Wildcats, TihetS*Lead
Softball Teams at Half

By Dave Shirk

The first round of the Big Six Na-
tional Softball League entry closed
Wednesday afternoon, July 5. At
the halfway mark we find the Wild-
cats and Tigers holding down the top
position with four wins and one loss
for a ranking of .800 per cent. The
Cyclones are not far below the lead-
ers. The Cyclones have won three
games and dropped two for a ranking
of 600 per cent. The rest of the
league follow in this order: Sooners
and Cornhuskers in a tie with two
games won and three games lost. The
Jayhawkers with their undisputed
last place with no wins out of five
games.

‘Wildcats: The Cats were wild
which they proved by: bumping off
the heavy-hitting Sooners by a count
of 11 to 7 to retain their first place
position along with the Tigers. The
Wildcats turned on the heat in the
third inning of the game to take the
lead with five runs which they held
the rest of the game. The battery for

old Pitts.
the rally in the third inning by

knocking.in three men with his clean
Captain Lawrence -

three-base hit.
Stanton is quite confident that his
team is going to be wearing the
crown when the final game is over.
His outfit has plenty of pep and chat-
ter which goes a long ways in win-
ning ball games.

Tigers: The Tigers are still show-
ing the league their power as a con-
tender for the championship by de-
feating the Cornhuskers 19 to 16.
Ebelke and Andrews did the pitch-
ing for the Tigers and Blower did the
work behind home plate. Every man
on the Tiger team made at least one
run. Blower, the catcher, leading
the team with four runs out of five
times at bat.

King and Allen pitching, with Frink
doing all the catching.

Jayhawkers: The unlucky Jay-
howkers are still fighting to appear
in the winning column. The ‘Hawks
finished the first round of the sea-
son without a single win. They lost
their game Wednesday to the Cy-
clones by a score of 10 to 14. Wolgast
and Roberts formed the battery for
the Jayhawkers.

TEAM STANDING
Ww

L Pct.
Niiideats: 25 4 1 .800
Digersse ee 4 1 800
Cyclones : 25 3 2 .600
SOOnekS: a 2 3 400 |
Cornhuskers  .............. Bos o 3400
Jayhawkers ................ 0 5 .000

The scheduled games for next week
in the Big Six National Softball Lea-
gue:

Monday, July 10—Jayhawkers vs.
Cornhuskers; Wildcats vs. a)
Sooners vs. Tigers.

Jayhawkers;
Cyclones vs. Cornhuskers.
the Cats was Art Lawrence and Har-?*—
Pitts was responsible for

 

Wednesday, July 12—Sooners vs.
Wildeats vs. Tigers;

 

 

Cyclones: The Cyclones came from
behind from their game with the

 

- Jayhawkers to win by a score of 14

to 10. Joe Wilkerson was the win-
ning pitcher, with Senter catching.
The Cyclones showed the rest of
the teams that every man on the
team is a hitter an deach made at
least one run.

Sooners: The Sooners lost their
third straight game of the season
Wednesday by dropping a hard
fought game with the Wildcats by a
score of 7 to 11. The Sooners took
the lead when Loren (tallest Jay-
hawker) Florell knocked a home-
run with two men on, but was un-
able to keep this lead when the Cats
went wild. On the mound for the
Sooners we find Bert Nash, and be-
hind the plate Harley Pritchard.

Cornhuskers: The Cornhusker lost
one of the longest and hardest fought
games of the season to the league’s
co-leaders, the Tigers, bl a score
of 16 to 19. Umpire Dr. Twente, who
is back calling balls and strikes af-
ter attending an educational confer-
ence on Secondary Education at
Pittsburg thought he was working
a track meet instead of a ball game.
The battery for the Cornhuskers was