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5?OR By M, L, Turner. & Fred Beam We closed our little piece in the July copy of ^the Hoover R3,il by giving a bri.ef account of American ^Junior Legion basebalX. especially as it concerned our ov/n immediate communitj''. As you remember at bhat ^time our boys had just put Cherryville -out of the race for the championship of Western North Carcljna,' We stated that She3.by and Charn.otte would begin an el- Imjjietion series i)n Monday, July 17th* It was an interesting series„ Mammoth crowds poured out to '' ^ee the bo.ys play, She.lby won this series and by so doing became cnce again the champions of the '^Yestam District of North Gai*olina* Being champ- ,ions in our ovii district our next move was to ^set out in quest of the state gonfalon in American Legion Junior baseball. Firsts t^pponent in this state race was Whiteville, the champions of the Eastern District of \\^North Carolina. This was to be a four« \ out--of.-seven series. The first two \ \ games were played in Whiteville, Shelby \ winning the first and Whiteville che ) seconds Tl:en the teams returned to \ $ j Shelby v±iere the home boys chalked up three strai^t wins. Having disposed of W^iteviLLe only Albermarle stood between the Shelby lads and the state championship. In the Shelby-A?.berm.?.rle series the local boys were able to win only one game. All the games vjere well played and were fairly close but for some reason or other Lady Luck di^iln’t treat the Shelby players just right, Albemarle won the last game, a heart—breaker for Shelby to lose, by the score of 7 to 6, So Albemarle becrjr.e the 194A state champions- Right here we would like to state that Albemarle did not stop after winning the state flag«, A regional tournament has just been concluded at Albemarle; The follov^.lng states were represented in this tournament: Tennessee, Vfest Virginia, Virgiaia., North Carolinao In the first day's play Albemarle lost to NorLolk by the score 6 to 0^ According to the set up it vjas novj necessary for the Albemarle boys to win four straights in order to emerge victo3>- icus at the end of this toumainent. On the second day of play the Stanly County team easily defeated Memphis, Tennessee, The next day they defeated West Virginia's team v.'j.bh a miniinum of effort. Then came the last day of the tournament. Only Albemarle arid Norfolk were left in the running. Since Norfo3df had already administered a white- v/ashing to, the Albem^arle team it was necessai'y for Albemarle to take a doubleheader from Norfo]ic or be through with baseball for the rest of 1944* Well the Albemarle beys won the first game by the score of 1+ to 0, Then came the last and deciding game' of the tournament. Again, Albemarle won,; This too, was another white-washing affair* The score in this final game v/as 1 to 0, Thanks to a couplu of mound masterpieces by pitchers Eddie Gibson and Tommy Andrew the Norfolk boys v/ere able to garner a total of only three hits in the entire eighteen irinijngs of the double-header. We are led to be lieve that the Albemarle team is just about the most famo’js team in captivity for come backs ii.ke thiLS, Fans from these parts are vdshing the besr. of luck for the boys from Albemai'le in the Southeastern sectional tournament whdch begins right away in Charles ton, South Carolina, For the s^irvivor of tMs tournament will represent twelve South ern states in the battle for the national championshxPo (Continued on next page)
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