Show st Sf john Jolin upsets TOD in A 76 7 6 setback sunda sunday y tooele thoele ordnance depot who had previously beaten tooele thoele and western chemical in upsets found the shoe on the other foot when they journeyed over to st john last sunday and were defeated by st john by the slim margin of one I 1 run I 1 norm wan warr drives winning bun run norm warr who has been play ing for st john just since the sec see ond end half began was the boy that drove home the winning run in the last of the eighth inning dan russell was safe at first on an er went to second on another er and scored on norm warr s single st john had previously jumped out to a big three run lead in the first inning on singles by lyman swede russell russells s booming home run they scored once more in the third and twice in the fifth for six runs before they finally put the clincher across in the esth bill russell was the starting and winning pitcher for st john bill pitched a masterful game against the scrappy TOD nine he gave up a total of 14 hits two more than his team mates were able to col lect elect off doug bateman and dick johnston but bill kept his hits well scattered he was in serious trouble in the fourth inning when TOD f broke into the scoring column on four successive singles and 3 runs in the fifth inning TOD got three more hits but they were good for only one run TOD scored one more in the sixth and almost pul led the game out of the fire in the top of the ninth inning when rus bus sell momentarily lost control first man up in this inning doug bateman singled and scored on dick johnston johnstons s double with the score reading 7 6 for st john duck on second and none away looked like mighty rough rowing for st john however russell fore ed bl BI to ground out from pitch to first with johnston going to third russell at this point lost his control and walked her man and dubois to load the sacks dan russell catching for st john let the ball get away from him but tagged out johnston trying to score from third then bill russell sent D ck riding down swinging for the final out of the ball game swede russell bussell big sticker lyman swede russell was the big boy with the bat pounding out a single and a homer in four tries to drive in four big runs vance sagers chipped in with a single and a triple in four trips to drive in two runs every man for st john with the exception of lynn bray got at least one hit to help bill collect the win even though TOD st john they couldn coulden t make their hits count for runs and they ruined what chance they had for a win by making six costly errors behind bateman and johnston while st john was playing errorless ball summary R H E TOD 6 14 6 st john 7 12 0 winning pitcher bill russell busse losing pitcher doug bateman |