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OBSERVER " I Neil AndtrMn Obtrvr. La Grande. Ore.. Toes., Sept. !, 1959 Peg 2 REUNION The Milwaukee Braves turned to a pair of American Leaguers and former Cleveland team mates for help in the National League stretch run. Infielders Bobby Avila, left, and Ray Boone talk over old teams. ..- - - LA Pitcher For Game Unittd Preti International It took Sandy Koufax a long time to develop but now (hat he has it may be just in time to put the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series. A 23-year-old left-hander from Brooklyn who got a $25,000 bonus in 1953 and once sprained an ankle when he "tripiied over foul line." Koufax Monday night pitched his way into the record book and the Dodgers to within one game of first place in the National League with a spectacu lar 5-2 victory oyer the San Fran cisco Giants. Neale Fraser Helps Aussies Regain Cup FOHKST HILLS. N Y. l'PI Neale Fraser of Australia, who won the Davis Cup for his coun try with an easy comaies of big Barry MacKay, emerged today as the favorite for the National Sin gles tennis cfcamnioihis which start Friday. . Fraser ncvcled only two sets Monday to take the cup back to Australia, adding them to the set he had won Sunday evening for an 8-6. 3-H. 6-2. 6-4 victory over MacKay. It gave the Aussies the deciding point in a 3 2 t-iumph over the Unitei States. "This will be known as Trac er's Davis Cup' ". said the no.v playing Aussie captain. Harry Hopman. "He won both his singles and shared in the doubles. You can't do any better." Fraser, ut 25 a veteran of seven years of international ' tennis, slowed his service somewhat from bis Sunday pace and gained in ac curacy. MacKay, a 6-3, IKS-pouad-er, relied as usual on his power game and his big serve failed him. .... The Dayton, Ohio.1 slugger was broken twice in Monday a first set, at he contributed three riou blcfaults in the first break and two in the other. He was broken again in the 10th game of the last set, and again hurl himself with a doublefault. : ' "Fraser played as never he- ion," said Hopman. "But I still would not say he is . now the world's best. Alex Olmedo. play' itig as he did at Wimbledon, must be considered. I would say they are 50-50V The Nationals should show which is the belter man. Most of the experts who watched the, cut play felt that Fraser should be a clear favorite tor the Nationals. Olmedo was un impressive and far off his Wini bledon form. Ties Record Strike Outs A crowd of 82.7114 at Los Angeles, including 60.194 paid. saw the 210-pound southpaw strike out 18 batters to equal the major league mark set by Bob Feller Oct. 2. 1938. and break the Na tional LeaRiie record of 17 held by Dizzy Dean since 1933. Since he struck out 13 batters in his previous start a week ago, Kou fax also set a major league rec ord of 31 strikeouts in two con secutive games. Defeat Loomed Koufax' great effort appeared doomed to end in defeat even as Feller's 10 strikeout effort did in 1938 until the' last of the ninth when Wally's Moon's three-run homer off Al Worthington gave the Dodgers their 11th win in 19 meetings vviUi the Giants this season. The Dolgtrs had tied the score in the eighth with the' hell of two wild pi'ches by Jack San-ford. The supreme irony of Koufax' victory from the Giants' point of view was that he actually led oft tho game-winning rally with a single. From Uie moment he joined the Dodgers in '55. Koufax has been recognized as one of the weakest hitters in the history of the major leagues. Jim Gilliam followed Koufax' inri"g-opening single with another single aid San Francisco Mana ger Kill Higney immediately re placed Sanfurd with Worthington. Moon, the first batter Worthing ton faced, then connected for the Rame-w muing blast. The Cinnts scorett their first run off Koufax in the first Inning on doubles by Willie Mays and Orlando t'epeda and their second in tho fifth on Willie McCovey's eighth homer of the season. i The victory was the fourth in their last five games for the Dodgers while the loss was the Giants' fifth in six games. I'ete Runnels' ll'th-inning homer gave the Boston Red Sox a 4-8 victory over the Washington Sen ators in the only other' major league game played Monday. Mike Fornielcs picked up his fourth win for