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Show Gunnison Wins In Holiday Exhibition SOUTHERN UTAH LEAGUE. Standing of the Teams. Won. Lost. Pet. Salina 3 0 1.000 Elsinore 2 1 .667 Nephi 1 2 .333 Gunnison 0 3 .000 Sunday's Schedule. Elsinore at Gunnison. Salina at Nephi. Gunnison's ball club, in a holiday exhibition game at the local diamond, trimmed the Poplar Grove team, cf the Independent league of Salt Lake, Pioneer day. The score ended with Gunnison leading, 11 runs to 8 for the visitors. It required more than two hours to stage the exhibition game, and lack of sensational plays made the conflict uninteresting at times. Walt Villard hit a homer and Stubba and Halverson landed 2-base hits. Childs got a three-bagger. Whether Whe-ther it waa the extreme hot weather or mental exhaustion, some cause entered en-tered the picture that required three for the pitching staff for the ' local boys. Wilford Bauers, Tony Villard j (Continued on last page) Gunnison Wins In Holiday Exhibition (Continued from page 1) and Walt Villard pitched 5, 2 and 2; innings, respectively, for the Gunners, while Ackman and Colburt performed for 'the Poplar Grove team. Gunnison! took 11 hits from the visitors, while in turn the up-state team could garner gar-ner only 6. ' Lack of support of the local team is proving a discouraging element in the playing of the boys. Monday's audience au-dience was below normal, and it was i necessary to make up a purse to de-j fray expenses for the visitors. Gun- j nison, heretofore, has always given i good support, and if we are to have the real American game played here, the citizens should be more loyal in turning out to the games. Back the boys and more from outside points will be here and it will prove profitable. profit-able. Monday's score: GUNNISON. B. H. O. A. A. Villard, p-cf-c 4 14 3 Stubbs, If 5 2.10 W. Villard, ss-p 4 113 Hugh Halverson, c-cf 5 3 5 3 Childs, 3b 5 114 R. Tollcstrup, 2b 5 12 2 Bauers, cf-p-ss 3 0 0 2 Modeen, lb 5 1 12 0 Bergoson, rf 2 110 Totals 38 11 27 17 POPLAR GROVE. B. H. O. A. Snyder, 3b 3 0 2 3 Booth, 2b 5 14 2 Startin, lb 3 1 11 0 Schmuker, ss 4 0 3 4 Tiano, c 4 3 2 4 Colburt, lf-p 4 110 Brown, cf 4 0 10 Cole, rf 4 0 0 0 Ackman, p-lf 4 0 0 2 Totals 35 6 24 15 R. H. E. Poplar Grove .024 010 100 8 6 4 Gunnison 220 202 21x 11 11 2 Summary: Errors Poplar Grove 4, Gunnison 2. Hits Off Bauers 2 in 5 innings, A. Villard 4 in 2 innings, W. Villard 0 in 2 innings, Ackman 8 in 4 innings, Colburt 3 in 4 innings. Struck out Bauers 8, A. Villard 1, W. Villard 3, Ackman 5, Colburt 3. Two-base hits Stubbs, Halverson 2, Bergeson, Booth, Startin, Tiano 2. Three-base hit Childs. Home runs W. Villard, Tiano. Double plays Ackman to Booth to Startin. Credit victory to Bauers; charge defeat to Colburt. Juniors Best Axtell. Gunnison's Junior ball team, making mak-ing victories in most encounters, took the "big boys" of Axtell to a trouncing trounc-ing last Saturday afternoon at Axtell. It wa3 a tight game, and the Gunnison Gunni-son lads nosed out by the close score of 12 to 11 in the nine innings played. Ralph Beauregard and Benny Denni-son Denni-son were tossers for Gunnison, while the Axtell men used four. In weight and size the Axtellites outclassed the locals, but in art and science and good playing the latter outclassed their opponents. In a fast conflict at Salina Wednesday of last week, .the Gunnison Juniors took a defeat at the hands of the Salina Juniors, the score being 4 to 2 for the Salina lads. |