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Braves Jump Into First Place Tie With dodgers By United Pratt ln(m.tionl . gue schedule on their side. Gangway for Milwaukee's fired- The Braves moved Into a first ., . . . , place tie with idle Lot Angeles up Braves, who tell you point- m)ay downing Uf. blank they re smg all the way burg ss (or leir 12(h vi.tory in now with momentum, Eddie Ma- (heir last 15 games. thews and even the National Lea- Mathews hit two home runs, his OBSIRVIR Noil And.rwn Observer, La Grande, Ore., Tues., Sept. 22, 1959 Page 2 ' 1 It . f m pj -s OVER THE TOP UCLA fullback A. Thompson' (42) gets an assist from teammates Tom Paton (68) and Glen Almquist (8) as they charge a Purdue kick in the fourth quarter of the UCLA-Purdue game at the Coliseum in Los Angeles, Calif. Both teams, playing hard, clean football, battled to a scoreless tie. , - OSC Tackle Out For 4 w Week; Oregon Ranked 27th In Football Poll CORVALUS (UPI) r- Two Ore Son Stalo Beavers returned to the squad yesterday, but 220-pound starting tackle Ed Kaohelau'ii is out of action for at least a week with a knee injury. The Hawaiian was hurt in last weekend's .season opener against Southern California in Portland. Coach Tommy Prothros boys play Texas Tech next Saturday in Lub bock, Texas. EUGENE (LTD Coach Len Casanova of the University of Oregon has a wek of defensive drills set up for his players, who eked out a 28-27 win over Stan ford in tho seasons opener last Saturday. Casanova is unhsppy over w hat he calls "late game leg weari ness,' and yesterday ran his squad hard in conditioning drills. The Ducks, following their one point victory, were ranked 27th 42nd and 43rd, and drove in five runt. . - Lefty Warren Spahn won his 20th victory. It is the 10th time in his 15-year major league ca reer that he has won at least 20. Prior to Monday night's game, several members of the Braves, including coach Billy Herman and Hank Aaron -who chipped in with three hits. . by the way came right out and said they felt Mil waukee would win the pennant. , The Braves have five more games to play, twe with the Pi rates at Pittsburgh and the last three at ..home in Milwaukee against the last-place Phillies. , All the Dodgers' five remaining games are on the road, two at St. Louis and three at Chicago. The Giants, one game off the pace, also have no more home games left. They play two at Chi cago and wind up the season with three games at St. Louis. , The Cubs crushed the Cardinals, 12-3. in the only other major league game scheduled Monday. Calico Cat Wins First Tourney Tilt CLEARWATER, Fla. (UPI) Calico Cat of Portland won its opening game in the world soft ball tournament in 10 innings yesterday by downing Sacramen to 2 to 1 on a 10th inning homer by Jake Farland. . . .. OSC Aide Quits CORVALLIS (UPI) Terry De Bay, an assistant coach at, Ore gon State College, announced his resignation today. De Bay quit coaching to gc in to private business in Los Angeles. Cove To Host Imbler COVE (Special) The Cove Leopards will play host to Imbler Friday at 1:30 on the Leopard field. Cove has droDDcd two names this season and will be playing a strong Imbler team. "LONELY QUARTERBACK" UNIVERSITY PARK. Pa. (UPI) Taking stock of the inexperience behind his No. 1 quarterback. Richie Lucas. Penn State football coach Rip . Engle quipped today, "Army has ita 'lonely end' and Penn State has the 'lonely quar terback.' " in this weeks first United Press College football ratings. Southern Cal, which waxed Oregon State last Saturday night. is 12th. California is 21st and UCLA and Florida are tied for 23th. No other coast teams are ranked. OLD PITCHERS NEVER DIE thick' Pieretti Pushes Pills For Living -At Giants For Fun MAGNETIC FORCB Forest Service Asks Hunters To Help Control Porcupines The U.S. Forest Service re minded east side deer hunters to day that they can help in the nev er ending job of controlling por cupines. Porcupine damage in the ponderosa pine region of Oregon and Washington is second only to fire. It is estimated that porcu pines kill or damage 200,000,000 board feet of public and private timber in the Pacific Northwest every year. Porcupines are well distribut ed over most of the pine area but are especially numerous in the southeast corner of Oregon. On the Fremont National Forest of ficials stated that porcupines are considered the most, important cause of loss in forest plantations. SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -Marino Pieretti, who started on the mound 14 years ago for the Washington Senators, now makes a living filling orders for a vitamin company but the pill he loves most still is the big one with red seams. The doughty right-hander with the rubber arm has spent numer ous lunch hours this season pitch ing . batting practice for the San Francisco Giants. And he wants to stay with it. "The players tell me my ball still moves,'' smiles "Chick" Pier etti, who is pushing 39. "I think I cai give the batters the kind of stuff they need to work again." ' Pierreti a never -give -up type who occasionally draw a cjieer from the tans for the in dustrious manner in which he flexed his arm says he has don ated his time pitching to the Giant batters. After a session last week, Pier etti thaoked manager Bill Rigucy for ,thc workout, (.howered, Ihea Hunters! Enter Our 2 Big Bach CONTESTS! . .