| Show CUBS WIN TWO MOVE INTO TIE FOR FIRST WITH CARDINALS by herb dunn the little league cubs climbing like their yellowstone park brothers won two ball games this past week to move into a first place tie with the cardinals last laft wednesday reed Niel nielsene sens battling bruins served notice that they were in high gear by knocking over the pacesetting pace setting redbirds 16 6 behind the steady hurling ol of dave dickson and russ francis who limited the cards to eight scattered hits dickson aided his own cause considerably with two homers as lie he batted in five runs saturday the cubs won their second tilt in a row but this time it took an extra inning and some brilliant relief pitching by gordon gor don nelson to luin back the blues 1110 ahe 7 he blues found nelson to be a two headed monster in this game because ills his double to left field with two out in the seventh set the stage for tom hardings game clinching single in the last of the seventh 11 with the tying and winning runs on base for the glues blues nelson calmly 1 tucked his high hard one under allen alien chin tor for a swinging strike to end the game 1 in the other saturday game the cards pounced on the rangers for a 2213 1213 22 12 13 marathon win there were mom moments ants during this hectic contest when no one not even them the scorer knew the score however with will the unsolicited aid of some soma conscientious spectators the books were balanced to the satisfaction of all concerned the redbirds caught fire in the third frame and counted 12 times on six hits and three ranger miscues kent phillips phillps walked to open the inning and 15 cardinals followed him to the plate before the hodgson brothers finally halted the rally three seemed to be the lucky digit for the cards card as don turner ralph london and paul smith each trip crippled pled and phillips contributed a pair of three hag bag gerb to the barrage dale hodgson and ray dee por ter homebred tor for the rangers and mickey doubled twice and little jerry durrant got a two bagger for the stubborn losers in the wednesday game last week the rangers so meek they the blasted the offerings of 0 the blues warren clements tor for five homers and a 15 to 9 I 1 win dale hodgson put the kiss of death on clements fast ball three times limes and ray dee porter and john mckinnon McKi nuon each hit the distance once mickey and richard porter hit triples and wayne hodgson doubled clements attempted to rescue his own game with a last inning homer and allen alien wright chipped in with a triple and lyle waldron doubled in a desperate bid to pull the game out of 0 the fire TEAM STANDINGS I 1 including games of july 12 W L pet GB cardinals 4 2 cuba 4 2 rangers 2 4 2 blues 2 4 2 |
