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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1939 T H E WATCHMAN PAGE SEVEM SPORTS THE SMOKEHOUSE | V By JOE SMOLENSKI } Last Sunday three pitchers stepped on the rttbbtr and delivered th e i r custom a r y th r o w to the catcher — But th a t pitch w a s more significant than the term i n a t i o n of a routine game — It spelled finis for league baseball on t h e w s t e r n term i n u s of Long Island — A few non-league encounters are scheduled, but the competition th a t m a r k s excitem e n t and coveted league leads Is erased for another respite in the annals of baseball — This season has been t h e most exciting from both p l a y e r and spectator standpoint In m a n y races — Both t h e North Shore League and the S o u n d Shore League cham p i o n s w e r e n ' t recog- nJaed until t h e final t i l t of t h e s c h e d u l e ----- Greenport edged out Cut- chogue for the pJnnacle of t h e N. S. L. in its last f r a c a s with South- — New Suffiol'k barely wrested the dais from ManorvUle last S u n d a y by t h e slim margin of 3-2 — Bridgehampton, in the Eastern S u n r i s e “ f r u i t ” society w a s the only t e a m th a t had a ru n a w a y w i t h t h e flag T h e South Side aggregatten finished up the season vrTth t h e margin usually made by t h e New Y o r k Yankees in capturina the American League p e n n a n t — Suppo'rting our contention t h a t t h e E a s t ern Sunrise League Is far inferioT ^o t h e North Shore League lis t h e fact th a t G r e e n p o r t played the W h i t e Eagles In the home n e s t and slapped them with a decisive 6-4 setback for the mythicad Eastern Long Island championship — Rain helped to ring down t h e vcurtain on ail games last Sunday — AH games w e r e momentanily tiaiited to satiate Jupe Pluvius’ p r a n k — Southold played the BroolcTyn Edison outfit and essayed a complete blackout over the light u»Tt — A post m o r t e m of the season reveals th a t the fans w e r e treated to a strict diet of t h r i l l s and the usual a m o u n t of unpubiiclzed breaks th a t occur in a game — Baseball still rem a i n s our favorite game because a t e a m is never beaten until the last m a n is t h u m b e d out. Credit Lines To: Joseph RomanskI for the fine v/ay 'he’s handled th e presidency of t h e North Shore Baseball League despiite the many controversial episodes — A t h a n k l e s s Job open to j i b e s and abuse — Emm o n s Dean for his alw a y s successful and well m a n n e r e d conduct of t h e Greenport Tw i - H g h t League, and the post of th e North Shore League secretary. — Bill Quinn for piloting a poor starter into the pen n a n t — an equally t h a n k l e s s position — Winston Tuthill for accept ing t h e responsibility of t h e Suffolk County Fair athlirtic director and m a k i r ^ one swell job of th e entire program — All m a n a g e r s from here to there for their efforts in promoting sports, t h « greatest p a n a cea for an unneutral mind. The glam o u r boy of s p o r t s is unquestionably the great body co n ta c t game of football — For w h a t other game is toasted with gin bottles, potted co-eds, racoon coats, Idolizing puny Tjespectacled s t u dents, ribald leisure class, and free room, board, and neckw e a r ? Yes sir! It’s a great game and the ooiy place It isn’t subsidized is on the Vassar cam p u s w h e r e the lassies play touch — And we don’t mean touch the old m a n — And even high school coaches, t h e yes men to every board of education, practice the old art of l u r ing strong backs, lot limited to quarterbacks, halfbacks and fullbacks, to their institu tion of learning and required winning athletic team s — Many a boy has been induced to post graduate to i n s u r e a winning team, and thus sacrifice a year of w o r k th a t would perhaps earn him a mortgage on a t u it i o n quid to some college — Most of t h e s e chaps are of mediocre talent and w o u l d n ’t benefit by an extra y e a r ’s training, for they w o u l d n ’t receive an athletic scholarship under any recommendation — However, all this is an accepted fact and the only one to be Jarred by a revelation of t h i s so r t would be A u n t Hattie, who still believes Willie goes to school to enhance his moral character — It can serve only as a preamble to t h e fast approaching gridiron season. Sportpourri: 1939 h a s n ’t yet totally eclipsed, b u t the best bets for the 1940 sport season is for Bridgehampton to cop the Section 5 basketball bunting and Southold to walk aw a y with the baseball treasure — Mattltuck will be ru n n e r up In both sports — This, of course, is t r u e If we look at it from a mathematical standpoint and bars all upsets — Coach Goldsmith has a really wonderful tw i r l e r In Eddie S k w a r a and the lad is destined to break a few records in th e First Settler pitching departm e n t — Keep an optic on the elo n gated moundsmanl — Bridgehampton just can’t miss with the team Coach Williams has* been molding for the past two seasons — Coach Muir has potential threats In his baliwick at t h e local school, but the loss of key men will manifest itself in the final computations — Greenport will have the best football squad in many years, and are due to set back their t r a d i t i o n a l rlveis f r o m the County Seat — Coach W i n Tuthill has a plunging fullback in Messoline, and young P e m berton will continue the old family tradition on the P o r t e r ’s eleven as a backfield ace — Riverhead is the five to watch in Section 2’e basketball race — Je r r y Johnson has practically the sam e crew r e turning — The G r e e n p o r t Rams are almost 100-1 to take the repeat sign In Suffolk County Football League w a r f a r e — T h e y ’ll certainly have to defend themselves to keep from soiling those resplendent red uniforms — Boxing, w e ’re afraid, has died an untimely .death, and after the licking Buddy Chew took in the past few promotions, we doubt If he’ll assemble another card — The huge question m a r k on the horizon is: Will being involved In another World W a r deprive us of these sports? Greenport Nine Wins Mythical Elasterh L. I. Championship <&■ 6-4 Win over Eastern Sun rise League Champs Brings Honors to North Fork Greenport, North Shore League pennant winners, won the mythical baseball championship of Eastern Long Island by tallying twice in the top half of the ninth inning and trouncing the Bridgehampton White Eagles, Eastern Sunrise League champions, by virtue of a 6-4 score. The Quinn gang pushed the first run of the game over in the sec ond inning when C. Goldsmith singled, Keese sacrificed him down to secoryd and Terry drove in the marker. They scored again in the fifth on T. Yastremski’s error of Getclies fly ball, and B. Gold smith’s single. Both runs came across the platter on fielder’s choices by Stanilaus and Cooper. Bridgehampton tied up the score in their seven innings of play by bringing runs in on two hits and an error in the second, S. and J. Kellis scoring. One in the sixth on S. Kellis’ hit, Borkoski's sac rifice and Anitily’s single. The final tally came in 13ie seventh when C. Yastremski walk-ed and romped home by steailing third and Keese’s misplay. Greenport broke the deadlock in the first half of the ninth and won the game as StanHaus singled, Cooper tripled, sending him home, and Salisbury pudaed Cooper over the payoflE disc with a bingle. Conklin started on the mound for Greenport and emerged on the long end of the score. He allowed eight hits and issued five bases on balls. J. Kellis was the losing pitcher. Box score: G r e e n p o r t AB R H E Stanilaus, ss ............. 5 1 2 0 Cooper, cf .......... .... . 5 1 1 0 Salisbury, l b ..... ....... 5 1 2 0 C. Goldsmith, 2b ...... 5 1 1 0 .... . 3 0 2 1 ...... 4 0 2 0 Getches, 3b ....... 4 1 0 0 B. Goldsmith, r f ....... 4 1 1 0 Conklin, p ................ 3 0 2 2 Totals .................. 38 6 13 3 B ridgeham p ton AB R H E S. Yastremski, 3 b ..... 4 0 0 0 Seibek ........................ 1 0 0 0 T. Yastremski, cf ..... 5 0 1 1 C. Yastremski, ss ..... 2 1 1 0 S. Kellis, c ................ 3 1 1 0 J. Kellis, p ................ 