- 2 Rifle Awards and 3-Burner Camp Stove , IVf STOCK THE RIFLES AMMUNITION YOU NEEOI , ' i .. i .. Stock Up 1 Register At ChcaJe's Cigar Store drove back to work while munch ing a sandwich. Eyes Managerial Spot Although happy in his present occupation as a "stocker," Marino still casts longing eyes on some managerial job in the minors. He would like to run a club in the California or Pioneer leagues, both Class C outfits. And he prob ably would be a playing manager. "I had a 7-2 at Modesto in W5 as a pitching-coach," Chick says. His best season in the majors caine in 1945 when he won 14 and lost 13 with the Nats. It was there that he became a close friend of Mickey Vernon and the pair had a brief chin-test recently when Vernon checked in with the Milwaukee Braves. ' ) Marino doesn't keep any trade secrets. . "There's nothing I like better than helping youngsters who want to be ballplayers," Pieretti says. "Kids call me up at all hours asking me to come out and help them develop a curve." . He Helped McCermlck ' Among the former small fry who recall Pieretti very well is Mike McCormick. the Giants' 20-year-old bonus left-hander. . "I remember when he gave me the ball in 1953 after he'd pitched a game for Sacramento," Mike recalls. "I think it's still at home in a trunk with a lot of other souvenirs." During that season, Pieretti reached one of the low ebbs of : ' i lag W AumwoaiD.:. there is none finer Of rtJ-IV K '"Ml ALSO AVAIMtU m user ia BOOTS SjagtsMt) Ow KvsMl teMSttfJ UWM CUSMOM CUrt KKH mm Ita oM aiM.roof eaous TOW his career. Finished as a major leaguer, hu-ling for a, last place club and betrayed by several errors, he gave vent to his feel ings one night by hurling a ball over Sacramento's grandstand roof. "Yeah, that was a touch seaon all around." Chick recalls When he isn't throwing the hard ball, Pieretti plays Softball. He is third baseman on he comp any's industrial team aid broke his ankle last April sliding home from third base. "I fell over a bat coming in," Marino explains. "The catcher forgot to toss it out of the way." He also is interested in becom ing a playground supervisor aid thinks that baseball is a sure way to fight 'teen age terro-ism. "Gie 'cm a bat and they'll forget the knife." little Chick declares. They cited an area where two porcupines destroyed one and one half acres of planted trees in ten days. ' ' These plantations are extreme ly important to the sustained yield and multiple use manage ment of our forests and must be protected. Foresters are not sure why but "Porky" is very selec tive. He seems to pick out the very best trees in a young stand. He does not eat the wood but rel ishes their bark or cambium. This is the life giving layer and dam age to it permanently damages or kills the tree. Dartiage is not confined to trees as stockmen know. Quills from porcupines have blinded dogs and livestock, and your sad dle is never safe if within his reach. The craving for salt has caused them to chew tool handles, door jambs, building foundations or even a fan belt from logging equipment, if they happen upon it. Contrary to popular belief, por cupines are not protected by law. In reality the animal has no eco nomic value and must be con trolled. There is no thought that they must be exterminated but rather that their numbers be kept in check and to a level where damage is negligible. Many con trol measures are being used by federal, state and private forest ers. Probably the most effective is hunting. Thousands of hunters will soon be tramping the pine forests of Oregon and Washing ton. They can assist the forester by shooting porcupines when they have the opportunity. 3 E0C Backs Better Four Yards Per Try Consistency was the keynote in the Eastern Oregon College back field in Saturday's game with Whit man as three Mountaineer backs averaged at least four yards per carry. Willmarth, in addition to being EOC'i top defensive man in its 13-0 loss, rang up the high indi vidual total of 44 yards on It Masterminds Plan Meeting; Seek Members The second fall meeting of the Blue Mountain Masterminds will be held in the Sacajawea coffee shop tomorrow morning at .7. . Featured speakers at the meet ing will be Archie Dunsmoor, coach of the Eastern Oregon Col lege Mountaineers who dropped a 13-0 contest, to Whitman Sat urday night and .Franz Haun, mentor of the La Grande Tigers who have won their, first two cutings.of the season. . The two coaches will speak on their teams' - performance last week and outline their plans for the upcoming contests this week. La Grande will travel to central Oregon for a game with -Red mond and the Mountaineers will host the College of Idaho. Any person interested in col- lego and high school athletics is invited to the meeting. There is no membership fee and pres ent members extend an open hand to any one interested in participating. The masterminds meet weekly in the coffee shop for an hour to hear the ccaches, ask ques tions and to meet the players. As an added feature through out the season, films of the games will be shown at the meet ings when they are available. Interested persons are urged to attend to help support athle tics in La Grande. EX.