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Phiig ue ' 1 . lead irvr, La Grande, Ort., Wed., Sept. 23, 1959- Page 2 -n- polls Over Lions 5 United Pratt International ? The Baltimore Colts, defeidint Jatlonal football League cham ffioni, are .9 point favorites to defeat the Detroit Lions Sunday when tbey begin defense of. the UrWeri).. Division .;tO(U in the Maryland icity. The New York Giants, defend- lisp Rsht i Promoter Arrested t WASHINGTON UPD Frank iCarbOt notorious underworld boss of. boxing, and Truman K. Gibson Jti, the fight game's top promoter are under mi arrest today, along with, three other boxing figures, in. i. an, r . unprecedented .federal crack-down on . prizefight corrup tion . They are charged with trying to "muscle, in' on the earnings and career of welterweight champion Don. Jordan with threats of vio lence in the 10-count indictments against each. Others arrested in the FBI round-up were Frank .tBlinky) Palermo, well known Philadel phia i boxing manager ; . Joseph Sica, a Los Angeles sports pro moter; and Louis Tom Drana, de scribed as a West Covina iCalif.i bookmaker. In addition, William Daly. light manager of Englewood, N.J., was named as a co-conspirator but not as, a defendant. U the- five indicted are found guilty they face long prison terms or heavy fines, or both. - . Announcing the arrests Tuesday night, the Justice Department said tha roundup was part of a drive against underworld . infiltration into the sport. n ' The indictments were handed down by federal grand Jury at Los- Angeles Tuesday.. i Fifly-Uvo-year-old Carbo, whose hoodlum career since , the age of 11 has been highlighted by three murder charges . and one man slaughter conviction, was arrested ia bis room at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Acquaint ances say he is being treated for diabetes., He will be arraigned in hit .room late today. i . Tbe indictments charge that the five defendants threatened physi cal harm and violence against Donald Paul Nesseth of Covina, Calif., manager of welterweight champion Jordan.. Also threatened was Jackie Leonard, a Los An geles fight promoter, who refused to cooperate in the alleged mus- cling-in. , . -. -- Standings United Prss Intonation! American League .. , W. L. Pet. CB x -Chicago Cleveland New York Detroit Baltimore Boston Kansas City 92 58 609 580 87 77 75 72 71 63 63 63 71 78 78 79 86 87 4 13 14H .500 104 .480 19 .473 20 .423 28 .420 284 Washington x-Clinched pennant Tuesday's Results Detroit 6 Kansas City 4 Chicago 4 Cleveland 2 might) New York 8 Washington 4 (night) Boston 4 Baltimore 3 (night) National League W. 84 83 82 77 72 72 69 63 L. Pet. .560 .553 .547 .510 CB Milwaukee Los Angeles San Francisco Pittsburgh Chicago Cincinnati St. Louis Philadelphia 66 67 68 74 78 80 81 1 a .480 12 . .474 13 .460 IS .417 21 V 88 Tuesday's Results ... . . Chicago 5 San Fransisco 4 Milwaukee S Pittsburgh J lninht St. Louis 11 Los Angeles 10 (night) Philadelphia 3 Cincinnati 1 nsl game,-twi-night " r . ' ' Philadelphia 3 Cincinnati S '2nd lame, night) . ,- v ' DUTCH HONOR Wist VEGHIX. The Netherlands (IJP1 Princess Irene, second oldest daughter of Queen Juliana, Thursday unveiled a momument in honor of the U. S. Army's 11 ft i Airborne Division ' which freed this Tiny Dutch town from the Nails in World War II About 13 former American soldiers at tended the ceremony. Sox Clinch American Tit e: OBSIRVIft " Nail AndrtA' Edge Sunday are three point underdogs for their season opener . with the Hams in the Los Angeles Colise um Saturday night. The Cleveland Browns also be gin - their campaign . Saturday night. Coach Paul Brown's Cleve land Club, which has won Eastern honors seven times in nine sea- sons since entering the league, is a three-point choice to down the Steelers at Pittsburgh.- The Chicago Bears, Chicago Cardinals and &arr i Francisco Forty-Niners are favored in Sun day's other openers., The Bears ore favored over, the Packers at Green Bay by. 6v points. - The Cardinals are favored over .the Washington Kedskint by. four at Chicago. The Forty-Niners . are two-point choices for their game with the Philadelphia' Eagles at San Francisco. .. . t-.