The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-05-02
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By DOUG STEWART
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press Just about the time the crowd
was starting to stream into the
Stadium for last nights opening
game of the Interstate Leagues 1916
season, and since this column was
written on Tuesday night after /
got back from the Elks Lodge annual
welcome to the Owls night, I'll
have to leave it to Frank Colley and
Dick Kelly to tell you what happen
ed to our owls" in their initial clash
with the Allentown Cards" Owe
got a feeling that they won the
game and I hope I'm right.
But beginning with next weeks
issue, I'll be right on the ball, re-
porting the games as I see them and
trying, to the best of my ability, to
give you an unbiased opinion of
what the team looks like.
While Fitzgerald, our center field
err who was claimed by Nashville at
the end of the 1945 season, was be-
ing returned to HagerstoWn, he had
not reported to manager Griffith
when I talked to him Tuesday night,
but he was expected any minute.
Marty Minogue, of the Owls pitch
ing staff, checked in on Monday and
looks fit and ready to go.
Murray Rothman, another Owls
outfelder of 1915, who was sent by
Little Rock to Pensacola for spring
training, dropped in at the Stadium
over the weekend, enroute to Annis-
ton, Alabama, another Little Rock
farm.
Bob Teller chose his own way of
answering the critics who were Won
dering if he had left his best pitch
ing behind him when he was dis
charged from the Navy-by pitching
a no run, no hit game against the
Yankees on Tuesday afternoon.
And now for a word or two about
the Elks Lodge reception for the
Owls on Tuesday night, which was
certainly a swell affair.
George w. Fisher, chairman of the
Elks Lodge Activities Committee,
acted as Master of Ceremonies and
after officially welcoming the team
on behalf of the Lodge, called upon
Jimmy Riser to introduce the entire
squad.
Brief talks We're made by some
members of the team, manager
Bunny Griffith, Oren Sterling,
president of the club, and J. V. jam
ison, Jr., president of the Interstate
League, after which the meeting ad-
journed to the dining hall for a
buffet supper and social gathering,
that was thoroughly enjoyed by all
it was just my tough luck to have
to leave early in order to beat out
this column before our deadline.
$50
Gus Ludwig's boxing show last
Thursday night gave the big crowd
look at Charlie Crump, who very
decisively took the measure of Jim
Schwemmer in the eight-round main
bout But it was the semi-final that
really stole the show.
This six-round go brought together
Melvin Wade, who had won his
previous fights in the local ring,
and Mike Yukas, also popular with
local fans Wade started out in his
usual fiashy way, but it wasn't long
before the young colored fighter
realized that, in Mike Yukas, he had
run up against an experienced ring
general who knew just about every
trick in the bag. Wade put up a
good scrap, but was completely out
classed and came out of the fight
with badly cut lip and a peach of
a Sinner"
The next card is booked for Fri
day night, May 10, when another
popular colored fighter, Jackie Will
liams, will meet wildcat" Joe
O'Connell in the eight-round feature
bout-and what honey that should
be.
Racing fans who take their racing
over the radio, will have plenty to
listen to on Saturday afternoon.
WEI will broadcast the Grey Lag
Handicap from Jamaica, New York,
and Columbia will air the Kentucky
Derby, with Ted Husing at the mike.
1916 SUMMER SESSIONS
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