The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-08-14
BEHIND
HOME PLATE
The Races
BY DOUG STEWART


The management of the Hagers-
town Race Meeting will be hosts to
the officials of the meeting and the
members of the press, at dinner to
be held in the club house following
the last race tomorrow evening.
Betting at the meeting is running
about 16 per cent below last year,
which is about four per cent better
than the other half-mile tracks =
or for that matter the major tracks
as well-all of which have been off
about 20 per cent.
Louray O'Neill, two-time winner
at the meeting, that has been stead
lily stepping up in company, finally
met up with too much early speed
on Tuesday. A front runner, she
couldn't get to the top in the early
stages of the race and was never a
factor, finishing out of the money
Here's hoping the trouble between
the management of the race meet
and the Horsemens Protective Be-
nevolent' Association can be ironed
out, so that racing can continue for
the full ten days. In my opinion
the management has been extreme
ly liberal in the matter of purses,
particularly in view of the sixteen
per cent drop in the betting, plus
increased expenses all around.
A $500 purse is on Saturdays card
and that's pretty good money for a
half-mile track, to say nothing of
several $1,000 purses during the
meet, plus the fact that no race has
been for less than $1,000
Baseball
Tonight you baseball fans will
have an opportunity to win $225
Stromberg- Carlson, FIN Radio, which
will be given away through the joint
sponsorship of the Shockey Furni-
ture Company and the Hagerstown
Baseball Club. All you have to do
to qualify for the big prize is to
buy program at the game tonight,
sign your full name under the
Shockey advertisement in the pro-
gram, and drop it in the box at the
entrance to the grandstand. The
prize will be given away during the
evening, so don't fail to be at the
stadium tonight and get in the big
contest. You might walk out with
a brand new 1947 Stromberg-Carl-
son FIN console radio.
The Owls have signed Ted Brum-
baugh, a righthand pitcher, who
formerly belonged to the Washing
ton Senators, and he was scheduled
to be placed on the active list yester-
day. Brumbaugh has been pitching
good ball playing with some of the
Independent clubs and could be quite
help to those Owls in the home
stretch.
took quite a ribbing over my
story about the Owls in this column
last week, in which fatty predicted
that they would be in the playoffs,
despite their poor showing during
the previous week. Since that story
was written, those same Owls have
won five out of seven games and
through Tuesday night had taken
three in a row-one from Sunbury
on Monday night and two from Will
mington on Tuesday night. The
boys have also given very definite
proof that their team spirit is tops,
and as for their hitting, they have
knocked out 81 safe hits in their last
three games through Tuesday night,
including three home runs, four
triples and 10 doubles.
There can be no complaints about
their fielding either In Monday
nights game against Sunbury, the
work of the infeld, particularly Mar
tin and Daddario, bordered. almost
on the sensational, and they looked
plenty good on defense against Will,
mington on Tuesday night also.
When it comes to catching the Owls
have, in Crumling and Swanson, the
best catching staff in the league, and
now, with our pitching on the i'm
prove (and here's hoping it stays
that way), that playoff berth is. get
ting nearer and nearer.
''You gwine ter hang up any
mistletoe dis Christmas, ANNA