Milford chronicle., 1952-08-01
Tournament Standings

Baseball fans Of lower Delaware
are being treated to some excellent
baseball as the first round compe-
tition in the double-elimination
tourney of semi-pro teams Of the
Delmarva region got under way on
Thursday night Of last week.
The contestants are teams rep
.resenting six communities and four
Service Teams and all games are
being played in the Milford Park.
Two games are scheduled each
night with the opening game, a
twilight fray, at 500 pm. and the
second at 900 pm. under lights.
The series opened on Thursday
night when the ChincOteague Naval
Air Station successfully hurtled its
first test by trimming the Denton
Tigers by the score of 13 to 5.
The New Castle County Air Base
Team forfeited it's end of the open
ing dOuble-header to Lewes by
failing to appear.
Play was resumed on Friday
when Ft Meade took the twilight
game from SharptOwn by the score
of 8 to / in a seven inning battle.
The Newark Phillies easily cap
tured the End game of the twin bill
from the Milford A. A. by capital
izing on the loose playing of the To-
cal club, giving them a 10 to / VIC
tory.
The weekend schedule brought
into competition the Patuxent
BOmbers from the Patuxent Naval
Air Station, Virginia and Lewes
A. c., with the Milford Yanks fur
nishing the opposition in both
games. The first contest played on
Saturday night started off like a
slugfest and the first three innings
saw the Milford Yanks garner
runs off hits and the Patuxent
BOmbers squeezed runs from only
hits and there was the ball game,
as Hill went in for the Yanks and
Gada for the BOmbers and both
teams went scOreless for the rest
of the game. Hill hung up IA strike
outs in his seven inning appear
ance.
On Sunday night the Milford
Yanks had to come from behind
twice to subdue the much weaken
ed Lewes A. c. team, but their final
surge in the eighth carried them
well over the top as the game was
ended by the II o'clock curfew and
they cOpped a Is to z victory.
Play is being resumed this week
as we go to press and the TOurna'
ment into it's second round which
will decide the winner of this
Semi-pro Classic and the trip tC
Wichita, Kansas, for a chance il
the National Tournament.
Wednesday nights contests bring
back the strong Patuxent Bomber'
to face ChincOteague, while the
Denton Tigers will meet the New
Castle Air Base in the 2nd game.
Thursday nights games will bC
between Milford A. A and Sharp
town A. c. and Ft. Meade VS. New.
ark Phillies.
Friday night will see the Lewes
AC. playing the winners of the
Patuxent ChincOteague Wednesday
night contest, while the losers o.
that same contest will play tn,
winners of the Denton Tigers-NeV
Castle fray.
BOX SCORE BINGLES
by Jay Kape
Double eliminatiOn-2 mistakes
and you're out.
The first contests had to compett
with the Democratic Convention.
Ft. Meade showed their militar!
training - they brought up thei
big Gums" Hafenecker and Lemon
to clean the bases. That three ruI
blow by Hafenecker was seen OF
the Washington Radar.
SharptOwn's Fair-rooters got al
"E' for effort.
Milford A. A. developed contes
jitters and gave their game to New
ark.
In the Ft. Meade 9 to l victor
every man on the team scored
lun, Believe it or not.
"Flash" Birmingham, son of Mgl
Britt, proved jet-propelled on tn
bases as he stole home to break
to 2 tie.
Mgr. Britt was forced to switc
his line up like Chinese Checker
and just missed.