The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-07-19

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ious accident happened. Red Rob-
erts, playing In the Wyandotte
Chemicals League, slid into third
base and broke his leg. Red is a
cry popular boy around and the
fans will all feel sorry for his mis-
fortune. This year seems to have
been a bad one for accidents and
there has been more of them than
there have been in the past four
years. The local Recreation depart
ment, through the efforts of Harry
Wagner, has started a fund which
will take care of nominal hospital
accounts. The city is in no way
connected with the fund but, as I
outlined its operation in Mondays
paper, the players injured are
helped out in their hospital bills.
Now to my mind there should
be some way that the players could
be helped in a more substantial
manner. We will take the case of
Red Roberts. Red is a working man
just like the rest of the fellows
and an accident like this will I'M
doubtedly hurt his pocketbook. Why
is it not possible to form a larger
committee to make this general
fund a lot more prosperous with
big chunk of doe. If Red will
be out for about eight weeks he
will loose in pay around $500. That
amount of dough lost is quite big
and the average man can not stand
it without going into the hole. The
thought I have in mind would be
to have series of events of all
kinds to build up this fund so there
would be enough Of the long green
in it to take care of man or boy
who is injred with a sort of weekly
salary to help when he is off work.
In any sport, accidents are bound
to happen and the expense is al
ways great. So to the committee
in charge. why not dig around and
try to find some way TO help more
substantially the injured players.
To go with the above story, this
column will take the back seat to
the sponsor and players of Lens
Inn team. Len DombrowSki and
his players deserve a pat on the
back - they deserve a lot more
than that. This story just came to
the writer and I think the fans
should certainly know the kind of
fellows We have around Wyandotte
Recently one Of the fellows broke
his ankle and the result was that
he was off work for about five or
six weeks. Len and the boys got
together and worked it out this
way. Len paid the entire hospital
bill and the boys every week chip
ped in and gave the injured player
a weekly salary. That to my mind
is tops.
This week will be something for
either Hoersch Shoes or Chelsea.
These two teams meeting for the
lead of the Open Old Timers will
have something else to shoot at.
The leader in this league will meet
the Fraternal Order of Eagles next
Thursday night at Pulaski Park
at 8 o'clock to see who viii meet
Lens Inn at the F.OP. picnic at
Bob 10 August q The play down
there will be for the jug that is
stuck up each year and at present
held by Lens.
1t looks like the. UM.W.A. boys
in the Junior Old Timers have
folded up. They have forfeited their
last two games.
CAS.U. Glass A Baseball team
continue their winning ways. They
trimmed the Ecorse Business men
last Tuesday night by the score Of
IS to /.
In the Class A Softball league
last Monday night, the Crosse lie
Naval Base lost to C.AS.U. by the
score of 6 to 2.
I have just been informed that
the boys from the Wyandotte
Chemicals plant and some others
are going 10 stage a benefit game
for Red Roberts. Here is a chance
for the fans to really get back Of
popular guy and turn out and
see this game.
Monday night, July 80, Is the big