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i. 3 tf.w White Sox Pirates Challenge Those jo-go White Sox can go head and print their World Serie tickets but they'd better leave a blank space (or the name Of their opponents because it could easily be the supposedly long-gone Pirates. " The Inspired White Sox really did Job on the Indians in all but wrapping up their first Amer ican League pennant since 1910. " A Lopez' speedy crew took a P r. tHttrvr, l Grande Orr, Mon Aug. 31, 1959 Pago 2 LA GRANDE ARCHERS SECOND IN TOURNEY More than 30 archers partici pated m I brnndhead tourna ment at the Grande Hondo Arch try range yesterday. The tourna ment sponsored by the Eastern Oregon Archery Association was held a a prelude to the arrow hunting season which begin Sat urday. ' Dareld Stainke of Vale took first place in the Men's division with 65 points out of a possible Blue Mountain Masterminds Plan Meeting The' Blue Mountain Master minds Gridiron Club will hold their first fall meeting in the Racajawea Coffee Shop at 7 Tuesday morning. ' The club promotes Ij Grande high school and Eastern Oregon college football and holds an an nual banquet at the end of the season in honor of the players and the coaching staff. ' - The meetings are held in arm chair quarterback fashion to re nl nrevious lames and to look Into the future on upcoming games. We need large turnout at the Masterminds and above all . larger turnouts at the games both home and away stated Ash Mousel, club president. Standings United Press International National League W.L.Pet. GB San Francisco Los Angeles . Milwaukee Pittsburgh Chicago Cincinnati St. Louis 73 57 .562 ... 71 59 .546 2 70 60 .538 3 70 62 .530 4 62 67 .481 10', 62 68 .481 10'i 61 72 .459 13' 54 79 .406 20's Philadelphia Sunday's Results Pittsburgh 2 Philadelphia 1 1st Pittsburgh 7 Philadelphia 6 2nd 10 innings. Chicago 6 Milwaukee 2 Cincinnati 6 St. Louis 4 Los Angeles 7 San Francisco 6 Saturday's Results Pittsburgh 11 Philadelphia 1 Milwaukee 11 Chicago 4 St. Louis 7 Cincinnati 3 0n1y games scheduled" American League W. L. Pet. GB Chicago Cleveland Detroit New York Baltimore Boston Kansas City 80 49 .620 75 55 .577 S'i 65 65 .500 1ft' j 64 66 .492 16'i 61 66 .480 18 61 69 .469 194 59 70 .457 21 52 77 .403 28 Washington Sunday's Results Chicago 6 Cleveland 3 1st Chicago 9 Cleveland 4 2nd Washington 3 New York 1 Boston 3 Baltimore 0 Detroit 4 Kansas City 0 Saturday's Rasults Chicago 2 Cleveland 0 New York 8 Washington S Boston 4 Baltimore 1 Detroit 9 Kansas City 3 Pacific Coast League W. L. Pet. GB Salt Lake 75 65 .536 Vancouver 75 65 .536 San Diego 72 68 .514 3 Spokane 71 '70 .504 4'i Portland 69 70 .4') 34 Sacramento 63 71 .489 6Mi Seattle 67 72 .482 74 Phoenix 62 78 .443 134 Sunday's Results San Diego 7 Salt Lake lst San Diego 6 Salt l-ake 2 i2nd-7 In' Spokane 6 Vancouver 2 1st Vancouver I Spokane 3 t2nd Portland S Seattle 4 Unit . Seattle 5 Portland 2 2nd-7 in Sacramento 4 Phoenix 1 Northwest League Standings W L. Pet. GB. Wenatchoe 34 26 .566 Lewiston 31 .816 3 Yakima So 31 .491 44 Eugme 31 S3 .484 4'i Salem .475 14 Trl-Clty " M .478 34 Sunday's Result Wenatchee 4-1 Salenl 1-0 F.ngene tl Lewiston i-3 Tri-City 11 Yakima 7 Whip Cleveland doubleheader from the Tribe Sun day. 6-3 and 9-4. before 66.588 at Cleveland to sweep a four-game "show down series" and lengthen their lead to 5'j games longest of the season. The White Sox never Had It so good. If they win only 13 of their remaining 25 games, the second- place Indians still would have to win 19 of their last 24 to over take them. The Pirates aren't in such good OBSERVER Neil Andrtn 100. Pana Smith of Pendleton was first in the Women's division with 37 points and Jim Cartright of Baker won the Jr. Boy's di vision with 42 counters. Fifty targets were set up on l lie course and hunters moved through the woods on the range to fire at the targets. A small circle indicating the heart count ed two points and a hit any place on the target was worth a single point. ' 1 Hunters were required to fire from behind shooting stakes and only one shot at each target was allowed. Second place in the Men's class went to Tom Stabb of Baker with 61 points. Third spot was grabbed by La Grande archer Gene Erwin. Erwin also had 61 points but Staab had more heart shots to break the tie. Sherry Cottom of La Grande finished one point behind Smith in the Women s class with .36 points. Irma Lee Lowthan of Her miston was third with 