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Brett Gets Better Line on Men in 1 st Exhibition TiltLocals Beaten by House of David Outfit 8 to 2, Get Down to Heavy Practice Sessions o——— ■ , • ■ -With a-, better knowledge of the : a b: 1 f t i pa a n d wea k n e sses of h i s gra t'j p of candidates as a result of yesterday's frame with the House of. David's be-Whiskered outfit, Ms miner Herb Brill of the Danville-Schoolfield club, to-, day one his men through stiff practice sessions in his continued efforts *b get a better line on the men. The beardt'd boys defer.ted the locate;yesterday by the score nf.fi to 2 before a crowd estimated at about a thousand fans.With forty’ or more players seeking to make the team, the phot is faced with the problem of deciding on a regular line-up... Yesterday's game, the first exhibition contest, for the locals, was more of a test game than anything else, and it enabled Man-: is per Brett as well as the fans .to sec ! what, the boys looked like under heavy fire. Eighteen players were used in tlto game with the bearded boys who stood pat on their line-up. Three hurlcrs were used. Lankford started off and appeared to be a capable pitcher. The three runs made off nun was the result of loose fielding on the part of his teammates, H'an-Icy, n porislder, was next sent to the mound and although he started: off effectively he was lambasted -In the seventh for five runs with loose fielding again being a contributing faoto-r,; Bruce hurled the atter part of the game and held the barnstormers in check.. Garner looked .good at short, accepting five, chances in fine style, but failed to get a hit in his five trips to the plate, ft probably would be unfair to say that th'e team could not | hit for they were up against an ex- : i cellent pltclier in O'CJrndy, the House of David motmdsman—probably much i better than the boys would ordinarily , encounter.Scoop Gosi.icy was outstanding far i the locals. He got two hits out of five '| trips, one of them n jUble, was literally robbed of a no .er hit by Sbort-j stop Cat in a and got on an error another- tjme. Sanford and Rclt-z divided play at first base, Reitz, part-sider, displayed good form afield and showed evidence of being a natural swinger, Sanford, a familiar figure j in local baseball, having played first : for Bassett last yer. if anything looked : better than last, year. It will be a fight between the two as to who wfil get. the final call for the first base foh.
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Danville Bee
Danville, Virginia, US
Tue, Apr 24, 1934
Page 3
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Michael W.
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