The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-11-30
BEHIND
HOME PLATE
By DOUG STEWART


Shirley Povich, in his column in
the Washington Post on Sunday,
stated that the Washington Senators
had made working agreement with
the York White Roses and, if this is
correct Ono official word had come
out of York as this was written), the
working agreements for next season
will line up as follows:
The Wilmington Blue Rocks, own
ed by the Philadelphia Phillies; the
Allentown Cards, owned by the st.
Louis Cards; and the Sunbury
Giants, owned by the New York
Giants, will, of course, have work
ing agreements with those three
major league clubs respectively; Ha-
gerstown will work with the Boston
Braves; Harrisburg with the Cleve-
land Indians; Lancaster with the
Brooklyn Dodgers, the newly owned
Trenton club with the Philadelphia
Athletics, and York with the Wash
ington Senators.
I saw all the home games of the
The annual banquet of the Inter
state Sportwriters' & Broadcasters'
Association will be held at the Stacy
Trent Hotel, Trenton, N. j., on Mon
day evening, February S, 1851, at
$50 p. M, and the Trenton Chapter
of the association has already start
ed plans for a bang-up program for
the occasion.
AS is the custom, the winter meet
ing of the Interstate League Board
of Directors and the annual meeting
and election of officers of the associa-
ton will be held the afternoon of the
banquet.
The tickets for the banquet are
$500 and any local baseball fans
wishing to attend can make reserva-
tions by dropping a card to the Sec
rotary, H. S. Douglas, P. o. Box 808,
Hagerstown.
Hagerstown Hubs football team this
season and up to the final game on
Thanksgiving, with Waynesboro
High School, was impressed, not
only with the fine playing of the
team, but also with their good sport
manship. However, while their play
ing was up to par in the Thanks
giving day game, I cannot say the
same for the teams sportmanship.
Playing against a team that had
not won a game all season and that,
to be truthful, couldn't even give
the Hubs good workout, there
was, in my opinion, absolutely no
need for the vicious tackling-and
at times the swinging of fists =
that the Hubs used in the game. l
appreciate that in days gone by the
Waynesboro boys ''have really pour
ed it on" but it wasn't the young
sters that played in the Thanksgiving
game that did it and saw no reason
for taking it out on them.
Had it been a game between ev-
emily matched teams, there might
have been some excuse for the Hubs
roughness, but as matter of fact,
Coach Henry could have started his
third-string team and still won the
game easily, and since he used his
first stringers practically through
the first three quarters, until they
had run up a $50 lead, the rough
ness was absolutely uncalled for.
College football wound up on Sat-
urday afternoon in just about the
same way the season opened-with
all kinds of upsets, but in my book,
these upsets are good for college
football
In years gone by there were two
or three teams, such as Notre Dame,
Michigan and Army, that stood out
head and shoulders above the others
and the results of the games in
which they played accepting
against each other) were foregone
conclusions. AS a result of this,
youngsters with good high school
football regulations, did everything
they could to join the colleges that
were outstanding, and those boys
who were outstanding players them
selves in high school, were gobbled
up by the big colleges before any
one else had a chance to talk to
them. But now that most of the
teams are beating each other, all the
colleges will benefit, which is good
for football and for the boys also.
With Michigan humping off Ohio
State on Saturday; Stanford holding
California to a tie; and Tennessee
knocking off Kentucky; all that is
needed to complete the zy-quilt
pattern for 1850, is to have Navy
beat Army on Saturday afternoon
and I hope they do.