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About La Grande observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1959-1968 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 25, 1959)
a I ' Obf rvr, i Grand, 0r practice opened La Grande Tigers ysterday with forty-four candidate! on hand to greet Mead Coach Franz llaun. The Tigers open th-ir nine game schedule against Union Sept. 11 ad coaches pushed th candidates through tough drills in prepara ition for the opener. ; La Grande swings into its first season of Jntermountsin league , play against Baker the following week. , ' Fourteen lettermen were on hand as' practice got underway at the high school Held yesterday morn . Ing. Heading the list of returnees were second string all-conference backs Don Smith and Dave Car man. '' : Other senior lettermen were Ray Westenskow. Jimmy Milliard and John De Boie returning In the backfield. Dale Peterson. Buck Corey. Ken Hildebrandt, Gary Miller, Ron Coleman and George Gil Hodaes Leads LA's '' Comeback (.,. . - United Prut International Gil Hodges is bashing that ball again, and this is one "nice guy'' who could make the Los Angeles 'finish first. - With husky Hodges out of the 'regular lineup from July 23 to Aug. 23 with a severe ankle sprain, the Dodgers dropped from 14 games back of league-leading San Francisco to 4' games be hind.' But the one-time hero of Brooklyn is back now, and the Dodgers are starting to move up ward. ' Hodges stole the show even ' (rem strikeout pitcher Sandy Kou fax Monday night When he drove in five runs to lead the Dodgers to an 8-2 win over the Philadel phia Phils. .i ' ' .- It was a mighty big win for the Bums, because it snapped a three-game losing streak that had imperiled their pennant hopes, it boosted them into second place ahead of the Milwaukee Braves, and it moved them within 34 games of the Giants. Friend Blanks Giants The stage was set for Los An geles to move up. when Bob friend of the Pittsburgh Pirates blanked the Giants. 6-0, on 12 hits and young Bob Anderson of the Chicago Cubs blanked the Braves, S-6, an six hits in the only other games played in the National League Monday. In the only American League games, the Chicago White Sox boosted their league lead over idle Cleveland to two games by beating the New York Yankees, 4-2. and the Baltimore Orioles crushed Detroit, 11-0. Hodges started the Dodgers on the road to victory when his bases-loaded single highlighted a four-run rally in the first inning against rookie Ed Keegan. He clinched the game in the second when he clouted a three-run hom er, his 20th, also off Keegan. Lefty Konfax funned 13 Phillies in gaining the win. Eleven Dodg ers also whiffed and that tied an other record the major league mark of 24 strikeouts by two teams in a nine-inning game. Outduels Burdette Friend fanned eight batters in beating the Giants nailing "phee nom" Willie McCovey three times, once with the bases load ed in the ninth. Rocky Nelson slammed two homers and a sin gle to lead the Pirates' 13 -hit at tack, with starter Sam Jones of the Giants suffering the loss. Anderson outdueled Lew Bur dette to beat the Rraves. George Altman scored the Cubs' first run in the first on Johnny Logan's er ror. Tony Taylor homered In the third, and Altman drove in the final run In the eighth with a sin gle. Jim Landls led the White Sox to victory with three singles, driv ing in two runs anil scoring a third. The win. credited to start er Rny Moore, gave the Sox a season edge over the Yankees for the first time in 34 years. Turk Lown pitched shutout relief for 3 1-J innings to save the win. Big Gus TTiandos of the Orioles staged the day's biggest hitting fpree, though. He drove in seven ims against Detroit with a grand-slam homer, a two-run hemer, and two singles. Knuckle bailer Hoyt Wilhclm. with four -hit work for eight innings, got ninth- Inning relief from Jack Fischer and his 13th win of the year. Don , Mossi was the loser. " Tigers Open Grid brills With 44 Plavers On Call OBSERVER Nell Andersen Tum., Aug. 25, 1959 Pag Parsons are the reluming linemen. Lonnie Myers and Don Graham, who lettered lust yvar as sopho mores were the on'y junior letter men on the squad. Myers, who suffirid a broken jaw last week, is expected lo rejoin the siiuad In about three weeks. - Vp from the JVs and expected to add strength to the squad were Gregg Blackman, Gary Voruz. Phil Gray. Dennis Spray, Gooch Whittemore and Eric Osterholm.' Non-lctterman senior Ted Wag ner, one of the two biggest men on the squad also was available. Only about 27 men turned up at yesterday morning's drill so llaun has, cut the drills to one-a-day. Practice will begin every night this wek at 6:30 and run to 11:30. Coaches pushed their