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Frontier Rule IsSoftball roam In 1953Frontier Cafe wins the nod a* Aeronca a 1-0 victory over Armco. Middle towr’* top softball team in h was Aeroncs’s first Indus-19-53 trial League softball title.The crack ball club fielded a First Baptist won its secondteam of balanced hitting power seC0nd straight Church Leaguebacked up by the one-man pitch- fh,g after smothering Calvaryteg of Harlan Bishop to win the?Methodist. 124. in a playoff. Cal*Federal League pennant vary won the league's first-round_i carving out the best! title while First Baptist baggedpitching record of the year, was the second-round pennant, on the mound te all of Frontier * Sixteen teams ran in three Arm12 victories te 14 games. co intra-plant leagues in liltThe whip-arm pitcher twirled with Machine Shop of the Mamte*four shutouts m notching a 12-2 nance League winning an all-loop record, lie was backed up at the tournament championship.p ate by the hitting of Don Bolton! Machine walked off with theand leu Cohen. f tournament title after bowing to•r’s lone defeat was a 5-4 Pipe Shop te a playoff for th?shading by Yankee Tavern during! Maintenance League pennant.tee regular mason and a 44 nick- Hot Strip side-tracked Opening by Amanda Athletic Club in Hearth in the opening two gamesthe finals of an inter-league tour-;of a best*of-three playoff to winnament. the Armco Safety League crownThe sis • teem Federal while Pipe Welding won nine outl eague stirred up (an inter* j 0f 12 games to sweep the Armco est te softball when three I Fabricating League cha mp-clubs wound up a second- n^.pround race in a deadlock. ---Frontier, undefeated w inner of i * ■ v n .the first round, won the three-! Lve L\amN‘t team second-round playoffs to Jsweep the le.g if tit'e ri 1 1imrnda pulled the upset of j I* f 11* S I |f*f *f 11 If I Vthe year when it dumped 1 k ”Frontier in the finals of thepost -season tournament to eaptu e its second successive tourney crown.PITTSBURGH. Jan 2 *Rickey, general managerof the Pittsburgh Pirates, said today he will have speed boyTHU INDUSTRIAL Lea*ue j(,;hroe hPr,Monday for a com-ete eye examination1953 when it ruled that the top; ,four teart • n the regular sea-on i _,Jt*Lhr uf’_Vstmna’ion lastrace would fight It out in a double, ^ , . ..ehmmatfon playoff for -.ha fen- *aa ^ ^ ^ MtIw(|.Aeronca cam. from rags to k*c **'• •JJLjJ'*?, ’riches to *in the title. It squeezed «P™* into fourth place at the end of the l* is okay to play. Sam battedregular season and then went on 3(jy *lt;r Toledo.to win the playoffs In event tne tall sprinter fromLarry Kiblef, who ruled as the .Erie. Pa., is accepted, he is ex-league's top pitcher with an 114 peeled to piay the outfield for record, hurled a one-hit shutout! Pittsburgh and will be the first in. the finals of the playoff to give Negro to win this distinction. ....... -~vv,. rtfi ■ if. Hi ik-w* . - iQfl rnrtits ' ** nWr aw »-iHip-d«wf|i A hTlkltr D A horn f UAft
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Middletown Sunday News Journal
Middletown, Ohio, US
Sun, Jan 03, 1954
Page 24
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