The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-07-20
BEHIND
HOME PLATE
BY DOUG STEWART

and review of the Braves games
of the past week.
In fairness to everybody, ! want
TO make it perfectly clear that the
scoring of the games (and that i'm
cludes any box scores make up)
in my column, Keeping Up With
The Braves" is entirely unofficial
! write these games up and compile
the box scores from my own scoring
of the games, whereas the official
score is the one that the official scor-
er sends in TO the league. 1t should
also be pointed out that even the
box scores that appear in the daily
papers cannot be counted as of
fetal, since it is quite possible that
they may contain typographical err
rors, and it is also possible that the
official scorer may find it necessary
TO change a box score after il has
been published,
Tonight is the Washington County
Firemen's booster night at the sta
dunn, for the Braves-Giants game,
and / hope you will all be there.
These volunteer firemen have done
a fine job in arranging this booster
night and when a bunch of firemen
put on something anything is likely
TO happen, So get out there early
and enjoy the fun.
The new "double-play interfer-
ence" rule was invoked against
Trenton in that hectic, thinning,
tie game on Tuesday night, when,
in the bottom half of the 18th, base
runner Bell illegally took Millice-
vich out of the play, when, after
stepping on second to force Bell, he
started his throw to first to complete
the double-play on the batter, Myers.
(See story of the game in my col
umn, Keeping Up With The
Braves
The weather man certainly did his
part in trying to keep the Braves
out on top, when rain washed out
the first two of the scheduled three
game, weekend series in Whining
ton.
But the boys couldn't do their part
as they lost the double-header play
ed on Monday night, and as a result
they left Wilmington in second place,
one game behind the Blue Rocks.
R&a
There seems to have been a mis-
understanding concerning the week
end series with Wilmington, which
was reported as being a four-game
series, with single game scheduled
for Saturday night, a double-header
Sunday and a single game on Mon
day night, with one of the Sunday
night games supposedly taking care
of a game at Wilmington that was
Ohb Oll u1dty AJs
The fact remains, however, that
the rained-out game was played in
Wilmington as part of double
header on Tuesday, June o. and
that there were only three games
scheduled for the past week end.
AS you know the Saturday night
and the Sunday night games were
rained out, but the Saturday night
game was made up when the double
header was played on Monday night.
That leaves only one game to be
made up in Wilmington, and that
will be played either on August l
or 2, when the Braves again play in
Wilmington.
Although Jay Simmons has a low
batting average it is interesting to
note that through the Braves 10th
game Jay led the entire league in
runs scored, with total of 81, one
run more than was scored by Kor-
czowski of Trenton and Young of
Wilmington, who were tied for Sec
ond place.
The boys of the Washington Coun-
ty "Y' Softball League really take
their league seriously. I happen to
be president of the league and when
any of the teams think that some
decisions have gone against them
that should have been in their ia
vor, they really let me know about
it.
However, ] do want to say that
these boys are very fair and after
we get together and the rules are
explained to them, they accept them
IN good faith as all good sports
should.
And talking about the softball
league, the second round looks as
If it is going to be just as close a
fight as the first half, with Friendly
Market and West End in a two-way
tie for the lead and Pinesburg lust