Laurel outlook., 1946-08-14
SOftball Enters Last
Week Of League Play;
Play-Off Comes Soon

hurler for Palace pitched alright
ball and was we'll supported by his
team who committed only 1 error
in the field. Flagler, with 2 triples
and Ingram with 3 for A, led the
Palace Bar attack. Norris with =
for 2 and Palmer, 2 for 8 led
G~reening's. Play in the third round
has been much faster and some
very good games are expected.
r H E
Greening Chevrolet 3 8 3
Palace Bar 8 IL L
Batteries: Greening's-Gunter and
L. Lantz. Palace Bari. Price and
Macarthur.
Thursday night Shorty DeFrance
the leagues leading hitter, hit a
home run with one on in the first
half of the seventh to lead the Tub
man Food Mart to a 10 to 8 victory
Over the Board of Trade. The game
was close all the way, with the
hits and errors about even on both
sides. Hirschfelt with 2 for 8 and
Wallace with 8 for 8 led the Board
of Trade while j. Foley, DeFrance,
Ernest and j. Kucera led Tubman's.
L. Kucera pitched steady ball for
his first game of the season a
chucker.
Tubman Food Mart 10 IL 6
Board of Trade 8 10 8
Batteries: Tubman's-L. Kucera
and DeFrance. Board of Trade
Hageman and Martin.
Friday night B. R. C. of A. made
it A straight in the 3rd round by
downing the Palace Bar IL to 4.
Scoring 6 runs in the first inning
the shops breezed in to victory. d.
Ruff and G.. Ruff had 3 hits each to
lead the B. R. C. of A. attack.
'Jumpin Joe Price was best for the
Palace with 2 for 8. Fuerbacher
struck out 6 and allowed only 7
hits while j. Price struck out 8 and
allowed IL hits. Palace Bar COM
mitted z errors to the shops 3
to aid in the scoring.
B. R. C. of A. II ~ 81
Palace Bar 4 7 II
Batteries: B. R. C. of A.-Fuer-
bacher and Pewitt. Palace Bar
]. Price and Macarthur.
Sunday morning in the district
softball meet in Billings Laurel's
entry, Tubman Food Mart dropped
a II to 2 decision to a fast stepping
Moose lodge team. Laurel led 1
to 0 until the 3rd when the Moose
scored 5 times. In the seventh inn
ing the Laurel team had the bases
loaded and couldn't score The
Moose team hit 8 home runs in
the fourth inning to put the game
on ice. The local boys were handi-
capped playing under the new rules
which will govern our league play
next season.
Tubman Food Mart 2 7 4
Moose Lodge II ID 2
Batteries: Tubman's- Fuerbach-
er and DeFrance. Moose, Nichols
and Parker.
Monday night Greening Chevrolet
forfeited to Tubman Food Mart 9
to 0, due to only a members of
their team being present. Humans
then defeated a "picked team" from
the league, 10 to 6 in a game called
at the end of the 9Th because of
darkness. Humans scored in every /
inning to overcome a short "all-star"
lead made in the End inning Earn (
est hit a home run for the Food
Mart in the End, while H. Willis /
tripled with the bases loaded in the /
second for the 'All-Stars." (
R E
s 4 5
Tubman's 10 8 BIZ
Batteries: All Stars-Gunter and {
Food Mart-Herbert and s
Kucera. {
Tuesday night the game between
o. M. Void Co. and the Board of 3
Trade was postponed because of wet 4
This is the last week of &
play and the play-off for the &
championship will be held 4
sometime next week. The race for 4
the batting championship has been &
close all season with Shorty De-
France holding the lead as of Aug. &
I3. The local V. F. w. chapter 4
S awarding trophys to the champ &
on team and the leading hitter. n
Standings August IS n
w L P E
R. C. of A. .........4 0 1000 n
'ubman Food Mart ........3 1 $50 &
M. Void Co. ..-....2 1 $3.50 IS
Board of Trade .....-....-.1 2 1888 IS
'alace Bar .....-..1 8 $50 IS
ireening Chevrolet 30 a 900 IS
Schedule-Balance of 3rd Round ~
Thursday night, Aug. 15-Tub- rs
VS.. o. M. Void Co. rs
Friday night, Aug. 16-Board of rs
rade VS. Palace Bar. M
Leading Hitters, August 18th IS
Cd rs
DeFrance- M