The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1953-12-10
BEHIND
HOME PLATE
BY II. S. DOUGLAS

With the signing of Paul Campbell,
former manager of the Little Rock
club, as manager, plus the signing of
full working agreement with the
Washington Senators, the Hagers-
town Baseball Club now seems all
set for another season in the Pied
mont League. Campbell, / under
stand, will be playing manager.
also understand that the Phila-
delphia Athletics have taken up the
franchise of Roanoke, who pulled out
the later part of the 1858 season, and
that they will operate out of Lam
caster, Pa.
This means that the Piedmont
League will apparently operate as an
eight-team league in 1854, the other
six clubs being: York, Richmond,
Norfolk, Lynchburg, Portsmouth and
Newport News
The Hagerstown High School Hubs
made it two in row on Friday
night, when, in a hard fought game,
they took the measure of the Bethes-
da-Chevy Chase Five by score of
Sd to So Some idea of the tightness
of the game can be gained by the
fact that coach Mel Henry used his
first-string Five for the entire game.
The visitors got off to a 1913 lead
early in the first quarter, but the
Hubs fought back and the quarter
ended ZIG in favor of Hagerstown.
The lead seesawed back and forth
in the second quarter, which ended
with the Hubs on top, % to o.
1t was the same story in the third
quarter The score was tied 1887
midway in the quarter, but the Hubs
were not to be denied and wound up
the quarter leading AZ to 40
In the fourth and final quarter, the
accuracy of the Hagerstown boys
from the foul line spelled the diff
ference. With the score $3.50 in
favor of the Hubs, the visitors missed
two consecutive foul shots, and then
in the last seconds of the game, An
derson, the Hubs guard, iced the
game with two perfect shots from
the foul line, to make the final score.
Hagerstown So, Bethesda Chevy
Chase so.
Meier and Kuhn were the high
scorers for the Hubs, with II and Ia
points, respectively, while Sonner
was the big gun for the visitors with
81 points.
The Hubs Jayvees, in another good !
game, won from the Bethesda jun
Tors by a score of Al to SO.
The Hagerstown High School Hubs |
lost their first game of the young
season at Cumberland on Tuesday
night, when the boys from Fort Hill
High took the lead in the first quarter
and were never headed. The final
score was II to So
Any chance the Hubs might have
had went by the board when they
lost four of their players on fouls.
Meier was the high scorer for Ha-
gerstown with 10 points, followed by
Anderson, who had a.
st. Mary's High Schools varsity
basketball teams broke even in their
games with St. Marys of Annapolis.
played on Tuesday on the Annapolis
schools court.
The Gaelettes had an easy time in
their game, with the Annapolis girls
finding it almost impossible to break
through the Gaelettes' tight defense,
the final score being 40 to TO-
Cassidy, with 26 points led the Ha-
gerstown attack, scoring 10 goals
and six shots from the foul line.
Shaw, with nine points; Hoover, with
four, and Wills, with three. account !
ed for the rest of the scoring.
The GaelS lost another really
tough one, bowling to the Annapolis
boys by a score of SIS to SO in am over
time game.
Gallaher, with six goals and eight
foul shots, for 20 points, was the top
scorer, followed by Grouse, with IA, |
farmer with IL, Quinn with six and
Keller with two.
l would say that the Washington
Senators got the best of their deal
with the Boston Red Sox, in which
the Sox traded Maury McDermott, |