The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1952-12-04
BEHIND
HOME PLATE
BY H. S. DOUGLAS


The fate of the Interstate League,
which is hanging in the balance right
now, could very well be settled, one
way or the other, during the present
Minor League meeting in Phoenix,
Arizona
For the full story of what is going
on, see Around Town With The Ed
itor' on the front page.
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The Hagerstown High School Hubs
Basketball team got off to a flying
start on Tuesday night, when they
took the measure of the Williams
port High School Five by a score of
81 to 81.
The two teams put on a ding-dong
battle through the first three periods,
with Williamsport ahead IA to IS at
the end of the first period; the Hubs
on top q to Is at the half and 80 to
30 as the third period ended. But
in the last period the Hagerstown
Five really went to town, scoring 13
points while holding Williamsport to
one foul
Kuhn lead the Hubs attack with
seven goals and seven foul shots, for
q points, while Crawford, with three
goals and five foul shots, for II
points, was the top scorer for Will
Transport
In the preliminary game, the Ha-
gerstown Jayvees coasted to an easy
win over Boonsboro High, the final
score being SO to 10.
Congratulations to the Gaels and
the Gaelettes of St. Mary's High
School on winning the opening
games of their 1928 basketball
season.
The Boys and Girls teams open
ed their season against the York
Springs team, with the Gaels win
ming by score of A to 80 and the
Gaelettes by the lopsided score of
So to 30.
Congratulations also to the Smiths
burg High School Girls Fieldball
team on winning the championship
of the Washington County Scholas-
tic League.
The girls won all eight games on
their schedule and held their OPP
ponents throughout the season to a
total of twelve goals, while the
SmithSburg lassies amassed a total
of "a.
The college football season came
to an end on Saturday with, of
course, the two big games being the
Army-Navy and the Southern Cali
fornia-Notre Dame battles.
The Army-Navy game again prov
ed that when these two teams meet
statistics don't mean anything. On
the seasons record of both teams
expected a free scoring game, with
Navy coming out on top but, as you
know, Navy won by score of to
0, with Army showing tremendous
defensive strength.
While Notre Danes win over
Southern Cal by a score of 9 to 0
was considered by some an upset,
the records of the two teams-de-
spite the fact that the Trojans had
not lost a game-gave the edge, in
my book, to the fighting Irish, main
ly because of their tremendous de-
fenSive strength.
And talking about defense, I
have never watched a stronger de-
tense than that put on by Notre
Dame in the last quarter.
Sunday afternoons games in the
professional league created some
amazing upSets.
The terrible shellacing that the
Pittsburgh Steelers gave the New
York Giants-the final score was
So to lis something will never
be able to understand. While the
Giants have been playing in and out
football since the season opened, no
team in the history of the league has
ever licked them like the Steelers
did and I sure would like to hear
what Steve Owen, the Giants coach,
has to say about it.
P.S. Steve Owen discussed with
Harry Wismer on television Mon
day night, the awful licking the
Giants took and he offered no alibi.
All he said was, that his boys were
not up for the game and that the
Pittsburgh Steelers showed him the
greatest football he had seen in
many years.
Out on the West coast the "a to
81 win of the Los Angeles Rams
over the San Francisco 49ers was
also unexpected-at least by that
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