The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1952-02-28

Congratulations to the Rotary Club
team in the Junior Baseball League
on being crowned 1851 champions
at the annual banquet on Monday
night.
And congratulations also to: Jack
Meier, of the same team, who won
the most valuable player award; Roll /
and Powell, of the Jaycees, who
won the leading batter award; and
the Pegasus Club for winning the
Loyal Order of the Moose trophy for
good craftsmanship.
| had hoped very much to attend
the banquet but old man grippe
bowled me over on Saturday and so
/ had to miss it.
The Optimist team is running
away with the race in the Junior
Basketball League being the only
undefeated team in either division.
$3.50
And talking about the Junior
League, think the officials in charge
of the league should do something
about the altogether uncalled for
scoring in some of the games.
For instance, in the game last week
between the Elks and the Alsatia
team, the final score was "a for AL
sattia to 4 for the Elks. 1t was 1872
at the end of the first quarter, 1922
at the end of the half and 52-4 at the
end of the third period.
1t seems to me that when there is
such tremendous difference as that
between the two teams, the Alsatia
club coach should have given his
first string team a vacation for the
evening and they should have never
been on the floor for it is perfectly
obvious, from the ridiculous scoring,
that the second stringers could have
won easily.
In the Junior Basketball League
we are trying to teach the kids not
only to play basketball, but also good
craftsmanship, and l don't see how
you can call it good craftsmanship
when one team piles up IA points
while the other poor kids only score
a total of four points during the
whole game
Referring to my story last week
regarding the 708 game rolled by
the Hagerstown Dairy Team of the
Pioneer A League, which | stated
was a new record for sanctioned
teams in Hagerstown, l have now
been informed by Paul Macy, one of
the most responsible statisticians in
bowling, that the score was equalled
on December 7, 1949, by the Con-
sumers Credit Team bowling against
Crouse's Billiards Team in the Major
League (the forerunner of the pres
ent Pioneer League).
The five men on the Consumers
team, and their scores, were: Tom
my Day, 1871; Paul Neagy, 148; An
gelo Palladino, 1872; Ray Dinterman,
1877; and Cody Black, 100,
If you noticed a bunch of really
happy youngsters whooping it up
after St. Mary's School was out on
Monday afternoon, the occasion was
the double win scored by the Gaels
and Gaelettes against their arch ri
walls of st. Joseph's from Martins
burg.
The win for the boys was really
something to cheer about, as it was
the first time they had beaten the ST.
Joe basketball five since 1914. Father
Dausch's lads were really up for this
game and after trailing by one point
at the end of the first quarter they
took the lead in the second quarter
and were never headed. The final
score was IS to 81.
All the Gaels played heads-up
basketball from beginning to end,
with Gallaher leading the scoring
with Il points, Hellane with Is, and
Foreman and Keller with IL. While
for st. Joe, Fowler was the top
scorer, with 10 points, followed by
Butts with Is.
The Gaels win was the second in a
row, as they also won from Green
castle on Friday by score of 81 to
40.
The girls game was much closer
and in fact the Gaelettes won the
game in the last few minutes, the
final score being 81 to 20.
Three players from each team did
all the scoring. For the Gaelettes,
Smith had II points, Slate, 10, and
Cassidy, 4, while for st. Joe, Sewers
had IL, Pickett, II and Lord, 6.
The two teams journeyed over to
Il L