BASEBALL
SPOTLIGHT
By “Nosey”
It looks as if the Hammon team
is going to be the only unbeatable
aggregation in the league by the
time the series ends. Playing
heads up baseball last night, they
trimmed' the Huskies to the tune
oi 10 to 6, excelling in nearly
every department (including the
umpiring), over the opposing
teem.
Allah be praised! The Commer
cials finally won another game,
despite the concerted action on
the part of ostracized members of
the children of Israel from the
land of the true believer, in the
rooting sections. Between the
antics and mistaken beliefs that
Nosey and Snozzle were mem
bers of the Commercial team, on
the part of one delirious Jacobite,
and the spree of hitting and run
ning on the part of the Alaskans
the crowd had plenty of action
to witness as the Alaskans came
from behind an 11 to 1 lead to
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1 tie and set up another lead of 2
which the Commercials were kind
of lucky to overcome and win the
the game in the seventh canto.
Despite the heady baseball play
ed by the Hammon team, they
didn’t have a bed of roses when
I they took the Huskies. To my
j way of looking at it, the Husk
ies threw away their chances
many times to get scores by
several members of the team
pulling bonehead plays, such as
the Husky second baseman play
ing with dynamite by trying to
steal second base on the Hammon
catcher. He got out between the
bases and danced a little jig for
a few second and then made a
futile effort to slide to second but
it was a cinch throw and out to
j second from the plate.
With three umpires on the
I floor last night, Harry Hagen be
ing the new addition, you’fl'
think nothing very serious could
take plaice, but as usual one of
them went to sleep and called a
a man safe at home, when he was
out. The worst of it was, the
ump wasn’t even looking at the
play, but was changing his ‘thing,
amagig’ on which he keeps his
balls and strikes.
And then there’s the case
where one of the umps called a
runner out at second when the
baseman dropped the ball and
the runner was lying on it. But
that’s all in the game, and the
fellows ’ll have to put up with
it in the interests of good ‘sports
manship’.
Did the Huskies pull a pretty
I double play last night and catch
I the Hammon catcher loafing
down to third? I’ll say they did.
He waited for the play for first
on thse batted ball and then
dreamily coasted toward third.
The throw to first was fast and
caught the runner. The throw to
third was twice as fast and the
runner didn’t even slide, the base
man putting it on him in time
to make the out.
And while I’m talking about
spectacular plays let me draw
your attention to a terrific drive
which the Hammon pitcher snag
ged with one hand. The ball
1 .-_
I
hit his hand with a smack & gent
ly drifted down his arm, as he
hugged it for a perfect catch. Ho
said it wasn’t any accident but
it looked pretty lucky at that.
Saw several other drives hit ]
to fielders and they stuck to them
j like glue—mostly I think, be_ j
cause they didn’t quite realize
they had the ball.
Of all the funny games the sec
ond game last night which the
Commercials stole by a score of
14 to 13, took the cake. The Com
mercial pitcher was going great
guns for the first three innings
and then went sky high until
the Alaskans overcame a 11 to j
1 lead. The Alaskan team knock
ed in twelve runs during the
last six innings while the Com- I
mercials didn't get a run after [
they set up the 11 to 1 lead, un-j
til their last bats, when they got j
three runs to win, and didn’t i
have to finish the inning.
—
I got a kick out of the rooting
last night with many new faces
shining around the gallery. ‘Oh
please won’t you hit the ball’
one ardent fan beseeched. And
] right along side of that rooter
sat one who moaned and howled
‘you can’t hit it: take him out’.
It brought to mind the occurr
ence when one of the long nosed
gentry had his megaphone taken
away from him by two salwart
Hammon players in a recent
game. The aforementioned root
er pleaded very earnestly not to
be deprived of his voice, and a
regular scrap took place much to '■
the enjoyment of the crowd.
It seems I can never make my
prediction a hundred percent. I
I
was right on the Commercials
but wrong on the Hammon. The
Hammon still lead the league
with a perfect score and only two
games remaining to be played.
If the Alaskans and the Com. |
mercials can defeat them in the !
last two games, they can even i
the series. As it is now, the Ham j
mon lead, second place is held;
by both the High School and the j
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