Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-10-07


past performances were rewarded
on Sunday, October 3rd, when Po-
tomac and Colesville, the two top
teams in the County loop, coasted
to easy victories over Rockville
and Bethesda. Colesville will enter
tain Potomac next Sunday, Octo-
Der 10th, at 2 P. M. when the
Brewers and the Cardinals lock
horns in Bonifants Meadow for the
Championship title to ring down
the curtain in the belated windup
of the current season in the Coun-
ty League. Umpire Jack Mattingly
will call balls and strikes while
his alter ego, Walter Selby, will
handle the bases in Montgomery
County's grand finale of the great
national pastime.
At McConihe Field, Lefty Joe
Wells won his tenth straight game
for Potomac by pitching a five hit
shutout as the Brewers won 6 to 0
over the Rockville All-Stars.
Frank Mahon went all the way for
Rockville and gave up seven hits
in the process. For two and one
half innings it looked like hot
ball game but in the bottom of
the third, Potomac put the game
on ice with three run out-burst.
This was more than sufficient
since Joe Wells needed only one
run to bring home the bacon.
Gene Taylor, who made all of
Potomac's three errors, led off
with triple. OF, Ciomei was graz
ed on TIE head while ducking a
fast 7't~l, ard thereby gained first
base Joe Wells was out on long
fly to left and Taylor scored after
the catch with the first run of the
game. After Chester Ciomei single
brother Joe to third, Pepco Barry
grounded out to first while both
runners held their respective
bases. At this point, Reds Gieger-
ich, left handed batter who went
hitless for the day, was purposely
passed to bring up, Cooper, anoth-
er, another left-handed batter who,
as the second leading hitter in the
league, has a batting average one
hundred points above Giegerich.
Cooper promptly doubled to drive
in the Ciomei brothers with the
second and third runs of The in
ming.
For the next three inning Mahon
pitched shutout ball as Reds Blad-
en-, who singled in the fourth, was
the only Brewer that reached first
base. But in the seventh, Gene
Taylor again started rally with
a single, was sacrificed to second
by Joe Ciomei, and after Wells
famed, Taylor scored on Chester
Ciomei's single to left field. The
Ciomei brothers were still in the
act. In the eighth it was Ralph
Cooper coming back for an encore
with a single. Archie Via then
reached second as Frank Ogg muf-
fed his line drive to right for
two base error, Cooper taking
third. Cooper then scored as third
baseman Jerry Zanelott dropped
Reds Bladen's pop to short left for
Rockville's second and final error
of the game. Via took third in the
process and scored with Potomac's
sixth run when Joe Ciomei sent a
long fly to left field.
Rockville's five hits, all singles,
never punched and although they
put men on base, they could never
bring them home. Eleven All Stars
were left stranded on the base
paths, three each in the third and
ninth Innings. With all this activ-
ity Joe Wells was as cool as a
cucumber floating in a country
spring.
Dee Sperau's Bethesda nine in
vaded Bonifants Meadow with high
hopes of victory but as early as
the fourth inning it was evident
that Colesville had the game in the
bag. At the end of nine innings
had a G to l victory with nine hits