4 2 1 0 Borkoski, r f .............. 2 0 1 0 Anitily, lb ................ 4 0 2 0 Kaczenski, 2b ........... 3 0 0 0 E. Seibek, I f .............. 4 . 0 1 T o tals .................. 32 4 8 -1 63 YEAR OLD FO O T B A L L An ancient football, dark with age, is one of the rare trophies on display in the Court of Sport at the New York World’s Fair. A silver plate on the pigskin dis closes that it was won by Yale for defeating Harvard one goal to nothing in a game of rugby on November 18, 1876. DA NGEROU S SKI JUMP The specially treated canvas surface of the ski jump at Sun Valley at the New York World’s Fair is rated far more dangerous than the regulation snow covered jump. Three national and inter national ski champions have been hurt on the jvunp since the fair started. A convenient filing system for flower and vegetable seeds may be made in the Fall by gluinj: together six match boxes, three boxes high and two wide; label each box with the name of the seeds that go in it. To help keep finger nails clean while working in the garden, moisten the finger tips, then fill the nails with the white chalk of a nail-white pencil. An egg beater with four beat ing parts instead of two works more efficiently. SPORTSTARS New Suffolk Takes S. S. L. Championship It was Carl Boergersson day last Sunday as New Suffolk trimmed Manorville 3-2, and won the two' year old Sound Shore League baseball championship for the sec ond year running. Boegersson hit a home run over the left field fence for the win ning run of the game, garnerect two out of his team’s total of four hits, struck out fifteen enemy batsmen, and allowed but four bingles while starring In the de ciding S. S. L. tilt. Manorville and New Suffolk were tied up for the league leading previous to Sunday’s fracas and the game crowned the pennant winner. New Suffolk opened their half of the initial inning by scoring the first run of the game. Joe Smolenski singled to right field, stole second and reached third on an overthrow, later scoring stand ing up on Smith’s grounder to short. Majeski tallied the second time after reaching third on Beek- er’s three ply error, and crossing the plate on Case’s grounder to short in the fourth inning. Boe- gersson’s roimd tripper in the sixth frame provided the winning tally. Manorville scored all their runs in the third inning on three safe ties. Nizza, the first man up at bat, was hit by a pitched ball, advanced to second on Magnani’s single, while successive hits by Murdock and Beeker brought home the first two men. Beeker’s single was a fluke that fell be tween the center fielder and left fielder. The only other man to get on base for Manorville was Murdock while two men were out in the eighth round. Morpeth was the starting and losing pitcher for the Manorville gang. He finished the day by al lowing four hits, passing one man and striking out seven men. The only extra base hit of the game was Boegersson’s four ply blow. Murdock featured the hitting for his team with two safe taps, while Beeker and Magnani each collected one for Manorville’s total of four hits. Boegersson was credited with two hits and Joe Smolenski and Blossick each bin- gled once for New Suffolk’s four hits. Box score: 5-fAR.TEl> fhe i93^seAsow WlfA A 04MC - WIMNiNG HISFHW 3 GAMSS, WAtCH New Suffolk AB R H s J. Smolenski, cf ....... 4 1 1 O' ........ 4 1 2 0 0 0 a 1 0 0 ........ 2 0 0 0 Case, r f ............. ........ 3 0 0 0 Blossick, If ..... ........ 3 0 1 0 B. Smolenski, ss ....... 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 ------ — — ------- ........ 28 3 4 0 Manorville AB R H E ........ 2 1 0 0 ....... 4 1 1 0 Murdock, c .............. . 4 0 2 1 ........ 4 0 1 1 H. Beeker, 3b ........... 4 0 0 0 ........ 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 ....... 2 0 0 0 Mi^chel, 2b ..... 1 0 0 0 ........ 3 0 0 o ------ — ___ . ........ 32 2 4 2 Correct feeding of babies ami mothers of babies is of prime im portance today. Helpful informa tion is given in Cornell bulletiu E-300, and single copies may be had free from the Office of Pub lications, Roberts Hall, Ithaca, N. Y.
