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Show in the league, in the meantime was losing a hard fought game to Eureka with a 10 to 8 score. Heber started off with all indications indica-tions of trouncing the champions, when they scored five runs off Lefty Mott, American Fork hurler," in the second inning, but the Cavemen soon got their heavy artillery under way and scored 6 runs to take the lead again. American Fork went to Heber yesterday, the results, however, were too late to print as we went to (press. Eureka comes here next Wednesday, Wednes-day, June 19, n t CAVEMEN TAKE FIKMEK GRIP ON LEAGUE, DEFEAT- . ING EUREKA 7-6 AND HEBER 24-6 Utah Central leng-ue Standing: Won Lost Pet. American Fork 5 1 .833 Provo 4 3 .571 Eureka 2 4 .233 Heber 1 4 .200 Outhit by the Tintic Miners, American Amer-ican Fork's Cavemen nevertheless managed to bunch five of their hits with two errors in the third innings of Sunday's game at Eureka, gaining a lead that lasted them to the close for a 7-6 victory. Tintic chalked up a four run lead in the early innings, but American Fork's six-run barrage in the third innings wiped out the lead. The Cavemen made the count 7-4 by push ing another run across in the fourth, and the Miners made a two-run rally in the eighth, but failed to register in the ninth. Addie Miller was the winning pitcher, and helped his own cause along with three solid hits, while Christiansen, Durrant and Barnes also hit well. The lelding of Christiansen Chris-tiansen at second base was sensational. sensa-tional. . i Davis and Wilson did the heayy stickwork for Tintic. The Score: AMERICAN FORK AB. H. O. A.. Bennett, ss 4 1 2 2 Homer, cf 5 0 1 0 Miller, p 5 3 0 0 Durrant, If 5 2 0 0 Chipman, lb 4 1 8 0 Barnes, rf 5 2 2 0 Christiansen, 2b 3 2 5 5 Nelson, c 4 1 7 1 Holmstead, 3b 4 1 2 2 Totals 39 13 27 10 EUREKA AB. II. O. A. College, ss 5 1 3 3 Kline, 3b 4 2 3 2 Wilson, cf 5 3 2 0 Davis, c 5 3 4 0 Feeley, lb 5 1 9 1 IT. Hiertel, If 4 2 2 1 Steadman, 2b 3 0-0 3; Bcesley, rf 4 1 3 0 Steele, p 4 2 1 2 Totals 39 15 27 12 American Fork took another Rtep to the first half of the Utah Central League Championship when they walloped the Heber City Eagles, 24 to C, at the local ball park Wednesday Wednes-day afternoon. Trovo, second raters |