-STAR TO COACH ' . YAZOO CITY. Miss. (UPD- Robert (Cob) Jarvis. former all Southeastern Conference baseball and basketball .player at the Uni versity of Mississippi, has been named to the coaching staff at Yaioo City High School. He will serve as both baseball -ar.d bas ketball head coach.. . ' carries. Halfbacks Aliverti and Williams both nosed out Will marth, however, in the per carry department Aliverti. All OCC choice as a freshman last year, averaged 4.37 for eight tries. Wil liams had a 4.11 average for nine. Jon Houk, sophomore quarter back, contributed to the Moun- tie's fine offensive performance by completing six of ten passing attempts. Also . singled out for special praise was the defensive play of Dave Harmon, sophomer guard. Harmon, who was second to line . backer Willmarth in number of tackles, intercepted a pass, be sides recovering one of two Whitman rumbles. . "But," lamented Coach Arch Dunsmoor, "we didn't score." He indicated this week's practice ses sions would concentrate on "what to do to get beyond the oppon ent's 20-yard line." The Moun taineers were unable to capitalize on three scoring opportunities while deep in Whitmans tern lory. , , , , , . , Dunsmoor's . charges entertain the College of . Idaho Saturday night in the season's first home game. ......... .. . Bectverton Star Will Go To OSC -nnvilllS (UPI) Steve Pauly, all-around athlete from Beaverton High School, is report ed ready to enroll at Oregon State College. Earlier, Pauly said he was going to Oregon. He is reported to have decided to switch to engineering, a specialty course av iac. Terrv Baker, Portland, prep ace, also is going to OSC. Th. uin inn athletes had head coaches from Seattle to San fran cisco in a whirl earlier in the month when the two boys, after getting to know each other in the Portland Shrine game, piannea to go to school together, it in renorted both Baker and Pauly would enroll "down on the farm" at Stanlora. , 1 otnr the bovs decided to stav in Oregon and Pauly announced he would go to Oregon at orig inally stated. - - , Paul Lowe Cut From 49'ers SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) Paul Lowe, rookie halfback from Ore gon State, was cut from the San Francisco Forty-Niners squad yes terday. Lowe's departure reduced the squad to 37, one above the new limit which went into effect this season. Club officials said they are well set on fast backs and could afford to let the ex-Beaver speedster go. Standings United Press International National League W; L. Pet. Milwaukee Los Angeles San Francisco Pittsburgh . Cincinnati Chicago St. Louis Philadelphia 83 66 83 66 82 67 77 73 72 78 71 78 68 81 61 88 .557 .557 .550. .513 .480 .477 :456 .409 ca i' 11H 12, 15 " 22 Monday's Results Milwaukee'8 Pittsburgh Chicago 12 St. Louis 3 College Poll Lead By LSU NEW YORK (UPI) The first weekly United Press Inernutional major college football ratings of 1959 first-place votes in parentheses: Team 1. Louisiana State (28) 2. Oklahoma 3 3. Wisconsin (1) 4. Ohio State 5. Mississippi 6. Army 7. Auburn 8. Texas 9. Clemson 10. Iowa (2i Paints 327 218 131 114 106 97 93 , 90 87 74 11, Southern Methodist, it; 12, Southern California .67;. 13. Navy. 51; 14, Northwestern, 48; 15, (tie"-. Texas Christian and Purdue, 46 each; 17, Penn State, 41; 18, Georgia, 35; 19, Maryland, 33; 20, Georgia Tech, 30. Others California, 22; Pitts burgh, 16; South Carolina and Notre Dame, 15 each: UCLA and Florida, 14 each; Oregon, 11; Syracuse. 5; Michigan State, 4; Air Force Academy, 3; North Carolina State, 1. Fresh Ammunition ALL CALIBRES AT. ... LA GRANDE HARDWARE Feet like ice? 4 BIG DAYS STARTING WEDNESDAY like a Colossus From the Legends of Antiquity... ing TITAN! 7 Iff.ivJ 1 ,ttn ' ill mm M CASTMAN COLOR stevb mt SYLVIA KOSCINA CAST OF THOUSANDS! it Plus THE SNORKEL it 0H I "THE BEAT .J GENERATION" ends tonjte plus "Tlie Mysteriaas' QUICKER BECAUSE: You gt mors suryiy warmth from very drop. Standard Heating Oils burn cleaner, put out more usable heat. And they do it day. in, day-out. The high quality never varies. Tunas up your furnace lo give more heat. Detergent-Action Thermisol keeps your furnace so clean it delivers more warmth. No other fuel has anything so effective. 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