FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1939

"Wildcats Capture

 

  

. Lead

 

Down Tigers, 18-15.
In Feature Game;
Three Contests Left

By Dave Shirk

The Big Six National Softball League has taken a new form in the team
standing after the games played this week. The Wildcats under the leader-
ship of Lawrence Stanton have taken the lead. The Tigers are hot on the
tails of the leaders, being only one game short of the top berth. The windy
Cyclones are still in the money with four wins and three losses. The Corn-
huskers have a three won, four lost standing. The Sooners are on the
down-grade, having lost their last five games. The hard luck Jayhawkers
broke into the winning column by defeating the Sooners 17 to 11 Wednesday.
The unlucky Jayhawkers will be causing the rest of the league plenty of
Htrouble before the season is over.

Wild@its: The Wildcats -came

 

TEAM STANDING

W L_ Pet.; through both their games this week

Wildcats. (2 = = 6 1 .857 | with flying colors after playing two
sbigeRG = a 5 2 .714| of the strongest. teams of the league.
ee srnttresastecene- ; : =. In their game Monday they won an
Sooners ee: 2 5 286 easy victory from the Cyclones by a
Jayhawkers .....__ 1 6 .143 | score of 8 to 3 and came back Wed-
are nesday to take the Tigers share of the

lead by defeating them 18 to 15. By
bumping off the Tigers the Wildcats
have all claim to the top position.
Willie Keeler, Alvin Emch, Art
Lawrence, and Dean Nesmith led the
Wildcats in their game with the Ti-
gers by all batting 1000 per cent, The
battery for the ’Cats was Johnny Ho-
cevar and Art Lawrence doing the
pitching, with Pitts doing the catch-
ing for both games.

Tigers: The Tigers are runner-up,

 

gers 6 to 12;-and the other to th
Jayhawkers 11 to 17. Mosser an
Florel doing the pitching, with Prit
chard doing the catching. Capt.
Paul “Stoner” Masoner in his game
with the Tigers knocked the longest
fly ball of the season for a four-bag-
ger with nobody on base. ;

Jayhawkers: The hard luck team
dropped a close game Monday to the
Cornhuskers by a score of 12 to 13,
but came back Wednesday to break
their record by beating the Sooners
17 to 11 to give them a place in the
winning column. James Miller, the
little blonde-headed outfielder for
the Jayhawkers, has proven him-
self as good as any outfielder in the
league hy catching anything that
comes in his territory. The battery
for the’ Jayhawkers were Harold
Reade pitching and Roberts doing
the catching. 7

Cyclones: The Cyclones split their |
two games this week, losing their |
| game Monday to the Wildcats by a;
Score of 3 to 6, and coming back Wed-
nesday like a “cyclone” to beat the
Cornhuskers 8 to 3. Joe “Lefty”
Wilkerson doing a swell job of ball
hurling. The other half of the bat-
tery, Kenneth” Senter, doing his
ishare of the hitting and leading his
team and perhaps the league in
chatter. The Cyclones are not to be
overlooked until the final whistle
has blown. With a fine hitting team
and the league’s outstanding pitcher
they should finish near the top.

Cornhuskers: The Huskers also

 

 

for the week. The striped cats took) SPlit their games this week, by beat-
an-easy_one from the Sooners, only| ing the Jayhawkers Monday 13 to
to be beaten Wednesday by League 12 and losing their Wednesday game
leaders by a score of 18 to 15. The to the Cyclones by a score of 3 to 8.
Tigers gave the Wildcats a terrific Bill Fitzgerald, a newcomer to the
scare in the first inning with every Big Six National Softball League, is
man having a turn at bat and’ scor showing the rest of the teams that it
|ing 8 runs. The Tigers had to give 18 useless to try to get a hit through
way to the chattering Wildcats ir) him. The battery for the Cornhusk-
the third inning and were unable tc €?S, Bobby Allen and Capt. Fred
catch up with them. The batters} King took their turns on the rub-
for the Tigers were Ebelke and An-| ber, with Rusty Frink doing all the
drews. taking turns on the mound) catching. :
| with Blowey doing a fine job behind Sooners: The Sooners are on the
the plate in both games, downgrade having lost five straight

 

| 8ames. This week they dropped both
games by losing the first to the Ti-'