The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-08-10

SCneuule 1OT Iue week, uOuDle pldyS,
and review of the Braves games
of the past week, including the box
scores of Saturday nights double
header at York
Three new players joined the club
on Tuesday and two of them arrived
in time to get into the lineup in the
first game against Wilmington that
night. Charles Terrell, a catcher
sent in on option by Raleigh, of
the class B Carolina League, with
a batting average of .278, was be-
hind the plate, and Richard Bur
gett, an outfelder from the same
club, with an average of .316, re-
placed Tufano in centerfeld Both
bat righthanded.
Nathaniel Glunt, an infelder also
from Raleigh, with an average of
1903, reported after the game got
underway, but was scheduled to
break into the lineup last night
Three other players-Robert Cor
don, left hand pitcher, from the
Evansville, Ind, team of the Three
Eye League; James linn, an infield-
er from the Fort Lauderdale club of
the class A Florida international
League, and Tom Lind, also an in
fielder, from the Jackson, Miss, club
of the Southeastern League-are also
on the way and were expected to
report either yesterday or today.
Whose places they will take had
not been officially announced as we
went to press yesterday, but it is my
guess that Tedesco, who belongs to
the Hagerstown club, will be sold,
and that Perrin will be returned to
Boston, along with Tufano.
Beard, who is also the property of
Hagerstown, has been farmed out for
more experience; Milicevich will also
be returned to Boston, and Bench
has been placed on the suspended
list for refusing to report to the club
to which Boston assigned him.
What a differences
Usually when a member of the
Braves team hits a home run, all of
his teammates come out to the plate
to congratulate him, but when young
Milicevich, the Braves utility in
fielder, got his first home run on
Thursday night against York since
joining the Hagerstown club, the
only one who came out to the plate
to meet him was Jay Simmons.
And talking about differences in
the Hagerstown baseball club, what
a difference there is between the
team we have been watching for the
last couple of weeks and the aggre-
cation of hustling, scrappy, ball
players who comprised the team that
for SO long was on top of the heap.
l went over to York on Sunday
afternoon to see the game there and
in all the years have been attending
and writing about professional base
ball games, 1 have never seen one
like that l saw base runners going
down to first as if they had gotten
walk instead of trying to beat out
a throw, and I saw outfelders let
fly balls go for hits, that month
ago they would have put in their
hip pocket, and as matter of fact,
saw practically a whole team that
was playing anything from heads-up
baseball, as the five errors they COM
mitted will attest.
l am not so concerned about the
fact that the team has run into a
losing streak as l am of the = in
my opinion obvious fact that the
team is not playing the class of base
ball that it is capable of.
The owner of the club, Gene Ran
ey, at press conference after Friday
nights game here against Sunbury,
showed very plainly how he felt
about the matter Following a state
ment by Rufus Edwards concerning
new players that the club bought to
bolster the team, Gene Raney took
the floor and told us that when he
promised the people of Hagerstown
and Washington County before the
season opened that he would do ev-
erything in his power to give them a
club that they could be proud of, he
meant every word he said
Commenting on the spending of
several thousand dollars last week
in buying new players in the open
market, Raney stated very plainly
that he felt it wasn't so much his
money he was spending, as it was
the money of the more than seventy
five thousand people who have sup
ported him and his ball club since
the start of the season. He also
commented on the fact that despite