The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-12-30
BEHIND \
HOME PLATE
BY DOUG STEWART


It is customary at this time of the
year for sportswriters to extend in
dividual New Year wishes to mem
bers of the sports world in the COM
munity, but this year / am going to
be a little different, and as far as
the members of the sports fraternity
are concerned, I'm just going to
wish one and all the best of every
thing in 1949, and reserve just one
special wish for the New Year, and
here it is:
For me 1949 will be complete on
the sports front if during the year
definite plans are put in motion to
give the Hagerstown High School a
real four-year athletic program. l
understand from Coach Senior of
the football squad that such plan
is now being studied, and earnest
ly hope that this time it really goes
through and will be put into action
during the year.
In line with that four-year pro
gram it is, of course, a vital neces-
sity that the High School has real
ly up-to-date athletic field. In fact,
l think it is so important to the
youth of the community that ! be-
lieve that the athletic field should
take precedence over a new High
School
| spoke briefly on this subject at
the Elks Club annual Hagerstown
High School Appreciation Night a
couple of weeks ago, and l appealed
to the members of the Elks Lodge to
get behind it 100 per cent, and hope
that not only they follow my sug-
gestion, but that other lodges and
civic organizations in Hagerstown
get behind it also,
One Of the greatest joys that comes
to me in life is working with boys,
and numbers of them talk to me as
perhaps they won't talk to anyone
else. And you would be surprised
how many times these younsters tell
me that they're getting pretty fed
up with going to a High School and
seeing their boys 60 out on the foot
ball field game after game with two
strikes on them before the kickoff,
due to the fact that practically every
team they play comes from school
with four-year program, whereas
Hagerstown High School has only
a twoyear program.
And so say again that my wish,
athletically speaking, for 1949, is a
full four-year sports program for
Hagerstown High School.
**%
My congratulations to Eddie Glen
non on being named the Minor
League Executive of 1948 by "The
Sporting News.
Eddie, who resigned two years
ago as business manager of the Will
mington Club to take over the gen.
eral managership of the Birming-
ham Club in the Southern League,
has done a remarkable job, and this
year he not only set a new loop at
tendance mark in the Southern AS
ISOLATION with a record of 1882
paid admissions, but his club also
finished in the first division in the
league and then went on to win the
Dixie Series.
On Page of this weeks Sporting
News, there is a very fine article
about Eddie, written by "Zipp" New
man.
Congratulations also to the Boys
and Girls Basketball Teams of St
Mary's High School on winning a
double header from ST. Mary's
School of Annapolis on Monday
night.
The boys, who at the beginning OF
the season, were losing tough ones
by one or two points, came from be-
hind in the final seconds on Monday
night to win by a score of 1854.
The girls won their second straight
game of the season in a terrifcally
tight game that will probably GO
down in the record book as the game
with the lowest score of the season.
the final score being Hagerstown Z
Annapolis 6.