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Show IITOJ TEAM FAILS TO DEFEAT THE EMS One of the most important contests of the year in Utah amateur baseball circles was staged at Lagoon Saturday afternoon, when the Never r.ips of the Ogden City league defeated the Lay-ton Lay-ton team of the Davis county league. The defeat was ono of four sustained by the Layton boys during the present season and through It, the Never-Rips have a good claim to the state amateur ama-teur championship. A couple of weeks ago tho Layton players defeated the Stelffels team of Salt Lake Citv, biassed biass-ed as ono of the fastest aggregations In that district, and their defeat by the Ogden team came as a big surprise. sur-prise. The contest was sensational from start to finish, with the players of both teams straining every nerve tu win. ' Pitcher Burton of Layton, hither hith-er to considered unbeatable, got off bad in the first inning and the Never-Rips Never-Rips scored three- runs before ho settled set-tled down From then on, however until tho eighth Inning, he pitched good ball and was well backed up but in that frame, the "Rips" scored two more runs. Pitcher "Brose" Hill and the ontlro Never-Rip team played air-tight ball until the sixth inning, Hill allowing only ono hit. In this frame, Layton scored one run, G. Adams getting a two-bagger, going to third on a sacrifice sacri-fice and crossing the plate on an error. er-ror. In the next frame, Manager Mortensen of the Never-Rips showed good judgment in "dragging" Hill, in favor of Harry Greenwell, after the former had passed one man and given another a mit At this point, things looked exceedingly bright for Layton and Greenwell made them look brighter bright-er by hitlng the first man to face him. With three mon on bases and none out, Simmons hit to Sprague. The heady first-basoman cut Burton off at the plate, but the bases were again filled. Greenwell settled down and struck out W. Adams and Meyers robbed rob-bed Layton of two runs, when he caught a long fly from the bat of G. Arlnma TMa nntnYi w:ia Hlf fpatlim of the gamo and was said to have been the prettiest outfield play ever seen on tho Lagoon diamond. With it, the chances of the country team for victory wont glimmering, as Greenwell Green-well struck his gait at the opening of the next Inning nnd didn't give his opponents a look in. Tho lineup follows: Never-Rips. Layton. H. Stone c Simpson IIlll-Greenwell p Burton Sprague lb ....G. Adams Greenwell-Reardon .2b...,..S. Adams Owens 3b Garrett Minnoch ss .... W. Adams Meyers If Simmons Reardon-HIll . . ..cf Scofleld B Shupo . . .rf . . Layton Umpires, Stono and Reading |