charges through a night of heavy drills to get the boys in shape for the com ing season. Mnt of last night's work was spent on fundamental drills. Harry Mondalc, Jack Rainey and Haun spent most of their time setting assignments for the players as they ran through drills under the lights at the high school field. Haun plans to work most of the first week on defense. "We felt our defense was our weakest point last year so we are going to concentrate on that dur ing this preschool period," he said. Tonight the team will get its first taste of contact work. Near the end .of the session, Haun plans to work the gridders on team defense. The scrimmage scheduled for Friday night has been postponed until Saturday according to Haun. The conflict with the county fair will cost the t"am some key per sonnel and coaches decided to wait until either Saturday morning or afternoon to give the Tigers their first real test under fire. Haun singled out Westenskow, Whittemore and Milliard fur praise after last night's drill. There have been several changs in positions already this season. Haun hopes to find the 11 best footballers und fill in the posi tions for the coming year, Hildebrandt has made the switch from end to guard, Grahtm from guard to tackle. Parsons (mm cen-, ter to guard and Peterson from halfback lo end. -Peterson came up with a pinched nerve or muscle in the shoulder in lust night's practice but shruld bo ready for heavy duty action in a couple of days. Haun picked Pciidjetob and Prineville as the top teams in the league this year. He was re luctant to assign a finishing spot to the Tigers in their first year of competition in the new league. Along with La Grande, Pendle ton and Prineville, Baker. Hermis ton. The Dalles and Bend will be members of the new league. Haun, Mondalc, and Rainey will be joined by Curtis Cox on the La Grande coaching staff. Cox will help Monday with th line and also handle the JV squad. Cox comes to Ln Grande from Enimett. Idaho, where he coached lust year. Auburn Wins SACRAMENTO VPI - Au burn, Calif., defeated Alcoa of Vancouver, Wash., 11-3 Saturday to win the western I. Idle League baseball title. FINE KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON 1 1 ll'l I Nature's finest Bourbon Tnere is - IKE 010 HfJtMlTACE CO . lOUiSVIllC. , ' , ' - ' ' ' ' ' "" '.I''""'1 ' W -&'i41l I f ' w GETTING Suzy Michel, left,' ana her sister, Sammy, h.'lil three of the colts that the girls are tak ing tare of on their ranch northeast of La grande. The girls will have horses enter ed in the Union county fair that begins tomorrow as part of their 4-H project. The colts are named Kanian, Muqta and Ilouri. (Observer Photo) Rodeo Associafion's First Event Termed Satisfactory By Officials The Union County Rodeo Asso-lsuddlc bronc. He won the bull, in the calf roping with a time of cialion picked two cowboys as their unofficial top rodeo men iifl -r Sunday's one-day promotion1 ut Elgin Jim Beck, Imbler, and Bob Comforet of John Dav were named unofficially as the ull around cowboys of the UCRA's first promotion. Comforet finished third in bareback riding and second in Stock Car Destroyed At JC Oval One race car was destroyed but the driver escaped injury dur ing Sunday's stock car rac?s at the JC Speedway. Jerry Williums in car No. 2 rolled over on the first turn in the fourth heat and a car driven by Jim Ever's climbed right on top flattening Wil'iams' car. Williams was taken to the hospital for treat ment. Evers remained in the race and finished third. Dale Cole grabbed the trophy dash and the fourth head dash to pace Sunday's drivers. Jim Zanelli grabbed the A main and K Irion Dunn drove his way lo first place in the B main. Five cars were wrecked during the B event in another afternoon or thrills and chills at the local race course. The results: Trephy Dash 1. No. fit. Dale Cole; 2. No. 78, Lloyd Davis; 3, No. 01. Ken Hall. First Heat Race 1, No. 31'. Don Myers. Second Heat Race 1, No. 79, Art Heel. Third Heat Race 1, No. Mi, Hav Mohni. Fourth Heat Race 1, No. 01. Dale Coles. 4 'A' Main Race 1. No. 0, Jim Zanclli; 2. No. 61. Dale Cole; 3. No. 13. Ross Phillips. 