The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1951-03-15
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By DOUG STEWART

President Nugent has released the
official 1851 schedule of the Inter
State League, which opens on Wed
nesday night, April rs, and closes on
Labor Day, September 3.
Unfortunately for me, however,
although the release date this year
is today March 15), president Nu-
gent has stipulated that it must not
be published until the afternoon of
the 18th.
In order that the morning and eve
ming dailies get an even break in
publishing the schedule, the release
time alternates each year between
morning and afternoon and since
the morning papers got the break
last year, it is only right that the
evening papers get it this year.
You will find the complete sched-
ule in the Daily Mail this afternoon
and in the Herald tomorrow morn
ing It will also, of course, be pub
lished by me in next weeks issue.
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Congratulations to the HagerstoWn
High School Hubs on winning the
Western Shore Basketball playoffs,
and here's hoping they cop the State
Championship when they meet the
Salisbury High School Five, win
ners of the Eastern Shore playoffs,
at College Park,
The Hubs earned the right to enter
the finals when they took the meas
ure of Montgomery-Blair High at the
local high school gym on Tuesday
night, by score of AZ to AZ. While
the Hubs took the lead in the first
quarter and were never headed, the
game was plenty close at times, with
only one point separating the two
teams about midway in the final
quarter.
Perhaps the deciding factor was
the accuracy of the Hubs at the foul
line. They had a total of % foul shots
and cashed in on II Of them, while
Montgomery Blair, who had 30 foul
shots, could only get 8 of them
through the basket.
AS matter of fact, there was only
one field goal difference between the
two teams, the Hubs clicking with
Is and Montgomery-Blair with II.
The Junior Basketball League will
get their playoffs started tomorrow
night on the South Potomac Junior
High School court, at Z o'clock, with
the Lions, who went through the
regular season undefeated, meeting
the third-place Knights of Columbus,
and the second-place Optimists TAX
ing on the fourth-place Jaycees.
The 1851 Potomac Edison System
Bowling Tournament will get under
way at Raney's Coliseum on Satur-
day, April z, with the winning team
walking off with the R. Paul Smith
trophy-perhaps to retain perma-
nent possession of it.
1t requires three tournament vic
tories to take permanent possession
of the priced trophy and three teams
- The Hagerstown General Office
team, the Hagerstown District team
and the Frederick team = all have
two legs on it.
AS was the case last year, there
will also be special trophy award
ed the winner of the ladies' tourna-
ment.
In my opinion, the Chandler case
is not very happy one for organ
lied baseball
With Chandler kicked out by a
minority group of Major baseball
club owners, he will, in all proba-
bility, resign before his term expires
in 1852 and, since there seems little
possibility of club owners agreeing
on successor Cat least for some
time), the result will probably be
that the club owners, through some
sort of an executive committee, will
be in complete control, which, in my
book, is just not good for baseball.
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