The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1952-03-06
BEHIND
HOME PLATE
By DOUG STEWART

Leagues 1852 schedule, which you
will find on this page, notice that,
for the second straight year, we will
get a total of ten Sunday games at
home, but only one holiday date
July 4, the same as last year.
This means that the Braves will
again be conflicting with the Cham
Der of Commerce independence Day
celebration unless, of course, the
baseball double-header is played in
the afternoon.
The Braves open the season at
home with Allentown on April %
and will play a total of three home
dates in that month. We will have
II home dates in May; Is in June;
10 in July; II in August; and l in
September, giving us a total of 81
home dates We will also play three
double headers at home Gall in July),
July 4, with York; July 10, with Sun
bury; and July 81, with Harrisburg.
Our two longest home stands
(each for six days. will be in the
month of May, when we play Lam
caster May 10, II and IL, followed
by Wilmington on May Is, IA and
Is, and then we come home again on
May q for games with Salisbury on
May q, % and %, followed by three
with York on May "a, Is and 26,
st. Mary's Gaels and Gaelettes
scored a double win on Friday
against the boys and girls basket
ball teams of Clear Spring High
School.
The Gaels, who won their game
by a score of SO to A, used their re-
serves freely, ten members of the
squad getting into the game. TAX
ing an 1876 lead in the first period,
they increased it to 1920 at the half
and were ahead 57-34 at the end of
the third period.
Seven of the boys figured in the
scoring, with Foreman and Gallaher
having 10 points; Keller IA and Hell
lane 10.
In the girls game, which the
Gaelettes won by a 36-29 score, it
was much the same story, with the
reserves seeing plenty of action-no
less than IA of st. Mary's squad were
in the game. Taking lead of 1873 in
the first period, the Gaelettes stayed
on top the rest of the way.
But unlike the boys game, three
girls on each team did all the scor-
ing. For st. Mary's, Smith had Is
points, Slate II and Cassidy 9, while
for Clear Spring, Shank had IA, Haw-
baker 10 and Higgons 2.
But both teams took it on the chin
on Tuesday night, over in Hancock,
when they met the two Hancock
School teams. The two games were
thrillers all the way, with the Gaels
losing, in an overtime game, by a
score of Sc to 81, while the Gaelettes
were on the wrong side of a "a to 80
score.
The Gaels had the game won up to
the last second of the game, with the
score 81 to 40 in their favor, but
Kerns Tipped one through the basket
to tie the score, just as the whistle
blew Then, in the overtime period,
McKinley's two-pointer won the
game for Hancock.
In the girls game, which was in
doubt until the final whistle blew,
the Gaelettes put up grand fight,
but the County girls were not to be
denied.
Ray Bolinger, keen baseball fan
and an ardent follower of the Ha-
gerstown Braves, gave me the fol-
lowing little ditty, which he tells me
was a popular phonograph record
when he was youngster-and that
was back in the days of cylinder rec
ords and loud speaker shaped ik-
ed like a Morning Glory:
Eve stole first, then Adam second,
st. Peter umpired the game;
Rebecca went to the we'll with the
pitcher
While Ruth in the field won fame.
Goliath was struck out by David,
A base hit made on Abel by Cain;
The Prodigal Son made one home
run
And Brother Noah gave out checks
for rain.
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