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Show Gunnison "Sugar Kings" Winners of Pennant Win Final Game In Series With Salina By Score of 4 to 1 Gunnison Plays Real League Ball. . By besting Salina with' a score of' four to one in the final contest for the championship of the Southern Utah Baseball league at the Gunnison Gunni-son diamond last Sunday afternoon, the Gunnison Sugar Kings captured the much coveted pennant and "Gunnison "Gun-nison made another step towards progression." pro-gression." It was one of the greatest victories ever achieved and when it is considered that the Kings went against seven other strong teams, Nephi, Moroni, Fairview, Mt. Pleasant, Pleas-ant, Ephraim, Manti and Salina, in the contest for the honors, and with all of the teams supplied with "paid a players" while the locals went in with every member a true, blue resident in the Southern part of the state. And, too, he stepped into the "big league class" by his wonderful performance. per-formance. All during the game Fredrickson had the visitors at his mercy and only one hit was allowed, that being given to Crane, batting for Peterson in the seventh inning. Crane faced Fredrickson and took two strikes, accepting the third with a mighty smash that sent the ball far into centerfield and among the grass, where it could not be found until after Crane had passed third. Notwithstanding the fact that the ball was slow in coming in, on account of being lost, the runner had a close call, but his run was allowed, counting count-ing a home run and and the only fecore during the game for Salina. The entire line-up for the Gunni- oi uunnison, me victory is aouDiy glorious. In the game last Sunday there never was any danger of the title slipping from Gunnison after the first ball had been tossed across the plate. From the starting of the game until the end of the ninth inning, in-ning, the Kings were determined and at no time during the game was there the least bit of danger of the Salina boys repeating their pranks of the previous game on Thursday when the flounced the Kings to the tune of 25 to 2. The largest crowd ever seen on the Gunnison diamond saw, without question, the best and fastest game by the Gunnison bovs, played in the series this year. It is estimated that there were between 600 and 700 "fans" present, visitors being here from every town in the country, as kvell as a big delegation from Se- ier county, accompanying the Salina boys. Sunday's game opened with Gunnison Gunni-son at the bat. For three innings the Kings parried for an opening, but were unsuccessful. When they had their turn in the fourth inning with Jacobs, the "high priced paid pitcher" for the Salinaites at the bat, the Kings got busy and three hits, two doubles and a tripple, three scores were landed across the home plate. Two of the runs were earned while the third was pilfered by Sorenson, the latter pulling a clever "squeeze," aided by a wild pitch by Jacobs. In the fifth inning, Dick Pace, who had gotten out of a sick bed Sunday morning, clouted a three-base hit, being brought home by a single to right by Sorenson. At the opening of the sixth, Swain, the pride of Sevier Se-vier county went into the box, and while he was hit four times, the home boys failed to record any more tallies. During their exhibition the I Kings staged three double plays that , won them deafening applause from the fans. Lester Fredrickson, on the mound for Gunnison, gave one of the best demonstrations of pitching ever seen soil iviiigs were iu me game irum ue-ginning ue-ginning to end and every member of the "all home players" gave exhibitions exhibi-tions that entitle them to higher rank than that of "town leagues." Following is the score of Sunday's game: Salina. R. H. E. G. Steele, 3b 0 0 1 L. Steele, ss 0 0 0 Peterson, rf 110 McCormick, c. . 0 0 0 Jacobs, p. 0 0 1 Jorgensen, cf 0 0 0 Thorsen, If 0 0 0 Williams, 2b 0 0 0 Swain, p 0 0 tr Totals 112 Crane batted for Peterson in the seventh, bringing in the only run. Gunnison R. H. E. D. Pace, rf. 2 10 Sanders, ss 12 1 Jones, cf 0 10 L. -Pace, 3b 12 1 Sorenson, 2b Ill Harold Halverson, lb 0 0 0 Edards, If 0 11 Hugh Halverson, c 0 0 0 Fredrickson, p 0 0 0 Totals 4 8 4 The record of the Gunnison Kings during the series just closed has been one of envy and considering all, the record made is one to be proud of. At the opening of the season, with none but home playexs and many of the boys farmers, little or no practice prac-tice was done excepting in regular scheduled games and oft times the farmer members of tlie team would hurriedly jump from the conventional convention-al farmers suit to the regulation ball players regalia and "play ball." In the first half of the series the Kings played in fourteen games, winning nine and losing five. In the second half the record was much better, the Kings participating in fourteen games, winning twelve and losing two. For the total of 2S games the Gunnison boys won 21 and lost seven. Today the citizens of Gunnison are proud of the honor achieved by the Kings and tentative plans are being made for a ,'big time" for the victors. |