The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-06-09
0'Brien Turns
in Mastery
Performance
Injury Hompers
Rose Gorden
HurIer, Mixofuko

Cooley and River Ponte Bar
BIO needed TO give them a VIC
tory in games played last night
in Major Softball League COM
petition. Cooley scored five
times in the initial frame 10
pave the way for their win over
Stadium 8 10 .. and the River
Pryde Tool & DE al ST. Marys
Stadium, TO ,, and the River
Polnte CLUB also tailed five
times in the sixth inning IN their |
tit With MOUNT Clemens Rose
Gardens at Covered Wagon
diamond. The final result was
7 10 !.
Tommy O'BrIen turned in a
maSterful performance against
the Rose Gardens, keeping the
plate uncroSsed for SIX innings.
With two away IN the last frame,
George MIyake, Greenhouse left
shortstop, poled out a home run
10 mar O BrIen's shutout. He had
eight strIkeouts 10 his credit, al
lowed two bases on balls and
was touched for four bingles.
Jack MiZafuka, Rose Gardens
hurler, troubled with badly cut
finger on his pitching hand. gave
up IL hits and three walks. He
was IN hot water throughout the
game with the exception OF the
fourth stanza when he retired
the BarB-Q team IN order.
River Polnte got their first :
pair Of counters IN the second /
when they filled the bases with |
no one out. Two infield ground
erS resulted in force plays at the |
plate, BIZ. Al Wegner came /
through with timely single to
drive in the two scores.
The five-run outburst in the
sixth started with Chef Mai
koski lining out single. De-
Smith flied TO third base, but /
Harms was safe on an error,
Maikoskl moving TO third. Pete
Robertson and Gordon Carpen-
ter then singled and Wegner
drew base on balls. O'Brlen
and Merritt Willmarth kept
things going with singles before
the side could be retired.
Wegner was the batting ace
for River Pointe having a per-
feet night at the plate. He sin
gled three times and walked
once in four plate appearances.
Before Gordon Belleau could
get warmed upon the mound for
Pryde Tool & Die, the D. N.
Cooley Mortlcians had hoped
all over him for five big runs to
give them a decided edge in
game which saw errors plays a
big part in tn scoring.
Jim Charbeneau opened the
clash with a single to center. An
error by the ST. Clair Shores |
center fielder permitted Char
beneau TO continue on 10 third. ,
Schlnkai Topped a hit over first
base, Charbeneau scoring. Wes !
ling was safe at first on an
error. Mas nit TO third and
Schinkai was forced. Schroe-
der popped to third for the
second ouf, but Sheldon doubled |
TO center field to score Wesling,
and Darling singled, Mas and |
Sheldon coming home. Thoel I
also lined out one-ply smash,
and when the Pryde Tool e. Die |
left fielder let the ball get /
through him, Darling scored all
the way from first base. SahroW
grounded out 10 end the inning |
An error was responsible for |
the two Pryde runs in the last .
half of the first 'stanza. With one
out Jack Craze singled and was
forced at second by Ocelnlk.
Basil Williams drove a wicked |
hit to right field. but when the
Cooley right fielder fumbled the
ball, Williams completed a cir
cult of the bases, Oceiink scored |
ahead of him.
The st. Clair Shores team had
a swell chance 10 score In the
fourth inning when they had
men on first and third with none
out, but AL Sahrow, Mortician
pitcher, frightened up and forced
the next three batters to 60 out
in order.
A base on balls, two singles, a
fielder's choice and an error was
good for two additional Cooley
runs in the sixth, while a walk
ard a Incty tvuo- hapoer by Oar