OF JEFFERSON FARMERS AI ()CAIE
SECTION B--SPORTS PAGE
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THUIIS1)AY, A[(,I SI 6, 1959
BY MAX BROWN
THEIR WIVES and friends of the Charle:
Lions Club have chartered two big busses and will
here Saturday afternoon lor Memorial Stadium in
where they will take in the Baltimore Orioles-
Indians game under the lights. There will be
fifty to sixty in the I)arty, Lion officials reported
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qE OF THE REAL highlights of the big Jefferson
Fair here on September 3, 4 and 5, will be the
Senators Mm'derous Fom'some's novelty act
"Salk Shots"... Roy Seivers, Bob Allison, Jim
and Itarmon Killebrew will all be on hand for the
which will be staged Saturday night, the final
of the fair...
CHRISTIAN WRITES from the beach at Ocean
[aryland, "Dear Mr. Brown: Keep the boys under
The newspaper is O. K. and I enjoy it. I see
is doing fine."--Joe...
IRISH CHEVROLET baseball club, one of
top amatuer clubs, will pin their hopes of up-
the Charles Town Legion on the big and ,broad
of Bob Turner. This strong-armed right-hander
in a neat five-hitter decision over strong Leone's
last Thursday 3 to 1... Charlie Irish will
Johnsontown, Pa., on August 11 where they take
the All American Alnatuer Baseball Tournament
on August 12... This ball dub holds the Mmy-
Baseball Association title %r last year...
To Palfe 2-B Turn To 2-B
I Legion Outshgs Boiling Air Force
Batsmen 13-8 In Long, Tiresome Game
The Charles Town American Le had gone to the plate in that
gion baseballers chalked up their frame, It was in this inning that
Jim Moe~hler blasted out two dou-
13t,h victory of the season Sunday bles.
afternoon as against two setbacks After this run barrage t:he Air-
when t:hey outslugged t~he Bolling men settled down and held the
Air Force Base club on ,the Leg- Legion to a sl;~gle run the rest of
ion field by a 13-8 score in a game the way. but the damage had al-
Which saw a little bit, of every- ready been done.
thing, a;nd one Which almost end- I A total of 12 errors, seven by
ed before it was well underway,it,he Airmen and ,five by t~he Leg-
As a matter of fac,t only some )ion made the game one of the
quick diplomatic maneuvering by/most erratic ones to be played in
Legion Business Manager James
(Jimmy) ;Morison, kept t~he game Charles Town this season.
from end,ing after the third frame After that four run second
when Belling Air Force objected
to a base umpire's decision.
The scoring fireworks started in
the very first frame with the Boll
ing batsmen pushi,ng over a run
wit'h their first time at bat on a
walk and two errors, one by Doyle
and the other by R. Jamison. As a
matter of fact, in this fra,me big
John Goff struckout the side.
In tqhe bottom of the first fr,ame
Charles Town got that run back,
plus Uhree to bargain to take a 4-1
lead. It was the bat of Doyle
which proved to be t'he big blow,
as he doubled with the bases load
ed and then later scored on a sin-
gle by Prankie ~a,lalli, w,ho had
taken over t'he right field spot in
the absence of Wimpy Zombro.
Then in the top of ,the second
frame after one was out, John
Ooff was safe a,t first when base
umpire Jack Eby ruled that first
baseman Russell of 0he Air Force
dropped a relay from the third
baseman. It was t,his call which
t~he Air Force batsmen pro¢es,ted
vigorously and when they got no
saris,faction t'he team manager
called his players from t,he field.
After much discussio;] the Air
Force manager relented and put
his team back on the field. But
~this was only t'he beginning of
trouble for the Airmen as the Leg
ion trhen went ,to work on Mindick,
t'he starting Bolling pitcher and
sen,t 'him to the showers. They
the,n continued t:heir a~t¢ack a-
gainst Wilson until eigh,t runs had
been scored and 12 Leg,ion batters
frame by the Airmen, Jo,hn Goff.
former WVU mound star, held the
visitors scoreless until t~he sixth
whe,n Rudy Holmes homered to
drive in two runs. Then in the
seventh the Airmen scored two
more as the result of Cook's trip-
le'Then Bucky Bolyard came on to
relieve Goff and shut out the Air-
men in the eighth and nint~h
frames.
Jim Moehler was the big gun
for the Legion with two doubles
and two singles i,n four times at
bat, while Bucky Bolyard had
three hits in four trips to the
plate.
The boxscore:
BOLLING AIR FORCE AB R H
Reinhart, rf ............ 4 2 0
Rogers, cf ............ 5 0 2
Russell, lb ............ 5 0 0
Holmes, ss ............. 4 1 1
Bryan, c .............. 5 1 0
Noll, 2b ................ 5 1 1
Kitchings, If ............ 4 2 2
Cook, 3b .............. 4 0 2
Mindick, p ............ 1 1 0
Wilson, p .............. 1 0 0
Totals ..... i ........ 38 8 8
LEGION AB R H
R. Jamison, 3b ........ 3 2 1
Bond, 2b ............... 5 2 1
Miller, If .............. 5 1 1
Moehler. lb ............ 4 2 4
Ramey, lb .............. 1 0 0
Doyle, ss .............. 1 1 1
B. Bolyard, ss, p ........ 4 1 3
L. Bolyard, ef .......... 4 1 0
Like Father-Like Son-
Dennis Kirk, seven-year-old son of the veteran jockey Woody Kirk,
reports to the clerk of scales prior to a recent race at the Charles
Town Race Course which launched it's 54-day meeting here on
July 13. (Photo courtesy Bob Elmer, Charles Town track.)
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P~anall£ rf ............4 2 2 ]Dodson. c .............. 0 0 0
MalaChuk, c ...........4 1 1 I Turn Ta 2-B
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Maryland Amateur Champions Will Tr
To Break Legion's Six-Game Win
From all the glowing reports
coming out, of Baltimore this week
the Oharles Town Legion baseball
club will be facing quite a task
here Sunday in an effort to co,q-
tinue t:heir present six-game win-
ning streak when they face the
formidable Charlie hish Chev-
rolet team h'.am that city.
The overall season record to
date for Charlie Irish is 3a wins
and 7 losses. They play in four
leagues and have ah'eady won .the
Maryland Amateur c,hampionship
by pos, ting a 9 a;~d 1 mark in the
iBi-County league. By winning this
title t;hey will represent the MABA
]in the All American Amateur Base
ball Association tournament in
Johnstown, Pa. starting on August
12.
, One of t'he team's top players
is Mike Elliott, the shortstop, who
was selected to represent U'~e City
!of Baltimore i:] the 19th annual
Hearst newspapers All-Star game
in Yankee Stad um in New York
on August 18th. He ix said to be
by far, t;he most out
