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lt;•*McManus and Legg Listed WithRookies Scheduled to Remain♦Gors ( Ecdes Wins Butto Form Battery inOpenerManager Eli Harris announced this morning that the axe-swinging will start with a vengeance after this afternoon's practice session at H. M. I. park and whenthe wholesale elimination ends the squad will be down to the 16players who will be available for the opener here Thursday night against the Bluefield Blue-Grays.The starting lineup portion of the squad to be retained was announced by Harris this morning, with the exception of two countyhave apparentlyGame ProtestedByItuciHardware Team Claimsl in 1 of tItInterference by TheFansleaguers who made the grade, at least temporarily.Tickets On SaleTickets for the opening game tomorrow night were placed on sale today at the Beekley Drug store on Main street. Grandstand tickets for men will be fifty-five cents, women thirty-five. Bleacher tickets willbe thirty five for all.Complimentary tickets will not be honored at the opening game, an official said today. At all futuregames a 10 cents service charge,which includes tax, will be required of holders of complimentary$50! UtO;thetha!Eccles’ softball teamT■ • inmade its j add debut in the Beekley league yes- this terday by thumping Beekley owtHardware and Supply company’s | of ? team 17 to 6, but Manager Pruett j of the losing squad entered a pro- gollt; test with President Howard Fill- gra mer.In the fifth frame, with Eccles : out in front by a 14 to 5 margin, 1 Catcher Tom Covey attempted to catch a foul fly. Fans along thesidelines prevented the backstopfrom making the catch, one um- ni( ' pire declared, but the other ruled otherwise.IIviclEccles readied Pitcher Schultz for 21 hits, including circuit blows by Bullock and triples by Price and Hurt. Adams tripled for the losers.takvetlt;VhorCItBoxandhcaareECCLESAB R 11 Etickets.J. Sokola .....5L. Holt J. Daisy• ••••••••a***“HanDv” Legg. of Cunard. whose backstopping was one of the sur-i J. Bullock prises of the training sessions, and W. Tate Benny McManus, pitcher, will escape the axe-swinging. Harris announced this morning.Gorsica To Pitch The honor of starting the season on the mound for the Bengals goes to big John Gorsica, reformed first sackor. His battery mate will be Walt Reinhardt, and the remainder of the Beekley lineup will be the same as was used against the Pittsburgh Crawfords last night.A1 Gardella will be on first base, Murray Franklin at second,Bassett at short and Ra-third. Steve•. • • ••• •. • •55544310323ooI. LoweryB. GrahamC. Price ........... 3J. B. Justice........ 4W. McMillion 4N. Patton. 7. ........ 1W. D. Ivie, 7.7....... 2E. Holt, zzz......... 12o3430100211n0191 1 02o Fr2000101000lt;Totals ........... 46 17 21z—Batted for Tale in 7th inning. 7.z—Batted for Graham in 6th. zzz—Batted for Price in 6th.“Augieleigh Singleton at Urick, who started practice sessions at third base, will patrol left field. Earl “Red” Martin, minor j league batting champion, will play j center field and bat in the clean- ,up slot. Danny Gardella, promis-of thethe 1ing 17-vear-old product Bronx, will be stationed inacre tract in right field.Jack Zellers, chief of the Detroitscouting system, will not attend the opener here tomorrow night. He left Charleston immediately alter the Senators opened their Mid-Atlantic schedule with a victory last night, but earlier he promisedHarris he would “give him a line on promising talent in two baseball schools—at Tiffon, Ohio andEvansville, Indiana.The red uniforms used by Beaumont’s Exporters last year arrived yesterday and will be used by the Bengals for all road games.BECKLEY HDWE.ABRHEFrench .............4110B. Smith .........4111Kitts ...............40ft1Cover ..............4112Shultz .............3000Harper.............3194» '0Adams .............3019mmMorris .............3001McCullough ........310ntm*Gill ...............Om101Flint, z.............1000Bailey, zz ..........1000Totals ...........— wniW35»■» « 6■■.......610Nsea;rooihasEcluisunB7.—Batted for Shultz in 7th.7.7,— Batted for Gill in 6th.Eccles ............ 044 061 2—B. Hardware .... 