| Show blues hand cardinals first loss of season in morgan little league by herbert dunn last saturday night jay porters cardinals were singing the blues because they lost their first game of the season 11 to 6 the acing defeat cameal came at the hands of the blues behind the nitty nifty five hit tossing of lyle waldron the blues had been searching frantically for a hurler who could find the strike zone waldron a tire fire balling ex secondi second baseman hurled like a veteran most of the way allen alien smith and warren clements each with a triple and dutch butch sommers with a brace of singles provided the heavy slugging which gave young waldron his working m margin a agin in another saturday feature th the cellar dreilling rangers turned in their first win of the year when they edged the cubs 13 to 12 the long silent ranger hanger bats spoke loud and long saturday as ray dee porter and dale hodgson led the assault on gordon nelson the rangers iced the gai game e with three run rally in the last inning before that the francis family rex and russ ruas along with gordon nelson and lee welch had kept dale hodgson and mickey running for cover during most of the game in last wednesdays games played too late tor for last weeks edition the cards weathered a six run rally in the fourth inning by the cubs cuba to edge reed heed Niel nielsene sens bruins 10 to 9 thanks to sluggers don turner and kent phillips in the other contest the blues broke into the win column with a 12 to 8 win from the rangers hangers allen alien wright arid and blair francis each got three singles to help put the blues on the wi winning piling side of the ledger t TEAM STANDINGS STANDINGS including games of july 5 W L pet GB cardinals L 3 1 cubs L 2 2 1 blues 2 2 1 rangers 1 3 2 |
