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THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1938 T H E WATCHMAN PAGE NINE SPORTS HITS, RUNS AND ERRORS By JOE SMOLENSKI Lights! Camera! Action! “Glare It Goes” or \There's Lights In Your Eyes,” a striking innovation in East End baseball pictures, will soon be exhibited in th e s e ' proMfic sports environs.. .. . It w:!j be a North Shore Baseball LeagUd p^dtentation released by rchedule agree ment and made possible through“sm, early season bit of co-operation by Jupiter Pluvlus . , . James Gagen, niahager df the SdUthold village nine, in sole charge of production . . . Directed by John Binns in collaboration with Jam e s Gagen . . . Continuity and script by the National Professional Baseball Rules . . . Starring the baseball aggre gations of Cutchogue and Southold . . . With a supporting cast of two impartial arbiters . . . The extravaganza will b|e screened on the Southold diamond . . .. Something new and something different on Long Island’s supple left thigh . . . With baseball as common as the plaintive appeals of frantic businessmen, and the novelty of bank night, screeno and lucky acquiring a shabby appearance, it takes a daring deviation such as night baseball under floodlights to draw the tariff paying public . . . Southold, always alert, will install a one night stand of mazda brilliance to-play the rained out contest with Cutchogue . . . A mobile power unit from the metropolitan area will provide the setup for the game at a flat rate of one hundred strips of Uncle Sam’s ne gotiable verdancy . . . No definite date has been selected but the affair will transpire in the very near future .. . . When motoring through Southold don’t be enthralled by a phenomenon of Northern Lights—it will merely be an artificial creation by electrical means . . . No small wonder Southold has a championship team—those with ideas that trespass the periphery of one’s tongue usually are tops . .. . Come boys, doff your chapeaux to Jim Gagen and company. « « « * SPORTPOURRI: Gilles, of Mattituck, pitched one of the best games of the season when he shaded Shelter Island 2-1 . . . The North Shore League is becoming big league conscious, the potent bats in the River- head-Mattituck game boomed, a chorus of three circuit blows . . Gilles, Luciano and Troyan each propelled a round t r ipper . . . Green- port received a severe jolt in being set back in two tussles by Center Moriches . . . Now we realize why Bud Warner wanted the West End chaps out of the league . . . Southold continues with a heigh-ho a t t i tude by winning another . . . The mind of Fate must be single tracked . . . First Southold, North Shore League leaders, are toppled by C u t chogue, and now we find New Suffolk suffering the same sting by being bested by Wading River . . . However, the fisher lads still lead the Sound Shore League parade . . . Mattituck. climbp another-rung in their company by virtue of the holiday victories . . Jernick, of South- old, is pounding the old pill unmercifully . . . Ditto Smith, formerly with Cutchogue, now with New Suffolk . . • The Cutchogue cavorters are sporting new jackets . . . The troupe from Cutchogue is ace high in sportsmanship . . . Win, lose or draw, we never hear a moan or a bleat from the fellows . . . They’re out to play for the sport derived. * * * * OFF T H E BAT: Joe Chick's pet aversion is tennis . . . Last Fourth found him on the Mattituck courts with (?) it wasn’t his sister, anyway , . . Why, daddy? Mattituck firemen capture two ribbons in firecracker parade at Riverhead . . . Ball players are akin to sailors . ; . On off days they watch other t e a ms compete . . . Rybla, of East Marion, clouts the apple with too much natural ability . . . Strange other league teams haven’t approached him . . . New Suffolk's disputed game with the down easters will be played as a twilight feature . . . From Gatz to Gatz to Gatz is the fielding order of the Riverhead nine . . . It’s almost a hundred to one that Jim Gagen throws Marty Shipuleski in the pen against Cutchogue in’ the night game . . . Larry Carroll is new pub licity man for the North Shore League . . . T h a t fellovv can quote every rule in t h e baseball bible from memory . . . He is also treasurer of the same outfit . . . Smith, New Suffolk’s right hander, pitching his first game since being socked in the dome by Hogan’s line drive in the Cutchogue-Riverhead game, set back the Farmers with four hits and collected two bingles . . . The Riverhead Rotary Club is doing the most for young athletes in t h a t community in promoting a league . . . There is competition for those from nine to ninety . . . Coach Jerry Johnson, Rev. Charles MacLean and President Lewis C. Austin are behind the venture . . . W h a t has happened to softball playing in Mattituck and surrounding