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S OBSERVE i . . I Neil Andrsn gfcrvr, L Grand, Ore., Frl., Aug. 21, 1959 Pag 2 Cast Team Slacks Drills; Game Captains Elected With onlv hour, remainim.' tin III game time the East Shrine team wag planning on taking it easy today., , , Players were given the morn ing off and a light practice was or. tap for this afternoon. The team will suit up and then work on. passing and running plays to May limber and sharp (or the con test tomorrow night. The team is scheduled to leave La Grande around 1 p.m. Satur day for the hour trip to Pendle ton. The team will rest during the afternoon while awaiting geme time. The game is scheduled to start MbUnties Cod Red Hot Seattle i United PrM International , Vancouver's Charley Metro is a man bent on winning the Pacific Coast League pennant aid he's not abov cleaning his bench of pitch ers in an effort to squeeze out a iclose one. ; , . ...... -Metro called on six mounclsmen In relatively low scoring game '.Thursday night as the Mount its cooled off the red-hot Seattle Hum lers, ,8-5. . ., , t The quick shuffle from the bull pen to the mound is nothing new for Metro, lie's beon known to .pull a pitcher for perspiring too much, j; . ) ,, Mauntiat Clot Cap , .The Mounlics' win Thursday 'night moved them a game behind league leading Pprtlard and a half a game behind second place Salt Luke. i Other action saw the Bees split ; a pair of 5-0 games with Sacra Imcnto Thursday niKht. San Diego clobbered hupless Phoenix. 9 0. in jth only other game, Portland was rained out in its game at Spo kane. ! Dick Luebke, the fourth Moun jtie pitcher who toiled for one ; third of an inning, got credit for .the victory. : . Vancouver jumped off to a 4 0 lead in the first inning with s : bases loaded triple by Kay Barker the big blow. Seattle battled back ;and in the seventh they went I ahead despite some big mound strategy by Metro.. I But Vancouver wrapped it up in the seventh on singles by Ron flansen and Jim Finigan along "with a triole by Wayne Causey Brigas Wins 11th " San Diego's John Briggs won his rilth game with a three-hitter as the Padres backed him with a Jo-hit barrage including a four-run flrst inning. It was the 14th loss "in a row by the Giants. ! Sacramento's Winston Brown rstopped Salt Lake on six hits in jhe nine-inning second game of -their dotiblcheader. Four of the "hits off Brown were by Jim Bau Jiner. f In the first game, Ernie Francis Jand Jim Umbricht combined to .limit the Solons to three hits. Francis, the starter and winner, !!had to retire after four and two thirds innings. He was hit on the pjlching arm by a line drive. , at 8 in the evenlt.g but pageant ;y will get underway 30 min utes earlier. A sellout crowd is expected to pack the Round-Up -.tadium for the eighth annual classic between all-star gridders from around the state. After yesterday morning's oractice session the East team (elected captains. Bud Maupin, a halfback from Merrill, and Bub Lorence, who will open ut fullback for East were selected to head the often sive unit. .. ,. , Gregg Johnson of Wallowa and Carl Banker of Stanfield will be the defensive co-captains. 1 Standings United Press International San Francisco Los Angeles Milwaukee Pittsburgh Chicago Cincinnati St. Louis Philadelphia National League W. L. Pet. GB 68 52 .567 .. 67 55 . 549 2 "84 56 .533 4 61 60 .504 7'j 58 61 .487 9 58 64 .475 11 57 67 .40 13 52 70 .426 17 Thursday's Results Pittsburgh S St. Louis 1 Phila. 8 Chicago 5 (1st, twilight) Chicago 6 Phila. 4 (nighti Los Angeles 8 Cincinnati 5 (night) San Fran. 5 Milwaukee 3 (night) American League - W. L. Pet. CB Chicago Cleveland New York Baltimore Detroit Kansas City Boston Washington 70 47 69 51 60 60 59 62 66 64 56 64 49 71 .598 . . .575 2 .500 ll'i .500 ll'i .488 13 .467 !5'i .467 154 .408 22'i Thursday's Results Baltimore 7 Chicago 6 Cleveland 6 Washington 1 Detroit 14 New York 2 Boston 11 Kansas City 10 . Pacific Caasf League W. L. Pet. CB Portland 67 60 .528 Salt Lake 68 62 .523 'i Vancouver 67 62 .519 1 San Diego 66 64 .508 2' Sacramento 65 65 .500 3'i Seattle 63 66 .488 5 Spokane 63 67 .485 5'j Phoenix 59 72 .450 10 Thursday's Results Salt Lake 5 Sacramento 0 1st game. 7 innings i Sacramento 5 Salt Lake 0 (2nd game) . Vancouver 6 Seattle 5 San Diego 9 Phoenix 0 Portland at Spokane, postponed. rain. r S-i-ji'JBJ1 rft;V I J'i He i tt . v I H v i - , -'a . 