-. The Rams-Giants game Satur day night will be nationally tele vised 'CBS i at IUU p.m., e.d.t This clash will pit the Los An, geles offensive unit, probably the league s fastest, against a New York defense that allowed fewer points than any other JFL club last season Jimmy Orr and Jack McLairen, Pittsburgh's No. I offensive ends, are nursing leg injuries. Jack But ler, Pittsburgh's ail-league de fense back, has a sprained ankle Mike McCormack, - Cleveland's captain and offensive right tackle, is recovering from a knee injury. Chuck Howley. Chicago Bear line backer, .is SHielined with a knee injury. F.d Henke, San Francisco defensive end. Is out with a simi lar injury and Jim Pace, one of the club's most promising young offensive backs, is out for the sea son with a bod knee. Chicago Gdes Ori'AII Night" Jag Over Title ' CHICAGO (UPD-ThC victory jag went on all night and into the dawn in the horn-blowmg, siren sounding Windy City today. From the "world's busiest cor ner" at State and Madison, where some young celebrants were ush ered into a paddy wagon, to the far suburbs and beyond, this was the day to remember. This was the proud day after the glorious night when the go-go Sox brought the American League' pennant, the first in 40 long years, to the folks back home. A few of the oldsters remembered that the last one was garnered by a team which Inter became the "Black Sox." but who cared about that gang 40 years ago? The cork popped, emotionally and physically, at 10 41 p.m. e d t. Tuesday night, whea the Sox clinched the pennant at Cleveland. i Out came Chicagoans. from the bars and homes and clubs where they had clustered by radios and watched TV screens. The glare of headlights brightened the streets. Chnmpagne bubbled in the far north suburbs. Beer can and bot tles were waved aloft on the South Side, where some old folks could recall how that some members of that former pennant-winning team threw a World Series to Cincinnati back in 1919, and where the old and young alike had waited for someone like "Nellie." "Looie," and their mates to come along and bring in another pennant. ' Capt. - Thomas Lyons of the po lice uniformed force called out his men in various emergency plans to control, traffic, around Conils kcy Park where the farts in their jubilation almost threatened prop erty destruction; in the Loop, where there were impromptu pa rades to keep moving; around Midway Airport, where the Sox were to alight from Cleveland. , Through the Loop, n$t Marsh- When you're thfrtty lor o glott of coot, rtrtthing draft bter, look or the blue end red neon window tign that tellty hu there t rot t good tottton tap inside. iTMri inmiHi courMr, irNPit, haihinstoh tin. e-i Tod Tribe 4-2 IBRAVES LEAD BY GAME IN United Press International The Chicago White Sox are "in" and the neighboring Milwaukee Braves may be joining them soon to set up modern-day baseball's closest approach to the old-time nickel World Series. It costs only $2.31, tax included, to travel by bus from Chicago to Milwaukee, about 85 miles away, and that path looks more and more line tne during World faeries time.. The White Sox did their part by clinching their first American League pennant in. 40 years with a 4-2 victory over tbe . Indians Tuesday night, and the Braves took a big step in the same gn eral World Series direction when they defeated the Pirates, 5-3, to move a full game ahead in the National League. . . ..; , i, . There were several standouts in the White Sox' clincher.. :. Al Smith and Jim Rivera sup plied the muscle .with six inning homers. Early . Wynn, - who . won his 21st game, and Bob Shaw held the battling Indians in tow over the first 8 1-3 innings. Then when Cleveland loaded the bases in the ninth, . slnkerballer Gerry Staley sauntered in from the bullpen, de livered one ' pitch i and got Vic Power to hit , into a game-ending double play; . , ..i.-.-'-i. .! .i, ' Left Club As - Manager It was a sweet, triumph tor Al Lopei.. who had finished second the past four years, twice as man ager of the Indians and the last two years with tbe White Sox. But Rudy Elis Makes TV Fight Debut CHICAGO (LTD Rudy Ellis gets, a TV payday tonight, and he's assuring, his fans he'll be back to collect more. Kllis. a 22-year-old Chicago mid dleweight, tangles with Rory Cal houn, a 25-year-old ring . veteran from White; Plains., N.Y., In the Wednesday TV fight '-feature. : ' But: he doesn't have much faith In the 6-5 odds against him. "This is my first time on TV.' he said, scanning the guaranteed $4,000 paycheck. -"But let me as sure you, that it will not be the last one. I. will make good. And 1 will be back.;' EUis