Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1947-08-08
BIG CROWD EXPECTED
FOR LIONS BOOSTER
NIGHT NEXT TUESDAY
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Joe Kemp and the members of the
program committee have left no
stone unturned in their efforts to
make this printed program interest
ing; pictures of teams, individual
players, and club officials, plus a
large double-page scoresheet, have
been included in this program,
which has been we'll supported by
advertising by the business houses
of Milford and Rehoboth.
For real baseball fans, the princi-
pal attraction Tuesday evening will
be the Eastern Shore League game
between the Milford Red Sox and
the Rehoboth Pirates. With their
lefthanded mound ace, Joe Muir,
doing the mound chores, the Pirates
turned back the Sox in RehOboth's
last appearance here and the char
ges of Walt Miles, battling gamely
to hold on to the fourth rung in the
league standings, will be out for
sweet revenge Tuesday evening.
The Pirates have been strength
ened considerably in recent weeks
and are currently making a bid for
q first division berth and subse-
quent playoff participation. Jimmy
Peden, former York first baseman
who succeeded Gordon McKinnon
at the Rehoboth helm early last
month, is driving his charges hard
and would like nothing better than
to gain ground at the expense of our
crippled up Sox. Rehoboth is the
"baby" of the Sho' circuit, having
only entered the ranks of pro base
ball the past winter after the with
drawal of the Centreville, Md, en-
try; as their name indicates, the
Pirates are operated as farm club
of the Pittsburgh National League
! club.
Despite injuries to key men, the
Sox have continued to play winning
ball the past week, and, barring an
unforeseen development, should fin
ish fourth or high in the standings.
With fifth place fredericksburg
breathing hard on their collective
necks, the Sox made clean sweep
of a two-game series with the ira
ditional Dover rival last weekend
while fredericksburg was losing two
to retain their hold on fourth place
Milford has the youngest and least
experienced array of playing talent
j of any club in the Sho' loop, and the
local club has been beset by injur-
les lately, but Walt Miles, one oil
the leagues most outstanding man
ayers, has been able to keep Milford
right in the thick of the fight fol
playoffs berths.
Tuesday nights affair is in ma
ture of benefit with the sponsor
ing organization sharing in the pro
ceeds. Being an organization dedi
Gated to community betterment ant
service, the Milford Lions Club will
of course. use it's share of the pro
ceeds for such projects as sigh
conservation, Christmas baskets TO
the community's needy, shoes ant
clothing for underpriveleged chill
dren, and the many other cOmmuni
ty services that Lions Clubs every
where are noted for. Therefore
those attending Tuesdays evening
game will not only assure them
selves of an evenings entertain
ment but will also help make pos
sible further charitable work with
in the community.
g Bob Baynum, in charge Of tickt
distribution for the Boosters Nigh
game, has made tickets availabl
l for sale in the following bushes
> houses of the area: Pierce Hare
ware, Kinder's Barber Shop, Sock
4 rider and Chandler, Kemp and Cl'
ments, Hotel Norman, Brereton
:. Rexall Drug Store. GovatOs, Marv'
I and Hugg, ]. William Wells, Lyn
;, and Jacobs, William r. Irwin, Whi'
: tie Bottling Co, March Manufactu
ing Co., Walls Market. Grier Lun
t her Co., and the business office
n The Milford Chronicle. Tickets ma
: also he purchased from any men
: Der of either the Milford or Reh
: both Lions Clubs.