1'i.i.m . a '. Two Ladies To Vie For Cliib Championship The Country Club championship tournament wi'l be up for grcbs when present titleholder Anne Decker meets Maxinc DeVaney in a golf mitch over the local cours? later this week. Tho championship flight match between the two ladies will wind up the annual tourney. Champions in three other flights have already been crowned. The first flight championship was taken by Verla Gregory and Anna Mae Thibeau finished sec ond. First flight golfers were losers in the first round of cham pionship play, Frances McCall topped the sec ond flight golfers to capture top honors. Lydia McCanse finished second. Frances Karns walked off with 'three flight honors with Jean Istandley finishing second. Third ! flight competitors were first round losers in the second flight. Balls were awarded to the ladies Wednesday at the Club for accur acy during the previous weeks matches Group Plans Rodeo At Elgin Sunday ARCHIE SHOWS THEM HOW Archie Dunsmoor, left, trainer for the East Shrine team, shows student managers Ron Walk, center, anil Dave Wylde, both of La Grande, the proper method for tak ing care of the equipment. All three will hive their hands full tomorrow night when the East and West clash in the Round-Up stadium in Pendleton. Game time is 8 p.m. - Willie McCovey Newest 90-Day Wonder In , Giants Pennant Surge United Press International Some of those 90-day "wonders" in the Army were lulus, but even they couldn't keep up with Wil lie McCovey, who is leading the Giants to a pennant and bidding for the rookie of the year award within a brief span of 21 days. Since reporting to the Giants only three weeks nno, the amaz ing 21-ycar-old McCovey has fash ioned a fabulous .418 batting av erage. McCovey was doing business at the same old stand Thursday night when he drove in three ruts with three hits, including a two-run homer, that beat the Bravcc. 5-3. and preserved the Giants' two-game lead in the Na tional League race. There was some talk they might catch up" with Willie the "sec ond time around." Well, the Braves were seeing him for the second time and thoy had no more luck with him than they did the first time. Willie Mays also chipped in with three hits to help Sam Jones notch his 16th victory over War ren Spahn, who suffered his 13th loss. Dodgers Defeat Reds The second-place Dodgers de feated the Kcds. 8-5: the Pirates beat the Cardinals, 3-1, and the Cubs took the nightcap of a twi night twin-bill, 6-4, aft?r the Phil lies won tho opener, 8-5. Kd Bailey's passed ball on a two-out third strike to pitcher Danny McDevitt paved the way for a seven-run fifth inning that gave the Dodgers their victory over the Keds. Bob Friend struck out 11 mco and scattered nine hits in leading the Pirates to victory over the Cards. The victory was only the sixth for, Friend, who has lost 15. Pittsburgh got to loser Krnie Brog lio for a run in the fourth and added another pair in the fifth on Bob Skinner's single, Dick Groat's trij le and Bob Clemento's single. Gomel Gets Win Carl Sawatski drove in four runs with a homer and a double aid Wally Port contributed a two run homer in I'hiladelnhia's open ing game win over Chicago. Ru ben Gomez was the winner. In the nightcap, Bob Anderson won his 10th game with some fine re lief from Bill Henry, who gave up one hit and struck out six over the last four frames. Jim Mudcat Grant beat his Washington "cousins" for the 11th straight time in two seasons with out a loss while boosting Cleve land to within 24 games of the top. Grant limited the Senators to three hits in winning his eighth game six at the expense of Washington. Ed FitzGerald and Woodie Held each homered off Pedro Ramos, who lost his 15th game. Orioles Lick League-Leaders The Orioles worked over seven White Sox pitchers for 13 hits, including four by Billy Klaus, in licking the league - leaders. Hoyt Wilhelm pitched the first six in ntrgs to post his 12th victory. Hilly Locs hurled the last three. Chicago starter Barry Latman was the loser although Baltimore scored its last two runs off rookie Ken McBride. Bob Cerf slammed three hom ers and drove in six runs for the Athletics but the Bed Sox, still on the game. Trailing 7-5, Bos ton rallied for five runs oft loser Tom Sturdivant in the seventh and then added what proved to be the winning run in the eighth. TODAY & SAT. NATALIE WOOD KARL MALDEN "BOMBERS B-52" Plus "TARZAN'S FIGHT FOR LIFE" NOW THRU SAT. Not since "Wizard of Oz" such wondrous sigh til A u;. 4 Musical mXt Treatl 41 II JF SO MOM HUAM S!tl-llr-Tij.TWiii-NS Plus "WATUSI" Th? I'nion County Rodeo Asso ciation will sponsor a one day rodeo in Elgin Sunday. This will be the lirst event under the direc tion of the Union county group that was formed earlier this summer. There' wi'l be a complete pro gram of rodo events including bareback riding, saddle bronc riding, calf roping and cow and bull riding events. Stock for the rodeo which is scheduled to get underway at 2 p.m. will come from the ranches of Marion Stitzel, Union, and Mor ris Beck of Imbler. Stitzel is Senior Director cf th? Union county association. In addition to rodeo events, two clowns will perform for the crowd. Fra ik Steinbeck and Stai Morrison will provide the diversion and the comic relief for rodeo fans. There will also be two animal acts during the afternoon. Admission for the program is 25 cents for children under 12 and 75 cents for adults. A special bar gain "family ticket" will be sold. For $2 the entire family will be admitted on cno ticket. 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