The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1953-08-27
BOOSTER NIGHT

very active in selling tickets and 1t
is expected that big crowd will
be on hand.
In addition to being Volunteer
Fire Companies Booster Night"
the members of the Boy Scout
Troops and Cub Packs of Hagers- |
town and Washington County, to-
gether with their leaders, will be
guests of the club management for
the game.
The boys will mobilize at the
Cannon Avenue rear entrance to the
bleachers at 7:45 and will parade
onto the grounds of the stadium at
800.
The Braves have lost the services,
for the rest of the season, of Vince
Pizzitola, who for the past week or
more has been playing in leftfeld,
and Jack Concannon, who had
been alternating at shortstop with
Don Damiano.
Pizzitola has been called to his
home because of urgent family bust
ness, and Concannon, who injured
his knee on the last road trip, has
returned to his home near Boston,
Mass, where he will enter a hos
pital for an operation on his knee.
Congratulations to the Funkstown
team on clinching the South Noun
tain League pennant on Sunday af-
ternoon, when they beat the Gap
land Nine by a score of 5 to 3.
Brown, was not only the winning
pitcher, but he also came through
with home run.
Congratulations also to the An
tietam club on clinching the indie
pendent League pennant on Sunday,
when they beat Halfway by a score
of z to s.
The Redbirds had to come from
behind to win, as going into the
eighth inning they were trailing
to 3. But Socks came through in
the bottom half of the eighth, when
he slammed solid single with the
bases loaded
The Tortuga Pirates of the Pony
League finally won the first half
on Sunday afternoon when they
took the measure of the Pony Ex-
press youngsters by a score of to 3.
The two teams were tied at the
end of the regular first half and they
tied again in the first playoff game,
but the Pirates were not to be
denied when the two teams met on
Sunday.
The playoffs for the league champ
ionship, between the Yankees, the
winners of the first half, and the
Pirates, winners of the second half,
in a best-of-three series, got under
way on Monday night, with the
Yankees coming out on top by a
score of 7 to l.
The second game was scheduled
for last night and of course it was
too late for me to report it. If it
was won by the Yankees they are
now the Pony League champions,
but if the Pirates were the victors,
the final game will be played to-
morrow evening.
With the first week of racing
breaking all records of attendance
and wagering, Hagerstown's ten-day
meeting, which ends on Saturday,
will, without question, be the most
successful ever held here
With perfect weather every day
and high calibre of racing, the
fans have f1ocked to the fairgrounds
every afternoon.
A unique situation came up on
Saturday afternoons card, when the
numbers seven and one were the
magic figures. Here's what hap
pened:
The number seven horse won the
first race; the number one horse won
the second; number seven won the
third; number one the fourth; num-
Der seven the fifth, and number one
the sixth.
The string was broken, however,
when the number three horse won
the seventh race, but strange to say,
the number seven horse placed sec
and and then, believe it or not, the
number seven horse won the eighth
and final race on the card.
The Timonium ten-day race meet
will start Wednesday, September 2,
through Saturday, September IL.
The race meeting is being held in
conjunction with the Maryland
State Fair and there will be some
thing doing every day from 900 in