villages? . . . Come on, you merchants, get the kinks out of your backs. # * * * SPORTSCENE: W h a t are you summer visitors doing in the sports line? Tennis and boating find as much favor with us as any other muscle builder . . . Send in your contributions . . . The North Fork Country Club should sponsor a tennis t o u r n a ment . . . There is some fancy talent in these parts in that department . . . Founders Landing at Southold is the scene of much nautical activity . . . Other spots are still to gain momentum . . . Why doesn’t Camp Molloy challenge the Mattituck nine to an exhibition game? . . . T h e ' St. John’s football toasers found the latter a suitable training ground a few years back, and I imagine the boys there now are of the same calibre . . . Inde pendence Day commemorates our freedom from the yoke of England's dominance, but as yet no remedial measures have been found for sub- fidization of athletes . . . Some of it is so petty it evokes laughter . . . Another school term terminates for most athletes and they are given a brief respite from the rigors of winding eight day clocks and filling salt •hakers . ■ - One gentleman athlete plays for four eighty per session . . . There must be something radically wrong with Shelter Island . . . The present slump is beyond understanding . . . Ruland, an unfinished produc': of Cornell, is playing bang-up ball for Mattituck . . Henry Cantelmi seems to be a magnetic attraction for the old horsehide pellet . . . He was hit by another pitched bail . . . Must be some sort of • record. M a t t i t u c k T a k e s R i v e r h e a d A n d S h e l t e r I s l a n d S u n . - M o n . STANDING NORTH SHORE LEAGUE Sotithold ........................ 11 6 .786 Center ^Moriches ........ 7 4 .636 Greenport ..................... 8 5 .615 Riverhead ..................... 6 6 .500 Mattituck ...................... 5 5 .500 Shelter Lsland ............. 3 S .273 Cutchogue .................... 1 10 .091 RESULTS NORTH SHORE LEAGUE Sunday, July 3 14 Cireenport ................ C\itehogue 9 2 Mattituck ......... Shelter Island 1 G Southold ................... riiverheatl 5 2 Riverhead ................... Southold 1 Monday, July 4 8 Mattituck ................. Riverhead 7 12 Southold ........... Shelter Island 9 8 Center Moriches . . . Greenport J. 2 Center Moriches . . . Greenport 1 Games Next Week Sunday, July 10 Mattituck at Southold Greenport a t Shelter Island Cutchogue a t Center Moriches (2 games) Wading River Scores Upset Over New Suffolk 7-3 By FRANK DAWSON W a d i n g River scored the most surp)i;lsing upset of the Sound Shore League when they defeated New Suffolk 7-3 in a game played at W a d i n g River. Although Suffolk garnered ten hits off the slow hooks of Horton, they could not bunch their hits and left twelve runners stranded on the base paths. Bergoesson, of Suffolk, pitched his usual crafty game, but was the victim of a bad break in the ninth, when W a d i n g River scored five unearned runs to give him his tlrat setback of the year. J. Muller, with two singles and a double, was the bad man of W a d ing River, while Smith, of Suffolk, continued his steady hitting with three singles in four tries. Papurca and J. Muller gained the cheers of the crowd when they cut off certain hits by some sensational fielding. New Suffolk Takes Riverhead Farmers 9-3 .. By FRANK DAWSON New Suffolk added the Riverhead Farm e r s to their list of defeated victims when they trounced them 9-3, in a Sound Shore League con test last Sunday at Riverhead. The win gave Suffolk the distinction of being the first team in the league to defeat all their opposition at least once. “Tiny Jim ” I’ugsley started, for New Suffolk, but three quick hits forced him to give way to Smltli. who pitched four hit l)all for the remaining 8 2-3 innings and hung up his first victory of the year. Bergen, of the Farmers, pitched fairly good l>all until the fourth, when ten men came to bat and gathered a total of live runs off his delivery. The Farm e r s scored two in the first and one in the seventh and presented a dying rally in the ninth when they loaded the bases, but Smith’s fast ball was equal to the occasion, and S. Okula went down swinging for the final out. The Farm e r s felt the wrath of the umpire in tlie eighth, when Grodski ejected Blasko for his loud protest of a third strike. Now in Fifth Place; Tied With Riverhead After Holi day Win; Carelle Goes the Whole Game St. Stanley’s Lose 2 Over Week-end Results SOUND SHORE LEAGUE Sunday, July 3 9 New Suffolk ............ Riverhead 3 14 East Marion .. W a d i n g River 0 2 Cutchogue ............... Manorville 8 Monday, July 4 7 Wading River .. . New Suffolk 10 Manorville .......... Kast Marion 7 Riverliead 3 4 (’utcl)ogue 4 Standings SOUND.SHORE LEAGUE .Manorville East .Marion ................ After the two defeats of the past week-end, the St. Stanley’s can still be consoled by the fact -that the best ball team has its slumps. Even a first place unbeaten team is sub ject to defeat by a cellar team, ex amples of which we have had in both leagues. On .luly 3 Manorville ran rough shod over Cutchogue to the time of 13-0 at Manorville. The St. Stanley's hoys seemed to have diffi culty in connecting with the ra w hide pellet twirled at them by M o r peth of the Manorville aggregation, which played errorless liall and hit freely, accumulating fourteen hits. GradoAv.ski accounted for two of Cutchogue’s four hits. Cutchogue was the victim of the Riverhead Farm e r s on July 4 at Cutchogue. The first inning proved to be a slugging festival for both teams, eight men coming to bat for tlie Farm e r s and seven for St. S t a n ley’s. For the remainder of tlie game both pitchers twirled sim ilarly, Okula fanning nine and al lowing six hits, and Demohuk fan ning seven and allowing seven hits. Errors made by Cutchogue at cru cial moments of the game were largely responsible for its defeat. Todrlck of Cutchogue, and Bergen w . L. Pet. and Danowski of Riverhead led in 0 1 ,Sfi7 the hitting department with two 4 3 .571 hits each. 4 3 .571 3 4 .428 I'ncle Ab says that prosi)erity 3 4 .428 makes work; but it is more true 1 *> .112 that work makes Iirosperit;/ The Mattituck town team put on a mild display of fireworks last Sunday afternoon as they skyrock eted to higher altitudes in the North Shore League by exploding two runs in Shelter Island’s face to win l)y a 2-1 score. Sunday’s game wa.s undoubtedly one of the finest from a defensive, standpoint. Both Gilles, of M a t t i tuck, and Porter, of .Shelter Island, twirled a beautiful game. Each man allowed but four hits to m a r his record. Porter got out of con trol in the first inning by hitting two men and allowing a single. Mattituck’s tallies came in the 'first and the sixth innings. In the first the initial run was scored when Ruthinowski singled, and ad vanced over the plate on two suc cessive bad throws by the pitcher which hit the batters, and a field er’s choice. The sec(^nd and w i n ning marker came in the sixth frame as Bullock, Luciano and Gil les singled. Shelter Island’s lone run wa.<i scurried across the plate when P o r ter grounded to Ruthinowski, which the latter fumbled, and scored on Nlchol’Si single. Shelter Island failed to get more than one hit in any inning of the ball game. Mattituck committed two mis- plays in the course of t h e tilt but redeemed themselves by taking ad vantage of the breaks and bunch ing three hits in the sixth inning to cap the tussle. Gilles maintained perfect control by forcing the bats man to ground out to the Infield and with the exception of the four hits no balls were batted to the outfield. M a t ti t u c k ’s holiday game was aptly celebrated with bangs to all positions of the diamond as three homers were poled to feature the fanfare which terminated with the locals on top by virtue of an 8-7 score. Garelle went to the mound for Mattituck and pitched the full route. He gave up a dozen bingle.s, threw wild once and issued one pas.s. Bush went eight innings for ■ the Riverhead gang and was mauled for a total of nine hits. He was relieved by Johnson in the eighth chiilker when Alattituck pounced on him for three runs. 'I'lie (^ounty Seaters paced the way for eight frames, when M a t tituck snapped out of their coma and three hits and a misplay scored three runs which decided the fra cas. They manufactured one run in the second inning on a walk and a single, four in the big sixth when (Continued on Page 12) BASS SEASON OPENED FRIDAY E A S T E N D F I S H I N G C L U B W I L L D I N E A T J I M ’S A dinner meeting of the East E n d ^ ------------------------------------------------------- Surf Fishing Club and the Fresli will give an illustrated talk on his Water Unit will be held at Jam e s recent trip. A short picture of Albin’s Restaurant, Main road, ! special interest to fresh water fish ermen will also bfe .shown. The committee in charge includts Al bert Silkworth, chairman; Mutt Mittltuck, on 'I'hursday evening, luly 14, at 7:30 p. m. Prof, P, H, Wessels of the Long Island Vegetable Research Farm ' Smith and Everett Brown. The open season for bass fisliing on Long Island opened last Friday, and despite the fact tliat there id a limited area of fresh water avail- .;ble for the anglers of the bronze- baiks, there are plenty of lakea a,nd ponds in Suffolk (’ounty where the fishing enthusiasts may try their skill against the wily bass. Allii'rt Silkworth has all the dope on Long Island bass fishing ground.'i and can give you all the informa tion needed al) 0 ut where and I k j w til go. He kn(<ws a lot of the best spots that will produce a good day’s sport and he is always read y and willing to Impart this infor mation.