Boston in relief of Hill Monbouuettc Jackie Jen sen homered for the Ked Sox in the fourth inning to lift his runs batted in total for the year to 95. DRIVING COURTESY MAKES. DRIVING : When roads bulge with holiday j traffic, it's easy to forget good ' driving manners. Too often that can lead to a fatal accident. So obey the rules and make couN , tosy one of litem. Thinking of others makes you a safer drivcrl ' . Publlhed as public service In coop eration with The Advertising Council Tigers Work Ori Scrimmage Errors; Add Three Players The La Grande Tigers stalled their second week of drills yester day with a lengthy and rough afternoon session on the field, thirty nine gridders sweated through drills designed to correct the weaknesses found in the last Friday's scrimmage. "We had lots of problems but still I would term the scrimmage quite successful," said Franz 1 1 nun, head coach. The head banging session gave the coaching staff a chance to evaluate weaknesses and Ilaun and his assistants were setting out to correct the errors before the season's opener Sept. 11 against Union. Ilaun expects to welcome three additions to the squad today, Mike Challls, just returned Iroirt a swimming trip to San Francisco, Larry Nice, who had been on vaca tion, and Jim Co:nvtt, transfer stu dent from Vale, are scheduled to nport for practice this afternoon. The Tigers workid out by position during yesterday's practice. Harry Mondale had his interior linemen working on blocking while Jack Hain'y worked his ends in pairs. Meanwhile Ilaun was working the backs trying to correct the mis takes of the scrimmaiie. Emphasis sw.ngs back to defense in today's drill. Ilaun has stated several times that this was the weak point in last year's team. The majority of the week's work Stewart Lundgren Adds Points In Far Western Swimming, Diving Test By GEORGE CHALLIS Observer Stiff Writer - Stewart Lundgren, la Grande Swim Club's outstanding 12-year-ld, added more laurels to a lighly successful swimming sea ion by taking fifth and sixth ilaces in the 50 meter butterfly ind backstroke events at the Far Western Swimming Champion ships Saturday at San Francisco. With the second place in the 50 meter freestyle which he took n Friday's events, Lundgren ac counted for ciEht of the 13 points nicked up by La Grande in the big swimming meet. Bonnie Scott, second place win ner In the 1316 girls diving on Friday, accounted for the other five points. Lundgren won his butterfly heat in 37.4 and finished fifth in the linals in the time of 37.8. In the backstroke he won his heat in 39.8 and cut the time by a full second to race the event in 38.8 in the finals, in which he placed sixth in an exceptional ly fast field. Steve Fedor. La Grande's sec ond place finalist in the Oregon AAU in the 100 meltcr breast- stroke, 1314 division, was off bis usual pace Saturday and swam the event in 1:31.5 to finish fifth in his heat. He did not qualify for the finals. Mike Challis, who failed on Friday to qualify - for the 100 meter freestyle, 15-16 boys, in the time of 1:00.9. swam the 200 meter men's freestyle on Satur day in the time of 2:36.8. 10 seconds better than his district record time, but failed to quali fy for the finals. The four members of the team, accompanied by the Keith Lund gren and George Challis families, returned to La Grande last night. was defense and the. Tiger grid ders can expect more of the same this week. Kenny Hildebrandt sprained an ankle in Friday's practice and will be out for two or three more days. Dale Peterson rejoined the squad after spending most of last week on the sidelines with a pinched muscle in his shoulder. Condition wise the team it in good shape and has progressed quite well in its first week of prac tice, Ilaun stated. Heavyweight Champ Makes Screen Debut HOLLYWOOD (UPI) - World heavyweight champion Ingemar Johansson makes his screen debut in a Korean war drama that stars Alan Ladd, Sidney Poitier, Mort Sahl and James Darren. Why Is he taking time out of his boxing career for the movie? "The pay appealed to me." the ruggedly-handsome Swede said at his home in Goteborg. "The con tract will be signed one of these days but it is already clear that I will go to Hollywood." Columbia pictures confirmed that it asked Johansson to appear in "All