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Show The Apex team surprised their most ardent admirers, and it was the consensus of opinion that the Copper Cop-per would be returned an easy winner. win-ner. "Skinny" Miller proved to the fans that he earned the right to be called the best pitcher in the coal camps last year. He had a couple of bad innings, but never allowed himself to become rattled. Dunn pitched a great game for the Copper team until the seventh, when a triple and two doubles proved his undoing. Thornberg, who relieved him, pitched pitch-ed good enough ball, but the errors behind him paved the way for defeat. Anderson of the Apex team was charged with three errors during the contest. The fielding feature of the game was a beautiful throw to the plate in the first inning by Fleiger, after catching Whiteley's fly, and doubling Buckle at the plate. When they catch Buckle trying to score, they are doing some tall steppin'. Utah Apex 7 Player 1'os. AB R H PO A E Taylor, 3b '. .' 3 0 0 1 0 0 Kline, 2b S 1 3 0 3 0 Walbeck, ss 4 1 2 0 3 1 Fleiger, cf 4 12 4 11 Lindstrom, lb 3 0 0 6 0 0 Larsen, lb , 1 113 0 0 Anderson, c 4 1 1 10 0 3 McBride, rf 4 113 10 Gibbs, If 4 1 2 0 0 0 Miller, p '.: 2 0 0 0 2 1 Totals 36 7 12 27 10 6 Utah Copper 6 Player Pos. AB R H PO A E Buckle, cf 4 112 0 1 Morley, rf - 3 112 0 1 Whiteley, If 5 12 110 Dow, lb 5 0 2 10 1 0 Muir, c 3 0 0 7 1 1 Baty, ss 3 0 112 0 Duffy, 2b 2 0 0 2 1 0 Garrett, 3b 3 0 0 0 2 2 Dunn, p 3 112 4 0 Thornberg, p . 1 110 0 0 "Klecker 1 0 0 0 0 0 Swensen 1 110 0 0 Saddler 1 0 0 0 0 0 J ry son 1 0 10 0 0 Totals 35 6 11 27 12 5 Klecker batted for Duffy in ninth, grounded out. Swensen batted for Garrett in the ninth, tripled. Saddler batted for Buckle in ninth, fanned out. Bryson batted for Morley in the ninth, singled. Score by Innings Utah Apex 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Total Runs 000210040 7 Hits 010330050 12 Utah Copper Runs 002010102 6 Hits 1 0 '3 0 0 0 1 2 4 11 Summary Earned runs, Utah Apex 2, Utah Copper 3. Stolen bases: Buckle 2, Muir 1; Sacrifice hits: Miller Mil-ler 2, Walbeck. Sacrifice fly: Morley. Mor-ley. Two base hits: Whiteley, Walbeck, Wal-beck, Larsen. Three base hits: Kline, Swenson. Home run: Morley. Struck out: by Dunn 4, by Thornberg 3, by Miller 9. Base on balls: off Miller 3. Left on bases: Apex 5, Copper 7. Passed ball: Muir 1. Double plays: Fleiger to Anderson; Whiteley to Duffy. Pitching record: 10 hits and 4 runs off Dunn in 73 innings. 3 runs and 2 hits off Thornberg in V$ innings. 11 hits and 6 runs off Miller in 9 innings. Credit victory to Miller, charge defeat to Dunn. Umpires: Barber behind the bat, Scanlon on the bases. Time of game 2 hours 10 minutes. field, and Kline spiked the rubber for the first Apex run, and Fleiger went to third when Morley . let the ball roll to the fence. Lindstrom whiffed, but Ken Anderson delivered with a timely time-ly swat to left, scoring Fleiger. Apex took the lead in the fifth, when Gibbs started hostilities with a swat to center, and went to second when Buckle juggled the pill. Miller sacrificed him to third, and he scored on Kline's single to center. Not content with seeing the underground under-ground men ahead, the Copper men tied matters in their half of the fifth, when the infield of the Apex cracked temporarily. Buckle was safe on Walbeck's wide throw to first, and on a steal went to third when Anderson An-derson threw the ball to center field. Morley scored him with a long sacrifice sac-rifice fly to right field, the play being be-ing close at the plate. The open air miners took a one-run one-run lead in the seventh, when Dunn singled to center, and completed the circuit when Fleiger let the ball roll to the center field fence. With the score looking bad for them, the Apex men went into the eighth frame with blood in their eye. Kline started the fireworks with a screecher to the right field fence that went for three bases. Poor coaching sent him home on a short passed ball, and he was an easy victim, Muir to Dunn. Walbeck doubled to the left