Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-01-01 | Page 16 | Price Baseball Team Cops Title in Eastern Loop

I Price Baseball T Teath I earn earn Cops tops O IT Title hue In Eastern Loop I Elmer Haacke e Stars With Sensational Work on Mound With tue the coming of ot 1928 there passes into laW history the greatest sport year ever witnessed by Calbon Car Car- Carlion lion hon county baseball fans Price won the title o of the league and was forced to play first Urs class ball halt in order to defeat the tho other well balanced balanced bal bal- bab- bab nines Starting out with few veterans and few men who vho ho came highly recommended to tho the local baseball management the squad learned that individuality is not the keynote of ot success and went on from there thereto to play some some of or the most sensational sensational sensational sensa sensa- baseball in this state Sensational Sensational Sen Sea pitching of Elmer Haacke e a stocky chucker of a submarine delivery who was Imported from Salt Lake and nd who incidentally pr proceeded to show the fans of this section exactly how baseball sh should uld be pitched 28 VICTORIES Price baseball team during dui the season geason won twenty eight ball bail games It was defeated five times while engaged in its sensational tide of victory victors and these defeats were iere sc scattered One of them came caine at the hands of the Sunnyside Cokers another was handed out by Hiawatha two b by and the remaining defeat front from rom the Ail Ail- Star squad which played in Price during fair fall week During this I sensational run of victories Price I scored runs while the opposition opposition I tion was counting markers markets I. I Haacke Baacke set the strikeout record for the league on June 26 when he i whiffed sixteen of the Castle Gate nine H He fanned fifteen on four tour I occasions and pitched the greatest brand of ot ball which has ever been I exhibited in this section 1 Bills who managed the squad during the season also managed to win a pair of ot contests with timely base hits hils In the pinches His Ifs base I running was a feature of the waning wan wan- tag ing days of ot the season and a great deal of credit i is due him for his play throughout the year I