Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-08-19 | Page 19 | Pinney Bows in Tilt for City Crown

Pinney Bows j In Tilt for ! City-Crown BY TELEGRAM SPORTS EDITOB The city's new Softball champion the Equitable Life team, which downed Pinney Beverage, 8-3, in the final game at White park Wednesday Wed-nesday night before 1594 paid admissions ad-missions and approximately 200 other oth-er spectators, is a shining exampk f what good pitching and Inspired team play can do for a club. On paper, the new championship combine has never boasted the "name" players that some of th thsr clubs enjoyed. It had nc Earl Owens with his constant home run threat It had no Reno Smith, whose very presence at the piste Is enough to intimidate many pitchers. pitch-ers. In other words. Equitable has at no time proclaimed itself to be a team of stars, but in the city - eewraamsa 4t Braved iis.ll iM be a star club with every right to enjoy its new-found prestige as champion. Equitable'! trail to the crown has not been easy because it had to dispose of such formidable opposition opposi-tion as Merit Hatters, Lang Welding Weld-ing and finally Pinney, the club which used pert of last year's cham-1 cham-1 pionship Knight Brothers team as the nucleus for this season's club, i Agsinst this kind of competition, i Equitable yielded only four runs and IS hlU and made only one error, an overthrow at second base In the final game, which did not Xigure In the scoring. If there has been an Individual fcero of EquitaWe's championship rise. It is Armand Gunderson. slender slen-der pitcher, who blanked Hatters in the opener, hurled no hit no run ball against Lang in the semifinals and held Finney's sluggers to only Dine blows in the title game. Rivaling Gunderson for Individual Individ-ual honors In the final game was Dave Saley. who pounded out two hits and fielded what to all logic should have been a hit from his No. ' 10 position. M feet behind second base, and threw out Rod Knight at i first In the third Inning with a marvelous peg. ...... Then there was Jack Hardy, whose first inning double put Equitable Equit-able ahead 2-0. and Bert Dunlop. whose aggressive catching has been a bright spot in the team's rise to Importance this year, but in the final analysis It has been the well knit huotkng team that carried Equitable to the crest instead of What any Individual has done. Gunderson recorded 10 strikeouts, getting Schumacher, Bill Simmons, Smith, Callia and Eikrem In the first three Innings. Meanwhile, Equitable got two runs In the first frame on Jorgensen's walk. Saley's i bunt which Pitcher Bill Wiscomb failed to handle; a fly out by Thomas and Hardy's double. Pinney got two runs In the fourth when Wiscomb doubled and scored en Red Knight's single to left Knight in turn, was driven home as Frants tripled. Paul Callis dou-: dou-: bled In the fifth and scored the ty-' ty-' Ing run, 3-3. when Summerhsys doubled dou-bled to left field. Equitable clinched the victory In the fifth with a four-run spree starting on walks to Gunderson and Jorgensen. Saley bounced a hit ever the pitcher's head to load the bags with none out and Walt Little went to Wiscomb's relief. Thomas greeted him with a double over the right fielder's head to acore two runners and Thurman aingled to renter to drive in another tally. Thomas galloped across then with the fourth run as Pinney tried to cstch Thurman off second. Successive singles by Callis. Ralph Knight and Eikrem gave Pinney supporters fsint hope in the seventh, but the rally was nipped in the bud when Callis was ruled out at the plate on Thurman's throw from center. General Electric won the consolation consola-tion race by beating Utah Power ContimiH on Following Pmt)