Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1947-09-18
By Sam Dawson


team in the league was washed
out, along came old Jupiter Sere-
nator with enough clear weather
and sunshine to enable the Mont
gomery County Baseball League
to get back on the ball and play
ball this past Sunday, to wit, Sep
TENDER 14th.
While the weather man was fur
nishing the folks with the kind of
prehistoric Indo- European diety or
Father Sky referred to above, old
Joe Gibson of Colesville turned up
with another character named
John Klippstein, who throws right
handed at a pretty fast clip and
clipped the wings of the Potomac
A. c., IL to 9, before full-blood-
ed throng of persipiring spectators
who had for the occasion collected
at the Potomac Ball Park.
While Klippstein has been a
member of the Colesville roster
during the second half of the sea-
son, he has never been shown be-
fore to the local customers because
of his. preoccupation with the
Lynchburg Team Of the Piedmont
League where Mr.. Klippstein
toiled as a pitcher. In the season
which closed on September 7th,
Klippstein won and lost 6 for his
team which finished fifth in six
team class I'D" league. In doing
so he must have had more on the
! ball than he did last Sunday at
Potomac where opposing batsmen
collected ID hits and nine runs off
of his offerings. In fact it was not
Klippstein's flinging; it was his
swinging, that earned for him a
hard fought victory. For it was
at bat that Mr.. Klippstein showed
the county boys how to play or
gained baseball. Coming up in
the second with the bases loaded,
KGppstein sent long single to
center to send home two runs and
put Colesville out in front by n
score of to 0. Again in the fifth
he produced long fly to send in
a runner from third with the sixth
Colesville run. Finally in the
ninth with the score deadlocked,
0 and 8, Klippstein fired a triple
into the woods to drive home the
final two runs of the game. How
well Klippsteip can pitch is still
a mystery but he surely gave a
conclusive demonstration of his
hitting ability to the extent that
even when not pitching some other
spot may be found for him in the
Colesville lineup.
! For Potomac it was a gloomy
Sunday. Ray Bridenbacker started
and left the game at the end of
four and two-thirds innings with
the score five to nothing. Before
Jack Lyons could put out the fire,
Colesville had made it six. But
then Potomac came to life. DiJohn
started the fifth with a triple and
before you could say John Klipp-
stein there were three runs across
and two on base. At this point
Bobby Koran drove home run
deep into the woods beyond center
field and the score was tied. Next
inning Potomac forged ahead but
Colesville tied the count at seven
all in the seventh. In the eighth,
Big Joe Velenti scored two with
tremendous double and everyone
thought the Potomac Team was
home. With two on and two out,
the Potomac Club had but to re-
tire one more batter to win nina
seven and collect all dues. On a
routine pop to deep right field,
the right fielder, AL Bojanski.
backed up, signaled that he had
the ball and everyone except Per-
cy Edmcndston started home. Per-
cy started toward Otis Watkins.
But then something happened. b.
janski started spinning like disk
jockey riding one of his records,
the ball missed his glove and al
most hit his foot. Two runs
scored. The game was tied. A
few minutes later Mr.. Klippstein's
triple sent everyone home. Those
with homes in Colesville seemed to
be the more happy. Otis Watkins
started toward Percy.
To make a long story short, it
was not Klippstein's pitching and
hitting alone which sealed Poto-
macs downfall. Potomac gave him
a handy assist by tossing six err
rors into the fray. Colesville, on
the other hand sparkled afield and
John Bonifant turned in the field
ing gem of the year at shortstop
when he made remarkable run
ming catch of Bobby Horan's low
liner in the second to effect a