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**a* i }fftOfficers, Directors and Record of Zanesville Club !Red5The officers of the Zanesville Baseball Company of 18Slt; \ were: L. A. Moore, President and Secretary, A. £. Starr,; Iptp-Vice President, and Will Koos. Treasurer. The directors i/Giut wfere: J. C. Rfecton. D. B. Gary, Jr., H. L. Greiner, Fred M. Wash,; Gregg and Charles Blake. From the box scores pasted bv. ^JolJoe Bagiev in his little schedule book it appears that Zancs-j ville and Kalamazoo were the real class of the League in!day won that neither had lost a game so far as the scores are avail- - from theable from the booklet. : Ch^ JZanesville played its opening game on May 2 of that year. lhrPP ru in the capital eitv against Columbus and won by a score of: Tahor's . 21 to 10’. Talk about: sluggers, those Zanesville boys piled inoy and up a total of 2? hits in that game, every player making at ■ least two, and Paddy Welsh, Jack McCann and Jack Ratf-;from lh, erty four each. The local’s line up and batting order was:! ^,.Vfnih )■ Johnston, e.: Welsh, 2b: McCann. If: McVe.v, rf: Barnes; Wilson ’ (later the ss). of; Fry. ss: Colwer, 3b: Rafferty, 2b; Duck, p.i ^'fl ?0 Jack McCann’s hits in that game included a triple and homer. Cohvor. first baseman, may be recalled by old time D-^.no.ri fans as the bov who made three home runs in one game at.! i Kalamazoo that same season. The first series oHhe season ^^-y,, ?:• against Columbus shows the second game tied t-'i and the:“m* it i; other games won by Zanesville by scores of 21 to 10, / toand 9 to 5. iv'uson.a'1; Baseball Sbnq Nof So Developed Then ; Tn!i,,s;i ■ - Bat t r b- -B/Cfc*1 The following lead written by a Columbus sports writer : of that opening game between Zanesville and Columbus in-dicates that later writers have added considerable slangUU'-Mni\ the baseball vocabulary if nothing else: “Columbus vs. •Zanesville at Columbus, May 2—The Columbus fans were-“F,^r struck with horror at the manner in which their pets were wnsjwC/. knocked out by Zanesville in the first championship game.The fact is a “Duck of a boy” (meaning Martin Duck) did jfSZ i j the finest kind of twirling and here was the cause of C{h:^»;, ;| | lumbus’ rout . Zanesville took kindly to ail pitching opposing ■ f \ them and they earned 11 of the 21 runs. The visitors, how-|: .i • ever, were imperfect in fielding, while Columbus did firstri rate.” Nationfi. .'-'The account of the third game is also interesting; “Co-: lt;lllhlumbus never got a show Jo score in the third game withHowZanesville. “The Drake” (also meaning .Martin Duck) put n™t-IliCilpi1*H I his best pitching clothes on, only four hits being made off *' him. His support was also good. Columbus played a wfcak ionon . game generally, Morrison having four errors at short.” .PhmmnDhAmeric; “ l^e Regular Weekly Quiz C; VThe following players were all prominent National I S^'vor*ClubDei roll j ciRvrlitnri^ - Leaguers in 1928. See if you can name their positions and|Cuieaso..... ........ «*.-■ jwashwito■'s' teams correctly and then check with the answers on the £:4 opposite page: (1) Charley Grimm. (2) Hughey Critz. (3)jY -T| t Ernie Orsatti, (4) Tommy Thevenow. (5) Horace Ford. (6) i T Jess Petty, (7) Bill Sherdel, (8) Johnny Gooch, (9) GlennWright, (10) Kiki Cuyler.M;nnr-i\Dol Columbus Louis*. Hie
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Zanesville, Ohio, US
Sun, Aug 11, 1940
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