Show Ma Manti Manti Loses Thrilling Game Cliff Olsen long a jinx to to Manti batters pitched Ephraim to a 5 to 2 win over Manti ManU in the baseball game played in Manti ManU last Sunday The Tae loss was the first for Manti in league competition this year The feature of the game was the tight pitching by Cecil Cox for Manti and Olsen for Ephraim as both were very effective throughout the game Ephraim's two runs in the first in inning inning in- in rl ning ng were set up by errors by Kirk Larsen Manti stop short-stop and gave Ephraim the lead they never released Going into the ninth inning Ephraim h had Ad made only four hits and Manti had hd just three The ninth inning was the most thrilling part of the game and any of the fans who left the large crowd before that inning missed a lot of nu r L C excitement Ephraim r scored 2 runs in the last inning before being retired Manti scored one run in the eighth and one in the last half of the ninth and end had the bases loaded when the thelast thelast thelast last put-out put was made The final put-out put came when Dorius Ephraim's left fielder caught a long fly hit by Dean Dean- Lund Manti ManU center fielder If the drive by Lund had been a foot higher it would have gone for an extra base hit and scored more Manti runs While the outstanding play for the Ephraim team was the pitching by bythe bythe bythe the veteran Olsen who struck out three men each in the f fourth and fifth innings and had a total of 14 strikeouts strikeouts strikeouts strike strike- outs the outfielders were the bright spots for fOl the Manti ManU team Dean Lund Lundin in in center field and McCaffery in right field both made running catches of long balls that probably would have gone for hits against less fleet gard gard- eners Cecil Cox fanned 5 of the Ephraim batters All in all it was a very good game and ana manager Liomer Gomer Edmunds ot of me Manti team and Coach Glen Stubbs of the Ephraim aggregation both still sUll insist that they'd rather see a Manti- Manti Ephraim game than any world series game they have seen The box scores follow MANTI AB H HOE 0 E EB B B. B Chapman ss 4 0 3 0 O. O D D. D Lund cI cf 3 0 2 0 Q Christensen c 4 0 1 0 L. L Larson lb Ib 4 0 9 0 C. C Cox P 4 1 5 0 W. W Braithwaite lf If 4 2 0 0 L. L Decker 2 0 1 0 P P. Elinson Eliason cI cf 2 1 l' l 0 0 H. H Cox 2 1 2 0 K Larsen ss 2 0 0 2 McCaffery rf 2 0 3 1 G G. Edmounds rf rf 2 2 1 1 0 35 6 27 3 EPHRAIM AB R H E Karl Beal 5 1 1 0 Dean Larsen ss 5 1 2 1 Owen Jensen rf 3 0 1 0 Robert Dorius If II 5 0 0 0 Lee Anderson 1 0 0 1 Cliff Olsen p 4 0 1 0 Roer Sondrup c 4 2 1 0 Robert Park Ib lb 4 0 1 0 Glen Stubbs cf cI 4 4 1 1 0 Grant Stubbs rf 1 0 1 0 36 5 9 2 Score IJ by innings Mun Manti ti 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 Ephraim 2 20 5 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 5 |