The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1951-08-23


(Kressnick), the 19-year-old third
baseman rushed here by the Boston
Braves when linn was injured in
Lancaster on Saturday, did not get
any hits when he broke into the
Braves lineup at Allentown. on
Tuesday night, he handled his posi-
ton in fine style, getting three put
outs and two assists. d.
He showed that he has a good
throwing arm and he also takes a
healthy cut at the plate.
Mike was sent here from the Paris
club of the Glass D Mississippi Ohio
League, where he had a healthy 300
batting average - to say nothing of
a hundred RIBS and fifteen home
runs. He ranks high with Harry
Jenkins, head of the Boston Braves
farm system and you can expect to
hear great things from him as he
develops
AS this is written, Wednesday
morning, Jimmy linn was still nurs-
ing that badly sprained ankle and
Billy Smith, though with the club in
Allentown, was still lmping pretty
badly from that pulled muscle
Here's hoping they can both get back
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There was plenty of extra cur
ricular activity in both the Sunday
afternoon game at Lancaster and the
Tuesday night game at Allentown.
After the Lancaster game, umpire
Emil, who has been pretty viciously
heckled by one Lancaster fan every
time he appeared in Lancaster,
finally boiled over and the two
tangled but were quickly separated.
Gerry Nugent, president of the
League, went to Lancaster on Mon
day and conducted an investigation
of the unfortunate incident, and then
stayed for Monday nights game.
Everything was ironed out, however,
and Emil oficiated as base umpire
on Monday night
Then on Tuesday night, at Allen
town, with Emil behind the plate
and Murphy on the bases, manager
Whitley Kurowski violently protest
ed Murphy's call on a close play at
first on Christoff, who grounded to
Lind and was thrown out, and Muir
ply elected him from the game.
Then, in the fourth inning, Lewan-
dowski kept up the heckling of Muir
ply from the Cards dugout and
Murphy tossed him out too.
In Andy Bush's four-hit shutout
game at Lancaster on Sunday af-
ternoon, 18 of the q putouts made
by Hagerstown were fly balls-10 of
them pop-ups to the infeld and
to the outfeld.
In the seven-inning opening game
of Thursday nights double-header.
with Allentown, Lou Tufano and
Dodo Canterna came up with two
sensational catches, both of them
coming in the fifth inning.
Killinger, the first man up, cut
lose with a terrific smash to left
center and Canterna, off with the
crack of the bat, speared it while on
the dead run. Hertweck then STEP
ped to the plate and smashed one to /
right center that was ear-marked for
at least two bases, but Tufano racing
at top speed leaped up and made an
unbelievable one-handed catch of
the ball, almost up against the wall.
$50
The most unusual feature of the
nine-inning second game was, the
fact that when Canterna caught
Forbes fly ball to leftfeld in the
seventh inning, it was the only out
made by the Braves outfeld dur
ing the entire game.
A baseball oddity.
Woody Wheaton, former Hagers-
town manager, now member of
the West Palm Beach Club in the
Florida International League, had
the unusual experience of being both
an umpire and a player in a game
between West Palm Beach and Ha-
vana on August 9. When Umpire
Art Talley was injured by foul tip,
Umpire Lou Payer called on Wheat
on and the trainer of the Havana