The Young1 Men" but said no contracts have been signed yet. Just how much pay Ingemar will get is not known now. SCORES TRIPLE SARATOGA SPRINGS. N. Y. Manuel Ycaza, Saratoga's lead ing jockey, booted home three winners Thursday to raise his to tal to 37 for the meeting. Ycaza't triumphs were " aboard Before Dark, Eastern Hobo and Hatsu. U.S. Sets Gold Medal Record Rate CHICAGO UPI -.The United States was piling ui gold medals at a record pace in the Pan American Games today. With 30 championships decided. U.S. athletes had won 26 of them and were favored to win most of the nine on the program for the fifth day of competition in this athletic carnival between the na tions of the Western Hemisphere. Monday, led by two Californi- ana, Ray Norton of Oakland and Mrs. Farlene Brown of Los An geles, each with a . second tri umph, the U.S. won eight of nine titles decided. Norton, in world record tying time fo the run around a turn, won the 20u meter dash to add to the 100 meter crown he had taken the previous day. The husky Mrs. Brown added the shot put championship to the discus ti tle she had won previously. . Six Sweeps In Track They brought the total U.S. vic tories to 16 in the 18 track and field events which have been de cided, and in 12 of them, the U.S. set new record; for the Pan American Games., They have scored six sweeps in track first, second ana uuru places with every nation limit ed to three entries in the events. Three of them came Monday. It wasn t only in track and field that the U.b. was doing wen. It won two more weightlifting titles Tommy Kono of Hono lulu in the middleweight class and James George of Akron, Ohio, in the heavy-middleweight class and two in the English rifle shooting competition. Arthur Cook of Adelphi, Mo., won the in- dividual title in that event and the U.S. took the team champion ship. In track and field, the U.S. had AAoiintiPC SIVMII Top Spot By United Prets Internationa The cup may runneth ovef in Vancouver and Salt Lake City tonight, win or lose. ' it Bo:h clubs will put their half interest in the Pacific Coast League's top spot on ' the lip,c when they take on Portland urld Phoenix, respectively. All partjes will have the consolation of ait least partaking heavily in .ttie greenback department, n e ax capacity crowds being expected in both parks. Off recent performances, tfie Bees should still have at least a share of first place when tile night is over. Phoenix droopefl clear out of a race it was never really in when it was announced the Giant franchise would be transferred to Tacoma next year. The Arizona club is now firmly entrenched in last place, i $4 games out of first. Portland, despite a recent slump, has solid pitching and could give the Mountics trouble. The Beavers spent a short stay in the top spot and still are not Bees Put Un Line out of the pennant picturej de spite a fifth-place stand pig. In other games tonight, San Diego will host Sacramento and Spokane takes on Seattle. San Diego is still very much in the pennant chase, trailing the lead ers by only three games. , Only one game was played Monday night. In that contest, Sacramento kept its slim title hopes alive by shading Phoenix, 2-1. behind the tight pitching of Roger Bowman. The win nudged the Sacs to within six games of first. Bowman stopped the Giants on six hits, giving up the only Phoenix run when Bob Speake belted his i7th home run of the season in the top of the fifth. Losing pitcher Don . Choate gave up only five hits, but lost it in the second when Mike Krs nich homered and Bob Perry and Clayton Dalrymple followed u-ilh Hnlthlpc two winners in addition to Nor ton and Mrs. Brown. Al Oerter of West Babylon. N.Y.. won the men's discus, and Hayes Jones of Pontiac, Mich., took the 110 me ter hurdles. . In team competition the U.S. was doing okay. too. Its basket ball teams won their third con secutive game, the men beating Cuba 114-46 and the women de feating Brazil 55-3;. In soccer the U.S. upset Brazil, 5-3; in water polo it was the U.S. 8, Brazil 2: in women's volleyball Puerto Rico was the victim 34; the same score by which the men beat Puerto Rico. A 1 STATED COMMUNICATION La Grende Lodge No. 41 A.F.& JLH. WED., SEPT. 2ND., 8 P.M. Nord Calvert, W..M. 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