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Mountaineers Host C Of I On Local Gridiron Tonight By NEIL ANDERSEN Observer StH Writer Eastern Oregon College opens the 19S9 college football season tonight in La (irande when they host the Coyotes of College of Idaho on their home field. "Babe" Brown's Coyote team wilt come to La Grande seeking a repeat win over the Mountain eer. KOC Arch Dunsmoor has his charges primed nd ready to halt the passing attack that pro vided a last quarter victory for the Coyotes in Caldwell last year. The couches aren't the only ones' who can expect a lot of passing. Fans can expect that Charlie Alvaro, the Coyotes pas LA LEADS BRAVES INTO FINAL GAMES United Press International The Los Angeles Dodgers go out to complete the major league's greatest rags-to-riches story in M years today when they send golden armed Johnny Pod res against the Chicago Cubs in an effort ' to clinch the National league pennant. Ahead by one game after a 5-4 victory over the Cubs and the de fending champion Milwaukee Braves' 6-3 loss to the ltiiladel phia Phillies, the Dodgers will clinch the pennant if they win to day and the Braves lose again. A Dodger victory will insure at least a tie for the pennant even should the Braves win their last two games. The third-place San Francisco Giants, rained out in St. Louis last night, now can do no better than tie for the flag. To do that, the Giants mast win tonight's twi night doubleheader plus a finale in St. Louis Sunday while the Dodgers lose their remaining two games and the Braves split. Hodges Homered The big break in one of the most fantastic pennant races of all time apparently came Friday PREP FOOTBALL SCORES By United Press International Jefferson 69. Cleveland 0 Grant 32. Roosevelt 6 Madison 40. Washington 19 Wilson 19, Franklin Lincoln 13. Benson 0 Reynolds 16, Battle Ground. Wash 13 Beaverton 35. Clackamas 6 Central Catholic 12, Hillsboro 0. Willamina 46, Silverton 7 McMinneville 14. Tigard 6 Marshfield 47. Grants Pass Mcdford 51, Orlaiid. Calif., 13 Taft 26, Gold Beach 6 Gresham 13, Astoria 6 Douglas 7, Milwaukie 0 Seaside 21. Rainier 12 Wallowa 35, Pilot Rock 0 Maupin 28, Echo 0 North Salem 13. Corvallis 7 Lebanon 46. Newport 0 Dallas 50. Newberg 2 Corbett 44. Catlin-Gabel 0 Lake Oswego 26, Forest Grove 6 Oregon City 26. Tillamook 20 St. Helens 7. West Linn 6 Jesuit 19. Molalla 6 Parkrose 35. Scappoose S Sandy 19. WyEost 0 Dallas 50, Newberg 2 Sheridan 40, Amity 7 Central Union 22, Canby 7 Eagle Point 33, Douglas 7 Mt. Angel 19, Gervois 8 Elmira 20, Creswell 0 Warrenton 19, Hood River 7 Yoncalla 53, Monroe 6 McEwen Athena 32, Heppner 6 Umatilla 39, Benton county. Wash 6 Jefferson 7, MacLaren 6 North Marion 24, Scio 8 Woodburn 13, Stayton 0 South Salem 19. Albany 6 Cascade 30. Serra Catholic It Grant Union 32. Condon Hermiston 13. Crook county 13 North Eugene 25, Roseburg 20 Philomath 25. Dayton 12 Myrtle Point 32. Siuslaw 6 Estacada 37, Vernonia 7 Mapleton 7. Marshfield JV 0 Gaston 20, Colton 0 Clarkston. Wash.. 35. Mac-Hi 12 Springfield 14. North Bend 12 South Eugene 31, Cottage Grove 0 St. Francis 26, Central Linn 0 Oakridge 33. Pleasant Hill (0 Mosier 7, Arlington 8 Vale 7, Meridian, Idaho Klamath Falls 19, Ashland 8 Elgin 19, Enterprise 0 loue 50, Umapine 6 Weston 52. Helix 28 Riverside 31, St. Joseph's 13 COLLEGE SCORES Minml iFls.l 26 Ttilane 7 Southern Cal. 23 Pittsburgh 0 Iowa St. 28 Denver 12 Fleisher's .i . " - Knitting YAMS Your Guarantee Of Quality HOBBY SHOP 1113 Adams sing star, will be filling the airlast week. with footballs despite the rain that has drenched La Crande the past week. The heavier Coyote line will take full advantage of their wei ght in the soggy footing of the college field. KOC will count on the bull-like charging of John Wulmarth to penetrate any soft spot in tne coyote ueiense. The Mountaineer offense won't be lacking in the passing depart ment when Jon Houk unlimbers his passing arm. Dunsmoor is hoping that Houk will be able to throw over and behind the Coy ote defense in addition to the short passes that worked so well when Gil Hodges' homer gave the Dodgers an U inning triumph and .260-hitter Gene Frees' slugging enabled the Phillies to down Lew Burdette and the Braves. Podres. hero of the 195S World Series which produced the Dodg ers' only world championship team, has the chance to insue Los Angeles its first big league winner today. Podres. 