Show I 1 0 U A as by A T roberts chronicle sports editor TWO WINS fop FOR PERCHES THEM FIRMLY ATOP COUNTY LEAGUE STANDINGS two easy victories fo for r western chemical over the weekend put them way out in fro front nt of the pack in the race for seco second nd half honors in the tooele thoele county league the two victims victim of the powerhouse chemical club club were TOD military who were buried under 26 1 fri fn day july 30 and combine metals who went down 17 7 in a sunday afternoon encounter 26 TOD military I 1 myron snag herd who has been away on a furlough all dur ing the second half was the start ing and winning pitcher for the rampaging chemical nine and mgt 1st class herd turned in a mighty neat performance allow ing only five hits while striking out ten and issuing but one free pass to first he was robbed of a shutout in the sixth inning when red jones tripled and came home on thompson Thomp sons s single but other than that herd had easy sailing as the chemical boys found swear ington s offerings to their liking and pounded the ball long and hard summary T R TT V E 10 26 22 0 military 0 1 5 11 winning pitcher herd losing pitcher I 1 combine 7 in a game that saw the score tied up twice before really unloaded for two runs in the sixth inning and eight big markers in the seventh chemical won their second game in three days as they overwhelmed combine metal 17 7 sunday at bauer bus harwood toed the rubber for and posted win number eleven for himself bus looked bet ter in this game than he has for a long ong tar time n e as he sent a total of seventeen batters down via the strike out route while allowing only three walks 4 strike outs in one innings bus harwood had FOUR stake strike outs in the sixth inning getting pinky cox then fanning dick ev ans but hesseling Hessel mg dropped the ball on the third strike and evans beat it out for an error on the cat eat cher harwood then fanned chappy nash and summary R H E 17 25 4 combine 7 9 2 winning pitcher harwood los evans BASE PATHS HOT AS TOD KNOCKS STOCKTON 18 16 8 in a game in which they scored 16 runs in just 5 innings TOD s up and down baseball team took the measure of stockton wednesday july 28 by a score of 16 to 8 left bander hander tommy jenkinson allowed 11 hits and the eight stockton runs which would have normally won a ball game but his bat happy team mates pounded tom toni powell and marvin small for 15 hits and twice the number of runs scored by stockton TOD s classy first sacker ed myles not only played his usual errorless game but also came up with a perfect day at bat banging two singles a double and a fice hit in 4 times at the plate jack debois found the range for a home run and a double in three trips and scored every time he came to bat extra base blows is getting ta to be a habit with debois who probably has more than he has singles the game was late getting start ed and with the merry go round on the base paths it was dark by the time the sixth inning came up so the game was called BOX SCORE P H E TOD 4 2 7 0 3 16 15 2 stockton 2 2 1 0 S 3 8 11 4 batteries jenkinson and her man powell M small and B tho mas R small PAULOS BRILLIANT PITCHING BEATS D DRY RY CANYON 9 3 dry canyon was knocked out of a tie for first place in the tooele thoele county league last wednesday ev ening when left hander johnny paulos threw a brilliant five hitter and sent the Gul chers down in de feat 9 3 at the tooele thoele park at the plate tooele thoele backed up paulos in great style smacking out 14 hits but sloppy fielding had johnny in hot water during most of the time he was on the mound only one of the three runs that dry canyon scored was of the earn ed variety that one was junior baum baums s terrific home run with the bases empty in the sixth inning put er in the ice box tooele thoele put the game away for keeps in the fifish inning when del papa singled stole second and scored on klenda s single klenda scoring on gochis double they just poured coal on the fire in the sixth inning when they scored four more runs of their former team mate ang cebrom on four hits a hit batted and the anly dry canyon error of the game johnny paulos was the winning pitcher and in getting the win turned in a beautiful job posting twelve strike outs against dry can yon summary R H E dry canyon 0 3 5 1 tooele thoele x 9 14 5 winning pitcher J paulos los Os ing pitcher W nelson umpires maxfield and pendleton SPOILER TOD S SPOILS RAILROAD DAY BY DOWNING DRY CANYON 6 5 tooele thoele ordnance depot depo t who has played the part of the spoiler all during the second half did it a gain saturday july 31 when they lust about ruined any hopes dry canyon had for second half honors by scoring two runs in the top of the ninth inning to send dry can yon down to their third loss a 6 to 5 defeat bateman again it was captain doug bateman who personally handed dry can yon the loss as he pitched the en tire game giving up but six hits striking out 15 and issuing nary a pass bateman held the hard hit ting Gul chers hitless and in the second fourth fifth sixth seventh and ninth innings and ev en though his team made six er bors behind his pitching none of the errors figured in the scoring and when the chips were down bateman held the winning cards with a one run lead to work on bateman really poured the coal on the fire he struck out bevan fore ed jack johnson who was a pinch batter for dale leatham to pop out to second sacker riding and then ended the game striking out another pinch hitter hullinger summary R H E TOD 12 6 10 6 dry canyon 30 5 6 2 winning pitcher bateman los mg ing pitcher C johnsen COMBINE METALS AND TOOELE victorious OVER ST JOHN st john lost two ball games dur ing the week losing first to corn com bine metals in a slugfest 20 to 14 and then to tooele thoele 10 6 to send st john plunging down the lad der in the team standings combine 20 st john 14 even though st john out hit combine 16 to 14 they couldn t outscore em and combine walk ed off the field with a victory st john had the lead during the first two innings when they scored five runs in the fourth and three runs in the second combine pushed across 4 in m the first and one in the second to make the score read 8 5 in the te bottom of the third inning I 1 when combine turned loose the hounds and the hit hungry boys for bauer sent 9 men to the plat ter good for 6 runs the most dam aging blow in this surprising was max kennard s home run with the bases drunk loaded that is summary R T TT il V E st john 3 14 16 8 combine 4 1 6 7 2 20 14 7 winning pitcher los ing pitcher D pendleton TOOELE 10 ST JOHN 6 with a revamped line up tooele thoele found the going a bit rough against st john in a sunday game but st john perhaps feeling sorry for tooele thoele gave them the game in the seventh inning up to this point it had been a fairly decent contest with st john taking over a four run lead in the top of the third when they scored four runs on four hits tooele thoele got two of these runs bac back k in their half of the same frame st john got one more run in the fourth and so did tooele thoele in the fifth inning |