The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1951-07-19
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By DOUG STEWART

CONGRATULATIONS 10 FIGu LoWltASl
of Smithsburg, on winning the 1851
Hagerstown Soap Box Derby. Here's
hoping he wins the national title in
Akron on August II.
Congratulations, also, to the run
ner-up, Donald Koontz, and to all
the other kids who took part in the
race.
The baseball fans who stayed
away from the Stadium in droves on
Tuesday night-there were only sos
paid admissions-mis one of the
best games of the season, in which
Jerry Levinson, one of Hagerstown's
top pitchers, and Bob lick, Sails
bury's leading pitcher who, in the
opinion of everyone in the press
box, has the best curve ball of any
pitcher in the league, tangled in a
real thriller (for the story of the
game see Keeping Us With The
braves Oh page ".
The game, apart from the pitching,
produced some thrilling plays, with
Hagerstown's Billy Smith and jack
son, Salisbury's third-baseman,
bringing cheers from the fans by
their sensational plays.
The small paid crowd was aug
mented by some four hundred Scouts
who were the guests of the manage
ment, and they proved before the
game was over that there is 18th
Scout Law - A Scout Is Hungry.
On Wednesday, July Is, the man
agement of the Hagerstown Baseball
Club will observe the Minor Leagues
golden anniversary.
The management will be host to a
number of guests at a dinner at the
Hotel Alexander before the game
with the Harrisburg Senators, and
Rufus Edwards, general manager of
the Braves, tells me that there will
be quite number of distinguished
guests from out-of-town, including
top officials of the Boston Braves,
Tommy Richardson, president of the
Eastern League and a number of
other baseball's well-known figures.
The anniversary will have another
unique event when, at home plate
just before the game starts, Dick
Carmichael, popular young pitcher
with the Braves, will be married to
Miss Margaret Joan Lunt, of South
Portland, Maine, with the ceremony
being performed by the Rev. James
E. Ault, pastor of the First Brethren
Church.
The old strike-out superstition
worked again on Monday night,
when Charlie Miller struck out Clay
comb, the first man to face him, in
the top half of the first inning and
the Braves went on to lose the game
to Wilmington
And talking about the game, host
of grandstand managers have been
telling me what Dutch should and
shouldn't have done, particularly in
the eighth and ninth innings when
the bases were loaded with one out.
It's the old, old story If the man
ayers strategy works in circum-
stances like that whether he decides
on a squeeze play or the hit away,
he is a hero, but if it doesn't, then
he is bum.
My answer to all of these critics
is, that the Braves are still six games
out in front as this is written and
while world of credit must go to
the team as a whole, it is Dutch
Dorman that has brought them along
and nodded them into the fighting,
scrappy team that they are.
And while I am on the subject of
managers, I just want to say that
the Wilmington manager, Dan Car
nevale, gave a disgraceful exhibition
on Sunday afternoon, when he
bawled out Tom Casagrande, his
pitcher, in front of over 1000 fans
when he failed to run out a weak
tap to the pitcher.
| am not saying that a manager
doesn't have the right to discipline
his players if he finds it necessary,
but the place to do it is in the dugout
or the clubhouse, instead of out on
the playing field.
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