Owls Fall to Lawrenceville in 2 1 Defeat
Roanoke Rapids Owls lose their first Southside Virginia League game 2 1 at home to Lawrenceville Virginia. Sanford hits a long homer for Lawrenceville while Bradford and McCrary spark the Owls. Butcher allows six hits for the visitors and Talley takes the loss. Emporia Slagles slated to visit Simmons Park next Sunday with Old Man Slagle expected to bring new players and strong support from hundreds of fans.
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Lawrenceville
Owls
Slagles
Emporia
Simmons Park
Slagle
Slagles Lake
Roanoke Rapids
Jesse Lee
Virginians
Bradford
McCrary
Lefty
Talley
Wake Forest College
Mallory
Sanford
Roanoke Rapids Owls
the Herald
Owls Split in Nine Innings at Hillsboro and Blackstone
Emporia-003 010 1000-5 9 6 Owls vs Hillsboro June 17 score 11 1 at Hillsboro. Tippett Walters Talley Branch for Hillsboro. Owls 121 001 020-7 11 1 Peters Tippett Walters. Hillsboro 000 300 0xx-3 5 2 Owls 002 024 Oxx-8 6 2 Burch Byrd Walters Brown x Lyles Branch June 19 at Blackstone. Owls 300 030 100-7 13 2 Marchant Phenix Taylor Branch.
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Rhe Emporia
Pace
Andrews
Martin
Browning
Taylor
Branch
Hillsboro
Owls
Tippett and Walters
Talley and Branch
Burch
Byrd
Walters
Brownx
Lyles
Rhe Blackstone
Marchant and
Phenix
Taylor and Branch
No. 1 Spinners Take Rosemary Softball Title
Ernest Lanky Lee pitched his best game to blank Doug Worsham's No. 2 Weavers 2 0 in the Rosemary Softball League final. Guilfoyle and Jones had the only Weavers hits while Guilfoyle flipped the ball for the Spins holding the Weavers to three hits. Coach Robin Vick led the Spin ners to the title as a large crowd looked on Umpires Gurkin Patterson Mill Thompson Vaughn and Harrison of Roanoke No 1 officiated.
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Ernest
Lee
Doug Worsham
Weavers
Rosemary
Guilfoyle
Bill Jones
Ken Guilfoyle
Robin Vick
Gurkin
Patterson Mill
Thompson, Vaughn and Harrison
Roanoke
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Ifs and Ands at Roanoke No 1
Last Friday June 17 Roanoke No 1 beat Patterson No 2 by 13 to 5 in a win marked by 16 free passes and only two hits. Bill Branch starred as catcher while Thompson and Ray fueled the wild game amid town interest in bowling and local baseball crowds.
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Patterson
Thompson
Ray
Jesse
Bill Branch
Bill
Romanco Softball Tryouts Begin For 1938 Squad
Twenty five players reported to Ledgerwood Park last Tuesday for tryouts for the 1938 Romanco Mfg Co. softball team. A committee will pick fourteen players after two weeks of workouts and a hot battle for every position is expected. Names include Everette Lee Stacia Outland Allsbrook Jones Everette Speight Mac Outland Garris Sadler Lee Buck Miller Revelle Hall Holmes Davis and Neal among others. The outfit will begin an exhibition schedule with top teams booked.
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Ledgerwood Park
Rosemary Mfg. Co
Theeague
Lefty Everette
Dick Lee
Lefty Stacia
Ken Guilfoyle
Howard Neal
Legion to Meet Durham A L Team in Friday League Game
On Friday June 24 Weldon and Roanoke Rapids Legionnaires travel to Simmons Park to face Durham Legion in a league game called at 3 30 PM Roanoke Rapids seeks to avenge last Friday's close loss in Durham where the Roanoke Rapids team barely missed victory.
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Weldon
Roanoke Rapids American Legion
Durham American Legion
Simmons Park
Durham
Roanoke Rapids
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Little “Peanut
Butcher
Victor Bradford
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M. Westbrook
Jackson St
Roanoke No. 1
Paul E. Harris
C. S. Walke
L. L. Davenport
Dorothy Price
Richmond
Paul Ray
John Lupton
Rockingham
J. Marshal Daniel
Raleigh
C. D. Martin
Romanco
Legion
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