The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1953-01-29
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HOME PLATE
BY H. S. DOUGLAS


important meeting of the Board of
Directors of the Interstate League
being held at Lancaster and I very
much regret being unable to be
present.
While l have nothing official on
the meeting, l wouldn't be at all
surprised if the Hazelton, Pa, fran
chises is moved to another city. 1
understand that there is also pos
sibility that Oren Sterling, who
formerly owned the Hagerstown
Club, will take over the Sunbury
franchise, formerly held by the New
York Giants.
According to an Associated Press
story, the Hagerstown and York
clubs are reported to have approach
ed the Glass B Piedmont League on
the possibility of the two clubs join
ing that league, which now consists
of six clubs, all in Virginia.
How much truth there is to that
story was no doubt brought out at
the meeting in Lancaster yesterday.
In case you are wondering what
happened to the scheduled basket
ball games between st. Mary's High
School Gaels and Gaelettes and the
girls and boys teams of St. Marks,
of Gainesville, on Friday afternoon
at the armory, this is to inform you
that the games were postponed, due
to the visiting teams being unable
to get here on account of the
weather.
The games will be re-scheduled
for a later date
The Badgers, the North Street
Schools crack basketball team, kept
their perfect record intact on Sat-
urday night in Cumberland, when
they won their sixth straight vic
tory of the season against the up
state Carver High School team by
46 to Al.
The girls team, the Badgerettes,
who have only lost one game since
the season started, came through
with their fifth win, when they took
the measure of the Cumberland
girls by a score of 81 to 10.
Taking IA to 10 lead in the first
period, the Badgers increased it to
23-18 at the half. But the Carver
High boys put on a rally in the third
period, which ended 80 to 29 in their
favor. The Badgers came back
strong in the last period, however,
when they scored Is points against
Cumberland's II.
Keyes was the high scorer for the
North Street boys, with 81 points,
followed by Brooks with 10.
In the girls game, the Badgerettes
jumped into an early lead and were
never headed.
Both teams continued their win
ming streak on Monday night when
the Badgers came through with their
seventh straight win and the Badg-
erettes made it six wins against on
ly one loss. The two teams met the
oys and girls teams of Lincoln High
School Frederick, the game being
played on the North Street schools
court.
In the boys game the Badgers
jumped into the lead right at the
start and were never seriously
threatened, the final score being 40
to SO.
Eight of the Badgers took part in
the scoring, with Keyes leading them
all with goals and foul shot for
II points.
In the girls game, which the Badg-
erettes won by score of 18 to 9, the
Frederick girls were held to just
two goals, the other five points com
ing from shots from the foul line.
The feature of the game was the
fact that three girls on each team
accounted for all the scoring.
As far as my memory goes-and
that's long way blackstone sort
of new record was established in ST
Nick's Arena in New York on Fri
day night, at the fight in which Will
lie Troy won over Bobbie Jones in
very close, split decision.
Not once during the entire ten
rounds did the referee have to step
in and separate the boys, in fact he
didn't even have to tap either of
them on the back and tell them to
break
I cannot remember any fight that
l have seen in which the boys didn't
clinch several times during the fight.
Outside of following the boys around
the ring to watch for attractions of