Show V dry canyon HOM homers ers defeat thoele 4 to 2 en in ninth I 1 in a fast well placed played game last thursday the ever improving dry canyon nine under the guidance of clarke johnsen erased a two run deficit in the bottom of the ninth inning and defeated second place tooele thoele by the score of 4 to 2 1 otto graham and george bleab ard played the hero roles by crack ing out tremendous home runs when they were needed the most graham s booming smash came with dale leachm on the sacks and tied the ball game up at 2 each Blea also came with one man on and furnished the necessary runs to win the ball game tooele thoele leads all the way tooele thoele jumped off to a one run lead in the first when third baseman russo singled and scored on richard richards s double from here un til the top of the seventh inning the game settled down into a pit chers cher s duel due with both versal shields on the hill for tooele thoele and wim nelson serving em up for dry canyon mixing up their of f fermes e rings in fine sty style ae dry canyon was unable to get mare than one bingle per inning and shields was wa s awfully stingy with his passes his mates t making any errors behind so the hits t doing any damage nelson was matching him pitch for p until the sev anth when V shields singled went to third on johnny sputniks single and scored on an error on s attempted bunt that gave tooele thoele a two run lead and the way ver sal shields was winging em in there the two runs loomed larger and larger then came the hot bot tom om of the ninth inning finish with A bang wim nelson first man up in the inning popped out to del papa but dale leachm came through with a ringing single over second base that brought up otto graham who had gone hitless in four previous trips but with the count reading two and two otto kissed the nug get and away she flew the ball travelled over the center fielder s head and rolled all the way to the other end of the park for one of the most dramatic home runs hit in league play jack johnson next man up drew a tree free ticket to first but that didn dian t look so bad for too ele when struck out clean up hitter clarke johnsen up to the plate stepped george bleazard former tooele thoele high school athlete george joked over a called strike struck at another and then found one exactly to his 1 king which he drove over the left fielder fielders s head for the second home run of the inning and that was the ball game the loss was tooele thoele s third of the year and automatically gave western chemical center the championship of the first half wim nelson pitching for dry canyon pitched a whale of a ball game issuing no walks striking out 7 and although allowing 10 hits the same number his mates were able to garner off shields he kept them scattered shields with the exception of the ninth when he served up two gopher balls was just as effective and it was a tough ball game for tooele thoele to lose but a mighty sweet victory for dry canyon R R H TT E p tooele thoele 2 10 3 dry canyon 4 10 0 winning pitcher nelson los ing pitcher V shields |