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Show ; Great Big Game For Saturday j Next Saturday afternoon at (ho Gunnison ball park (here will undoubtedly un-doubtedly be staged one of the most i thrilling and most hotly contested i ball games ever seen in southern Utah. On this day Monroe, now lead-jing lead-jing by a nose for honors in the first , half of the serie's of the southern ! Utah league, will be here, and if ever the need of real support and "root-i "root-i ing" was necessary it will be Satur-; Satur-; day afternoon when the Kings clash with the leaders. i By losing to Monroe last Wednes-jday Wednes-jday the Kings dropped from the top ; where they were tied with the Mon-roi(es. Mon-roi(es. It will be necessary to win jthe game Saturday from the Soulh-j Soulh-j erners and if this is accomplished I then the teams will again be tied, and ; the title will have to be settled with I another game. Rally all your friends aud be at the park Saturday to help carry the Kings to victory. The game at Monroe Wednesday proved an awful slaughter, the score being 14 to S, with the Kings holding hold-ing the losing end. The "hookworm" was in evidence in some of the Gunnison Gun-nison players, and this, combined com-bined Willi a wretched field and a blazing sun staring the players in the face, is the alibi offered. The Monroites started out with a slugging slug-ging spell and the first inning three hits were chalked against the King pitcher, Fredrickson. The third proved the fatal inning for the Kings, though, when the Monroe boys just split themselves pounding the little old pill. Three costly errors by the King players, combined with, a "little up-in-the-air business," and five safe hits, resulted in Monroe chalking up eight runs. This lead, the Kings were unable to overcome. ' However, they cut it down to C by the end of (he game. The Kings made no showing as far as getting was concerned until the sixth when there was a slight recovery. re-covery. In ftbjis inning "Tinimy" Swain was found and delivered to the Kings five hits, resulting in three runs, the first for the Kings in the game. Two more were slipped across in the seventh and three more, in the eighth. Outside of the three innings the Kings failed to score a run. Tim Swain pitched for the Monroe team, lie allowed 15 hits and struck out 11 men. Fredrickson was on (he mound for the Kings and he was pounded for 15 hits and struck out eight of (ho opposition. |