Show sf st john wins 1st same game in second half st john won its first game of the second half sunday afternoon as them defeated TOD mi mil tary by the score of 13 55 at st john the W win n was the first for st john in the second half and brought their stand ng up to an even after bowing to the powerful n ne wednesday st john bounced back to thoroughly slap the hapless soldiers A new pitcher norman warr was the boy that turned the trick for st john as he I 1 cited the military to just three hits in the seven innings that he worked warr struck out 13 batters walked just one and allowed only three runs to get credit for the win bill russell finished up on the hill for st john and even though he was wild in the eighth inning al lowing military to score two runs thanks to a pair of walks and a I 1 single he finally found the range and retired the side in 1 2 3 order in the n nth inning ice the game in the fourth st john scored once in the first inning when orson johnson was safe 01 on an error and scored on bill russell russells s double they scored twice in the third on a walk and a brace of doubles by B russell and swede russell military scored once in the third and twice in the fourth and it was a t ed up ball game until st john came to bat in their half of the fourth after one man was out jack evans started d the ball a 11 roll ng with a ginglen single N warr wa walk ll 11 k ed and V sagers singled C green skied out to left field 0 johnson walked and bill russell doubled followed by a single by swede rus sell before bray grounded out to end the inning summary for the inning showed four hits and five runs and that was the ball game new found round batting punch apparently st john has out of the batting slump that dog ged them all during the first half as they continued to pound the ball in this game just as they did against they scored four more runs in the fifth inning and added single insurance runs in the seventh and eighth innings to make it a rosy road for pitchers warr and russell bill russell who is probably the best fielding shortstop in the lea gue is at last beginning to smack the apple and banged out three for five all three hits were doub les bill scored twice himself and chased five runs across the plate norm warr was more than ef on the hill and with a new found chukker serving em up for st john to go along with their re discovered batting punch st john bids to better their first half won and lost record of 6 and eight first baseman polaski for TOD military was the only threat that they offered at the plate as he col lecter a pair of singles in four trips to the plate summary R if E military 5 6 3 st john 13 11 3 winning pitcher norman warr wary losing pitcher belote umpires R maxfield green |