14-8 for the season, is scheduled to face either Dave Hillman '7-11 1 or Art Cee carelll 3-5 . The Braves, backed to the wall, are sending 20-game winner War ren Spuhn against the Phillies' Robin Roberts (15-16) In a game they absolutely have to win to stay alive. The Giants, who may be mathematically eliminated be fore they ever take the field at St. Louis, have tentatively slated Sam Jones (20-151 and Jack San ford (15-121 to go against the Cardinals' Vinegar Bend Mizell 13-9 1 and Larry Jackson ( 13-13 1 No National League team ever has gone from seventh place in one year to first the next and the only team in major league annals to achieve that rise was the tan kees of 1925 to 1926. Hodges, who hit a two-run sixth- inning double, homered off Bill Henry in the 11th to give Norm Sherry his sixth win and put the pressure squarely on the Braves who played a night game in Mil waukee. Wally Moon also ho mered for the Dodgers and Sam my Taylor and Ernie Banks ho mered for th? tubs. Allowed Four Hits The Phillies touched 21 game winner Burdette for two runs in the first inning and went ahead, 6-1, In the third while Freese cli maxed with his three-run homer. Jack Meyer, who took over from Don Cardwell in the fourth, al lowed the Braves only four hits over the last 5 2-3 innings to win his fifth game against three loss es. The defeat was Burdette's 15th. The Yankees gained a crumb for their 1959 efforts when they clinched third place in the Ameri can league with a 5 2 victory over the Baltimore Orioles. The Detroit Tigers beat the American League champion Chicago White Sox, 8-5. the Cleveland Indians downed the Kaisas City Athletics. 1-2 and 8-7, and the Boston Red Sox routed the Washington Sena tors, 10 4. in other AL activity. Elgin Blanks Enterprise ELGIN i Special i Elgin hand ed Enterprise their third defeat of the season last night, 19 0. Jerry Crouscr scored twice In the third period on passes from Fred Sayre after Bob Showers had given Elgin a 60 lead in the first period on a 23 yard romp. Showers added the extra point after Crouser's first TD on a line smash. Elgin rolled up 347 yards total offense. Showers and his broth er, Bill, accounted for 169 yards of the 209 gained running. Sayre, who completed 12 of 24 attempts. accounted for 138 yards through the air. The scoring tosses to Sayre cov- I Good News for Two-Car Families! on bodily Injury and property damage o collision coverage medical payments FARMERS INSURANCE GROUP AUTO LIFE FIRE TRUCK Dong Holman Insurance s"a. HOT Adams Rain. rain, gj away" is Duns- moor's favorite song as the Moun taineer fquad prepares for to nights grid clash. The Mountain eer mentor, whose squad will go into the game as an underdog, thinks that the rain can only add to the Coyotes advantage. Dunsmoor will start Chuck Hughbanks and Phil Miller at the ends; Bob Salter and Dean Keefer at tackles; Jim Neece and Butch Corey at the guards; and Bill McCaddcn at center. The backfield will lineup with Houk at the quarterback slot and George Aliverti and Jerry Willi ams at the halfback posts. Will nurth will start at the fullbatU spot. rh r-nvute sauad will have two changes from the starting bunch in last weeks victory. Ken Leonard and Joe Ho will open at end; Del Smith and Jer ry Ball get the starting nod at tackle; Norm Davis and John Eimers are the guards and Boh McNary starts at center. Along with the pin point pass ing of Alvaro at the quarterback slot, the Coyotes will have Gary i nnnin at fullback. Larry Ander son, a former Baker prep star will start at the left halltiacK spot and Gordon Cochnour will fill tut the backfield. (iame tune is scheduled for B p.m. Riding Clubs Hold Annual Horse Show The 18th annual Inter-Club Horse Show if scheduled (or the Elgin Stampeder'i grounds next Sunday. Members of riding