320 010 ft ■ Runs batted in—Bullock 6. Sokola 2, Tate 1, Graham 2, Price 2,176sur tior leaj was tinI leaj regof 1L. Holtz 2, Daisy 2. Two base hit—Daisy 1, Bullock 1. Harper 1. Three base hits—Price 1, L. Holt 1, Adams 1. Home run—Bullock 1. Stolen bases—Daisy 1, Bullock 1. Lowery 1, Justice 1. Struck out—1BotSarrhe white outfits used last year by Holt 1: by Shultz 1 Bases on rv the Detroit Tigers will be the balls off—Holt 6; off Shultz 1. Hitshome uniforms this season.Pittsburgh WinnerLast night the Bengals dropped b 16 to 4 decision to the Pittsburgh Crawfords of the Negro National—off Holt 6 in 5 innings; off j Shultz 17 in 5 innings; off Lowery 1 in 2 innings; off Flint 4 in 2 innings. Left on bases—Eccles Beekley Hardware 3.andf.eague,Zeiger worked six frames ivas charged with the loss, but thehard-hitting negro club garnered inly seven singles off his deliveries and with better support afieldthe big right hander would have been in the gam*: all the way.Shamrock pitched the seventhand eighth and let up eight hits, good for seven runs, and finished by allowing four hits and fourruns in the ninth.“Red” Martin’s sizzling triple toright center was the big blow registered for Beekley. Franklin bat-led in one run and scored anoth-ganjr.,ganYai4;Forty-Nine CarsEnter Big RaceNation's Best Compete atIndianapolis on May,30SC01roc an Jlablt;Thi to• zeriI the bea fret fiel ! hisI 1I inUthe| of jSlaWrI FPirrTaylor, one of the best right innders in the negro circuit and vho pitched a no-hit game lastfear af~inst Satchel Paige’s team,vhistled a fast ball through the illey that the Bengals found difficult to meet and 14 died by thestrikeout route.B mkhead, brilliant centerfielder vho has not dropped a fly ball in hree years of competition, starred lefensively and batted out four lits in six trips to the plate. Wil-ams and Ruffin garnered three *ach.Box Score: rxwfokds ap R hVtlson 2b ................ 5X 3iton If »Xankhead cf ............. 6Smith 3b .............. 8Vashlngton lb ....... 3tairston rf .......... 8tuffin c ................. 8raylor p ................. 5en I The the .381 the ofwic Um Cthe! wh31 3 1212 2 12242I13P1050A20006 0103 14 1 0000! By The Associated PressINDIANAPOLIS—T. F„ (Pop)Myers, general manager of the Indianapolis motor speedway, announced the entrance of five more cars,entered in the race.May 30, increasing the total ot 49.The entrance deadline was midnight.Latest entries are those of H. J. IPetticord of Chicago. Joe Thorne, 11 jr., of Tucson, Ariz.; Frank Brisko • 10 of Chicago, F. E. Clemons and j Hollis Cheesman, Jack Petticord j ^ * of Chicago will drive H J. Petti-cod's eight-cylinder Miller Dues- j enberg. Brisko will pilot his six- *n cylinder speedster. Deaon Litz ofDuBois. Pa„ will drive Cheesman’s Maserati. Drivers for the Thorne and Clemons entries have not been named. Thome has three other entered in the race.2HITTF* iTotals 47 1« 19 27 4 By Th*» Associated Press ......CLEVELAND — Of all the StIFNGAI.S\K R H P A4444ingleton 3b ..........*♦ 4i, Gardella lb ........ 3'ranklin 2blartin cf ..... frick If .....), Gardella rftassett ss ..............* 4'obrett c ................ 0teinhardt c ........... 3leizer p ............... 2hamrock p .............. 1Hines p ....... 0itacey x ......... 11 0 1 _1 .11 1 1 13 1 31Louis Browns who might havel j done the damage, it turned out ;01oooooooll000000002240100008 I0 0 0 5 0 0 2 0 0 0!Totals ................ 34 4 8 2; 18x—batted for Glines in 9th.that Bob Feller’s old part-time { battery mate, Billy Sullivan, was the one who made the scratch hit that kept Feller from scoring a no-hit game in his first assignment this season. “I’m sorry,”- said Billy, who was traded by the In- | dians to the Browms during last winter.n —mi fn.im . a imwi ■ lll»—■mmrnmmmmmmrnmmmCRAWFORDSBENGALS130 100 344—16100 002 001—4Errors: Williams, Ruffin, Reinhardt, Singleton, Franklin 2 Martin, D Gar-della, Bassett Runs batted in - Wilson 2, Bankhead 2, C. Smith 5 Washington 1, Haris ton 1. Williams 2. Zeiger. Taylor 1, Franklin 1 Martin Urick 1, Two base hits—Smith; Three base hits— Ruffin, Singleton, Martin D. Gardella. Sacrifice—Tailor. Stolen bases— Bankhead 2, Hairston Double plays—Singleton to A Gardella; Bassett to Gardella, Franklin. Bassett to Gardella Struck oub—by Taylor 14: by Zeizer 1 byShamrock 1;. Bases on balls—off Taylor 2; off Zeizer 2; off Shamrock 1; off Glines 1, Wild pitch Zeizer 2, Glines Hit by pitched bayy — Walton (by Zeizer) Lodng pitcher- Zeizer Left on ba —Craw fords 10; Bengals 5,Time of game 2 04. Umpires Noylei, behind plate, Buckley, on base®,
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