35 mark ers. Tom Weir of La Grande was second in the Jr. Boy's class with 25 points. .Gerald Rimby won a special merchandise prize tor hittiing a moving target and Sherry Cot tom won the women's priie. Trophys for the champions were handmade of wood by Lloyd thristensoru of Pendleton. Bow Hunters To Start Big Game Season Archery enthusiasts throughout the state will start throwing ar rows at big game animals Sep tember 5 with the opening of eight hunting areas set up spe cifically for early hunting with bow and arrow. These include the Baker, Starkey, Keating. Wx'co. and Deschutes units and Mt. Emily, Canyon Creek, and Keno areas. The season will ex tend through September 27 in all the above archery areas except Canyon Creek where the season will extend through October 25. The Keno area is established for deer hunting only. In all the other areas mentioned archers have the privilege of trying for both deer and elk. Archers have the opportunity of expanding their operation with the opening of the Hart Mountain area on September 12 through 20 and the Malheur Refuge on Sep tember 19 and 20. Late season hunts for archers include ' the McDonald Forest area, October 3 and 4; the Lost Creek area, Oc tober 3 through 16; and the Rogue River area, December 5 through 20. All areas are open to hunting with long bow and broad head ar rows only. For deer hunting the how requirement is not less than 40 pounds pull at the, normal draw and arrow length of the hunter or one that is capable of casting an arrow at least 150 yards at the normal draw length. For elk the bow requirement is not less than SO pounds pull at the normal draw and arrow length of the1 hunter.'' All arrows must be at least one ounce for deer and not less than 500 grains for elk. Arrows must be not less than inch wide and sharp. AMERICANS WHIP AUSSIES THE HAGUE. Holland t-ll'P" Tony Trahert of Cincinnati and Pancho Segura of Los Angelas scored victories Sunday over Aus tralian opponents in Jack Kra mer's professional tennis tourna ment here. Tralert beat w lnwid. 61. 6-4. and Segura downed Ashley Cooper. 6-3, 6-1. BUILDERS HARDWARE Modern and Traditional Design Miller' Cabl.M Shot Greenwood and Jilttrwn Leaders shape, of course, but they a'en'l exactly complaining. They made it nine out of their last 10 by sweeping a twin-bill from the Phillies, 2-1 and 7-6 in 10 innings, with little Roy Face fashioning his 17th victory of the season without a defeat in the nightcap Pirates Climb By taking two from the Phils, the Pirates climbed to within four games of the first-place Giants, who dropped a 7-6 decision to the Dodgers. The Cubs beat the Braves, 62, and the Reds defeat ed the Cardinals, 6-4. Among the "also rans" in the AL. the Tigers look over third place with a 4-0 victory over the Athletics; the Senators topped the Yankees, 3-1, and the Red Sox blanked the Orioles. 3-0. The White Sox won their open er from the Indians with a five run sixth-inning rally that Furl) Wynn launched with a home run. Wynn, who needed Gerry Stalcy's help in the eighth, won his 17th of the season and 266th of his ca reer, tying him with Bob Feller and Eppa Rixey for total major league victories. Ba-ry Latman won his e'ghth game in the nightcap although he gave way to Turk Lown in the sixth. Before departing, I. at nun yielded Colavito's 39th homer with two on and Woodie Iteld's 2Kb homer with the bases emty. Face Gets Lucky Face, who now has won 22 straight over two seasons, got away a bit lucky in Pittsburgh's second game win over Philadel ohia. Ed Bouchee homered off Face in the top of the 10th to put the Phils ahead, 6-5, but Dick Stuart doubled home two runs off Dick Farrell in the bottom of the 10th. Stuart also hit a pinch hom er, his 21st, in the ninth. Bob Skinner's fourth hit of the game, a two-out single in the ninth, won the opener for the Pi rates. Lefty Harvey lladdix gave up only six hits, including Gene rreeses lath homer, in notching his 11th triumph. An error by third basemai Jackie Brandt paved the way for two unearned runs in the ninth that gave the Dodgers their vic tory over the Giants. Wally Moon followed with a triple to tie the score at 6- and after Sam Jones relkued loser Mike McCormick, theWJodgers filled the bases on two walks. Willie McCovey thc.i let in the winning run when he fumbled Norm Larker's grounder. The Cubs won their game from the Braves with u five-run rally in the eighth at the expense of loser Carlton Willey. Key