OCR Text |
Show West Outsiugs South Baseball Clan, 23-16 In Diamond Marathon A tired group of South baseball players trailed off the West high diamond after losing to the "Big 3" champions last night, 23-16, in one of the longest slugfests ever witnessed in city circles. . The game lasted 3 hours and 15 minutes. min-utes. Starting on the mound for the Southerners was right-hander MacCoy McMurray, who found going go-ing rocky during the fifth inning. Up until that time he had held the West crew to seven runs, which was relatively good. He was relieved re-lieved during the hectic fifth, however, how-ever, by another right-hander, Jack Wigren. Jack finished the inning after the two hurlers had allowed the Panthers to batter the Cub nine for eight runs. Peterson Takes Over Kent Peterson took over for the Southerners in the seventh. His pitching was good until he tired in the final frame and let the West nine bash out seven counters. West used three pitchers during the struggle, also. Parsons started start-ed on the firing line, but was quickly replaced by Cornea, who moved in from left field. Final flinger for the home team was Ta-shiro, Ta-shiro, who proved to be a most capable pitcher for the eleven. He was wild in his early innings, but recovered and set the Cubs down with the loss. Defense of both sides was exceptionally ex-ceptionally spotty with the battling department doing the best job. South committed nine errors as compared with West high school's five, hit 14 times as against West's 26, and thus finished the game seven runs behind the Panther Pan-ther squad. Dick North played a stellar game at shortstop, although he accounted ac-counted for three of the Blue and White errors. A beautiful stab at a difficult grounder netted him an assist in the eighth inning, for which he deserves recognition. Also Al-so on the honorable mention list are Willie Stewart and the entire outfield of Northrup, Dick Lawrence Law-rence and Don Davis. Stewart Contributes Homers Willie Stewart was the big gun at bat for South as he hit three times in five official trips to the plate. Two of his hits were long homers. Home runs were also turned in by Caputo, Bagley and Tashiro of West high school. Shindler," West shortstop, collected a triple. - Although beaten in their first encounter, Coach Gilbert's crew is nevertheless far from discouraged, and the Cubs are looking forward to their next fling with the Leopards Leo-pards and final game with West. |