Iron County Record | 1952-08-21 | Page 9 | Legion Nine Wins and Loses to Las Vegas, Hurricane

Legion Nine Wins And Loses to Las Vegas, Hurricane i The Cedar City American Legion Le-gion team managed by Rube Wlnterrose won against Las Vegas Ve-gas and lost against Hurricane in play during the past week. In the game against Las Vegas Ve-gas which pitted 13 and 14 year-olds year-olds exclusively the Cedar nine walked all over the Vegas club by a score of 19 to 5 on the local diamond. Cedar out-played and outhlt the Vegas team, collecting collect-ing 11 hits compared to 5 for Vegas. Cedar's big Inning was the sixth, in a nine inning game, when they scored nine of their 19 runs. Elroy Nelson did the chucking for the first eight innings in-nings of play with Neil Petty relieving re-lieving him in the ninth. Gayle Simkins was behind the plate for the full nine innings. Extra base hits were lined out by Travis Nelson, a double, and Eddie Miller, Mil-ler, a triple. Line score of the Las Vegas-Cedar Vegas-Cedar game was as follows: Cedar 01015930 x 19 Las Vegas 000001112 5 In the game dropped to Hurricane Hurri-cane at the Hurricane park Cedar lost a nine inning contest 12 to 3. Hurricane collecter seven hits to Cedar's six. Steven Lunt did the pitching for Cedar for six innings with Lee Carpenter relieving him in the seventh. Robert Webb did the catching. Ken Benson, playing first base for Cedar was outstanding out-standing at bat collecting three hits in four trips to the plate. He hit a single, a double and a triple to lead the Cedar nine. Cedar also made a double play when Elroy Nelson caught a fly at second base and caught a runner run-ner off third on his throw to Jack Berrett.