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Show California-Pacific Wins Pony League Honors Lew Chamberlain Dominates League Statistics Makeup games In the Cedar City Pony League were held the latter part of last week but problems arose over the inability of some of the teams to field complete teams. Three makeup games were played and in all three instances in-stances one of the two teams I involved was able to field only eight men. Utah Construction, who was in a position to change the standings most severely, picK-ed picK-ed up a victory over Southern South-ern Utah Mortuary with only I eignt men, and mey played tne league leaders to a 7-7 tie at tne end of regulation play and the game was called call-ed at tnat point. Mortuary failed to field enougn men against Utan Parks, but went uown to de-teat de-teat Dy a score of 10 to 8. As the final outcome, California Cal-ifornia -Pacific Utilities wound up with the league champion-snip. champion-snip. A clean cut victory over Utan Construction would have given them a decisive edge in the standings but with a forfeit victory or a tie score on their record they still maintained the lead. Had Utah Construction defeated them under normal circumstances circum-stances it would have thrown the league into a tie with State Bank coming in foi a share of the honors. Utah Construction won theii last three games of the regulation regula-tion season, picked up a victory vic-tory with only eight men in the first of two makeup games and tied the league leaders in a called game to wind up the season. Individual statistics compiled com-piled by Mrs. Logan Carr indicate in-dicate that Lewis Chamberlain Chamber-lain captured the batting crown for the season with a fine .500 average, belting 25 hits in 50 official trips to the plate. He was followed by Jeff Carr with a .458 average and 22 hits, and in third place was Brent Hunter with a .439 average. Chamberlain played for Cal.-Pac. while Carr and Hunter were members of Utah Construction. Other top hitters included Tom Cardon, .391; Rodney Cosslett, .394; Brice Betenson, .390; Dale Cowley. .388; Lane Spevak, .386; and Mike Sav-age Sav-age at .385. In home runs it was also Chamberlain leading the league lea-gue with five round trippers. Only two others were in close pursuit, including Tommy Cardon and Jeff Carr with four each. In runs scored the same three men tied for honors, hon-ors, with Chamberlain, Carr and Cardon all scoring 22 runs. Next in line were Lane Spevak and Gene Cardon with 16 runs each, and Brice Betenson Beten-son came in with 16 tallies. In the pitching department, Charles Morris of Utah Parks compiled the top win loss record re-cord with five victories and no losses. Ken Pryor was in second place with three wins and no losses followed by Lane Spevak and Bernie Leavitt with two wins and one loss; Chamberlain with two wins, one loss and one tie; and Jeff Carr with two wins and two losses. |