The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-05-05

| want to make 1t perfectly clear
that box scores, or for that matter,
other scores in my keeping Up
With The Owls" column, are not Of
fetal, and are scored just as l see
the game played And while am
on the question of scoring, wonder
when something is going to be done
to the press box which, as it stands
now is disgrace.
While the official scorer is occupy
ing the small booth that was
formerly used for broadcasting pur-
poses, the rest of the members of
the working press have to get along
as best they can in the old press box,
with half the lights broken and half
the chairs broken also.
brought this matter up before the
season opened, but up to last Tues
day night nothing had been done
whatsoever, and it is also worth
mentioning that the lights on the
score board are also in very bad
shape, with the result that Whitley"
Bachtell has pretty tough time Civ
ing the fans the information they
want
My regular baseball column,
Keeping Up With The Owls" starts
with this issue and will be found on
page 6.
So many people have asked me
what really happened to Humber
son, the left fielder, who came here
with such big record and was then
let go, that l think you ought to
know the true facts, and here they
are:
Woody Wheaton, the Owls man
ager, has been careful not to make
any exaggerated predictions regard
ing his ball club and has always in
public statements confined himself
to one promise, that he would give
the fans a hustling ball club
In line with this promise, when he
found that HENDERSON was not hust-
ling, and further than that, that he
was constantly breaking training
rules, Wheaton advised Chattanooga
that they were returning him, and
on instructions from Chattanooga
Club management, he was sent to
Montgomery, Ala.
Manager Wheaton deserves the
thanks of every baseball fan in the
community for refusing to fool
around with player, even though
he had good record, who refused
to hustle for his manager, to say
nothing of refusing to abide by the |
simple training rules of the club.
With man like Wheaton at the /
helm, you can be sure that win, lose
or draw the Owls are going to hustle /
every minute.
1t is far too early to have any idea
of where the Owls are going to finish
IN the pennant race since, we have
seen none of the opposing clubs ex-
ceptlng Sunbury and Harrisburg, but
l think that by the time the Owls /
have played a series with all the
other seven clubs in the league, we
will find that they're going to stack
up pretty well with the rest of them /
The more than 1000 paid custom
ers who saw the opening game at
the stadium last Friday night saw,
IN addition to club that had their
hitting shoes on, a club that was al
so playing almost perfect defen-
slve game, and the big crowd that
saw Tuesday nights game with Har
rIsburg, saw the Owls prove again
that ''the team that won't be beat. |
can't be beat"
At the beginning of the season,
particularly with a number of Young
players on the squad, you would ex-
pect quite few errors, but so far,
errors on the Owls squad have been
held to minimum And the fact
that in their first five games they
completed nine doubleplays is /
further proof of the alertness of the !
defense.
go
AS was the case at the opening of
the season last year, rain has inter
fered with the schedule, and we al,