The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-11-18

dario, the Owls shortstop this year
who was the property of the Detroit
Tigers, has been sold to the Rich
mond, Virginia, Club, which is also
in a Glass "B" league.
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The biggest news to come out of
the Board of Directors ameeting of
the Interstate Baseball League, held
at York on Monday, was the an
nouncement by the president of the
league, Gerry Nugent, that the hid
den ball play, which has always
been outlawed in the Interstate
League, has now been reinstated as
legal play.
When Les Bell, manager of the
Harrisburg Senators who was at
the meeting, heard the news, he
said; That's fine-I won a pennant
once with that hidden ball play"
Mr.. Nugent also made the follow
ing announcements:
/. Following the custom of the
league of rotating their vice-presi
dents every year, Arthur Routzong,
president of the Allentown Club,
was elected vice-president for the
ensuing year, succeeding William
McKechnie, Jr., business manager
of the Trenton Club.
2. A special meeting of the Board
of Directors will be held on Mon
day, November 30, at the Brunswick
Hotel, Lancaster, Pa, to review pro-
posed amendments to the constitu-
ton of the National Association of
Minor Leagues. Customarily these
proposed amendments have been
available at the time of the regular
fall meeting, but this year they were
not, thus necessitating the special
meeting on the 10Th.
3. John Bowman, president of the
York Baseball Club, has been nam
ed to the Board of Directors as the
representative of York.
d. The league will request the Ma
tional Baseball Committee on Ra-
dio and Television, to do everything
in their power to prevent the tele-
vising of major league baseball
games in the eight cities in which
the Interstate League operates, with
out first obtaining permission from
the owners of the clubs.
Referring to the last announce
ment, it would seem to. me that this
was done with a view to the future,
when television stations might be in
operation in any of the cities in
which the Interstate League oper-
ates, since, of course, it's an impos-
sibility to stop anyone, say in Hag
erStown, who owns a television set,
from tuning in directly to televi-
sion broadcast from Washington or
Baltimore, or from whatever cities
their sets will pull in a television
program.
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At the same time the Board of
Directors of the League were meet
ing, the annual fall meeting of the
Sportswriters and Broadcasters As
ISOLATION was held, and George
Kirchner, the president, announced
that the annual banquet of the
SportsWriters and Broadcasters AS
ISOLATION would be in Wilmington,
Del, on Wednesday, February 8,
1949.
1t was good to run into Lefty"
Gomez at the meeting in York. I
haven't seen Lefty since the days
when he was the star pitcher of the
Yankees, and when he saw me, we
laughed together over the bet he
made with, the late Lou Gehrig in
1888, that Lefty would get a hit in
the game that day 1t so happens
that l was right there with the two
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and I was also present when Lefty,
who got his. hit, collected
That's long time ago, but Lefty
looks almost the same as he did
then, except that he's put on a little
weight. Gomez is now a represen-
tative for the Wilson Company, man
ufacturers of baseballs, and was at
the meeting in connection with the
selecting Of the ball for next season.
The directors interviewed repre-
sentatives of the four major COM
panies manufacturing baseballs, but
they had reached no decision as to
which ball they would use at the
time I left for home at supper time
Monday night.
Football
The Hubs of the Hagerstown High
School wind up their football season
a week from today, with their ira
ditional game with Waynesboro