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Show pimiiY mm &m mm h.-L!-Squad -Needs Split ToHoWTop By TOMMIE PORTER Leading ths semlpro Industrial baseball league race by a gain and a half, with eight remaining In the first half, ths Pinney club of Salt Lake City goes to Magna Saturday at 4:30 p. m. to meet the fourth place Millers and Sunday is at home against Provo. . Prevoans at Salt Lake The Provoans, tied with Gemmell of Bingham for second place, will face the Salt Lakers at Community park at 2:30 p. m. Sunday, whila Helper plays at Magna and Dividend Divi-dend at Bingham, the latter games being booked at 4:30 p. m. Pinney will be at home again next Wednesday Wednes-day against Magna under the lights at Community park. Oleadi pttrhtng and fielding Uavs ' kept the Salt Lakers at the top. although the club has been hitting only slightly better than J00. On the other hand, batting power has kept Magna close on the heels of the leaders, with Randy Moeaser hitting .436, Occie Evans .419. Al Shafer Ml and Roldo Call J7S. Moesser. who was hitting JW0 the first of this week, haa slammsd out IT blows for 39 tripe to the plate, while the beat Pinney batsmen are Les Lemon with .407 for 11 hits in 37 turns. Fred Tedesce with -306 and Joe Vecchio with .2M. Pinney needs only a split In Its week-end seriee to hold first place. The Salt Lakers won a prsvious game at Magna 7-3 and dropped a game at Prove a-T two weeks ago. Tap Hitters Meet Sunday's gsma at Bingham matches the two batting leaders of the loop. Al Kastelllc of Gemmell and Em Jensen of Dividend, each having a .444 average for 16 bits In 36 tries. Gemmell, which won a previous gams from Dividend 21-10, haa other good hitters in Frank Kaccaria, .406; Doty Bush. J89: Bill Johnson, MS. and George Slugs, while Dividend's Steve Butler Is batting .414 and Lee Bird .387. Provo haa strengthened its defense de-fense with the addition of Chet Smith, former Coast league performer, per-former, and has displayed some fine hurling Jo stay well up in the race. |