has knocked out 10 of his 19 opponents in a brief ring ca reer. . . . . Calhoun will be making some thing in the nature of a comeback. Once rated among the ton 160 pounders ia the world, he has lost twioe to Spider Webb, now the too rated challenger for the title awarded Gene Fullmer by the Na tional Boxing Association, and he has lost once and drawn anoth er in his last two finhts. Junior Rifle Club Holds First Meeting The La Grande Junior' Rifle Club held its first meeting last night and Karen Fitzgerald fired a 3.0 total score to rapture top honors In the first indoor meet of the season. i Fitzgerald shot a 97, prone: 95, sitting; 78, kneeling, and S9, standing to edge George Alien burg by seven points. Altenbcrgs score included a 96, prone; 97, sitting; 78, kneel ing; and 51 standing. Carrol Bruce in the prone and sitting shot 95, 96 to finish with a 191. Tom Long was fourth with a 170 and a tie with Mcrf Karns who also shot 170. Tom Easley had a 126 in the prone and sitting positions. Jim Marrow, be, Ted vanarn- burg, 56. Stephen Reedor, 61, and Kerry Fitzgerald. 45.. 'also competed In prone position .fir ing. - ( . c all Field's down the brightly light ed State Street, along Michigan Boulevard and the lake front, the young people screamed along in their, cars, some of them loaded over the roofs.. ; i; . DODGERS NATIONAL one tans win nesnuiuing on it was a bitter defeat for Joe Gor don of the Indians, who officially left the club as manager the in stant the final out was made Pitching coach Mel Harder will lead the Tribe in their remaining four games. . The Braves victory over the Pirates moved them a game ahead of the Dodgers and two in front of the fading Giants. The Cardinals knocked the Dodgers out of a, first-place tie by beating them, 11-10, and the Cubs downed the GianU. 54. The Phillies swept a twi-nighter from the Keds, 3-1 and. 3-2. , i ' '- Southpaw Juan Pizarro, credit ed with his sixth victory, helped the Braves as much with his bat as he did with his pitching arm. Ordinarily a weak hitter, Pizarro blooped a two-run double just in side, the left field foul line to high light a three-run seventh inning rally against loser Harvey Had- dix , , i Pizarro yielded only six hits during the eight innings he worked and Don Mc.Mabon yield ed two more in the ninth. Del Crandall hit his 21st homer for Milwaukee, which now can clinch at least a tie for the pennant by winning three of its four remain ing games. fhe Dodgers went down fight ing. Rookie Frank Howard's pinch three-run homer in the ninth drew them to within one run of the Cardinals but reliever Lindy Mc Daniel got Junior Gilliam on an infield out to wind up the strug gle. Walt Alston tried everything, inc'uding nine pinch hiters, which set a major league record. Smith Gets Grand-Slammer Hal Smith hit a grand-slam hqmer in the first inning and Curt Flood hit a two-run homer in a five-run third inning rally by St. Louis. Gil Hodges homered with one on for the Dodgers. Rookie Geo'ge Altmau's two-run homer with two out in the ninth sunk the Giants.. .Altnwn's game winning Tiomer came off the Giants' 20-game winner, Sam Jones, who was working in relief. Jim Marshall also hit a two-run homer for the Cubs. Reliever Don Elston scored his ninth victory. Jim Owens' won his 12th game for the .Phillies when he stopped the Reds on five hits in the open er and winner Humberto Rubin son and Jack Meyer combined to hold Cincinnati to three hits in the nightcap. In the American League, the Yankees beat the Senators. 8-4: the Red Sox nipped the Orioles. 4-3. and the Tigers topped the Athletics. 6-4. Art Ditmar checked the Sena tors on six hits in gaining his 13th win for the Yanks. Five Washing ton errors helped New York to four unearned runs. , Pete Runnels' triple and Dick Gernert's single in the seventh in ning broke a 3-3 tie between Bos ton and Baltimore. Frank Sullivan was the winner and Skinny Brown the loser. . Harvey Kuenn's three-run hom er powered Detroit to its victory over Kansas City. Jim Bunnmg hurled 5 1-3 innings, enough to earn him his 17th victory. Rookie Ken Johnson was the loser. Clay, bowdry to meet ; PHILADELPHIA ( UP1 Pro moter Herman Taylor announced Tuesday that Von Clay, unbeaten Philadelphia light heavyweight, will meet Jesse Bowdry of St. Louis here Oct. 9 in a nationally televised 10-round bout. s , UNIVERSITY INTEGRATED I " MEMPHIS. Tenn. it'PD Eight Negro students