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Show I Soft Ball Notes j 9 By A. H. Gibbons Theres . one guy that plays an occasional game with these soft ball teams and every other .team for that matter that is responsible responsi-ble for more errors than all the I rest of the team together. He 'plays with the weaker teams too, I imagine but we don't notice it there. He is given several names and among them are ego, stateness, state-ness, over confidence and etc. Whenever a team wins a string of games with ease, it is likely jfhat this guy will creep into the line up and mess things up. He did a fair Job with the Shirley Mae outfit when Deac's took them into camp last week. For they certainly looked like anything but champions in that set too and even at that they did pretty well. The service station men made seven runs in the first two innings, enough to win most ball games but the Shirley Mae outfit came right back to tie the score and pass them up but allj the time they were pulling boners that enabled the Gassers to win the ball game. As a sample of their numerous "errors the service station men scored three runs uv one bunt and even aUowing fori ordinary mistakes nothing like that should happen. The next night when ' the dress 1, loiroH tHa nnTA -Stream! outfit they did even worse though; they won the ball game. For after all that Shirley Mae outfit is one; good ball club. Besides having the; best infield in the commercial' league they have a wicked batting j order that never gives the op-i posing pitcher a chance to let I down for a minute. The lead off man, Squires usually lets the first one go by but it takes a goodj pitcher to get the other twoj strikes by. Then Brant Gessel who besides having a swell under! hand flip that gets the ball to first in record time, is a good man with the willow. The Cleanup Clean-up man Charlie Dunn makes most pitchers either want to walk him or wish they had. And so it goes right down the order and. if the! pitcher lets up for a minute, j bingo goes the old ball game. I Charlie Kowallis the big catcher probably hits the ball farther when ie does hit it than any other player in the league. But in spite of all this power Shirley Mae can't seem to escape the old man ego at times. The Storage " hit three homers between j them. Utah-Idaho League Won Lost Pet. Garland-Tremonton 3 1 .750 Ogden Bamboo 3 1 .7501 Logan Collegians 3 1 .750 Preston .. 2 2 .500 i Downey 2 2 .500 j Honeyville l 3 .250' Richmond 1 3 350 1 Malad 1 3 .250 Sunday's Results Pneston 4, Honeyville 0. Downey 12, Malad 7. Ogden Bamboo 9, Garland-Tremonton 3. Logan Collegians 17, Richmond 10. j same guy seems to have crept into in-to the rangs of the Grant's Bike outfit for a couple of games and when they finally dropper him from the roster they found themselves them-selves in the same predicament ;the Giants did recently. Who when,' j.they met the lowly Cincinnati j j Reds they were taken in four! games in a row and now the Bi-j: I cycle men find themselves drop- ; Iped from first to third place. : I And ahead of them are the!; j Laundry men and the Condensed !i milk guys which means work ifj Grant's men are to regain their,! former position. Postof fice usually rated second ; ' best in the league looked anything j! but that in their recent game! against the boys from the cold j regions. True they won the gamej! II to 6 but they had a lot of is .lua. uuuig it, ana tney surely ? didnt hit the ball hand enough to win any thing. Incidentally the g thing that gave them the break I was the misjudging of a fly by Smith about the middle of the E game. What might have been out H went for a home run and about jj sewed up the ball game. Wilde I and Paul Cardon of the Cold I |