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Show Gub Nine Dominates Big Four Race South Downs East, 13-7 Continuing their winnig streak, the South high nine dumped the hapless Leopards for the secand time this week, 13-7, to stay atop of the "Big Four" race. Yesterdays Yester-days contest was played on the Municipal ball diamond at 3 p. m. The hard hitting Cubs started the first inning with three runs. Dick Cornelous started on the mound for the Cubs and was relieved re-lieved in the fifth frame by Sonny Son-ny Pratt who finished the battle. Don Brewer, and little Dick Powers were the big; guns at the plate for the Cubs. Brewer hit four out of five trips to the plate, and Powers hit one less in four trips. Jack Bale and Bob Story-managed Story-managed to get two bingos yesterday yes-terday afternoon. This stretched the Cub winning; streak to 12 straight in three years. If the Cubs win the next game with West, they will qualify for the state championship. The season started with an 8-0 victory over Bingham. Pitching Pitch-ing 3-hit ball, Peterson struck-out struck-out 16 Bingham batsmen in an orderly fashion. The Cubs collected collect-ed 10 hits off Montoya, the visitors visi-tors pitcher, which included home runs by Bob Story and Jerry Dale-bout. Dale-bout. A third bagger by Don Brewer and a double by Peterson, plus Jack Bail getting 3 for 4 added to the miner's woes. Dominating the entire tussle, the Cubs were never seriously threatened, and took the win in their stride. Proving that they had a good team even without Peterson, the Cub nine added another victory to their belt by tumbling East 4-1. Brewer blasted a homer into in-to left field in the second inning for the Cubs first run. He and Thomas dominated in the batting-department, batting-department, each getting 2 for 4. Although South gathered 10 hits to the Eastsiders 3. Walkingshaw proved his worth as a pitcher pouring it on the entire 9 frames . for 15 strikouts. Victory number 3 was a close call for the Cubs, winning by a slight margin of 9 to 8 giving West the defeat. Two pitchers were needed to overpower the hard driving Panthers. Sonny Pratt started out and did a nice job up to the fifth inning, but then West got his number and he was relieved by "Windy" Jepson, who weathered the rest of the storm, and managed to come out on top. Errors were flying thick and fast in the last half of the second sec-ond inning, when South piled up 6 tallies, but hard driving West soon tied the score at 6 all. From there on out it was a matter of who could hit the hardest. |