began classes to day at Memphis State University, which previously was an all-while school. "We only hope and pray the white students , will accept us," said one of the Negroes ad- j milted after a two-year, court ' fight. Turkey Shoot SUNDAY, SEPT. 27 Shooting Starts At 10 a.m. LA GRANDE RIFLE CLUB Starkey Road Rang t.".t" p SHI to a - FACE REDMOND FRIDAY NIGHT Eric Osterholme, left, and Don Graham are two of the reasons the Tigers have won their first two games this season. Osterholme, 175-pound senior guard, and Graham, 190-pound junior, will be in the starting lineup when La Grande opens play in their first game in the Inter-Mountain league Friday. r. . . i. . i (Observer Photo) Old Buddy Steals As Giants Lose in CHICAGO H PI - If the San Francisco Giants blow the Nation al League pennant they have nobody to blame but their old teammate and sign-stea'er, Alvin Dark. The 36-year-old hawk-nosed vet ran of 13 National League seasons hasn't played.with the Giants since l'J56. but he was fingered today as the villain in the Giants' ninth inning loss to the Chicago Cubs Tuesday. Manager Bill Rigney said Dark, who opened the Cubs' ninth with a double, strie the signal from catcher Jim licgan from his vantage point at second base. Results In Two-Run Homer As a result, rookie George Alt man connected with a high fast ball thrown by Sam Jones for a two-run homer to wipe out what looked like a 4-3 victory for the Giants. Jones, the "stopper" in P.ig ney's pitching corps, came on in the e ghth to hold the slim lead. He put across a strike on Altman and then hesitated. Jones' next offering was the gopher ball that turned Rigney from his usual affable self into a dejected man. .Rigney kept newsmen from the authentic JfZ SWEAUR il ?sssj?jWW. Niw Foil Colon fez :;'M$$ti$0l fin Tint String" on tvtry empoS-tft fabulous VARSITY SKI KING by Columbiakfit. this bulky, lundsomt nri wool !! udrefKitn ticluvva 'HOMING CONTORT" Mi in slttm is Hit SMottr "most Be suit it's an authentic WELCOME. E.O.C. STUDENTS! TROTTtlLTW -- ":.:' ll:;biPi' dressing room for 17 minutes after the game. When they were ad mitted, he said, "well, here comes the burial crew." Rigney paused before answering any questions. "If you want to know how I feci, I feel rotten," he said, look ing at the floor. "We'll have to win the rest of them." Only Four Gaines Ltft The Giants, who once held a 4'j game lead over their closest pur suer for the pennant, have only four games left. Tuesday's set back left them two games behind Milwaukee and one behind Los Angeles. For the Cubs, who have been nearly disdainful of the Giants all season, it was the 11th victory GAMES TO BE TELEVISED V0S ANGELES lUPI'-The Los Angeles 'Dodgers ' final t fl r e e games against the Cubs at Chi cago this week end will be tele vised back to Los Angeles "as a public service," it was announced today by club President Walter O'.Malley. The Dodgers normally only televise their games against the Giants at San Francisco. Sites S. Mt. 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The Ti.'ier squad scored in ev ery period of the contest while Mac Hi was able to push across a simile six-pointer with only 14 seconds left on the clcck in the first half. Two halfbacks who have seen varsity action scored two touch downs a piece. Gooch Whittemore romped 15 yards for the first Tiger score and later returned Mac Hi kickoff 85 yards for another six points. Whitlemore's running mate at the halfback spot, Larry Nice, tal lied cn an uff-tackle slant, driv ing 12 yards into the end zone. He sccrcd his second touchdown on the same play this time going .34 yards for the counter. Whittcmcre ran the extra point ever to lead the scorers with 13 points for the day. Rick Gerry scorea a lu on a 25 yard keeper play and was on ihe throwing end of another score. Gerry passed eight yards to end Ron Walk who was all alcne in the end zone. Gerry kicked the extra point after his touchdown. The Tiger JV's tried to kick all except one of their extra points. The Tiger Cubs also had three other TD's called back on penal ties in the (ree-wheeling contest. Coach Curtis Cox making his first start as JV coach said all the kids played pretty well and credited the defensive unit with steady play. what?" and Dark said with a smile that he "would rather not comment." immniG knives VARIETY of SIZES & PRIZES at LA GRANDE Hardware C5 -PLUS 'THE SNORKEL i iSv I