'B'Main Race 1. No. 6C, Eldon Dunn: 2, No. 70. Art Reel; 3, No. XV, I.ronnrd Doyle. none Better! ' KY. DISTRIBUTED BY NAIIONAl DfSTILURS PRODUCTS COMPANY, K PROOf READY FOR first places. He won the bull riding ev nt and also the wild cow riding event Thirty-six entries from Ore ton, Washington, and Idaho com pcted for top spot in six events with only one cowboy from out side the Grande Rondo valley ;etting first place. Jud Baker of Caldwell, Idaho rode Little Silver to first- palce in the bareback event against the challenge of 13 other entries. Joe lleclitel of Elgin was the winner in the saddle bronc rid ing. Only two riders qualified in the irddle bronc event and Bcchtel on Red Gold eased past Comforet on a horse named Raunchy. In the bull riding event top spot went to Jim Heck with Bill Tsiatsos of La Grand 3 grabbing iecond spot. Jim Clemens of Baker finished third and Joe Salle of Elgin finished fourth in the event. Beck also got the wild cow win with Abe Wilson of Caldwell and lom Murrey of Long Creek splitting second and third hon ors in the fourth and fifth spot. T.siat.sos grabbed a first place Sports Shorts Barnard Loses ST. JOSEPH. Mo. (I PI 1 Bar nard Motors of Portland dropped out of the Connie Mack World Series after losing its second game, 4-2 to Hock Island, 111. Raet Won PORTLAND a'PH Dan Car nithers, 9, Anaheim, Calif., won the 35-lan class AA main event of the International Quurtcr-Midg-ct Racing Championships here Sunday. Entries came from 28 states and Canada. Cundaris Win PORTLAND il'PIi For the third time in the four-year history of the local Father-Son golf tour ney, Frank nnd Jerry Cundari won top honors Sunday. Jerry had a 72 and his father a 74. TEARS OLD 2 bmi THE FAIR 43:6. Roy Byron and Gary Gart tner, both of La Grinde finished second and third. Byron had a t'me of 56.4 while Gartcner's time was 1:02.6, Marion Stitzcl of Union was fourth in 1:19.2. Four teams competed in the cow milking contest with the win ners being Otis Payne and Marion Stitz -1 in a time of 38.2. In the bareback event Everett Ilammand of La ' Grande rode Baby Doll to a second placn fin ish. Bob Comforet stayed on Bob by Sox to finish third while Otis Payne of Union rode Movin' On to fourth. A Nampa, Idaho cowDoy, Tim Walker, rode Lucky Strike into fifth place. Frank Steinbeck said he was "well satisfied for the first show. The next one will be twice as big and four times as good." The UCRA is making plans to promote some rodeos in the Port lund area during the winter. The group is making plans to use some indoor arenas for rodeos in February and March of next year. Seven Persons CompleteSwim Safety School Seven persons recently com pleted a course in water safety instruction, under the auspices of the Red Cross, at the Veterans Memorial pool. Larry S.-acris. Dot Ann Anson, Robert A. Smith. James Holmes, Mrs. Claude Anson. Marilee Meppen and Mary Grant com pleted the course of instruction under Ed Stocking. Slocking is Pacific Area rep resentative of the Red Cross in San Francisco. During the instruction courses offered in swimming at the pool certificates have been issued to 30 beginning swimmers, 22 in termediate swimmers, eight jun ior life savers and six senior lifesavers. COMING WED. JAMES STEWART - In "BEND OF THE RIVER" plus GREGORY PECK "THE WORLD IN HIS ARMS" End Tonita "HELEN OF TROY" Ufigctte Bardot " Plus "Land Of The Pharaohs" NOW THRU THUR. ACADEMY AWARD WINNER SUSAN HAYWARD '1 WANT TO LIVE" Also " "PARADISE LAGOON" Bevos Drop Fifth Game Straight United Press International The Phoenix Giants of the Pacific Coast League came up with a pair of firsts Monday night recording their smallest ciowd of the season and first shutout at home since June, 1958 Salt Lake City's Jim Baumer and Ernie Frrficis were respon sible for the latter development. Baumer belted a pair of home runs one a bases-loaded shot and Francis twirled a five-hitter while leading the Bees to a 12-0 victory. The recent announcement of the transfer of the Giants' franch se to Tacoma and the continued apathy of Phoenix baseball fais must take the blame for the meager turnout of 3S5. It was the smallest attendance at Phoenix since the club entered the PCL in the spring of 1958. The victory kept the Bees a half game in front of second-place Vancouver in what has Hevelnw! into a two-team battle for lirst place. Vancouver defeated Port land, 7-1. in the only other game played, the rest of the league taking the night off. Phoenix now has been shut out seven times in its last 23 games, and has dropped 17 of its last 18 starts. Francis had little trouble with the Giant batters Monday night, striking out 10. Baumer drove in six runs with his pair of homers, and R. C. Stevens sent home two more with a round-tripper in the sixth. The loss went to starter Bud Watkins. the first of three Phoenix pitchers. In the Portland-V test, Erv Palica scattered six hits wnue picking up his 11th win of the season. The Mounties collected nine hits off a trio nt Pnriinn,i hurlers. icing the game with a mree-run Durst in the first. Jim Greengrass belted his 23rd home run of the season to score the only Portland tally. The loss was the slumping Beavers' fifth in -a row. dropping them four games off the pace. WINS CANADIAN TITLE VANCOUVER, B.C. 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