Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-05-26
"LN" POWELL PICKED
AS S7ENTON MANAGER
He Then Pitches Against
Mount Carmel and Loses
Decision in Close Came
by Score of Z to 6
FLEISHER IS BEATEN
BY WILLIAM s. DALLAS

! by WILLIAM =. DALLAS
9" H. POWELL, well known
- pitcher and basketball PLAYER has
noen named manager of the Stenton
f1eld Club. Powell made his debut in
this capacity last night when he on.
posed tho Mount Carmel team. but
Liz was forced to bow to defeat. The
score was TO 9.
Powell is one of the leading pitchers
IN the scmipro ranks. He has been with
Stenton for years and twirled the
Mount Airy club to several pennants in
the Suburban League.
He is also noted as n cage pIavcr of
no mean ability and has seen service
with nearly every team in the Eastern
League. He did his best work with
Germantown when Dave Bennis' team
won the Eastern League pennant. lie
IS also prominently identified with ath.
letics ~ the Pennsylvania Railroad and
pitches for the Auditor of Revenue
ana is member of the championship
basketball five.
-Four runs secured by Mount Carmel
In the opening frame resulted in STEM
tons downfall. Loose fielding with
several timely hits accounted for the
quartet of tnllics. Stenton fought back
hard and took the lead 6 to 3 in the
seventh. but the visitors won the ball
game with two in~thc eighth. Stenton
outhit their opponents I to 6.
Some Records Spoiled.
a close study Of the box score shows
that some records were established. The
Fox Motorists Travelled over to 81"
and Tioga streets and at the end Of
seven innings had defeated Notaseme
lO to 8. The game marked the first
reverse of the season for the stocking
makers. The motorists hit the ball
hard and MUNGER pitched brilliantly.
Fox was credited with nineteen hits.
Another club to taste it's first de-
feat was Bill Shallcross' Wildwood
aggregation. The Frankford delega-
| tion made trip cross country to Ed
l;usk,s st. Barnabas' aggregation, and
| the Saints romped off with 5-to- 3
victory. Pitcher Harper outhurled
Perkins throughout. The feature for
the winners was the playing Of Joe
liogart. The West Philly High lad
! scored two runs, raped out single
and made two sensational running
catches in left field.
| The South Philly Hebrews suffered
their initial reverse on the home
grounds at Thirteenth and johnson
strecst, against Tamaqua. Rube Cham.
bcrs was on the hill for the Sphas,
and was opposed by Dickson. Bur-
| nett. the visitors second sacker, prac =
! tically won the game. He accepted
| three great chances in the field, had
two hits and two runs and knocked
in four others. The Sphas had hOmers
by Burmah and Eddie Farrell. 1t was
the fourth successive day that Farrell
has made his Ruthian rap.
F'leisher Upset
The Flcishcr Warmers are going
great. But they all get stopped oc-
casionaly. and last night was one OF
those times. The North Phils will
Sox Seibod on the hill against Gene
Barrett, conquered the downtown yarn.
crs. 3 to 4. The phils won in thu
eighth. when they tailed twice ant
II walk and balk were really respon.
sib!e for Barrctts undoing. Me-
Neill and Barrett. of Fleisher. each
had four hits and the losers had clever
safeties to seven for the winners.
The Hatch Motorists and NicetOwI
played great contest at Tenth ant
Butler. and the shades Of night saw
the game a tie at : all. Dick Flana
gan had three singles, and it marked
the fourteenth successive affair that h'
has hit safely for the motorists.
Philadelphia Terminal hit the Offering
of Werdcr, of Marshall T.. Emith. t
all corners of the Tenth and Butler
street lot and the store boys wer'
beaten q to +. The fans were treated
to hard fought game. nevertheless
which was featured by sensational worl
in the field, neither team making al
error.
Fine Batting Practice
John Castles Shanahan athletes en-
joyed some fine batting practice Will
the Harry \. Mackey politicians, an,
when the, game. or rather six innings
was concluded the figures read Shana
han % and Mackey |. The sole tall,
of the losers was a home run rap b,
ShortstOp ShOyer in the final frame
Hcist's hitting featured for Shanahan
He had a double. then triple and fin
iSEcd with homer. Catcher Harrigal
also had n four base wallOp.
Bill Whitman gave Stanley POpo.
loski chance to show his wares before
Er;dcsburg fans for the first time ant
he scored 5-tO-O victory over tn
donovan Armstrong advertisers. Th
West Philadclphians had their bcs
line up of the season. which included
such players as Maurice Rath and Rub
CaSman.
The South Phlls put stop in tn
winning streak of the Harrisburg Mo
tive Power team. o to 3. The down
town sluggcrs got 20 Harmed in the frs
four sessions for eight runs, which in
cludcd homer by Howard l.ohr. Th'
outstanding feature was the work o
Pinncz, the new addition to the Soutl
Pills lineup. Hc accepted sever
chances without an error, two Of whicl
were labeled for hits. Spalding ant
Lohr featured in the batting.
Dave Bcnnis' Germantown club suf
fercd it's second defeat when the Cubal
Stars won. 10 to 6. The German
towncrs hit the ball as hard as th
Cubans. but three errors by Third
bascman Bateman put Pitcher Black II
the hole at the start.
Lit Brothers met Bartram Park Il
the first home game of the store boy
and Barney Slaughter's team wa
beaten + to .. ''Stcw' Hardness wa
on the hill and deserved n better fate
ns he pitched game that would ordi
narily win. but his teammates faile'