The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-04-07

The Owls first exhibition game
of the year will be played on their
training diamond at Martinsblirg on
Sunday afternoon at 200 o'clock
against Sunbury, who are coming
over from Frederick for the game
To reach the ball park at Mar
tinsburg you go right through the
town and continue on Route II,
three miles below Martinsburg to
little village called Pikeside, and
when you get to Pikeside you will
find the ball park just quarter of
a mile down the road on the left
hand side, and you can't miss it.
Here will be your first chance to
see the 1949 Owls really in action,
so why not drive over for the game?
My congratulations to Coach j.
Ellis Robson and his North Street
High School Badgers who recently
won the annual Tri-State Confer
ence Basketball Tourney
This is the first year that the
North Street School boys have been
able to play on their own floor, and
in addition to winning the Tourney
they also had one of the best seasons
in the history of the school.
Tuesday afternoon I went over to
Martinsburg to see the Owls in
training, and to have talk with
woody" Wheaton and MIR. Sterl-
ing. And before going any further,
let me tell you that woody" will
be my guest on Radio Station WEI
at 6:15 Monday evening when Glenn
Thomas and ! will interview him
regarding the 1949 Owls team.
So ] hope you will be listening
to get first-hand information on the
prospects of the Owls during the
coming season, which opens on
April 81.
OF course there's little | can tell
you about the team at the present
time from what ! saw of them on
Tuesday, but did find out one thing,
and that was the shortstop Miranda
is not the Miranda we thought he
was. This young lad that is with
the squad is fairly good looking
prospect, but he certainly is no cinch
to get the shortstop job, and as
matter of fact l think there are one
or two others that Woody" has in
mind who probably are better pros
poets than he is.
There was story IN Tuesday
mornings Washington Post to the
effect that the Washington Senators !
had released Hal Keller to Hagers-
town. asked both Woody" and
Mr.. Sterling if they had heard any
thing definite on the subject but
neither of them had any official word |
up to that time. No doubt thew
will get the word officially before
bAA1o EdpCI HTS Tile street.
They both were very pleased to |
hear that Keller was coming back
to Hagerstown, and he ought to be
a real help to the club, and certain
ly should be in fine condition be-
cause, as | told you in this column
last week, he was with the Senators
all through their training up until
Monday, when they cut down their
squad.
While l was in Florida there was
great deal of discussion among the /
sportswriters regarding the new in
territorial pass rule, under which
balk can be called against the pitch
er If the catcher steps out of the
box before the ball leaves the pitch
er's hand
During these discussions Stan
Baumgarten took leading part, and
IN this weeks Sporting News he has
a front-page story on the subject
winch you certainly ought to read. Z,
l presume that since this is a
definite baseball rule, it will also
apply in the Interstate League, and
can see lots of headaches until ev-
erybody gets used to it.
Again it was my pleasure last
week to attend the annual banquet
of the Lions Club Bowling League
held at the Fountain Head Country
Club, with the retiring commission
er, James Hess, presiding.
After enjoying T-Bone steak
dinner with all the trimmings. the
prizes to the winning bowlers were
given out, and then followed the
showing of the moving picture, "A l
Night In A Blind Alley which
'urned out to be ''shots" of the
Inherent bowlers during regular
eague game.