field fence, and Fleiger made the second sec-ond out by popping to Duffy. Bill Day Larsen was sent in to bat for Lindstrom, and delivered with a double that rattled the left field fence, scoring Walbeck with the tying ty-ing run. Manager Sorenson had seen too much, and sent in Thornberg to relieve Dunn. Anderson sent a slow one to Garrett, who made a bad throw to first, and Larsen scored, with Anderson An-derson tying up at the keystone sack. McBride beat out an infield hit, and then Gibbs delivered with a clean swat to center, scoring Anderson, and when Garrett missed Buckle's throw to third, McBride scampered home with the fourth run of the inning. The Copper were out to win the opener ,and made a noble effort in their half of the ninth. Klecker started the affair by batting for Duffy, but went out Miller to Larsen. Lar-sen. Swensen batting for Garrett, tripled to the right field fence, and scored when Thornberg sent a clean bingle to center. Saddler, batting for Buckle whiffed, and Anderson, thinking think-ing it three out, dropped the ball at the umpire's feet, and Thornberg went to second. Miller, thinking Thornberg was taking too big a lead, threw to second, but the throw was wide, and Thornberg went to third. Bryson singled to left, scoring Thornberg. Thorn-berg. Whiteley singled infield, and with the tying and winning runs on the bases and Pete Dow at the bat, things looked rather dismal for the underground men, but Dow ended the affair with a hot roller to Kline, who threw him out at first. The story in figures. Walbeck made a great assist of Dow's roller in the second, and threw him out at first. Anderson sent a roller to Dow in the second, and Dunn covered the bag, completing one of the classy plays of the game. Miller walked three men in a row in the second, and the Copper failed to ring the bell. Morley 's homer in the third was a healthy swat, and went far over Fleiger's head. Miller was hit rather severely in this frame. Miller showed a lot of stuff in the sixth when he fanned both Muir and Baty. Fleiger's effort on Dunn's single cast a shadow of gloom over the Apex camp. Garrett's two errors in the eighth hurt. Larsen's catch of Whiteley's foul in the eighth was a neat piece of work. McBride's peg to third in the eighth nipping Dow was a great piece of work. Thornberg looked mighty good out there, and he fanned two in the ninth. Wonderful control for a southpaw. THRILLING GAME IS ip APEX Underground Men Win Opening Game of League Season from Utah Copper Men, 7 to 6 Large Crowd Present. The Utah Apex baseball team, under un-der the guidance of Lolo Spencer, won the first game of the Copper League season from the Utah Copper players at Utah Copper ball park on Sunday afternoon by a score of 7 to 6, before more than 2000 rabid fans. From a spectator's standpoint, it was a great game, the contest being of the see-saw variety, first one team taking the lead and then the other. Great fielding, hard hitting, errors and good and mediocre pitching all combined to make the game a thriller. Manager Sorenson of the Copper team started his pitching ace, Jerry LAinn, while Manager Spencer sent "Skinny" Miller to the mound. Both pitchers worked well in the initial frame, but in the second, Miller took "five" and lost the exact location of the plate, and walked three men in a row, with but one out, but he settled down, fanned a man and made the other ground out. Miller got himself into trouble in the third when, with one out, Morley sent a home run to deep center, far over Fleiger's head. Whiteley followed fol-lowed with a double to the left field fence, and Dow sent him home with a hot shot to left. The Apex came back in the fourth and evened matters. Kline started with a clean swipe to left, and Walbeck Wal-beck sent him to second with a neat sacrifice. Fleiger poked one to right HERE AND THERE Some crowd. And a good behaving crowd, too. The fans were about evenly divided, and all was serene throughout the nine innings of play. The impiring was above par, being the best seen here in a long time. |