clubs in La Grande (Mavericks), Union i Range Riders). Baker (Sheriff's Possei, and Elgin will compete in a series of events for a trophy. Action in the one-day show will begin at 1 p.m. The clubs will compete for points in a tony express relay, half-mile race, quarter mile race, calf roping, wild cow milking, Texas barrel race, cow hide race, rescue race, pole bending and other events. A trophy will be awarded to the club with the most total points at the end of the day's ac tivities. There were 56 competitors in last year's show and more than 60 are expected to perform this year. Admission is 25 cents for chil dren, 75 cents for adults or $2 for the entire family. Wallowa Stops Pilot Rock WALLOWA Special) Wal Iowa scored in every period to blank Pilot Kock 344 on the Wal Iowa field last night. Bob Wood scored three touch downs to lead Wallowa to the win. Wood galloped 45 and 50 yards for two of his scores and plunged four yards the third. Gale Prince returned a punt 70 yards for another six pointer and Bill Dougherty raced 45 yards for the final six points. Prince, Wood, Larry Collins and Gayle Willett accounted for the four extra points. Wallowa rolled 268 yards rush ing to Pilot Rock's 70 and picked up another 53 yards through the air. Pilot Hock gained only three yards on one completion in two attempts while Wallowa's yard age came on one successful ef fort in as many trys. The first downs favored Wal lowa eight to five. Wallowa 14 7 6 734 Pilot Rock 0 0 0 00 ered 12 and eight yards. Bill Showers picked up uu yards on the ground and brother Bob galloped tor 7. The Eluin defense led by Bruce Reed and Larkin Conatscr, held Enterprise in chock all night and. Enterprise never mounted a threat. Phi 10 Extra Discount to ' Accident-Free Drivers I (lf thtrt l.-e no unmtrrit mal9 0riY9rt vndrr K ytarsj . . . Opposite Post Office I Nail Anderson Observer, La Grande, Ore., aiav DIRECTS EOC Jon Houk, Mountaineer, quarterback, will direct the EOC attack when they entertain College of Idaho here tonight. Houk, a sophomore from Stan field, will be matching passes with Charlie Alvaro, one of the top small college passers last year. Game time is set for 8 p.m. COVE WHIPS IMBLER IN 'PRO' COVE (Special Cove and Imb ler threw defense out the window yesterday afternoon as Cove stop ped Imbler 56-40 in a professional offensive display. The two teams swapped touch downs more often than the ball as Cove's Rich Robinson and Imb ler's Jim Beck both scored three times each. The two prime offen sive threats rolled up - huge chunks of yardage as they paced their teams up and down the field but in the final analysis it was the passing arm of Frank that brought victory to the Leopards. Beck scored on runs of 65. 60 and one yard while Robinson scooted 70 yards on a kickoff re turn, 50 and three yards for his scores. Conley, who completed 12 of 23 attempts, tossed four scoring aerials. He hit John Haggerty twice for 20 yards and six point ers, Dave Gassoway was on the receiving end of another 20 yard toss and Jim Mansfield scored 6 points on a pass-run play that covered 55 yards. Doug Carper and Haggerty each counted for one extra point for Cove. Beck tossed a 25 yard scoring pass to M"rrill Gorham, Joe Wes tenskow hit Gorham for a 40 yard scoring play and Bob Brook shire busted over the middle on a five yard scoring play for Imb ler. Beck totaled 20 points for the day and picked up 240 yards rush ing. He got 186 yards in the first half and 54 in the second. Robin son picked up 187 yards in 10 rushes to account for all but 20 yards of Cove's running yardage. Imbler out gained Cove 464 to 450 yards. Imbler picked up 136 yards through the air and 328 on the ground. Cove gained only 208 GET TOGETHER With The FELLOWS I GIRLS for TASTY SNACK at tho HIWAY CAFE After PkwtV The uii Game Tonight... OBSERVER Sat., Sept. 26, 1959 Pags 2 " v' s VICTORY yards on the ground but picked up 243 yards on Conley a 12 com pletions. ' Dave Peroz added two points to the Imbler score with a drop kick for the extra point following Gorham s first touchdown. ' ' Imbler scored first in the con test but Cove marched back to tie. The two teams swapped touchdowns through the first per iod with the score ending 19-19. Cove 19 18 12 754 Imbler 19 8 6 740 PENNANT RACE AT A GLANCE i United Press International National League Pennant Race United Press International W. L. Pet. OB. TP. Los Angeles 85 67 .559 . Milwaukee 84 68 .553 1 San Francisco 82 69 .543 2' 3 Games remaining: Los Angeles Away 2 at Chicago i2i. Sept. 26. 