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Braves" page 6, for the Interstate
League standings, postponed games,
schedule for the week, double plays,
and review of the Braves games
for tn past week.
Rufus Edwards general manager
of the ball club, announced on Mon
day that Danny Long had been Civ
en- his outright release.
Bob Pottenger took over as first
string catcher, and the second
string catcher is Lou Soscia, re-
cent graduate from West Chester
Teachers College, who was signed
by the Boston Braves to a Milwau-
Eee contract and signed to the Hag-
erstown club.
Joe Kirk, a left-handed pitcher,
who for the past couple of weeks
has been working out with Hagers-
town, was signed to a Hagerstown
contract and optioned to the Boston
Braves Eau Claire Club, Wisconsin,
in the Northern League.
Lynn, the infelder who recently
graduated from Loyola College and
had been working out with Hagers-
town, was signed by the Boston
Braves to a Hartford contract and
was assigned to their Farm Club at
Jackson, Miss.
Gene Raney, owner of the ball
club, paid a visit to the press box
for the last three innings of Mon
day nights game, and I can tell
you that he is as rabid fan as I am
and possibly more so. In those
eighth and ninth-inning rallies
neither Gene nor 1 could keep our
seats, but just kept pacing up and
down the press box hollering for
that hit.
Here are a couple of inside stories
on that tough game with Harrisburg
on Monday night that l am glad to
pass along to you:
To begin with, let's settle that
argument right now as to whether
or not that ball Ed Heap hit over
the wall in the ninth was fair or
foul, and here's the answer: The
lad that hit the ball came right out
and stated that the ball definitely
was foul, so that's that.
Then on that double steal that
Harrisburg pulled in the sixth in
ming that scored the fourth run, Al
Bennett, who DETECTED the ball with
his glove, was honest enough to tell
me that he should have been charged
with an error since the play called
for him to take the throw from Bob
Pottenger, but he just managed to
get his glove on it and, of course,
the run scored. However, I told
Al that he couldn't possibly be
charged with an error on the play,
even though he was supposed to
have taken the throw, since he did
not boot the ball but merely de-
fiected it with the edge OF his glove.
The boys took their loss pretty
hard and I am glad they did, for it
shows me that they haven't develop
ed that overconfdence that I was
afraid of in the early part of the
season.
Sports writers, like ball players,
also make errors, but the difference
is that when a ball player makes
an error it goes down in the records
and can't be wiped out, whereas
sports writers can correct their err
rors through their columns. And
SO want to correct an error which
made in this column last week in
the story of the unusual double play
the Braves pulled at Harrisburg.
described the double play ex-
actly as it was sent in over the wire
from Harrisburg, but Johnny Kerr
Gone of the Braves most ardent
fans) called me as soon as he read
the column and told me that he ac-
tually saw the double play and that
my information was incorrect. So,
when was up at Allentown on Sun
day for the double-header there,
talked to all the players who took
part in the play and here's the cor
rect version:
Bradford whirled and threw the
ball to Simmons and Links was
trapped between second and third
In the rundown Simmons threw to
Tedesco and then as Links started
back for second Rocky threw to
Heinbaugh. Heinbaugh then threw
the ball back to Tedesco and when
Links turned again to race back to
second Tedesco chased him all the
way in. AS Links slid safely into
second Finn, who was on first when
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