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Kennedy PitchesMerchantsPast Callao, 22-0By L. S. SIMPSONThe recently organized Brookfield Merchants baseball team, under the management of Vem Kennedy, held what might be appropriately termed practice game at Lions’ Field last night, defeating a team from Callao in a bob-tailed seven-inning contest by a•core of 25M.the strongest semi-pro teams In the middlewest and should be oneof the best games of the season.The Ban Johnson teams returns home on Friday night after having been a road team for the past few weeks. This is a bene- f fit game with the Moberly Miners for the purpose of assisting in the purchase of band uniforms and to maintain the summer recreation program. The band concert will be at 7:30 and the game follows immediately after at 8:00 p.m. (Moberly has one of the strongest teams in the league being in first place throughout the season in the Ban Johnson loop play. • „ * Members of the Little LeagueKennedy, on the mound for theJ «lu*d atl(i the Brookfield Summer Merchants, had an -easy evening, Barul are selling tickets .for the Allowing five scattered hits, strik- affair, and a large attendance at fng out 12, and permitting a taint- evcnt is anticipated.ed run due to an error. j °,'vThe lineup had Tooey leadingoff and playing center field, fol-Jlowed by Vernon Smith ht first; Hildebrand on third; Kennedy. (pitching; Welch, short; Nickles,; second base; John Smith, catcher; Stewart, left field, and Burris, right field,Tooey had two doubles and a single; Vernon Smith, two singles and a triple; Hildebrand, three singles; Kennedy, three singles;Welch, a single and a triple; Nickles, three Singles; John tSmith. four singles. The big inning was the fifth, when 14 Merchants- batted and scored eight runs on tenWta. .. .. ,Clearly shown was the fact that the Merchants will have pitching and power, plus a good defense. This will be needed in their next te when the Kansas City Gi-Local Cars WinAt Trenton Racesants play at Uona Field Monday evening, July 5. This is one ofThirty-six stocks cars were entered in the faces at Trent on last night, and entries from Brookfield placed in each event foi whichthey '• Hoy McKenzie won the first event of the evening, the tjme trials, with a time of 21.28 seconds. He also won the Trophy j Dash, coming from the last place j position to win the event. jRalph Shoop, driving car 187, took first place in the heat race No. 1 which featured the slowest j group of cars. Red Neely won , second place in heat race No, 2. which w is made up of the middle group of cars, and Brookfield entries were first and second in the fastest heat race. Roy McKenzie
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Brookfield Daily News Bulletin
Brookfield, Missouri, US
Mon, Jun 28, 1954
Page 6
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