blows in the rally were Jim .Marshall's double which tied the score at 2-2 and Irv Noren's two-run single. Kasko Aids Reds Ex-Cardinal Eddie Kasko drove in three runs to help Cincinnati snap a four-game St. Louis win ning streak. - Jay Hook hurled a seven-hitter for his fourth win. Over in the American League. Don Mossi of Detroit posted' his 12th victory when he held Kansas City to three hits and also belted his first major league homer. Russ Kemmerer and Tex Oev enger combined in a five-hit pitch ing effort that led Washington to victory over New York. Kemmer er. who won his eighth game, had a three-hit shutout until he haJ to leave with a pulled back mus cle in the sixth. Frank Sullivan pitched a four- hitter and struck out nine in Bos ton's win over Baltimore. Twenty Lettermen Greet OSC Coach CORVALLIS il'PIi Football practice'for Oregon State grid hopefuls gels underway Tuesday as head coach Tommy Prothro begins his fifth season at OSC. Twenty lettermen will be on hand as the Beavers start prepa rations for their 1W.9 opener against Southern California in Portland Sept. 19. Picture day was slated for the gridders today along with physic al examinations and issuing of equipment. PIERSALL "MUCH BETTER" CLEVELAND iUPl-Out fielder Jim Piersnll of the Cleveland Indians reported today he felt "much better" after suffering a severe pain in his head that ne cessitated his removal on a stretcher from the field during Sunday's double-header with the Chicago White Sox. Wm. Bohnonkamp Plumbing Heating Sheet Metal 1407 Adam A.. Ph. WO 1-4731 pvlllW SINGLE HANDU UUOT j Z ,N Y0UR f KITCHEN 9 v -J ls0 " i ry uvATon V 7 aNDSHOWtl-,. What a Difference ... a Day Makes US Romps Through Pan - Oregon Men Capture Gold Medals CHICAGO cl'PIi The third Pan American Games, which the United States considered a warm up for the 10 Olympics in Rome, was turning out to be such a romp today that even the I S coaches admitted .they were not proving much of a testing ground. The sister Western Hemisphere nations were not turnishing much opposition. None of the couches would be Green Bav Surpri ises NFL Experts United Press International When Hie Creen Bay Packers went to training camp, new Coach Vince Lombardi claimed his big gest problem would be to conquer the "attitude of defeatism I know is here." The former New York Giants offensive coach, who also doubles as general manager with the Packers, listed a number of other difficulties at the time but it was obvious he was most concerneJ with the temperament of his new players. And you couldn't exactly blame him because the Packers were the worst team in the Na tional Football League last year, winning only one of 12 games. However, one look at the Pack ers this summer would indicate Lombardi has licked his biggest problem and is ready to pull a couple of surprises once the sea son gets underway Sept. 27. Win Second Straight With six different players shar ing in the scoring, the revitalized Packers rolled to their second straight victory in three exhibi tion starts Saturday night by whipping the Philadelphia Eagles, 45-28. The Forty Niners. led by vet eran quarterback Y. A. Tittle and rookie Tommy Davis, ha-.ded the Cleveland Browns their third con secutive defeat, 17-14: the Los An geles Rams stopped the Chicago Cardinals. 34-21; the Giants shut out the Detroit Lions, .184); the Bears crushed the Pittsburgh Steelers. 54-17, and the Baltimore Colts downed the Washington Redskins, 23-10, in other week-end action. Tittle threw two touchdown passes to give San Francisco 2-1 I an early H-o lead and Davis boot- 1 ed a 23-yard field goal in the fourth period for the margin of Bluejet POWER SAW Chaii GIVES LONGER LIFEI mi INDUSTRIAL Machinery & Supply 1410 Adams Ph. 10071 3 n Niviitai li itruciMtirt Hm quoted. But they all pointed to the results of the first three days of competition. It showed that of the first 21 championships decided, the U.S. won 18 and was expected to add a minimum of six of the nine on today s schedule. The other three wire wide open. But the U.S. en tries were no worse than co-favorites. Sunday, led by Dave Edstrom, a 21 year-old senior at the Univer sity of Oregon who won the de cathlon championship, the U.S. swept all eight gold medals which ncie decided. In winning four of them, the United States set Pan American records. Edstrom. in winning the gruel ling two-day decathlon, set one of them, scoring 7.254 points as he won or tied for first in