| Show cubs cardinals still on top in second little league tilt by herbert dunn A shaking off the stage fright which hampered last weeks play the he little leaguers played like old pros saturday as the cubs squelched the blues 18 to 1 and the cards sneaked by the much improved rangers 11 to 8 the druin bruin blue battle was coasting along with a respectable 7 to I 1 score going into the sixth inning at this point france porters blue pitching itching staff lost the strike zone completely and four checkers chuc kers allen alien wright butch sommers lyle waldron and warren clements issued nine walks Tovo alks in one cub hurler david dickson meanwhile held the blues in check as he threw a brilliant one hit game blair francis grass cutting single in n the fourth was the only hit dickon allowed the highflying high flying cards got their feathers ea singed by a five run ranger rally in the sixth inning which tied the score at 8 all however a pair of singles by ralph london ind and bob poll followed by don turners ners long homer iced the game tor for the caida car da before a man was retired in n the last of the sixth the rangers bangers got their five scores in n the sixth when ray dee porter job john mckinnon and jerry durrant walked with one out then teckle freckle faced wayne hodgson connected tor for a double while the cards were juggling the ball in the infield he came home to make the score 8 to 7 with two out mickey frew a base on balls stole second took third on a cassed asbed ball and stole home with the tying run kent phillips whose homer in the first inning got the cards off tt to a 30 3 0 lead is no 1 among the hitters with an unbelievable average his saturday homer was his third in two games turner who came through when the blue chips were down tor for the cards is the leagues runner up slugger with an average of the line score it R H 13 cubs 2 1 0 0 4 11 18 7 1 blues 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 D dickson and russ francis A wright sommers 6 waldron 6 clements 6 and clements sommers 6 R H E rangers 0 0 1 1 1 5 8 3 1 cards 3 0 3 0 2 3 11 11 2 ar R D porter 6 and R D porter hobson 6 phillips ralph london 4 and TEAM STANDINGS including games of june 28 W L pet GB cardinals 2 0 1000 cubs 2 0 1000 rangers 0 2 2 blues 0 2 2 |
