The Monitor-Leader Trailers THURSDAY MAY 28,1942 PAGE 8 25 ABC Checks BonhamHasFlying Hogan, Laffoon Meet llurv l |» Corner for Bath City Start on 30 Games in Cellar in PGA Match Play This it- In Covered Wagon entrenched Yank Reach Craig Wood Tanglei TOP SOFTBALL HURLERS; May self more firmly in the cellar VERNIER, SARVER Total $515.42 of the Twi- an 'Unknown/ of the Blue Division with Mark Last Hung Up Penn Giant night RUTH'S FIRST, LAST HOMERS Local Winnings High light Softball League last | Major League Dix Dean in a Gibson of K.C. APART in '34 by as it lost out to Peschke 20 YEARS Town; inning, 12-11. for Size of wild seventh Affair Tonight May 28— BY JUDSON BAILFY St. Mary’s Sta- ATLANTIC CITY, BY DENNIS BROWN The victory at Gahlau Top Man Asiocialrd Press Sport* Writer a .500 mai k Members of the Bowl-O- ! (>P>—The outstanding match in Ken and Don Vernier. brothers, were dium gave Peschke •LOCAL JOTTINGS: the loss Drome Major League were teams meeting in softball Tues- The most coveted pitching for four starts while the second round of the profes- leadoff men for their respective Among the thousands of cities in a strong cel- reminded again today that topped batting order while goal in the major leagues is 30 put the Trailers sional golfers association champ- day ... Fielder Ken the Merchants’ represented at the A B.C. this in a victories in a season. It is much spot with four losses the loop's banquet will be Don not only led off for Spruce Inn. but pitched them to a year. Mount Clemens must stand lar ionship the sprawling Sea more valuable, and a whole lot like number of times at the post. held this evening at the Den- at victory while getting two doubles and a single at the plate in high any listing winnings ¦¦Rh ~*iL ¦ in of more difficult to obtain, than a Heading into the seventh, marsh Hotel, North River View club today appeared to be four trips. | according to size. no-hitter. held a 10-7 lead, hav- Road, starting at 7:30. the one between Ben Hogan and Vernier and Ed Sarver, incidentally, are leading the loop Peschke For a check on the AB C. after being behind Several sports celebrities earned run averages and hurling effectiveness . The feat hasn’t been accom- ing rallied Ky Laffoon, each of whom has, pitchers in . awards today revealed that Bath Three consecutive are expected to be present at three, and six hits in his plished since Dizzy Dean had his ir. the first. Vernier has allowed rations of three City keglers brought home a bases, how- the afair, at which members in turn, been a seven-day wond- efforts, however, great season for the St. Louis errors loaded the trio of starts ... he lost one of three-hit to will pick up their A. B. C. among country’s big goll | total of $515.42 in prize money, Cardinals in 1934 and it hasn’t ever, and a fourth —on a throw er the Pete Trombley and Sears, when Trombley held Spruce Inn to outfield checks. all but one prize coming in the been done in the American from third ipto the winners in recent years. four blows. minors events. Only team to League since 1931 when Robert let a run in. A single by Henry Sarver’s presence on the mound has given Leander all of Either that or the match be- place was Altes Lager, with a Moses (Lefty) Grove won 31 Duekert added two more tallies He pitched three innings of hitless ball as a re- its victories. i 2730 good for $39. for the Philadelphia Athletics. and Duekert counted on a pass- tween Craig Wood, the National liefer in Leander s opening game, added a one-hit performance After Bob Feller traded his ed ball to give his team a 11-10 Open Champion, and Leland next start and turned in a three-hitter I uesday after hav- Top winner at the Columbus errors Three-Hitter in his baseball togs for a Navy uni- lead. Four of the five in ing bit and allowed six blows in his third start. event was Harry Gahlau, whose Gibson of Kansas City, Mo., who slipped a form last winter there didn’t the seventh were at third. COMING THING? 