eight of the ten events which comprise the title. f The others were made by Bill bellingcr. Oxnard. Calif., who won the 5,000-meter run over favored Osvaldo Suarez of Argentina in 14:28.4: Thomas Murphy. Brook- LILJEHOLM WINS KLAMATH FALLS UPI Tpm Liljcholm of Portland State won the championship flight in the Oregon Golfers Association tournament Sunday by defeating Bob Prall of Salem in a sudden death playoff. Both had wound up with scores of 212 for 54 holes victory. Jim Brown scored both Cleveland TD's. Rams Whip Cards The Rams l-2 took a 14-7 half time lead and then moved up and down the field almost at will in the second half to easily beat the Cards 3-1 before a crowd of 52, 013 in the Los Angeles Coliseum. Versatile Frank Gifford was practically the whole Giants of fense in their victory over the Lions 2-2'. Gifford scored two TD's on Charley Conerly passes and then directed a third scoring drive while playing quarterback. It was the Giants' first victory in three starts. Quarterbacks Rudy Bukish and Ed Brown were the sta's in the Bears' 13-0) crushing defeat of the Steelers 1 1-2 . while the Colts i3-0 took advantage of loose Washington play in whipping the Redskins '1-2'. The Yes, folks, for ten years the Cupboard Cafe has operated here in La Grande under the same management. We take this oppor tunity to thank our many friends for their honest patronage. We hasten to assure you that we will continue to make every effort to please. MEANTIME! FREE COFFEE & CAKE TI ES., SEPT. 1.- Lee & Minnie Dunn Gracie & Jeanne Agnes (Bobby) White Am Games; lyn. N.Y.i whose winning time in the 800-meter run was 1:49.4, and Mrs. Earlene Brown, Los Angeles, Calif., breaking the mark on each of her six throws, established a discus record of 161 feet, 94 inches. The U.S.' other gold medal win ners were L u c i n d a Williams, Nashville. Tenn., in the women's too meters. Harold Goldsmith. New York, in the men's foil fenc ing. Nelson Lincoln, Columbus, Ga., In the free pistol shooting, and the free pistol shooting team of Lincoln, Lloyd Burchett and Roy L. Sutherland, all of Colum bus, Ga. Upland Bird Season Starts This Week Shotgun devotees will get a chance to unlimber their shooting irons Sept. 1 with the start of the 1959 upland game bird ss-asons. On that day, the mourning dove and band-tailed pigeon seasons will open on a state-wide basis and run for 30 consecutive days. Bag limit on mourning doves is set at 10 per day, 20 in possession. and on pigeons 6 in possession, 30 for the s?ason. Prospects appear excellent for morning dove hunters, while band-tailed pigeon hunters appear to be about on a par with last year. On Sept.iS and extending through Sept. 13. eastern Oregon gunners can add three more upland game birds to the list of legal game, blue grouse, ruffed grouse, and sage grouse. All of eastern Ore gon will be open for blue and ruffed grouse, but sage grouse hunters must confine their activi ties to Crook, Deschutes, Harney. Lake, Malheur, Grant, and that part of Baker county south and west of highway 30. Bag limit for blue and ruffed grouse is set at 3 p?r day, 6 in possession, and for sage grouse 2 per day, 4 in possession. Hunters are cautioned that the grouse season in western Oregon does not open until Oct. 3 and will run through Oct. 11. Grouse bag limit for western Oregon is 2 per day. 4 in possession. Cupboard ANNOUNCES ITS SEPTEMBER 1ST Barry MacKay Wants Davis Cup Present FOREST HILLS. NY. 'UPI Barry MacKay, celebrating his 24th birthday, can make a present of the Davis Cup to the United States if he defeats Australia's Neale Eraser today when the two tennis stars resume their decisive singles match in the IMS chal lenge round. Tail) won one set on the center court at the West Side Tennis Club Sunday before darkness forced them to halt. Their match. San Diego Tops Bees; Bevos Split By United Press International The Portland Beavers got a welcome day off today before heading north to open a series against the second-place Vancou ver Mounties. . The Beavers split a twin-bill with Seattle Sunday, winning 5-4 as Marty Kutyna won his Mth game and losing 5-2 in the seten inning nightcap. Seattle won the series 4-1. Portland now has Jpst' 10 of its last 12 games. ' v' Ken Johnson was called on i4 the eighth inning to help Kutyna get his win in the first game. Lefty Vic Lombardi was the Uva ser loser in the second. '' ' In other Sunday 'games- Salt Lake lost twice to San Diego, 7-6 and 6-2; Spokane split with Van couver, winning 6-2 and losing 8-3, and Sacramento edged Phoe nix 4-1. Pinch-hitter Don Dollard singled home Mitch June in the ninth in ning to give the Padres their open ing game win after Salt Lake Had lied the score with three ruruj in the top of that inning. John Briggs pitching in relief, was credited with his 13th win against four losses, Russ Hcman and Pete Wojey combined to limit the Bees to just two hits in the seven inning sec ond game. The Pads won it with a four run fourth inning outburst. Norm Sherry and Tommy Da vis homered to pace Spokane to its opening win over Vancouver. 