Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-09-07 | Page 12 | Vaughan Soffe Most Brilliant in Tournament

1 V Vaughan Soffe Most Brilliant In Tournament Vaughan Soffe former football luminary from Jordan high school gave the most brilliant performance of any player in inthe the opening days day's combats of the they 1 state amateur baseball ment The sturdy Logan Elks back back- q stopper should bc be bea a fine candidate for a tryout with witha a big league club next spring Teaming perfectly per per- per Xi with Pete Evans as the Elks Elks' tripped the de defending jit de-jit 4 fending S state t ta a t champion Di crew 1 0 Vaughan Soffe Vaughan worked his post in smooth fast style which marked him as the outstanding performer of the day Ho kept runners close to first base throughout the game being responsible responsible sible in a great measure for the failure failure fail fail- ure of any Dividend runner to reach second El EI 11 Drysdale also played brilliantly bril bril- holding holdIng- down the initial Hack for the Elks in a very effIcient efficient ef ef- ef- ef manner Lanky Pete Evans Evans Ev Ev- Ev- Ev ans ails gave ave up only two hits and ad was credited with five e assists ashe as ashe ashe he fielded his position neatly A heavy downpour of rain which halted the St. St George Wasatch encounter encounter encounter en en- counter thoroughly soaked the diamond diamond diamond dia dia- mond and caus caused d a delay of near nearly two hours After the rain subsided sawdust and gasoline were sprinkled on the base paths and ignited The result was fairly firm irm ground but the burned sawdust effectively hid the foul lines and on two occasions proved decidedly embarrassing to catchers as the Ule ball on a wild pitch for the third strike fell inside theba the ba batsman's mans man's box and blended with its background I Ball BalI Disappears On the first of at these incidents Fred Bailey of at Ephraim reached first safely while Catcher Bill Wick- Wick wire looked in vain for the pellet I In the next inning of ot the same game Bill Kehl scampered to first as Bailey in turn lurn hunted for the vanished sphere Seeks Fly Vainly Confused by the low hanging clouds the wild shouts of the crowd and probably by some birds flying by Center Fielder Joe of ot Ephraim looked vainly toward the sky for Jar the ball when Pitcher Cliff Clift Olsen threw v into the center garden gardenin in an attempt to catch Gene Frantz at off second Neither either the shortstop nor the second baseman was near the throw Lee sparkled forthe for foi the Dividend club with some lome of the finest stops and throws seen from the shortstop position this season Tim Tini Richards winning In the final game of the 1934 1931 tournament appeared Friday as catcher for the champions champions cham chain and worked his Isis position in excellent style Diminutive Gene Ludlow twirled a nice game for Pinney and contributed contributed con con- fon d a a. single and a double own victory Lindy took hitting bitting honors for tor the day with three singles in three times to drive in three Pinney runs and scored two tallies himself l