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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1948
Page
6
Kiwanis defeated Lions 7-4 in an extra game to claim the 1948 Civic softball league championship. The match decided the season after a deadlock at the top, with Briscoe and Young driving Lions runs and Kiwanis answering with timely hitting and fielding errors by Lions.
Delano Park hosts an annual tennis series between the Park team led by City Champion Charles Lindsey and the Decatur Tennis Club. Matches feature Jr. Pearson, J. D. Long, Charles Eyster Jr., Julian Bibb, Shady Terry, G. Couch, Freeman Brothers, Otis Kirby, Malcolm Austell, Rex Rankin, Buster Terry, John Troxler, Ray Edwards, Chillie Green, and Lindsey in singles. No admission charge.
Darleen and Firestone start a best of five city series tonight after White and Tip-Top exit the league. Expected pitcher matchups include Joel Tomlin for Firestone and Scott McClanahan for Darleen as Jericho Palestine history notes a 7000 year habitation trace.
Coaches Ogle and Fuller begin the 1948 season with an 8:00 am practice as uniforms are handed out. Decatur faces a tough schedule and a rebuilding year after losses from the 1947 unbeaten team including Golden Tucker Brewer Braswell and others. Roy Freeman, Wyethery Brewer and Bob Freeman compete for quarterback and backfield roles as Decatur prepares to open the new stadium against Phillips.
Gene Doerflinger of the Carrollton Hornets hurled his 22nd win and set a new league strikeout mark with 228, surpassing the old record by eight as Carrollton beat Alexander City 3-2. Valley also won to stay tied for the league lead at 72-51, while Lagrange and Griffin posted big offensive wins.
In a limited text excerpt Ferguson and Sosh Walker Pasquarella and Johnson are noted among players. The fragment lists linescores for Montgomery and Selma with a final 170 indicating a large margin. Further details are unreadable due to OCR text corruption.
Rebels had ten safety hits and Cham bers homered for Valley in the first frame. Turner collected three hits for Newnan. The Troopers of Lagrange started with a six run lead over Tallas see, lost it in the sixth, then surged with a four run rally. Lagrange booted seven errors amid an 18 hit attack. Sugar Cain hit a grand slam for Griffin in the seventh. The Owns collected nine hits but could not close Griffin’s growing lead as Griffin plated three in the third, three in the fourth, five in the seventh and seven in the eighth.
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