The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-29
Game Played
Despite Hail
As Eggs
Consumers Diamond
Drows Enthusiastic
SoftboII Fons

SoftbolI Fons
The only two teams in the
Major Softball unable 10 play a
game in the first nine days of
the schedule. Mount Clemens
Rose Gardens and Miller's Dairy
Bar finally got together at Con-
sumers Power diamond Friday
evening and completed seven
inning game.
At that they were nearly
forced 10 call il quits as freak
storm hit Mount Clemens at
100 and hail stones as big as
marbles started 10 fall. This
doWnpour did halt the other Ma
jor League tilt al ST. Mary $
Stadium, as 1t ralned harder on
that end of town than it did at
the Consumers Power field. Su-
per Cleaners had a 40 lead over
Andy's TeXaco at the end Of
three and one half innings with
the Texas team due 10 bat in
the fourth.
In the game which reached a
decision, the Greenhouse team
noScd out Millers in a thrilling
battle, 54. Behind by a 2 to 0
count, the Dairy team was
strengthened when Bob Man
ming, their ace Slugger, put in an
appearance in the fifth inning.
Leading off in the sixth, Man
ming lined out single. He stole
second and went TO third on a
passed ball as Schafer and New
ton were being retired on
strikes. Rick then drew pass
and stole second Adam Lehl's
grounder was bobbled by the
Greenhouse third baseman per-
the two baserunners TO
score. Lehl took second on
passed ball and checked in at
the plate on Dick Burback's
two base knock. Nelson Lucht-
man ended the inning by pop
ping 10 third.
The first two Greenhouse runs
were scored in the fourth stanza
Two errors and a triple by Har-
ry Kunishima resulted in the
pair of markers. Following the
three-run rally by Miller's,
Rose Gardens came right back
to take the lead as Bill Nichols
walked and Jack Mizafuka,
Rose Garden pitcher, hit a long
home run 10 center field.
1t was Mannings hit in the
first of the seventh for Miiler's
that tied the score. After the
first two batters had famed,
Duane Furton reached first
safely when his fly TO short left
field was muffed. He stole sec
ond and went 10 third on a
passed ball Manning then lined
a terrific drive that hit about
Is feet up on warehouse in left
field. The ball bounded halfway
back TO the infield and two
bases was all the Dairy first
sacked could get, Furton Of
course scored easily. Schsfer
then grounded out 10 shortstop
TO end the inning.
The Rose Gardens winning
run was tailed by Jack Mi
yake His grounder TO short was
fumbled permitting him TO reach
first safely. He went TO second
on passed ball Bat Ikegami
drove a single 10 center field
and when the ball went
through the outfielder's legs,
Miyake logged home with the
winning counter.
Adam Lehl and Mizafuka
pitchers for Mlllers and Rose
Gardens, respectively, both al
lowed five safetIes with the lat
ter having the edge in strike
outs getting IL compared with
seven for Lehl. Both gave up
three bases on balls
Ikegami and Mizafuka each
had two hits in three trips &c
the plate while Manning's two
for two was tops among Dairy
batters.
In the abbreviated Super
Cleaners Andy's Texaco game,
the Qulnnmen put together sin
giles by Clarence Seibert and
Pete Grim, a triple by Floyd
Frederick and Glenn latham S
double followed by a one Dagger
off the bat Of Les Frederick TO
shove four runs across in the
tnird frame before the rain
came.
In the three innings he
pitched. Mel Frederick. Cleaner
hurler faced only ten men and
pitched hitless ball. The only
Texaco batter TO reach base was
Vance Crane An error was