The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-01-15
BEHIND
HOME PLATE
By DOUG STEWART

selling well at the Hagerstown News
Agency, and the Entertainment
Committee has a real show lined up.
Frank Colley and l are going to
Lancaster this morning to hand over
their tickets to the Presidents of the
eight teams in the League and also
to confer with the President of the
Sportswriters' and Broadcasters' As
ISOLATION, George W. Kirchner,
Sports Editor of the Lancaster New
Era.
Sorry, ladies, but due to a ruling
of the Association, this is one ban
quet that is strictly stag.
The Hagerstown High School
Football Squad were honor guests
at the weekly luncheon meeting of
the Hagerstown Lions Club held at
the Hotel Alexander on Tuesday.
After individual members of the
squad were introduced, their coach,
Eddie Senior, in turn introduced the
guest speaker for the occasion, Jim
Tatum, football coach of the Univer-
sity of Maryland.
In his talk Tatum emphasized the
fact that because the country was
SO football conscious, football play
ers at the Universities were always
news" He pointed out that if
student at any college did anything
wrong it went unnoticed, excepting
in the immediate vicinity of the par
ticular college in question, but that
if football player particularly one
of the stars of the team made a
bad break, it Immediately became
news all over the country. And he
gave this as just another reason why
it behooves members of a college
football squad to live exemplary
lives both on and off the gridiron.
Tatum, in inviting members of
the Hagerstown Team to enter the
University of Maryland, pointed out
that one thing lacking in his squad
was the fact that too few Maryland
ers were members of. it. He assured
the graduating members of the team
that they would be welcome to the
University of Maryland and assured
them that everything possible would
be done for them. He pointed out,
however, that due to recent ruling
of the NCAA, he was at the present
time a little uncertain as to what
type of scholarships would be avail
able.
In concluding his talk Tatum paid
high honor to Dave Ciannelli. a
member of the 1916 High School
Team, whom he said had to be kept
out of the squad last season due to
a knee injury received during train
ing.
Following the meeting moving pic
lures of the West Virginia-Univer-
sity of Maryland game were shown.
l took in the opening of Division
l of the Junior Basketball League
at Woodland Way Junior High last
Thursday night My main interest,
of course, was to see the Boys Club
in action, and needless to say, 1 got
a tremendous kick out of seeing
them not only win their game, but
also seeing the fine competitive
spirit they showed
This Junior Basketball League,
like its summer companion, the
Junior Baseball League, is one of
the greatest enterprises for the kids
ever undertaken in this community,
and as far as I'm concerned it isn't
who wins that matters, but the fact
that these youngsters are not only
getting healthful exercise, but are
learning good craftsmanship and
the value of clean competition.
The First Division of the League
plays three games every Thursday
night at the Woodland Way Junior
High, and the Second Division plays
three games every Monday night at
the South Potomac Junior High The
first game in both divisions starts at
GAS p. m. 1t will be well worth
your while to drop out and see them
in action.
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Uncle Johns Cabineers took the
measure of the Charlestown Ameri-
can Legion Team at the Armory on
Sunday afternoon, the final score be-
ing 69-54
The Cabineers' new coach, Bobby
Witt, is doing fine job. Witt is
quiet type of coach, who doesn't get
overly excited, and when, as was
the case Sunday afternoon, some of
his players were plenty mad at the
referees for calling fouls, Bobby
quickly quieted them down. He
shows good judgment in making his
substitutions, and it is quite evident