Show st t mm john slaps 86 8 6 st john won themselves another ball game wednesday august 18 when they turned back stockton 8 6 at st john dean pendleton was the starting and winning pit cher and except for a near fatal relapse in the fourth and fifth in aings pitched a perfect game GAME TIED IN FIFTH INNING the game was ail tied up in the top of the fifth inning at six runs apiece st john had built up a fat six run lead in the first two innings and pendleton showed his appreciation by retiring the stock ton batters in 1 2 3 order until the fourth when he weakened enough to allow three hits which coupled with an error and a walk was good for three stockton runs pendleton found the going just as rough in the fifth inning when with two hits and two errors stockton ran in three more runs the biggest blow of this frame was G small s with two men on sacks st john roared back in the bot torn of the fifth and after one man was out successive singles by dean pendleton and norm warr a ground out and keith warr s dou ble produced two runs which was good for the ball game pendleton set stockton down in order in their half of the sixth and the game was called on account of darkness R H E stockton 6 5 5 st john 8 8 3 winning pitcher pendleton losing pitcher nash |