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Legion LosesTo Wichitans(Errors, RunningCostly To LocalTeam In 9-8 LossIWhut appeared to ie a game- ( ending ground hall-out for the Arkansas City Junior American ' legion baseball team turned mst : to he a game-winning blow fortJie Wichita Big River team as the grounder trickled through the ;hands of shortstop hen Smith ;into left field Thursday at VA in lfield IThe hlow came with the bases loaded. scoring two runs and a tt-8 decision for the Wichita team, 1 coming front ttehind two six-run bulges built by the Arkansas City team.Arkansas City had moved Into a o-o lead at tiic end of the first two innings behind pitcher Mike Morgan in tin* second round loser's bracket game of the Winfield Invitational Tournament.The loss drop|x*d the Arks from the tournament, and made the over-all record stand at 14 1 wins and 11 losses. Tlte A r k s j host Wellington Sunday at 1:30 p.m. in City Park in a Kansas- jOklahoma League game, the \ linal game of the year. # j,Errors and sloppy base-running | cost the Legion the win Thurs- | day. Three Wichita batters picked up all seven hits gained by the winners. |The locals, in giving up nineruns, five of which were unearned employed the services of Morgan 'twice'. Dean Richardson. Ken Smith and Phil Richardson on the mound during the contest. Six errors accounted forfive of the runs.Poor base running cost t h eArks runners on two occasionsin tin* first inning and twice in the fourth inning.The \rks used five hits to gaiu a 0-0 lead in the top erf the second inning, scoring two in the first and four mure in the second. highlighted by doubles offthe bats of Morgan and Don Jordan .Wichita came up with a singlerun in t*’e second and another in the fourth, but the Arks took another six-run lead with two nuts in the sixth. \ line-drive double play with the hases loaded killed what max have been o big rallyfor the Arks in the sixth, off thebat of Dean Richardson, on a | hall ticketed for the right-fieldi*(-’*e*\Wichita scored four tunes in the sixth to narrow the margin Lo two runs. 8-0. In the seventh walks were issued b\ Phil Richardson to the two lead-off hatters. and Bill Stoker nearlyended the game with a groundrule double that missed clearing the fence by just a few feet.With men on second and third, the Arks gut the next two hitters on good fieldin'! Rut a walk issued to the next Wichita batterfilled the bases, givinr the locals a chance to get the final out at nnx base on u ground ball. Rut the grounder trickled through into left field for an error and two runs came across the plate epriiflg the name.IM nrr. At Bats* Runs. HitsARKANSAS CITY lt;8* - R Havnes. 3-1-2: Gilmore. 4-1-2: D. Richardson, 4-1-2: Shaw. 2-1-0:Yickerx. 0-0-0: Smith. 4-0-1: D.Richardson. 4-0-1: Morgan, 3-1-2: Ble.tehford. 2-10; Stouffer. 1-0-0: Jorfton 3-2-2. Totals. 30-8-12.WICHITA HP—Preston. 4-0-0: Tele. 2-1-0: Frev. 3-2-0: Stoker. 1-3-3: Taton. 3-2-2: Beardslee. 4-1-2: Whedbee, 3-0-0; Brown, l-o-[); Scott. 2-0-0: Shirtleff. 1-0-0:McCormick. 3-0-0. Totals, 30 9-t
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Arkansas City Traveler
Arkansas City, Kansas, US
Fri, Aug 02, 1963
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