The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1953-01-22

Jim French, who screams bloody
murder everytime Dutch Dorman
orders man to bunt instead of hit
ting away, got his own political sig
mails crossed last week and tried to
bunt a third strike when he filed
for Councilman on the Democratic
ticket
AS a result of his boner he was,
of course, called out by the political
umpire. Here's what actually hap
pened:
Jim. who formerly lived on West
Franklin Street was registered as
voting in Ward l and that is the
Ward in which he cast his vote in
the presidential election in Novem-
Der. However, when he moved to
South Potomac Street, which is in
Ward g. he failed to notify the Board
of Election Supervisors of his change
of address with the result that he is
still registered in Ward l.
When Jim went up to the City
Hall and filed for the Office of Coun-
Gilman on the Democratic ticket, he
stated on his application that he was
in Ward 2. 1t was not until the rec
ords were checked at the last minute
that it was discovered that he was
registered in Ward l and thus was
not eligible to file in Ward 2.
The advance sale of tickets for the
Hagerstown Braves 1858 season is
off to a good start, with the Alsatia
Club being the first organization to
get behind the drive in practical
manner.
The Club, at its last meeting APP
pointed a committee who will sell
the books of tickets-a book of ten
tickets selling for $500 and a book
of twenty tickets for $1400-to their
membership.
The various ticket captains also
report fine response and if we all
keep working at it, the drive will go
over the top.
Gerald Nugent, president of the
Interstate League, has called spe-
cial meeting of the Board of Di-
rectors of the League in Lancaster,
Pa, for Wednesday, January %, at
which time it is expected that he
will officially release the cities that
will be represented in the Interstate
League in 1858.
Unfortunately, I will be printing
that weeks issue of my paper on
that day, so I will be unable to at
tend. You will, however, get a full
report of the meeting in the daily
papers of Thursday, January 20, and
l will, of course, give you more in
formation about it in our issue OF
the following week.
Hats off to the Badgers" North
Street High Schools varsity basket
ball team, who on Tuesday night won
their fifth straight game of the sea-
son to make them the only high
school boys team in Hagerstown to
have a perfect record.
Prior to the Tuesday nights game,
in which they beat the varsity team
of Leesburg in really close one Al
to 40, they had taken the measure
of teams from Martinsburg, Win
chester, Charles Town and Rock
vile.
Their girls team. the Badgerettes,
also had four game winning streak
going for them, but they suffered
their first loss against the girls from
Leesburg on Tuesday night by a
score of Is to 10.
Before telling you about the
basketball game between the ST.
Mary's Gaelettes and the Hagers-
town High School girls varsity team
on Friday afternoon, let me correct
a mistake l made in this column last
week, when I stated that the Gael
cites had record of ten wins and
one tie so far for the season.
Their actual record was nine wins
and one tie, but they scored their
tenth win on Friday.
In one of the best games played
by either teams this season, st.
Mary's girls won a real thriller from
the lassies of Hagerstown High by
score of 35 to 20.
The Gaelettes got off to a good
start in the first period, which end
ed II to in their favor, but the
Maroon and Gray girls really fought
back in the second half scoring ten
points against St. Mary's five to even
the score at half time. The third
period was real nip-and-tuck bat