6 2, with George O'Donnell going the route on the mound for the win. Frank Kellert's two run homer was the key blow in the second game for Vancouver as they went on for their 8-3 victory. Reliefer Wes Stock was the winning pitch er. Carl Greene scattered six hits while pitching Sacramento past the Phoenix Giants. Sal Taor mina got three of the Giants' hits, including a pair of doubles. Jack Dittmer homered for the Sacs. It was Greene's 13th win against 12 losses. 18 Gridders Start Practice At Elgin ELGIN (Special) The Elgin football team went through its first week of practice under the direction of Head Coach Dale Hargett. Eighteen boys turned out for the first week of practice with six senior lettermen leading the' team through the first week.- Dan-ell Cason, Carl Wither spoon, Tom Hunt, Jerry Croaser, Bruce Reed and Bob Trump, all seniors, are expected to give Hargett and 'assistant Joe Miller a sound beginning for this year's club. , Arnie Krause, Bill Stark, Gary Kennedy, Tom Barnes, John Da vis, Wes Whittemore, -Larking Conatser, Bill Shoowets and Jeff Halsey are returning lettermen expected to bolster the squad. Halsey suffered a back injury Tuesday and will be lost to the squad for the rest of the year. First game on the Elgin sche dule will be against Heppner Sept. 11 or 12. Cafe I now reihiced to a best of - three struggle, resumes this afternoon. MacKay. on leave from the U.S. Air Force, admitted a vic tory over Fraser would be "the biggest birth-Jay present I could ask for." However, the Dayton, Ohio, giant was pitted against an equally powerful swinger who is the No. 1 player in tennis mad Australia. Australia started Sunday's final two singles matches in the best-of-five series with a 2-1 lead, but Alex Clmedo, the lean, moody Peruvian who won the cup for the U.S. last year, regained enough of his form to beat left hander Rod Laver in a record 66 game four sets, 9-7, 4-6. 10-8. 12 10. That match took 3 hours and 25 minutes, and it was after 6 p.m. when MacKay and Fraser took the court. Fraser took the first set, 8-6, but MacKay won the second, 6-3. Aussie team Captain Harry Hop man had been confident Fraser could win, explaining that "Bar ry never will break Neale s serv ice, but Neale will break Bar ry's."' In the first set that prediction held up well. Fraser held service easily for the most part, while MacKay was spotty. But Fraser quickly got into trouble in the second set and committed two double-faults as he was broken in the second game. Barry never let him re cover. 50 Gridders Open Drills At Oregon EUGENE UPI Fifty candi dates for positions on the 1959 University of Oregon football team were expected to be on hand today as Coach Leo Casa nova begins his ninth season at Oregon. Sixteen lcttcrman headed by all-coast center- Bob Peterson and all-coast halfback Willie West will be among the 50 griduers as the Ducks begin drills for their open ing game on Sept. 19 at Palo Al to, against Stanford. Two 1958 lettermen who were counted on for the 1959 season will not turn out this season. Quarterback Sandy Fraser has told coach Casa-ova that he plans to skip football for work this year, but plans to return for the 1960 season. Halfback Herm Mc Kinney will miss this season due to scholastic reasons. WINS LADIES SINGLES WENGEN. Switzerland (UPH Joan Johnson of Los Angeles won the ladies singles title in the Wengen International' tennis tour nament Sunday by defeating An dree Gremillet of France, 6-1, 6-2. STARTS WED. All Children, 35c IT'S HKRKI '. A magnificent NEW 1 Motion Picture! I WALT D1SNFTS Plus Plus Randolph Scott "WESTBOUND" NOW THRU TUES. . boy-tiwifry wMcsts fan mad! &UICWJII An Amtncan tnternaltonal pictw End Tonit ROCK HlTSON "Twilight For The Gods" plus LAN A TVRNER "Imitation For Life" ... pttst-ptMiaf nck'i m trw twMMf An AmfiMi muniitioMl MctM