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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 11, 1949)
THURSDAY. AUGUST 11. 1949 BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT. BROOKINGS. OREGON Pelicans Come Nearer Pennant In 16-11 Win Over Butte Falls On Local Diamond League Standings Team Won Lost Pct.\ Brookings ..... .... 9 1 .900 7 Butte Falls ... 3 .700 Glendale ♦♦ ... ..... 6 3 .666 Cave Junction .... 5 3 .625 Eagle Point * ..... 5 5 .500 Merlin ............ .... 1 9 .100 Rogue River ♦ .... 0 9 .000 (*) does not include game of July 31. **) does not include games of July 31 and Aug. 7. the eighth, Salvage was on his way to duplicate the job in the ninth. While two men were on and two were out, a batter hit a sharp grounder to Salvage, which hit him in the chest. Ho lost the ball, and in the shuffle, two runs crossed the plate. The last man fanned. Butte Falls ab r h po a D. Steph-’n, ss....5 0 2 1 2 1 6 2 3 2 0 1 West cf ...... 1 0 Baker, p .... 6 0 1 Tungate, c 4 0 1 8 0 0 Ellis, rf, 3b 4 1 0 0 0 0 O. Steph’n, 2b... 0 3 0 3 4 0 O’Donnell, 3b.ss 5 1 2 0 0 0 5 2 2 2 0 0 Tygart, If Rogers, 1 b 2 7 1 3 Berg, rf ... 1 0 1 0 0 0 By scoring in every inning, and by being able to withstand all Butte Falls attempts to keep in the game, Sunday, the Brookings Pelicans came a step closer to the pennant in Rogue River Val ley league, Sunday, by beating the highly-touted visitors, 16 to 11, Totals 41 11 14 24 8 in about the wierdest game played * ♦ this season, despite opinions to Brookings ab r h PO a the contrary. Matson, ss ........ 5 3 3 0 4 0 Reason for this statement on Spangler, 2b .... 5 0 4 3 1 0 the part of this writer may be R. West’k, 3,rf 6 1 0 0 recalled by the extremes with Hanscam, cL........ 5 3 4 1 0 which the game progressed. Any Desjardin, c .... 3 1 0 5 0 0 number of sparkling fielding at Ackley, lb ........ 4 2 14 2 0 tempts were made, and on the Putnam, rf ........ 5 1 0 1 0 0 other hand the game was a com- Nelson, If .......... 3 0 0 1 0 9 medy of errors. Eagles, 3b ........ 2 2 1 2 1 0 H. West’b, p ... 2 2 1 0 6 0 Wi h d Ha mpered Fieldei s Salvage, p ...... J 2 1 0 0 0 While the wind, Sunday after noon was not violent in the wid Totals 42 16 16 27 15 2 est stretch of imagination, it did hamper fielders, especially on fly Scoring by innings: balls for many misjudged flies Butte Falls 130 021 202—11 went for hits which would ordi Brookings 323 111 23x—16 narily have been caugl t. Three home runs were chalked up by Summary: Runs batted in: D. both teams. Under ordinary cir Stephenson 5, West, Baker, O’ cumstances, these might not have Donnell 2, Tygart, Rogers, Mat- gone for more than doubles. son 3, Spangler 2, Hanscam 3, Ackley 3, Westbrook 3; 2-base Butte Falls Wanted Game It was evident at the very out- hits: West, Tungate, Hanscam; set that Butte Falls expected ro 3-base hits, Rogers; Home runs: duplicate their previous win over West, Matson, Hanscam; Sacri BrooKings. After the first man fice: Desjardin; stolen bases: El went out on a ground ball to tnp lis 2, O’Donnell, Tygart, R. West infield, a walk and a hit batter brook, Ackley, Eagles; Left on put a man on third and he came bases: Butte Falls 10; Brookings in on an infield out. Brookings 8; Bases on balls: off Westbrook made sure that Butte Falls real ized they were in a ball game by pushing over three in the first inning. Matson popped out, then Spangler singled, stole second. Westbrook walked and was driv en in by Hanscams double. After Desjardin fanned. Ackley drove in Hanscam. Butte Falls went ahead in the top of the second on a wild pitch after the first man walked and three successive singles to score three. Brookings, again show’ed Butte Falls by going ahead, when Nelson and Westbrook walked advanced on a sacrifice, and scored on on Spanglers second hit. Butte Falls were blanked m the third and