this type of fish. Larger rainbow fingcrlings have been trucked into Twin and Fish lake, of the Pine Creek country, and Olive Lake on the North Folk of the John Day river. Twin Lake received 10, 000; Fish Lake, 16,000; and Olive Lake, 1C5.0O0. The rainbow release in Mirror Like was made to determine if t'iese fish would exceed the size uf the eastern brook trout and therebv provide a larger fish along with the excellent brook mint angling in tne hr-'h lake ba j sin. Eastern brook trout were add- improve the angling in this wat er. Bourbon BEAM 3 J'ri jsuw'ji j y ! - FT.n V II f - i I jT Ifr IT" XJ I t 9 ' .-. .J 5j 'T-fc f r'' "53 ,VT:r"V TJ! J- . , -j 1 agreed that the team looked bet ter in yesreroay's practice than they did Monday. The effects of the trip to Portland over the weekend were taken care of with some good hard contact work. The coaching staff has been v.orkipg the team on defense through the first part of the week and, will continue to place empha sis on the defensive unit in an attempt to hold a potent West attack. The West unit has a hard run ning attack headed by sprinter riMvlr. Urnncnm if F-wlrcnntMllo Robert Pcnn,.i , ,on Dounri bick from Mapleton gives the West a good threat up the mid dle and coaches were hoping the Kast's weight advantage would be able to contain the running at tack. Gregg Johnson of Wallowa and Charles Myers of Echo are bear ing the brunt of the defensive- work at the linebacker spot for the Kast. Marc McGowan. Pilot Rock, Dave Hockelt, Joseph, Bud Maupin from Klamath Falls and Bob Lorcn.ee, Umatilla are the Kajfs hogw at ends to contain the fleet footed Bransom. The East is scheduled to work on pass defense during the week also. Gerry Westernolf from Knappa and Larry Scits from Al- sta give the West quarterbacks a pair of glue fingered targets. THE GREAT BIG MOVIE ABOUT A GREAT LITTLE ADVENTURER! f-MGMms I f-4Y Productx 'KV" ft Iv ' i ii M ' hst Tamijlyn Km Young Terry-Thomas Pel Sellers Jessie Uatlhews June Thorbum Bernard Bi!6S mm PuppelooM . SlM Cittern mn,ijfiu l ban t ) im. 04 fa u Sunn & s ra l in Sfm Ima In Itm CmI I Su! flM tM M Caoti PS MTKMOuwmium wul PLUS TONITE BUCK NITE 1.00 Per Car Rainier Pitcher Throws No By DON BECKER United Press International The .Seattle Kainiers continue to be the hottest thing in the Pacific Coast Loae:ie and it's huviptf a str&npn pfft iniun the for exainpl. Mark Freemai, a giant of a pitcher with u i almost equally largo- earned run averags iucu u jiu-run, no iuuci luesuuy mum as me nauneis FeatherTitle Bout On TV LOS ANGELES HJPD Da- Moore, holder of the world leatiierwelght boxing crown for four months, gives Hogai i Bassey a chance to regain title tonight in a scheduled 15 rounder at Olympic Audi torium. . ' . . The 25 year old titleholder known as the Springfield rille be cause of his hometown in Ohio a .d his sharp punching, stopped Bassey in 13 rounds here at the Olympic last March 18 to take the c-iown which the Africa l had helc since June ot 19.17. Bassey, pnd of the British Empire's Nigeria became champion when he beat Chcrif Hamia of France in a elimination contest. Tonight's return match will be televised nationally beginning al 10 p.m. e.d.U with, southern Cali fornia blacked out. Matchmaker George Parnassus predicted a crowd of 7,500 at the Olympic with a : gross gate of around $50,000. Tickets were scalered from $5 in the gallery to $25 at ringside. . Both tiny battlers were in line to pick up considerable loose change. Each will receive 30 per cent of the net gate and 30 per cent of the TV and radio money $40,000. Moore was rated an 8-5 favor ite to hold on to his title with odds lengthening to 2 1 in some quarters. On the record there was little to choose between the two except that .Moore appeared to have gained a lot of confidence by his win ov er the ex - champion and was reported in top physical