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Show Timps Win Central Utah League In Close Battle, 5-4 Lofty Mott Pitches Best Game In His Career. The Provo Timps won the championship cham-pionship of the Central Utah league by snaring the fourth game of the series Frlilay, September 20, 5 to 4, defeating the local nine, winners of the first half of the season. Provo captured the first, second and fourth tilts, American Fork's lone victory being registered in the third contest. Lefty Mott, who started in the box for the locals, played into some tough luck. The youthful hurler pitched one of the best games of his life for the first six innings, yielding but two baae hits, one of them a homer by Barnett' in the first, the other a single to right field by Con-ant Con-ant in the fifth. He set the Timps back with four hltless innings during this period of the game. There is not much to say about the first six innings for Provo except Barnett's terrific drive over the right field fence in the first and Conant'3 click to right in the fifth. With' young Mott pitching as if inspired the Timps seemed to be unable to hit safely. The Cavemen increased their lead to two runs when they rang the bell once more in the seventh. In the last half of the seventh stanza, Provo tied with a homer by Dyer, and ended with a point in the lead. American Fork kept the Provo fans shivering in the eighth when they came within an ace of tying the count again. , They made another game try in the ninth when they put two men on bases after Bennett and Barnes were out. Homer got his thirtl hit of the day to revive the fading hopes of the local rooters. Dyer passed Bar-ratt Bar-ratt and Ingersoll was thrown out, Barnett to Nelson, to end the game, the series and the season. One of the freak plays of the game was pulled in the fourth when Doc Homer leaped into the air to make a one handed stab of Berry's long fly to the scoreboard. Doc- came down headfirst for a knockout, but with the ball apparently clutched in his glove, and the umpire ruled that the putout had been completed. Binch, American Fork's second baseman had another big day when he handled successfully seven chances without a miscue. Homer and Barratt were the hitting demons with three blows apiece. n. |