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SHOPS TEAM DEFEAT PUEBLO ELKS FOR CITY CHAMPIONSHIP“ Vem ” Ellis Plays Sensational Game for Steel Leaguers. Sabo and Johnson Prove Hitting StarsThe Shops team captured the City i/ham pion«h ip when they defeated the PueblO Elks baseball nine yesterday afternoon on the State Fair grounds bv a 7.-3 score.A fifth inning rally by the hard hitting Steel leaguers put the game on ice' when tho champions dro' e in four runs, taking a three run lead over tho Pueblo Elks.The playing of Ellis was of the sensational order while the hitting of bo and the stick work of Johnson for the Elks team was the outstanding features of the game.Ted Josephs again pitched winning ball altho hr yielded nine hits, three of which were of the scratch order. The Elks used two twirlcrs, Milroy being taken off the rubber in the fifth after the Shops had touched him for three hits in this frame. Lutz finished the game holding the Mechanics to four hits during the final sessions.With ilobbs out on an infield play in the second. Johnson drove his first safe rap of the game by sending a fa-*t one past 13111s at third. G; Shomaker drove a singl“ to deep short and Johnson whs able to slip in at the home plat* on the relay of the hall from the outfield. P. Clark singled to left field for a scratch hit. Allen taking the ball on the bounce, presumably playing it safe but the poke scored Shomaker.Masar sent a long fly to Finley in left that carried the mark® of an extra base blow bur. Cotton pulled it down for the first out in the fourth Inning In which the Shops scored their first run. Sabo opened with a hard rap thru *hortstop and Ellis scored the •■midget” with a terrlfie .drive to right center for three stations. Koehevar walked and pilfered second base but was stranded at the keystone sack when Srhupp whipped and Rowley's grounder to Brown was thrown to first on a good play.The Steel leaguer* solved Milroy s twisters in the fifth and drove him from the mound after they had put across four tallies on three hits and two errors.Campbell drove a long fly to Sho-maker who cut down the sure hit for the first out. Josephs drove a two-ply rap to left field and Allen duplicated the clout scoring the pitcher. Mike Masar drove out an easy fly to Finley in left hut he dropped the ball and the Shops captain pulled up at third hase before the hall was retrieved and returned to the infield. Allen scoring. Snbo sent one to pitcher who fumbled and Masar scored with the third run. Sabo pulling np at second. Sabo went to third on n passed hall. Fills drove a long fiy to Finley who made a good running catch of the hall hpt when Koehevar sent one almost in hVi tracks. Cotton dropped the littleround thing and Sabo came in with number four.The hu'ky seventh proved to yield runs for both trams, the Elks scoring one run while the Shops added two P. Clark singled thru the infield for tho first man lip in the Euks half of the seventh. McBrooni followed with another safe rap. Masar made a good oat oh of Lutz's high fly back of first flt;r the first out. As Lamoreaux struck jout Schupp tried to get MoBroom off * Of second but threw the bail wide and I low to Sabo. Clark scoring but Mc-Broefm was caught at the plate for the final out.One out had been made in the seventh for the Mechanics when Sabo hit safely. Ellis was safe on Clark's error and stole second. Koehevar singled to frieht field scoring Ellis with the second run.( PUEBLO ELKSAB R H PO A EFinley. If..........1-amereaux. lh. ...R. i'lark. 3b......Brown, ss........Hobbs, c. ........| Johnson. If.. 1b. ...I Shomaker. rf......| D. » Mark. 2b ......MeBroom. cf.......4Milroy, p..........1Lutz, p............. 3Totals ...........3G9 27SHOPSAllen. If........5Masar. lb...........SSabo, s®............5Ellis. 3b............ S, Koehevar. 2b.......3Schupp. c.......... 4, Rowley, cf.........ACampbell, rf. ...... 4Josephs, p.......... 41 2 1 14Totals ...........39 7 10 27 14 1Pueblo Elks lt;V*A non 100—3 f» 4Shops ..............onn 140 200—7 10 1Summary—Stolen bases—Ellis, Koch-©Var. Two base hit©—Hobbs, Allen. Josephs. Three base hits—Johnson.Ellis. Iy»ft on base—Shops 5: Elks 7. Passed balls—Hobbs. Struck out.—byJosephs. 8; Milroy, 3; Lutz. 2. Baee on balls—by Josephs. 1: Milroy. 1. Innings pitched—by Milroy, 5: Lutx, 4-Empire—Morean. SnappSEMI-PRO GAMESTh» Avondal* American team defeated the Lithia nine in a game that waa featured by heavy hitting of tha Americans to the acor* of IS to 2. Tha bottlers aeored one of their two runs on a homT.Buck” Klamn. pitching for the
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Mon, Oct 03, 1921
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