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Show i South High Nine Blast Leopards 9-1 By Grant Woodward Leading the Big Three baseball base-ball chase, the Champions South high nine blasted the lowly Leopards Leop-ards of East high yesterday 9-1. The Cubs squad rallied in nearly all innings to gather 15 scattered scat-tered hits to score 9 runs. Lefty Kent Peterson led the attack by whiffing 18 so-called hitters from the hill-top school. Peterson's arm was never doubtful doubt-ful in the nine innings that he chucked. Abe Berthold, Glen Standing, Eldon Story and Don Shepherd led the offensive drive with all getting three bingos in five trips to the plate. Sure Victory South victory was never doubled doub-led from the first pitched ball. Jerry (Jake) Dalebout, captain, hit the second pitched ball off Jerry Hallman, another lefty of East to start things rolling. Standing sacrificed and then the fireworks began. Shepherd hit a double in the 'East tennis court to score Dalebout. Berthold then hit a single and Shepherd scored from second. All the rest of the game the Cubs were never outhit or outfielded. Eldon Story hit the ball on the nose in the sixth inning for a home run. Later on in the ninth frame Berthold connected with one on base for the second home run. Glen Davis, a junior to the squad, hit a double and Peterson Peter-son also hit when it was needed. The whole club looked good for nine innings. Great praise is given to Bob Story, Cub catcher, al- BASEBALL STANDINGS Won Lost Pet. Soth 2 0 1.000 East 1 1 .500 West; 0 2 .000 though not being successful at the plate, his defensive work behind be-hind the plate was excellent. South 7, West 0. Opening the season last week, Kent Peterson lead the Cubs by allowing only one hit in nine frames to hold the West crew scoreless, 7-0. Jerry Dalebout led the offensive drive by hitting two singles out of two trips to the plate, which netted him an average av-erage of 100 per cent. Glen Standing Stand-ing singled in the third inning and was the only blow until the Cubs started the massacre in the seventh frame. In the eighth inning all batted around and found red hot singles from nearly all the Cub squad. There is an old saying that pitchers pitch-ers can't hit, but Peterson is above the average. Standing, Dalebout Dale-bout and Peterson received two hits while others had to be satisfied sat-isfied with one. Glen Davis doubled dou-bled to left field to show plenty of power at the plate. |