Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-05-24 | Page 27 | Walkers' Bank Beats Zion State National

WALKER'S BANK BEATS ZION STATE NATIONAL j The employees of Walker Brothers ! Bankers maintained their leadership of 1 1.000 per cent In the Bankers" league by bringing the Zlon's State National nine. : to an ignominious defeat yesterday afternoon after-noon at the municipal grounds. Tenth 1 South and Eighth East streets. For the : first three or four innings both teams I played loosely, during which time the i Zionites scored seven of their eight runs. 1 From then on they were wholly at the ! mercy of Carl Spangberg, who pitched j a brilliant game for the Walker nine, striking out three men consecutively for three or four innings. Johnson, for Zlon's, pitched 'good ball, but the Walkers were too much for him, hitting hlrn freely when hits meant runs. The bleachers were crowded with enthusiastic en-thusiastic rooters for either side, and not until Spangberg, In the first half of the ninth inning struck out two men and concluded the game by a put-out on first base, did their echoing cheers cease to fill the air. The score was 10 to 8, in favor of Walker's, with the last inning to spare. Fitzgerald, fifst base, and Egan, third base, played splendid ball for Walker's, while Bloomfleld showedexcehent Judgment Judg-ment and accuracy In handling the balls behind the bat.