Show Cub Rally Ruins Bulldogs Bulldogs- In Fre Free Hitting Hitting Fro Fracas cas By Bill J Johnston Fighting an uphill battle all the way South highs high's victory-hungry victory Cubs posted an Impressive 8 12 decision over the visiting Provo Bulldogs Thursday afternoon in an filled action-filled slugfest played on the Cub diamond the first Big Eight league eague game for both teams Glen Moose South's gigantic left-hander left had his whiff ball jail working overtime sending 10 Bulldog players back to to the bench via the strike out route When he wasn't fanning one of ol the Provo- Provo ans ails however his fat pitches usually coming with the count against him were were hammered around and about the State street Th The Green and White boys bounced to an early run four four le d donly only to have the Cubs come back backor for or three runs to narrow the margin margin margin mar mar- gin considerably Provo scored two more quick ones ones to Ito take a commanding 6 3 lead which looked at the time to be very com comfortable South kept pecking away and came through in tho the sixth inning with a squeeze bunt play with th the e bases loaded that tied score 66 6 Provo Jumped ahead once again 8 6 and South retaliated retaliate with two more to knot the count Going into the eighth inning all tied up Coach Jimmy Gilbert in inserted in- in his ace Rod MacDonald Big Rod applied the whitewash t to the in the top of the eighth and his mates rattled the imaginary boards in the botto bottom m half of the inning for four runs run and the winning margin All in all the Cubs combed the offerings of the Provo pitcher fo for or r I 16 safeties over an Inning eight a g span The Bulldogs got to Tre Tre- seder and MacDonald for lor 15 bin bin- files MacDonald struck out three of the during his two- two inning tenure on the mound Lamar Brown Pr Provos Provo's vos vo's around all-around athlete stepped Int into one one e of Tre- Tre seders seder's high hard ones and managed managed man man- aged to scamper all the way home on the blow The latent power in the Cub bats took ook a little while to show Itself but mentor Gilbert was well pleased leased with what he saw The kids elds were confident from the start and deserve credit for lor a job well done The Bulldog crew gave warning warnIng warn- warn Ing ng to the rest of the league that they're going to be tough ough They've got a well balanced outfit and with a c couple of games under their bel belts s and the knowledge that tha will twill come with experience the remaining remaining re- re remaining re re- teams on their schedule can look for some very rough aft aft- |