The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-09-09
BEHIND
HOME PLATE
By DOUG STEWART

Did you Know:
That Tom Davis, in getting IS
putouts against Wilmington in Sun
days game, broke an all-time rec
ord in both the major and minor
leagues. The previous record, IL
putouts in single game by an out
fielder, was made in 1929 by Earl
Clark of the Boston Nationals.
Back home for a last ditch fight to
cop the pennant, the Owls opened
their home stay by splitting a dou-
BILE header with York on Labor Day,
while Lancaster and Wilmington
were both winning their twin bills.
So as this is written (Monday
midnight), we are 2 IL games be-
hind the league-leading Lancaster
Red Roses and 2 IL games ahead
of Wilmington.
In the Labor Day twin games, we
lost tough one and won thriller
In the first game (seven innings)
Miller seemed to have the game
sewn up, as he had a lead of three
runs going into the seventh and
looked to be going great guns But
its the same old story-a game isn't
won till the last man is out (and, by
the way, this was doubly> proven in
the second game).
Charlie struck out the first man
to face him in the seventh, Schaed-
Ter. Daniels, the next man up, beat
out an infield tap to second and
Campbell, pinch hitting for Glenn
Ience, the York pitcher, slapped a
single into center. Bros followed
with single to right and Gracey
followed with a four-bagger over
the right field wall and four runs
were across the plate.
In our half of the seventh, Schess-
Ter came in to protect York's one
run lead and he did it very effec-
lively. Bobby Maier, the first man
to face him, got a single to left, Da-
Wis sacrificed him to second, putting
the tying run in scoring position,
but Schessler bore down and forced
Riley and Williams to ground out
Miller's weakening in the last in
ming caused us to lose the game, but
the umpire's decision on Pat Rileys
grounder robbed of us of any
chance of tying the score. Pat
grounded to Schaedler, who threw
to Schessler who was covering first.
Some decisions are close and only
the umpire, who is right on top of
the play, can really see what hap
pened But Riley so obviously beat
the throw that anyone sitting in the
leftfield bleachers could have called
it. The decision brought on a near
riot and it is hard to say what
might happened before the night
was over, if the Owls had not come
through with a spectacular ninth in
ming rally in the second game, that
put the fans in such good humor
that they forgot all about the bum
deal from Mr. imp in the first en-
counter.
In the second game, Maggie
started for the Owls and York's vet
eran George, making his first ap-
pearance in Hagerstown, opposed
him. At the end of the sixth in
ming Maggie had 40 lead, but he
weakened badly in the seventh and
was replaced by Miller after two
runs had scored with none out and
the bases loaded. Miller pit out
the fire after allowing one more run
Charged to Nagle) and the score
stood, York 5, The Owls 4. There
was no scoring in the eighth and
Miller set the White Roses down
one, two, three in the first half of
the ninth. Lilies was up first in our
half and grounded to the shortstop.
Maier laced single to center, but
Davis made the second out when he
skied to right field That brought
Pat Riley up-the same lad that
was robbed by Mr. imp in the last
inning of the first game Pat took
one look at Maier on first, dug his
toes in and slammed Georges first
pitch high and wide over the right
field wall, scoring behind Maier, to
give the Owls an even split and
Miller game in the win column.
The Owls can still win the pen
nant, but as we said last week, their
chances are none too rosy, particu-
larly as Lancaster is showing no
signs of rolling over and playing
dead.
But am still pulling for the Owls
to win.
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