fourth, while the Pelicans added four more, never to be seriously threatened again. In the fifth, after two were out, two walks and a two-base hit gave Butte Falls a brace of runs. Almost the same thing hap pened in the sixth inning, after two were out, a 2-base hit, and three successive singles added a pair more. In the fifth and sixth Brook V". ings added a run each inning, each by home runs, one by Matson and the other by Hanscam. In the seventh after two were out, and one had scored, Salvage replaced Westbrook and put out the fire without any ado. Brookings put a pair more in their score column that inning and three more in the eighth. After blanking Butte Falls in The World's Best Climate 5, off Salvage 1; off Baker 5- strikeouts: Westbrook 3, Salvage 1, Baker 8; Earned Runs: off Westbrook 9; off Salvage 2; off Baker 11; 9 runs, 11 hits off West brook in 6 2/3 innings; 2 runs, 3 hits off Salvage in 2 1/3 innings. Umpires: Craig and Abbott. Time 3 hours and 5 minutes. Batting Averages Player Matson .......... Eagles ............ Hanscam ....... Mendenhall .... Ackley ........... H. Westbrook Spangler ....... Desjardin ..... Swearingen Putnam ......... R. Westbrook Nelson ........... Salvage ......... Team Average, 13 games which Crescent City Merchant; make up a team, will match strength against the Pelicans in a two-best-out-of-three series. A game will be played at Crescent City, with the second at Brook ings. The third game, if necessary, will be played at Crescent City. The Merchants, as far as their league play is concerned, had a poor season. The Pelicans have Pct. a desire to beat them. .577 .500 .467 .429 .417 .407 Mrs. Lillian Zumpfe was hos .356 tess at a pot luck luncheon held .333 .333 at her home, Saturday, August .255 6, for Chetco Home Extension unit officers, their agent and 4-H .219 leaders. .214 Originally planned as a beach .200 affair, the meeting was held in- .373 New HDA Visited Area Last Saturday PAGE THREE doors because of the weather. Ex tension and 4-H work were discussed with the new agent, Dorothy Newton. Attending were Mrs. Lillian Zumpfe, unit Chairman; Mrs. Lil lian Weideman, vice-chairman: Mrs. Marjorie Moore, secretary treasurer; Mrs. Elsie Schultz, a guest of Mrs. Moore; Mrs. Polly Clendenin and Mrs. Dorothy Lock land, 4-H leaders; Mrs. Grace Yelton, county committee mem ber, Miss Dorothy Newton, home demonstration agent, and Mrs. Al- dene Aho, retiring home demon stration agent. rhe local Odd Fellows lodge is staging another dance Saturday night at their hall, to heli) raise funds for paraphenalia. Adver tising has been placed around the community. At Cave Junction Next Sunday The Pelicans will travel to the lair of Cave Junction, Sunday, to play the second and return game[ with that group, which they had no particular trouble downing in the first half of the season. The following Sunday, Rogue River is i due here for their first appear-1 ance on the local diamond. Rogue River has yet to win one of its league games. The Rogue River game will close the league season according to* Pete Lesmeister. FOR SALE 2x4, S4S, Suitable for Rafters or Studdings $25.00 Crescent City Merchants Due After close of the season for 1he Southern Oregon League, of FOR BIDS Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will receive sealed | bids to and including September , 6th, 1949, at the office of the I County Clerk of Curry County, for the conversion of our wood furnace to oil furnace and in stalling fuel tank. The right to reject any and all bids is hereby reserved. County Court, Curry County. Oregon, By Oleta A. Walker, A4-11 Clerk. Per 1000, Delivered In unit lots! SWAN Lbr. @. | Brookings f» N Oregon K in Quarts ...stock up for the week-end with smooth, refreshing Sicks’ Select in quarts... the thrifty way to buy beer. _ J / Wc$ ' ■ j/o * SICKS’ BREWING COMPANY ■’ SALEM,OREGON
