The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-12
ATHLETICS UPSET
PEPSlS, 7 TO 6
Masonboro Edges Out Hi Kap-
pas, 50; Other Two Games
In Loop Rained Out
Ry r. I.

the Weatherman'S wrath IN the
Cape Fear Baseball association
yesterday, the Athletics came up
with an upsetting rs conquest Of
the Pepsi-Cola club and the Mason
boro Ramblers nosed out the Hi
Kappas, 5 to 4 at Hilton.
The Royal Crown-Jackson Bell
and Leland-Puro games we're post
poned on account of wet grounds.
A dramatic four run rally in the
ninth chapter enabled the AS to
pull out in front in their game with
the first half champs. Batting for
the last time, the S. A. C.. boys
were trailing 6 to 3. and the fire
works started. Wallace was safe
on first on a miscue, Sandlin
grounded out but A. B. Stokely
slashed out his fourth hit of the
day, scoring Wallace. Stokley tai
lied when Beatty muffed Rich's
long fly and the latter came in on
Leonard's single. Singletary then
singled Leonard home with the
W1llA11A16 1l1o1hC1.
Fletcher Piner went the route
on the hill for the Yowmen, and
granted the PCS eleven hits while
striking out eight. Johnnie Carter,
on the slab for the losers, was nick
ed for 10 safeties and famed 10.
A. B. Baton was the AS catcher,
and Burney Covington caught for
the Pepsi team.
The Pepsi Colas big inning was
the sixth, when they piled up five
hits that drove in four runs. They
added another in the fourth and
one in the ninth. The AS scored
two in the fifth an done in the sew
enth before their last minute game
winning outburst.
Getting ofur base knocks out of
five trips to the bat, A. B. Stokley
was the standout batter of the day.
Sandlin was net with three for five
and. on the PC side of the ledger,
j. Stevenson's two for three was
tops. Rock Casteen collected three
out of five for the PCS.
Ed Farrow's ninth inning line
single into center field was the
stroke that wrote finish to a nifty
mound argument between the HI
Kappas Billy Pieper and Mason
boro's Bobby Edwards in the fea-
ture attraction at the Hilton same.
James TODD for the Ramblers and
Jimmy Mintz of the fraternity nine
were. the starting chunkers, but both
were yanked in the early stages of
the battle. Mintz givin gaway to
pieper. at the beginning of. the third
and Edwards replacing Todd in the
same. chapter. Adrian Rhodes was
the visiting receiver and Alvin Ia.
tum worked behind the bat for the
home club.
The Ramblers jumped on Mintz
for three hits in the very first round
which coupled with a hit batsman,
give the Saunders a big 3-run ad-
vantage. Two more singles and an
gave them M more in. the
next stanza, but from then on until
the heretofore mentioned ninth in
ming escapade, the Ramblers were
held at the mercy of the young fire.
ball hurler's delivery, getting only
three scattered hits for that period.
In all the Masonboro gang garnered
eight ~safeties.
The Hi-Kappas punched two of
their eight wallops with two base on
balls in the second frame to register
three of their runs. The other Kappa
tally came in the sixth on the
strength of Joe Cherry's one baser
coupled with a walk and two field
er's choice.
In the hitting division, Joe Cherry
paced the fraternity boys with three
for three and j. B. Edwards, Jr.,
topped the Masonboro attack with
two for four. The Kappas Oscar
Flowers turned in a like record and
Eagles of the losers and the
Ramblers' Tim Farrow hit safely
twice out of five trips to the bat.