27. Milwaukee At home (2 vs Philadelphia 2. Sept. 26, 27. ban Francisco Away (3), at St. Louis 3 1 . Sept. 26 (2 games i, 27. RAMS RELEASE TWO LOS ANGELES lUPIl-Place-kicking specialist Paige Cothren and linebacker Clancy Osborne Tho better your homo COLLEGE Think of us when you think of quality for quality is all we ever think of when we think of you! MEMBER WESTERN GLOBE FURUITURE Panthers Squeeze By La Grande, 7-0 (Editor's Note: Bill Thomp son, ttertt editor of The Band Bulletin, handled coverage o the La Grande-Redmond loot ball ram last night at Red mond.) By BILL THOMPSON Observer Soocial Writer REDMOND 'Special) It was a perfect night for the Redmond Panthers and their rooters last night. There was a capacity crowd on hand on the Panthers new turfed field, the lights worked to perfection and, best of all, the Panthers beat the heavier La Grande Tigers, 7-0. The victory was a big one for Coach Gale Davis' Panthers for it gave them the inside track in the fight to upset favored Pendle ton in the new Intermountain League. The big Redmond hero was un heralded Mike Kleen, who raced 32 yardi through the middle of the Elgin Starts Roller Hockey League Play "ELGIN (Special) ' Teams are being formed and leagues estab lished for roller hockey at the Eastern Oregon Playland in El gin, according to Mr. and Mrs. Dale Hargett. Sponsors are outfitting teams in sweatshirts as uniforms for the upcoming league play. Both boys and girls teams will compete in the lport. ' - Monday night has been set aside as the night for league play and teams from Eastern Oregon are invited to compete. It is the hope of the roller hockey teams to interest other towns in the sport and to establish competition between the towns. Each team has four players and a substitute. A change of 50 cents provides skaters with equipment at well is admission for the Monday compe tition. Standings United Press International American League W Pet. GB Chicago Cleveland New York Detroit " ' Boston Baltimore Kansas City Washington 92 89 79 76 73 .605 . .588 3 .520 13 .500 16 .480 19 .474 20 .427 28 .417 29 63 73 78 79 72 80 64 88 63 89 Results Friday's Detroit 8 Chicago 5 Cleveland 9 Kansas City 2 (1st game, twilight i Cleveland 8 Kansas City 7 (2nd game, night Boston 10 Washington 4 (night) New York 5 Baltimore 2 (night) National League W. L. Pet. GB Los Angeles Milwaukee San Francisco Pittsburgh Chicago Cincinnati St. Louis 85 67 84 68 82 69 78 74 73 79 72 80 69 82 64 88 .539 . .553 1 .543 24 .513 7 .480 12 .474 13 .457 15 4 .421 21 Philadelphia Friday's Results Los Angeles 5 Chicago 4 (11 inns) Philadelphia 6 Milwaukee 3 San Francisco at St. Louis, night, ppd., rain (Only games scheduled) have been released on waivers by the Los Angeles Rams of the Na tional Football League. tho bettor your living FOOTBALL Mountics Meet College of Idaho College football officially gets un derway hero tonight with tho Eos tern Oregon College Mountains rs meeting the always-strong College of Idaho eleven on tho college field. Kickoff time Is o'clock. FURWTURI STORES stout La Grande line to post the only score of the night with 5:18 left in the second period. The Panther drive starttd on their own eight-yard line after they had contained a La Grande surge. Klein, although listed ns an end. came in for halfback Justin King. Kleen and halfback Rob Osborn were the big men in th drive. Osborn contributed a 20 yard run that matched an earlier scamper of 20 yards. Rermond topped La Grande in the' rushing department, 189 to 162, but La Grande had 43 yards passing to non? for Redmond and the Tigers lead in total offense, 205-189. Two fumbles ruined La Grande scoring opportunities and a clip ping penalty halttd another Tiger chance. Redmond recovered a Tiger fum ble with minute left in the sec ond quarter after the Tigers drove to the Panther 25-yard stripe. La Grande started another drive in the third period, losing on a fumble at the Panther 26 yard line with six minutes left in the period. The Tigers were moving again late in the fourth period only to get set back on a 15-yard clipping penalty. Still the Tigers weren't through. Starting on their own 24, the Tigers moved to the Redmond 25 with only 2:80 showing on the clock. A 17-yard pass play from Dave Carman, top ground gainer for La Grande, to end Dele Peter son, was the big play on the march, -T The Redmond line stiffened and the Panthers took over on downs. Redmond tried to run out the clock but were forced to punt. La Grande took over but four desperation passes were incom plete as the game ended. 1 Bulldogs Halt Halfway, 32-14 UNION (Specmli Union s Bull dogs gave up a 7 point lead in the first period then roared back to defeat Halfway 3214. Doug McConkie scored twice to pace the Bulldog offense and Dave Ranton, Alan Livingston and Tom Cox each scored single TD's. Halfway jumped into the lead when Doug Groven picked up a blocked put and car.-ied it into the end zone to score. McConkie tallied his first six pointer at the end of a drive from eight yards out. He put Union ahead minutes later with a four yard dive following another Union march. Ranton picked up a blocked punt and returned it 22 yards to pro vide the winning touchdown for the Bulldogs. Livingstone and Cox scored on plunges of four and six yards. Halfway picked up another TD in the fourth period on an inter cepted pass returned 35 yards. Union picked up 243 yards rush ing to 97 for Halfway and recorded 10 first downs to three. Ends Toniie: Mill Ml' l ncunmu ' '""U KICK UP YOUR u 1 f I T ' 1 CinmaScopE COLOR &tmJr GARY crosby iV PAUL HENREID : HIV CAROL LYNLEY PLUS Oklahoma Poisoning Draws FBI United Press International Mighty Oklahoma, weakened by," a "whodunit" food poinsoning case, J that even interested the FBI,. - faced Northwestern today in a na- tionally-televised game signaling, ? the first full-scale weekend of the - college football season. Twenty members of the Okla- homa squad became ill after din- " ing at a Chicago night club Thurs-. day night. Six players, including three starters, had to be hospi-. ' talized and coach Hud Wilkinson admitted he wouldn't know unliK game time, 2 30 p.m. e.d.t.,. "whether my regulars would be ready to play." Chicago authorities said the ' food served the Oklahoma play: , ers at the night club was ex- amined for poisons and the re- suits were negative. Another anal" ysis was being conducted in Evan--ston. a Chicago suburb, where the players ate lunch at a hotel. . Stopped Taking Bet It was reported that gamblers ' may have poisoned the players' food in an attemot to make a . "killing" at the expense of high- ( betting Oklahomans who traveled . to Chicago for the game. In fact, -Chicago and New York bookies' were so suspicious they stopped" taking bets on the intersectional ; clash. Oklahoma was ranked second ', in the UP1 ratings this week and was a 5'j point favorite against ' Northwestern before the bookies slopped taking bets. Top-ranked Louisiana State was an eight-point pick over invading Texas Christian, while third- . ranked Wisconsin opened its sea son as a nine-point favorite over invading Stanford. Army Favored Army, placed sixth in the UPI, ratings before shedding its praci ticc togs, was a 20 point favorite to present rookie head coach Dale . Hall with an opening game vic tory over Boston College. The Eagles dropped a 24-8 decision to Navy last week, so the Cadets will be out to improve on that performance. Southern California, considered the best in the West this season, -launched the top-heavy weekend schedule by whipping invading ' Pittsburgh, 23-0. Friday night. Turkey Shooi SUNDAY, SEPT. 27 Shooting Starts At 10 a.m. LA GRANDE RIFLE CLUB Starkey Road Range "HERCULES" Also "THE SNORKEL" STARTS SUNDAY TV? WO 3-3711 Adorns and Hemlock Phono WO 3-5414 East Adams Avt.