shape. In 12 professional bouts, Moore, a member of the 1H52 Olympic team, has scored 36 victories against 5 defeats and one draw. He has never been stopped. He has kayoed 16 opponents, special izing in a left hook. Bassey, 27, has had 63 profes sional fights with 54 wins, 11 losses, and one draw. The Nige rian who now makes his home in Liverpool. England, has been stopped three times, twice be cause of cuts. Cuts were the rea son Bassey lost to Moore in the March bout. Blood was streaming into both eyes when the fight was halted in tne 13th. STARTING TODAY GtORGE MONTGOMERY TUNA ELS DAVID FARMR TECHNICOLOR ON THE SCREEN MICKIT I Plus "THE RESTLESS YEARS" - No Game defeated Vancouver. It was Seat tle's 131b victory in its lust 14 games. The Suds are now only four and a half games behind league-leading Portland, but because of the tightness of the I'CL race, they're still in seventh place. Git its Drop 12th Straight Phoenix, the coldest Learn in the league, lost its 12th straight de cision by falling to San Diego, 6-3. Freeman, a 6-6 righthander, struck out 12 batters in his sur prisingly good show. He is now 9-8 on the season. Freeman walked two in the second inning a'ld that constituted the oaly Mounts threat. The only other Vancouver base runner was Jim Finigan, who was safe o.i an error in the sixth. Sacs-Bees Rained Out Rain washed out Sacramento's contest at Salt Lake in the fourth inning in the only other gam? scheduled Tuesday night. Portland opens a series at Spo kane tonight. The Beavers hold first place by one percentage point over Salt Lake City.' Seattle s winning run came in 'he second inning on a single by Hal Bevan, a double by Carroll Hardy and a ground-out by Rudy Segalado. The Rainiers added two insurance runs in the seve.ith on a walk to Regalado, a sacrifice by Harry Malniberg, a single by Freeman and a Mountie error. Bill Wilson slammed his 21st homer of the season for Phoenix but that was the only bright spot in the Giant picture. Bud Podbie- lan worked the first six innings to get the win while the loss, went to Curt Barclay. The Padres rapped out 14 hits in scoring tneir six tallies. BRENNAN TO AIR SPORTS CHICAGO UPI Terry Bren nan, former Notre Dame football coach, will assist Jack Hritkliouse in announcing WGX's college foot ball series each Saturday this full. BACK-TO-SCHCOL "Naturals" New, Fall and Wittier Sweaters Jcintzen and Lord Jeff STYLES Get ready now for a big sweater year! Many Colors 7 95 op & Combinations CARDIGANS J PULLOVERS i You'll Find Everything For Your New BACK-TO-SCHOOL WARDROBE IN BOYS SHOP ON THE MEZZANINE Phoenix To Move Club To Tacoma PHOENIX. Ariz.' 'UPH-Phoe-nix. considered ideal for the train, ing purposes of the San Francisco Giunts. proved literally "too hot" for the Pacific Coast League to day prompting a retreat to the cooler climate of Taeomu. Wash. General Manager Rosy Ryai of the l'CL Gia.its, principal farm club of San Francisco, announced the tea.n's fraichi.se would be shifted to Toma next year be cause of poor attendance here Ryan expressed regret at leav ing Phoenix. "We like it here aid like the people," he said. "It's just a question of busi ness," he explained. "We can't afford to lose $140,000 to $150,000 a year." 81a. ne Heat He blamed 100-degree plus desert heat for poor crowds, with the Giants expected to do no better than 80,000 this year. The same south Phoenix park, handled 100,000 or more for a first division Class C league club in past years. While Phoenix has contemplated building a bigger and better park in the more centrally-located north east part of the city, nothing has been done in the two years the Giants played here. And even promises didn't make up for complaints from other PCL owners that they could not pay hotel bills out of income from games in Phoenix. 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