The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-29
BEARS SCORE 81.
WIN OVER JB'S
res Beat Purol, 1911; AS
Win Over Kappas And
Pepsis Defeat Masonboro

Royal Crown and Leland contin.
ued to lead the parade in the Cape
Fear association yesterday as they
marked up impressive victories, the
Crownmen beating Purol Is to II
and the Bears conquering jackson.
Bell, 8 to l.
In the other games of the after.
noon, the Hi-Kappas continued their
losing ways by falling before the
AS, 10, and the Pepsi Colas got
back on the right track with a well.
played 5 to 8 triumph over the Ma
sonboro Ramblers at Legion field.
Hitting Featured
Long and numerous. base knocks
were thee%order of the day at the
Purol-RC party. However, most of
the hitting was on the part of the
Crownmen as Lappy Williams held
the Bluebirds to seven bingles for
the sever innings he toiled and
Johnnie Edens granted four more
in going the rest of the way. Man.
ager Rode Farrow called four fling.
ers to the front in a vain effort to
quell the res II hit Commandment.
Those chunkers in order We're: Red
Miller, James Baker, Jr., Edgar
Vause and Jiggs Gore. James Bak-
er caught for the Bluebirds while
Sam Smith and Charley Edens were
the Royal Crown receivers.
In the hitting division, Linwood
Rowan stretched his consecutive
game batting record by ripping out
five base blows in six official trips
to the bat. The brilliant re infielder
was followed by Stokley with three
for three and Norman Farmer who
garnered two for six. Red Miller
paced his team at bat with three for
four, followed by Gore with two for
four. The Crownmen Tailed in every
inning except the fourth and every
man on the nine hit safely save one.
Yesterdays defeat for the Purol
team was their first in six weeks.
Piner Stars
Fletcher Piner's five hit hurting
plus the erratic playing of the fra
ternity boys was enough to give
the S. A. C.'s the loosely played con-
test at Hilton. Highpockets Jimmy
Mintz, doing the chunking for the
Hi-Kappas pitched his usual steady
game, but seven costly errors in the
Kappa infield Swallowed the effect
iveness of the lanky Highlander.
The visiting club took a one run
advantage in the first and stayed
out in front the rest of the way al
though the Kappa boys woke up in
the second to knot the count on Ia.
tum's one baser and Horace Tyler's
two-ply blow. Two hits and a Jike
number of misplays handed the AS
a couple more in the fourth while
they mixed three safeties with two
more exerts from a juggling act
to score twice in the next frame
Collie Rich's triple and another er.
ror paved the way for the final Ath'
letic marker. The Hi-Kappas' other
two came in the sixth on the
strength of Tatum's second hit OF
the afternoon and a single by Charles
Cherry.
POPPY Sandlin and Rich shared
hitting laurels for the Athletics, both
getting two for five, while Tatum's
two for four was the best for the
Hi.Kappas. Yesterdays defeat for
the fraternity nine was their fourth
in a row.
Bullock Takes Over
Jim Bullock supplanted the great
Lefty Brew on the hill for the Bears
and came through with a nifty per-
Torrance which enabled the Bruins
wick lads to hand the Jackson-Bell
outfit their first setback of the young
half. Pen Clark was the Leland
catcher. Elmo Reese went the dis
lance for the visiting JB's and hurled
a creditable game, but the booming
bats of the Lelanders were not to be
silenced. Manager Robbie Robinson
worked behind the bat for the Print
ers.
Snag Allen, back in old form,
shaded young Bobby Edwards in a
rousing pitchers duel to give the
Pepsi Colas their WI over the Ram.
blers. Edwards allowed nine safe
ties and the dominating Allen two
less. Covington was the mar with
the mitt for the PCS and fiery Buck
Tyre was the Masonboro backstop.
The standings: