Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-08-30 | Page 12 | Holsum Defeats Gemell, 4-1

HOLSUM DEFEATS DEFEA TS 1 LL 11 Earn Chance To Play for League Flag Winners Will Battle Royals Royal in Five Game Series Starting Starting Start Start- ing Sunday Economical use of ot their five live hits bits and clever clevet base running brou brought ht Hoisum Hol Hoi Holsum sum Bakers the second half hal cham in the theS S state t tat a t e Industrial r- r ague Wednesday as as the Salt Lakers beat Gemmell club I I of ot Bingham 41 4 in R j f JL a single game play I l. l oU of a tie at Com J park 7 In beating Gem m. m the Salt Lakers Lakers Lak ers downed their q c greatest nemesis o othe of the season for they had lost five of ot their six league encounters w with I t h Clare Cline Evans the Wednesdays Wednesday's triumph trio tri entitles Holsum to m meet t Royal winner of ot the first half hall in a five five- game series for tor the league pennant The series will start with a doubleheader doubleheader double double- header at Community park Sunda Sunday afternoon One game will wUl also be played Mon Monday ay Labor day and the theother theother theother other two i if needed will ill be slated Sunday September r 16 Holsum bunched its five live hits well vell Wednesday and took Tull uIl advantage of four of-four four Gemmell misplays Gene ne Fish fanned seven seveno of the Salt Lakers and was nicked for only five live hits but three of them went for extra bases and as a result Holsum converted allbut all allbut allbut but one of its blows blows blows-a a double by Pitcher Mel Scott in the thIrd into third into runs Two Two prodigious blows blows blows-a a triple by Griffith to the Scoreboard and Clare Ciare Ev Evans Evans' ns home borne run over over the center fielders fielder's head bead with two men out produced out produced two runs In Inthe Inthe Inthe the fifth Evans hit home plate less than a a. step ahead of the throw The got their run In Inthe Inthe I the he third when Billy Johnson rifled the he first of two singles into left field lIe He Ic went to second on a a- wild pitch and beat Engberg's throw to third as Fish dumped a bunt down the third base line Bailey Baney brought him home with a smash to short hort which Capelle managed to stop only to throw throwaway away Santy romped along to third but Bush rolled out outto outto outto I to second to stop further scoring Hits lilt Open Inning Scott allowed only two hits there there- after Johnson got one to the filth fifth and was sacrificed to second by Fish but both Webb and fouled out Bush Busti got the other to open the sixth but Jack Smith and Kastellic failed to g ge the ball out of the infield Fish struck Chatwin Owen and Engberg out In a row In the sixth and the Gemmell backers had bad plenty of ot reason for renewed hope after that demonstration In the seventh however the Club men l became overanxious and two Bakers scored cis as the result of ot daring base ase running Pete Dow beat out a ablow ablow ablow blow to short and went to second when Johnson bounced the peg past the he first baseman Capelle bounced to o Jack Smith who juggled the ball and both hands were safe Dow moving log ing to third thira Capelle stole second Dow Dashes Home Griffith fIled flied filed but to barely off the grass beyond third and Dow was off on a daring dash to the plate The b ball ll was there a half halt step ahead of ot the fleet outfielder but it hopped lazily and Dow hit the plate plat with a beautiful slide falling entirely out of the catchers catcher's reach C. C Capelle pelle got to on the play and anddrew anddrew anddrew drew a throw out of Webb as the latter lat latter ter took Scotts Scott's foul near the grand grand' grandstand stand The peg was wide and Capelle Ca Ca' Capelle pelle who had merely faked the sprint print for home had an easy jaunt to the plate with th Holsum's Hoisum's fourth run Owen made a line fine catch of Bushs Bush's long foul near the fence in the first inning and Al Kastellic stole a hit from Anderson with a spectacular catch after a hard run in the same lame frame Win 12 Out of 14 U Dow capped the fine outfield performance performance per per- performance by grabbing fly barely beyond the second baseman's reach after alter a spectacular dash Scott held scoreless Sunday as Holsum won to tie Gemmell givIng lug Ing him a mark of ot only one run allowed al ale allowed lowed in the last 18 innings I Wednesdays Wednesday's victory was Holsum's twelfth in the last 14 games