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Show Baseball Fans Witness Thrilling Opening Game until he warmed up. Him allowed two runs in the second, one. in the fourth and sixth, and an error.- in the seventh sev-enth allowed the visitors.. three more. In the fifth Gunnison staged a double play that won plaudits frdm the fans. Jay Thomson, pitcher, was the only local that crossed the home plate, and his score was well earned. Gunnison Gun-nison had a chance in the eighth, with a man on second and a man on third, but the batter failed to connect. The Gunnison squad will trek to Fairview tomorrow, Friday, where the second game of the season will b? played. The line-up for Sunday's gamo in Gunnison, as announced by Manager i Grant Nielson, will be Hugh Halve?--' son, catcher; Lester Fredrickson, pitcher; Hart Sanders, 1st base; Glen Stubbs, 2nd base; Newell Childs, 3rd base; Antone Villard, short-atop; Wil-ford Wil-ford Bauer, left field; Jay Thorn psovi, centerfield; F. H. Jones, right fieW. Duane Tollestrup, Ben Childs and Ru-lon Ru-lon Willardson are the utility plttyws. The game will start at threo-thirtv. SUNDAY'S SCHEDULE. Nephi at Gunnison Ephraim at Salina Fairview at Mt. Pleasant. Not a soul was sick or disappointed when the Mt. Pleasant baseball team won the opening game of the season in Gunnison, last Sunday, by a score j of 12 to 1. It was a one-sided game, j true, but it was filled with thrills, j dust and a few other "enjoyable" stunts. The visitors outclassed the home team, and the scare put into the Gunnison boys in the first inning, when five tallies were scored, might have had some results in the finals. However, a record-breaking crowd saw the Gunnisonites go down to defeat. de-feat. Visitors from Manti, Mt. Pleas-1 ant, Fairview, Salina and the communities com-munities in the valley gathered for I the opening game of the season here. About the only sad feature that marred the game was a terrific wind storm that swooped down at about the time the game was to be calledt. Half an hour by "jupiter pluvius" 'an his special act of dust raising, held the play back, but when the skies cteared the game went off with a bang and the hair-raising plays kept the big crowd in good humor and all saw the finish. "We haven't any alibis to make, for the reason that we were outplayed," outplay-ed," said Manager Grant Nielson at the end of the game Sunday.' "Everybody "Every-body knows the Gunnison pla rers have not been in the game for several years, and all were out of tune. We're not discouraged with the showing, though, and when our lads are broken brok-en in and get the necessary practice, we have high hopes of getting back into the old stand formerly held by Gunnison. Our team was promiscuously promiscuous-ly picked and in spots it was found! weak. In time this will be overcome and then we will fly along with the: best of the league teams." Mt. Pleasant opened the fireworks in the first inning by scoring five runs. Jay Thompson, in the box for Gunnison, had been out of the game for three years and was out of form |