Show BASEBALL I Schedule July 11 Manti Mant at Moroni Spring City at Ephraim Mt Pleasant at Gunnison Gunnison Gunnison Gun- Gun nison Fairview bye July 15 Moroni at Spring City Fairview at Mt Pleasant Ephraim at Gunnison Manti ManU bye MANTI l BEATS GUNNISON LOSES TO EPHRAIM The Manti Baseball club won a thrilling game from the Gunnison nine last Sunday edging out the visitors visitors visitors vis vis- vis- vis by a score of 11 to 10 The game ame was very loosely played and the final score does not tell of the fine pitching done by Cox of Manti and Erickson of Gunnison The pitching pitching pitch- pitch ing big was good but there were 17 errors in the game ten by Gunnison and seven by Manti ManU Many of the errors figured in the scoring of runs and made it a very loosely played game ame although the score was close and gave the fans a thrill Cecil Cox struck out eight Gunnison Gunni Gunni- son batters while allowing them eleven hits Only three of their hits were good for more than one base however however however how how- ever and the visitors never got got- more than three hits in one inning In the first inning Gunnison scored two runs without a hit Mac ac Erickson pitching for Gunnison struck out 13 and allowed 13 hits five of them good for more than one base Play Ephraim on Fifth Manti ManU and Ephraim have been playing playing play- play ing ng an abbreviated game in each town on the Fourth of July but this year decided to flip a coin to decide which team got the game Manti anti won the toss and it was agreed that the winner should get 60 GO percent of the gate and the loser 40 percent Both teams had played games the day before so used pitchers who have not been worked much during the season Manti ManU started their regular catcher Que Christensen who is generally generally generally gen gen- regarded as the best catcher in the league and Ephram started Lee Sandy Anderson Both men pitched good games but were backed up by spotty Both teams seemed a b bit bat t up in the air over the game and both committed costly errors The errors in the game were not made from inability to pick up grounders or catch flies but from bad throws in the infields of both teams Going into the ninth inning Ephraim Ephraim Ephraim Eph Eph- raim was leading Manti ManU by a 6 G to 5 score and the first two Manti ManU batters were retired in succession Dean Braithwaite Manti 3rd baseman then came to bat and hit a triple into left field This hit looked like a home run for Dean who had gone hitless before that time but a bad break on the bases caused him to be held heldon on third base Que Christensen then hit a high pop fly to Park Ephraim first baseman and the game ended 6 to 5 for Ephraim The game was full of interest from start to finish and fans went away reassured that a Manti-Ephraim Manti game will always be bea a good one This was not a league game Next Sunday Manti Manti plays at Moroni Box score for the Gunnison game follows AB H R E D Dean Lund lb G 6 2 1 1 Dean Braithwaite 5 2 3 0 Que Christensen c 5 3 3 1 Cecil Cox p 3 1 1 1 Larry ss 3 0 0 3 Wilbur Braithwaite cf 5 2 0 0 I Perry Eliason lf If 3 0 0 0 I Max Cox If 1 0 0 0 I Kay 3 1 1 0 1 Henry Cox 2 1 2 0 Dean McCaffery rf 2 0 0 0 Gomer Edmunds rf 3 1 1 0 41 13 11 7 Score by innings Manti ManU 11 Gunnison 10 o |