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Show mm bum mmm . dm mmq, ? a Salt-Lakers Cop First Game----Of Series From Pilot Squad; Pocatello Downs Ogden, 9-7 i Kessler Fans Nine , and Arlett Gets Three Blows Pioneer League Woa. Lost Pet. Lawlatoa U PeeaseUs U Twia Falls SaM Lake -J Ovdea l SST.::::.:..... u Friday's Baantts Halt Lake i, Boise 4. Paeatella I, Ogdea T. Lawlatoa at Twi ralla, past- e penrd; rain. Saturday's Scamdole Balae at Salt Lake, Ian. Lewie tea at Twin Fatts (night). Paeatella at Ogdea (night). t BT FBANK K. BAKE Telegraia Sparta Editor After beating tha scrappy Boies Pilots, 6-4. with a ninth inning rally here Friday, the Salt Lake Beea looked forward to another pair of exciting games Saturday and Sunday Sun-day with ths invaders before starting start-ing on nine-day road trip next week. Both games will start at S p. m. FrldaVa asms brought to a dra- r m i '" . . , i ' - ; y.s :, - '; i : " s i jV - A - matie conclusion when Catcher Ken Meyers doubled In ths ninth with ths bases loaded was ths third successive contest to be decided by one run. It was a spectacular battle, featuring fea-turing a fine pitching duel between Lanky Harry Kesslsr of tha Beea, who struck out nine man, and Darren' Dar-ren' Fields, who stranded a doxen Salt Lakera before they finally broke through with tha deciding a runs. Pocatello won at Ogdea Friday, 9-1, to move within fkalf a game of j Lewlston's leaden, who were rained out at Twin Falls. j Tha Pilots pulled ahead, S-X, In the sixth on singles by Walt Lowe and Hank Krause, walks ta Pat Pedlgana and Willie Enoa and a e , stolen base. I Meyers tripled with Neal Artlett i Ken Myers . . . Hii ninth inning double with bases loaded drove in tying and winning runs for the Bees Friday In a 5-4 victory over Boise. Myers had a triple to drive in another run on his previous trip to the plate. aboard to tie tne scors in tns seventh sev-enth and the fighting Invaders lost a run at .the plate in tha eighth , when Enoa waa thrown out by Kessler, who had taken Fields grounder well to the right of tha mound. The Invaders were downright down-right disgusted about losing that run and argued vehemently about the decision, but whsn they got no , place that way, they did the next beat thing by having Eddie Sheahan, the leadoff man, triple Fields homo with what came mighty close to being the winning run. Two sweet Melding plays by Shee- , han at third and Tony Gomes at short stopped a budding rally in the eighth, but the Beea refused to be dismayed even with one out In tha ninth. Larrieu singled to left and Ed Botalho waa struck by a pitched ball as ha pinchhlt for Anderson. An-derson. " A wild pitch movsd both into position po-sition and Ray A Ives was walked aa tha Pilots sought to set tha stags for a double play. Tha Bse answer to that waa Myers' gams ending , double. 4 Manager Eddie Mulligan planned to throw Big Charley Schans at tha Pilots Saturday with tha prospect that Mel Marlowe, a newly signed lefthander, will be Sunday's pitching pitch-ing choice. Andy Harrington, tha Boise skipper, had Larry Rene slated slat-ed for action Saturday. Mulligan waa advised Saturday that John Burleson, a slugging outfielder, out-fielder, is already en route here. Burleson, a left handed sticker, bat- f ted -332 for Tucson last season and ; is expected to give the Beea added punch. He may bo oa hand Sunday. Sun-day. Meanwhile, Artlett has coma out of hla alump with a vengeance and had six straight hits before the . Pilots finally stopped hint after his first two blows Friday. Ha has gathered aevea hits in tha last two daya, Including two triples and a pair of double. Marlowe was a brilliant prospect t at Washington State a couple of years ago, believed to be worth SB000 undelivered. A ls-inning mound aa-aignmsnt aa-aignmsnt one day, followed by a drenching in the rain, shelved him for a time, but he la wall again and la expected to round into a steady ' performer. Frank Nelson waa tha her of tha Pocatello victory. Tha power-hitting power-hitting chuck er burled steady ball and wielded a potent bat to drive la three rune with a double aad a f 4 homo run. |