Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-08-19 | Page 20 | Rio Grande Beats Tooele to Boost Leading Margin

Rio Grande Beats Tooele To Boost Leading Margin Rio Grande'f defending champions, who previously have held the Salt Lake City amateur baseball crown twice, are only two games from the 1037 title following a 5-1 victory over Tooele City Wednesday Wed-nesday evening while Woodbury was defeating Hunter, 6-2, in a playoff of their 6-6 tie game of Tuesday. One of the games Rio Grande needs to retain the championship for the second straight year something some-thing no team has yet accomplished Is slated Thursday on Municipal diamond No. 2, whsn the Railroaders Railroad-ers meet Woodbury. The other is Sunday, with Crescent, the club that has twice beat and twice tied Rio Grande during the regular season. sea-son. Page Effective Bill Page, veteran righthander, shaded Al Shields of Tootle in Wednesday's Wed-nesday's games as he limited the losers to five hits while Shields was yislding mix. A triple by Max Crewman Crew-man who recently hurled a no-hit. no-run win for Tooele and has sparkled at bat all season and a single by Del Papa gave the Tooele crew a 1-0 lead in the second Inning, In-ning, but Page gave up only three singles thereafter and was backed by flawless defensive play. Rio Grande scored two In the third as Manager Roy Austin drew a walk, advanced on a single by Page and scored on a passed ball. Roldo Call singled to score Page, who had moved up on the paased ball. Franta Trlplra Three hits In the fourth produced two more Railroad runs, as Gene Frants tripled and scored on Armaria Ar-maria Gardner's single. Gardner advanced on a putout and was driven homo by Austin's single. An error, a sacrifice and Lou Tesak'a single scored Call in the fifth to I complete the victory. Each team came up with a double play, but two errors wrecked Tooele's chances, and Page had the game well In hand, striking out 10 batsmen. Woodbury Wins Playing off their tie game, Woodbury Wood-bury scored four runs and Hunter two in the first inning of the other Wednesday game. Two hits and two fumbles helped Hunter gain its runs, but Dittman yielded only two hits thereafter, and fanned six batsmen. bats-men. Two hits, two errors and a walk gave Woodbury its runs m the fir.it, and Chris Rushton was in trouble several times because of difficulty in locating the plate. He walked six batsmen and hit another an-other while giving up seven hits. Nona of the hits was for extra bases. TOOELE C1TT I D. A It O. W. BHOA' BHOA Thomaa. 3u 3 O 1 1 Call. lib... J 1 S3 Paiiovuk. aa 3 0 2 1 Cvana. lb 1 0 4 V Rlnaldl. lb 3 0 S l LTraak. aa 3 1 1 6 Orr..mit.2h 3 12 3 Pram, rf 3 110 DtlPapa, cf 2 1 2 0 Kcttrldsa, If 3 0 0 II Harvrt. e . 3 1 1 0 tUrdner. cf 3 1 O V Harwuod. p 1 O 0 1 Hmhi. lib . 3 0 O 1 Krtrkaon. if A 1 1 0 Aiiatin, c . 2 1 1(111 Narh. rf 2 10 0 Fata, . . 2 10 1 AlvaHhlila.p 1 0 1 It xHnodlrwtih 1 0 0 0: ktrlif man 1 O 0 fl aalack ... 1 0 0 Oj Totala ."iSSIII Totala . 23 4 21 10 xRaitad for Ertrkaon lit 7th. xxHattad for Hnlelda lit 7th. . aHatlati for Naah la 7th. Tooala . OI0 onfl O 1 D. a n. o w. ...oo? 210 1-6 Summary: Krrora (Sraaamaii. Rtualdl. Stolen baaae 11 Papa 2, Call. Sacrifice hlla Evana 2 Thraa-baaa hlta Oraaamajt. Frana. Double playa Call to Tcaak to Evana: Thomaa to tlraaaman to KlnaldL lntilnaa liltchad Hy Harwuod 3 2:1. Ala Hhiclda 3 1-3. Charca dceat to Harwond. Hlluck out - By raaa 10. Harwmtd 1. Ba.ca on btlt.' Ofl Pa.c 1. Harnood 1. Hit with int.-hed hall- Pcuovn-h l.v Phbc. Pa.rcil haila Hcrvct ?. Analio I I'miuraa Barber and Ewms Scorer-. Hanry.