Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1947-08-21
BIZ Sam Daaoson

gomery County Baseball League,
and apparently gaining momentum
as they roll along, the Potomac A.
C. brushed Silver Spring off the
pennant path and beat them going
away by a score of z to 1, when the
two teams met on Browns Field
near Silver Spring on Sunday, Au-
gust 18th.
| Arson Ball, young twirler who
halls from the little town after
which doc" Mannar claims the
Potomac River is named, was Po-
tomac's man of the hour as he held
the Silver Spring batsmen to four
hits before a weary wing forced
his retirement after six and two
thirds innings of play. Ray Briden-
hacker, who finished the game for
Potomac, gave up the other bingle
as Silver Spring collected total
of Ave hits.
Jimmy Schwab, Potomac back
stop, and Reds Miller, superintend-
eht Of the keystone sack, led the
Potomac attack which drove Bill
Giller, erstwhile ace of the Silver
Spring pitching corps, to cover and
made things extremely unpleasant
for Barnett who was called on by
Ed Bladen to relieve Giller in the
sixth inning. To make a short story
long or vice-versa, Potomac col
lected ten hits, made seven runs
and committed two errors; while
Silver Spring made one run and
one error with a five-hit attack.
| Welsh Field was well packed and
Colesville was well stacked as
Rockville went down swinging in a
ten inning contest when John Boni-
FAINT, Colesville short-stop, stole
third and then sped home as Jim
Anderson, first baseman, lined a
single to left field for the knockout
punch that put Rockville away for
the count and gave Colesville a
hard fought 3-2 victory.
Brother Love, the winning pitch
er, and Jack Freeberger, Rock
ville's juvenile deliveryman, went
the distance for their respective
teams and gave up nine hits re-
spectively. In making the lone error
Of the ball game Rockville present
ed Colesville with an unearned run
early in the contest which doomed
large as the late innings were on.
The Hutchinson-Keys combination
went ahead in the fourth when
George Crown, hard hitting left
fielder, drove in two runs with a
single down the right field foul
line. But came the sixth inning and
Joe Gibson's strategist found for
tune in an artifice as old as base
ball itself and commonly referred
to as "the breaks of the game"
This happened when Orrison and
Crown watched a Texas League
single drop between them and later
saw Whip, Colesyille second-sack-
er, lash out with all his might and
top one of Freeberger's inside
pitches for a perfect bunt down the
I first base line. This set up duck
; on third base who waddled home
after a single to deep left and just
ahead of George Crowns fast
throw to Harry Bean who relayed
to Patchy Coleman to cut off an.
other duck at the plate who was at
tempting to follow the first ducl
state-side.
With the score locked two-ur
things began to look ducky fol
Rockville one inning later wher
after two clean hits and a walk
. they surrounded Brother Love will
three ducks on the pond and nont
away. But if Brother Love has an,
brotherly love for old ball-players
he failed to show it at this point
Instead he just rared back ans
Z fired away with his smartest pitch
Z This pitch is a ball which the bat
Z ter lines straight at the short-stoI
J who then throws to third to double
y the runner off the hot corner sack
\ Then along comes a couple Of
smoke signals from Joe Gibson ant
4 a big pow-wow between Brother
I Love and Mike Godfrey, Colesvills
catcher. This finally ended with the
J very wise decision to walk George
! Crown and strike out FIeebergel
I to end the inning. As everyon,
I knew, Freeberger warnt supposed
4 to hit no way from nuthin.
II SO nothing Of further moment
occurred until Colesville took ovei
} in the tenth on Anderson's game
Y winning single. Johnny orrison'.
Z single for Rockville in the bottom
Z half Of the stanza fell short Of
} starting any sort Of rally thai
\ would put Rockville back in tn,
) ball game as the saddened support
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