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Show Gunnison Ballist In Big Contest Lester Fredrickson, a Gunnison product and who has been attracting much attention as a ball pitcher among the "big leaguers" stuck another an-other feather in his cap at a warm session last week. Incidentally Lester Lest-er moved another peg skyward in the eyes of the fans who witnessed his performance when his team and the team from Heber played a ten-inning session with a score of 1 to 0. According to dispatches, the game was one of the best seen in the Utah county league and was a battle royal between Fredrickson for the Spring- j ville bunch and Murdock of the Heb- er team. Both pitchers were in fine ' form and for nine innings neither . side had crossed the plate, and only for a misinterpretation of signals, Lester might have added further' honors. The dispatches to the Pro-1 vo Herald regarding the .game, says about the game: At the end of the ninth inning the score stood 0 to 0. In the extra in- ning Lefty Murdock was sent in as a pinch hitter. He selected a good j and and clouted it right on the nose for a round trip. i Even then it looked as though ! Springville would tie the score. ! Brown got as far as third base, and the Springers planned to sqeeze him ; home. In some unaccountable way the signals got mixed and instead of waiting for the second pitched ball Brown was sent towards the home plate on the first delivery. He was caught flat-footed halfway home. And then, grief of griefs, Fred-erickson Fred-erickson steps up the very next minute min-ute and. smacks out a two-bagger. If Brown had only still been on third! The air was blue. Prexy Wilson of the Central Utah league will have a knotty problem to unravel and will have an opportunity oppor-tunity to make himself popular or otherwise in either Springville or Heber. The .Springville team has protested the game, due to some alleged al-leged raw decisions in the game by Ump Simmons of Payson. Frederickson never looked better in his life than he did in yesterday's game. A million dollars had nothing noth-ing on the appearance of the diminutive diminu-tive little pitcher-center fielder, and Freddie could have had all of Springville Spring-ville and the steel plant thrown in to boot if the Springville fans could have had their way about it. He only allowed five hits in the entire game, and one of them was the fateful smack of Pinchhitter Lefty Lef-ty Murdock. The Springers garnered garner-ed eight hits of Clarence Murdock, but he kept them well scattered. |