Show st john wins ath game by downing soldiers Al thought novt hit 10 to 5 st jjohn john edged out TOD military by I 1 the score of 6 to 5 thanks to an error and five walks all of which f figured in the scoring st john couldn coulden t solve the offerings of the military starting pitcher for more than one hit in any one inning but he was very generous with his free passes to first base a and d it proved to be his down fall no earned buns runs all six st john runs were un earned in the top of the second inning bill russell was safe on an error then went to second on a walk given up to lyman russell he went to third on another error and scored on a wild pitch in the fourth inning lyman rus sell and ross russell were given free trips to first and both scored on dan russell russells s single again in the fifth inning they took full ad vantage of their big gun the walk to score twice more vance sagers walked orson johnson walked then both scored on bill russell russells s hit on the mound for the military d t issue a free pass in the sixth inning result no st john runs but in the ath he walked the first man to face him vance sagers who w went ent to third on cal greens green s doub double le and scored what proved to be the winning inning run on a passed ball in the game all the way TOD military was in the game all the way arid add even had a one run lead after the first inning but they couldn coulden t crack out hits as fast as they made errors and issued walks so they had to settle for the short end of the score st john took over the lead in the top of the seventh but in the military half of the inning the soldier team struck back and near ly pulled the game out of the fire first man up in the inning thomp son lined what looked to be a sure bitout hit out over shortstop but bill rus sell leaped high in the air going to hit right and pulled the ball out of the zone browand next man up got himself a single and went to third on bulls double with men on second and third and only one away it looked like a cinch win for st john but chucker pendle ton caught browand napping at third base and picked him off portwood singled and bull went to third but before military could get any runs across pendleton made weaver fly out to center f eld to end the game meno had a pair of s agles in his three trips browand got 2 for 4 including a triple and portwood had 2 f for or f four our to lead TOD at the plate in their losing cause for st john it was bill russell who turned in the fielding play of the game scored one run and knocked in two more tallies to es cablish himself as the fair haired boy score by innings R II 11 E 5 S john 0 1 0 2 2 0 1 6 5 2 TOD mil 1 0 0 1 0 3 0 5 10 2 |