663 in the singles earned him is little known in big-money TWO-BALL FOURSOMES seem to be a pitcher anywhere Needing one to tie and two foursomes may be the coming thing, if threatened $45.30, top prize for either in- circles but who has been shoot- Two-ball with even a remote possibility to win, Peschke pulled through. Wins for A-W materialize, according to MacDonald, dividual or team among the local golf ball shortages Alex gaining pinnacle this sea- Gerry Bourdage made first on ing more than anybody’s share contingent. picked of the ... players Gahlau up pro-manager at Hillcrest In the two-ball matches, ; next, advanced to third Three-hit pitching by A1 Sah- of golf here. George son—or either. an error and strokes, playing only one ball . Guy half of the $28.73 he and on each side alternate BONHAM, PERHAPS on Ward Conklin’s single, cross- row and perfect hitting and TRUE TO FORM Brown Jr., whose near-daily golfing efforts at Hillcrest this Noteboom collected for a 1163 fielding by shortstop Jerry Con- Yet, Ernie (Tiny) Bonham, ing the plate a minute later on difficulty of a season had been confined to the first 9, tried the backside for in the doubles and won $9 for a ti boosted the A & W boom in That is the big righthanded ace of the New a wild pitch. Then, left-fielder For the ... He’ll play the ; all-events. P. G. A tournament. the first time this week and fashioned a 39 fine 1833 in the York Yankees, apparently has John Barry, who had scored the Junior Softball League last most part the country’s money cart before the horse from now on in, which should serve as 1202 TOPS DOUBLES found the right trail and his three times in three trips up night as the favorite in the Brown and several others for players run true to form. Some- due notice to Gerry Lozen, Ken i Mel Frederick and A1 Glcfke chances look about as good as and had two singles to his cred- youngsters’ loop defeated La- busy baiting hooks at 10 cents a hole. & Groesbeck, thing like 100 professionals from whom Guy is topped the doubles winners Feller's ever did. it, came up and singled between Croix 4-1. The Carleton Indians, member of the Blue Water Softball bagged push every corner of the country with $44 on a 1202 followed by Bonham his seventh third and short to Conk- It was the first game for both League, in which the Fisher Towers girls also play, got straight victory yesterday, 8-3, with the winning started play in the qualifying Andrew Woodarski and Joe lin across outfits and the losers’ escutcheon their name from the old Indian trail which runs through Carle- round three days ago, yet of the Cornish with a $39 check for from the Philadelphia Athletics. count. was not tarnished by the defeat. ton, miles to the west of St. Clair. The crowd at Yankee Stadium, lfi still in there pitching today several their 1192 effort. Twenty-five Lcn Lovalvo, allowing eight They were behind only 2-1 going O where he hadn’t been scored there were only two who might checks were collected by local hits, took credit for the victory into the final frame when a dou- SPORTSTEW: Babe Ruth’s first and last homers in the ma- upon all season, was hoping he he termed outsiders. • | bowlers, lowest being a $5 draft while Henry Duekert was the ble, single and double led to a jors were 20 years apart to the month . He hit his first for would get his fifth shutout. He Peschke, to A1 Glcfke for a 1794 count in losing hurler. For pair of runs. One of them was the afore- the Red Sox on May 6, 1915, and his final on May 25, 1935, missed this, but he pitched an Barry had three for four, Leo the all-events. Dave Smith’s Sole run for losers in mentioned Gibson. The other when he blasted out three—the last his 723rd—for the Boston expert seven-hit game without Sandrowski had two for two, the came , 1820 brought him SB. the fifth after Roy Harms had was ’lorn Harmon of Montclair, Braves. allowing a walk. both singles, and Bourdage had Floyd Frederick's 638 in the doubled, coming home an N. J The other 14 either were Leo Durocher, who pops off at will as manager of the The big fellow is no strike- a pair of doubles in four trips. on er- singles was good for S3O, follow- walk I players who have won their Brooklyn Dodgers, got his nickname of “Lippy” when he was out specialist such as Dean or Blakely's triple was the long- ror. A followed by Jerry by LaCroix with a 629 single share of national headlines in a young rookie just up with the New York Yankees, back in ed Norm Grove or Feller, but his ‘‘fork- est hit of tin* game. Conti’s gave the winners for $26. their first run and Conti’s homer their time or who still dominate 1925..