The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-10-27
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By DOUG STEWART

Smithsburg took the measure of
Williamsport on the Williamsport
Diamond on Sunday afternoon to
throw the play-off for the champion
ship of the Washington County Base
ball League into tie, each team
now having won two games.
The final game of the series will
be played on Sunday afternoon at 2
o'clock on the Smithsburg diamond.
Congratulations to the Sandy
Hook team in the Washington Coun-
ty Independent Baseball League on
winning the play-off championship,
when they defeated the Antietams
on Sunday afternoon by a score of
GO. In the regular season, Ante
tam finished on top, with Sandy Hook
in second place.
If ever team should have won a
football game, that team was the
Maroon and Gray squad of the Ha-
gerstown High School, who lost
real heartbreaker to the Martins
burg Bulldogs on the Martinsburg
gridiron on Friday night. Not only
did Mel Henry's boys have the edge
in every department throughout the
game, but they also scored two touch
downs, only to have them both call
ed back.
In the second quarter, the Hubs
put on an 84-yard sustained drive,
with halfback Johnny Raymer sprint
ing the last Is yards for the touch
down, only to have it nullified when
the officials called a 15-yard holding
penalty against the Hagerstown
team
Then in the fourth quarter, with
just three minutes to go, fullback
Pete Ridgely intercepted Martins
burg pass on the Hagerstown 40
yard line and raced 60 yards down
the east sidelines to score. But once
again the officials detected an in
fraction of the rules, this time cali
ing 15Nard clipping penalty
against Hagerstown.
And so, instead of winning the
game as they could easily have done
by score of at least 14-7, they lost
it by score of 70, their two points
coming on an automatic safety in
the second period when the Martins
burg kicker, trying to punt out with
the ball resting practically on the
goal line, stepped out of the end
zone when getting his kick away.
Depite the fact that the Hubs lost,
they played what was by far their
best game since the season opened.
The crazy pattern of college foot
ball weaved some new designs on
Saturday afternoon, with four of the
previously unbeaten teams being
knocked from their pedestals.
AS far as l am concerned, the
biggest upset of the day was Louis
lana States win over North Carolina
In a. night game, when the North
Carolinians and their great "Choo
Choo" Justice were stopped cold by
an inspired Louisiana State team,
who won by score of 1877.
Another terrific upset was South
ern Methodist's win over unbeaten
Kentucky by the Iopsided score of
POT. When it was announced that
Doak Walker, the star of the South
ern Methodist team, would definitely
not play, it looked as if any possible
chance of the Southern Methodist
boys had of winning was gone out
the window, but they uncorked
rookie by the name of Kyle Rote
to take Walkers place, and he did
a magnificent job, as the score
testifies.
Then the twice-defeated Michigan
team knocked Minnesota from the
unbeaten ranks by a score of 14-7
for what could at least be termed
a mild upset, and the fourth team
to topple from the unbeaten ranks
was Pittsburgh, who lost to IN
diana by lopsided score of 48-14.
And that is all the more remarkable
when you consider that Indiana had
been beaten in its last eleven starts.
And finally, it is worth noting that
all of these four teams who were
hitherto unbeaten and lost on Sat
urday, lost on their home gridirons.
Notre Dame did not play, and 81
course Army playing it's ridiculous
High School, schedule, had an
easy time with Columbia. s@'Es ~
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