The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-07-14
BEHIND
HOME PLATE
BY DOUG STEWART
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games with Lancaster, the Owls play
ed their best baseball of the year,
and if they keep hustling as they did
on those two nights, they've got a
good chance of getting back into the
fight.
The thing that impressed me more
than anything else was the hustling
of the team throughout both games,
plus the fighting spirit of the pitch
ers. The latter was particularly
noticeable in Friday nights game.
In the past, when bad errors have
been made behind the pitchers, some
of them have completely blown up,
but in Friday nights game, despite
the fact that in one inning two bad !
errors were made behind Warren
Pickell, he refused to let it get his
goat and continued to pitch superb
ball and win his game.
talked to many, many fans after
both Friday and Saturday nights
games, and they were all as enthusi-
astic as could be, which proves to
me a point that have long taken,
and that is, that the fans will sup
port hustling ball club, even if
they are in the cellar
Roatche, the infelder-catcher, was
given his release last week and has
returned home.
Bird, a pitcher, has been sent in by
Charlotte, and reported to the club
on Saturday night, He played with
Bridgeport in the Colonial League
last year and had a record of IA wins
and IA losses. He's a right handler
and batted .24O.
The Owls have also signed Fred
Peeler, who pitched for Lancaster
in 1947, managed club in Virginia
last year, and played awhile in
Louisiana this year, before being
declared free agent.
Both the new pitchers saw ac-
ton in Monday nights double-head-
er with Lancaster.
George Bird pitched and won the
seven-inning first game when he
gave up just one run in the first in
ming and shut the Red Roses out the
rest of the way. The young right
handler was particularly effective
with men on base and should be
real help to the Owls from now on.
Fred Peeler was called in for a
relief job in the nine-inning second
game, and he also pitched good ball.
Full stories of the two games will
be found in my column, Keeping
Up With The Owls"
When Guy Chaser came in after
that disastrous first inning in the
second game on Monday night with
Lancaster, he went straight through
the dugout to the club house, changed
to civilian clothes, emptied his lock-
er and went home.
However, after talking the mat.
ter over with Mr. Sterling, the own.
er of the club, Chaser stated that al.
though he wanted to quit organized
baseball, he would stay with the
team until replacement could be
found for him, and so he left for the
road trip on Tuesday morning
Any evening around suppertime,
if you drop around to the new base
ball diamond behind the Wakenight
Motor Company on Frederick Street,
you will get the thrill of your life,
for it is on that diamond that the
youngsters of the Little League play
These kids, ranging all the way
from to IL, put their whole heart
into the game, and the organizers of
the league deserve all the credit in
the world, as do the sponsors.
Another league that is doing a
fine job for the youngsters is the
Junior Baseball League, which takes
in boys up to IA years Of age.
The first half of that league ended
on Monday night when the Kiwanis
Club team beat the Rotary Club
team to become champions of the
first half and give them at least a
chance in the play-offs at the end of
the league season.
Looking over last weeks Sporting
News l see that through June 25
George Daddario, of Wilkes-Barre
in the Eastern League, was batting
.312, and Ted Kapucinski, of Will
Transport, in the same league, had a
record of 10 wins against 2 losses.
Through June 80 Wilkes Barre was
in second place in the league, and