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Show Standings Shift in Little League Play FINAL STANDINGS. . -(First Half) Milne 7 3 .700 Lions 6 4 .600 Rotary 5 5 .500 Columbia 5 5 .500 Kiwanis 4 6 .400 Elks 3 7 .300 Friday's evening's action in the Cedar City Litfle League brought to a close the first half of play for the 1957 season. Although Al-though Milne Truck Lines had ; earlier assured itself of the first i half championship some other clfanges took place in the top i bracket. ! The Lion Tamers made prob-' prob-' ably the most impressive move of the half moving virtually ' from the bottom of the heap to i take over the second place spot at the end of play. Last week i the Lions were in third place and In their finaj game of the half moved one more step up the ladder to tak.e..second spot. The Lions had help, However. In their final game they defeated defeat-ed Milne 14 to 8, but the real assists as-sists came from Kiwanis and Elks, fifth and sixth place clubs respectively. Kiwanis downed Columbia Co-lumbia 5to 1 to knock the miners min-ers out of second place and the Elks turned the tables on Rotary Ro-tary 8 to 7 to give the Lions the number two rating. Danny Jones was on the mound for the Elks In their 8 to 7 win over Rotary. Jones allowed seven hits but his teammates backed him up with nine hits, including two doubles to score the victory. Rotary was held scoreless through the first four Innings of play while the Elks were racking up all of their eight runs. A fifth and sixth inning in-ning rally nearly caught the Elks but they staved It off one short for the victory. Bruce Stucki again shone for the Lions in their 14 to 8 win over Milne. Stuckl's five hit pitching was Instrumental in hblding the truckers to their eight runs but his two home runs in the game in the third and fifth were the decisive blows and he was credited with seven runs batted in. In the final action of the season sea-son Kiwanis and Columbia split to place them fifth and third, re-spectively, re-spectively, In the league. The two teams squared off in a single sin-gle inning to complete an early called game after nine Innings. Columbia broke the three to three deadlock to get credit for the win. The two teams then squared off in their final meeting and Kiwanis took a 5 to 1 victory over the miners. Bob Cuff allow-ed allow-ed a single hit in the six innings of play to score his third victory of the season in four starts. It was the fourth hit off Cuff in the first half of play. Kiwanis took an early lead when Mike Slack homered with two men on base to push in three runs. Lions kept rijht on winning In he soeond half as they downed the Elks 5 to 1 in their opener. Hans Chamberlain was the win-ning win-ning pitcher allowing only two hits to the Elks Rulers. Don A. Matheson was charged with the loss and he allowed the Lions only three hits in the contest Columbit also walked off with an opening round victory in the second half with a 10 to 3 win over Rotary. Antone Pryor, with three runs batted in and two hits, including a double, was the leading hitter of the game. Columbia Co-lumbia collected only six hits and Rotary had five in the six innings of play. Kiwanis and Milne were rained rain-ed out Tuesday evening in the bottom of the third inning In the only other action of the week. That game will be replayed Sat. urday afternoon. |