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Show Wrigley Captures Softball Pennant G. V. SOFTBALL LEAGUE. Standing of the Teams. Won Lost Pet. Wrigley ! 8 , 2 .800 Fayette 7 3 .700 Lions 6 4 .600 Cubs 3 6 .333 Tigers .. 3 7 .300 Axtell 2 7 .222 Last Week's Results. Wrigley, 5; Lions, 3. Fayette, 4; Tigers, 3. Axtell, 13; Tigers, 6. One of the biggest crowds of fans ever to witness a ball game on the Gunnison city park diamond saw the Wrigley Sugar Makers down the Gunnison Lions club softball team last Thursday evening, making the Wrigley boys the champs of the Gunnison Gun-nison Valley Softball league for this season. Each team had plenty of backers and cheers were plent'ful. All other games had been postponed so that the several teams could witness wit-ness the encounter, and it proved to be a thriller. Wrigley took the lead in the 3rd inning, scoring two runs, and also scored one in the 4th, 5th and 7th, making a total of 5. The Lions scored scor-ed one in the 4th and two in the 5th, nnding with a total of 3 runs. Errors and overthrows on the part of the Lions lost the game for the latter, and had these not been in evidence the results might have been different. The Tigers and Fayette played their postponed game Sunday, with Fayette taking the game by the close score of 4 to 3, and thus putting the Rabbit Chasers in second place, with seven wins and three losses. Following the game at Fayette, the Tigers returned to the Gunnison park and played a postponed game with Axtell. The Axtell team was truly in form, and lambasted the Tigers with a 13 to 6 score. In an exhibition game played early Sunday afternoon, Axtell took the Lions for a trimming to the tune of 15 to 9. Axtell and the Cubs have a game to play to complete the schedule, but the encounter has been postponed indefinitely. in-definitely. Accepting a challenge from Wrigley Wrig-ley for a game Monday afternoon following the band concert at Center-field, Center-field, the Tigers came out of the kinks and defeated the challengers by the one-sided score of 7 to 2. The alibi of the champs was that some of their players were absent, thus crippling crip-pling the team. Following the game at Centerfield the Lions challenged the Wrigley boys for a game at the Gunnison ball park, and this encounter encoun-ter proved to be a real classic as each team picked several players to complete their line-up due to the absence of regular team members. The game went for an extra inning when the score became tied 2-all in the seventh, but the Wrigley boys, taking advantage of errors made by the Lions line-up, sent two runs across home plate and took the game 4 to 2. With the splendid teams developed near the close of this year's playing schedule, next year should see some real major contests, and the enthusiasm enthus-iasm displayed by fans during the season just closed gives new impetus to the several teams. |