HERALD
SPORTS
Jays Slip In Batting But Hold
To Sixth In Fielding Averages
- The Jays tumbled down next
™ to the bottom in team fielding :
as their leading hitters slacked
up in the pace, according to
statistics on the Coastal Plain
League covering games through
July 12 and released by the
Howe News Bureau.
The Jays are barely three
percentage points ahead of the
Wilson Tobs in the matter of
team batting and stand in sev
enth place with a .264 average
Val Gonzalez and Herb May,
who have been leading the Jays
at the plate most of the sea
son· both slipped perceptibly
during the period covered by
the statistics. Gongalez had been
riding in fifth place in the
standings, but now is listed in
sixth place with a .381 average
Herb May dropped behind with
a .333 average. John Pavlich
f pulled ahead of May in the bat
ting standings and compiled a
.338 mark.
Other Jay batting averages
show Milt Bolick with .298; Stu
Martin .262; Joe Ferra .250,
"Woody Gray .231; Shurley Ham
mack .230; Glenn Titus .224
and King .219.
In the matter of team fielding
the Jays continued to hold on to
^ sixth place in the standings with
a percentage of .947.
Brown has the leauing per
centage for the Jay pitchers
having won 6 and lost 5 for a
percentage of .545; but Glenn
Titus has worked in more ball
games and has won nine while
losing ten for .474 mark.
Brown has pitched a total of
^ 68 innings; given up 71 hits
^ good for 47 runs, 39 walks nad
struck out 21.
Titus on the other hand has
pitched atotal of 158 innings
giving up 17 7hits, 78 runs; 35
walks and struck out 49 men.
The leading pitcher in the lea
gue continues to be Eddie Ne
ville of Tarboro, who now has
a 10 victory, no defeat record.
Hal Hussey of Goldsboro has
^ taken over the individual bat
" ting lead with a .404 percent
age.
Boy Scrambles History
BOSTON (U.P.)— Three grave
stones in Copp's Hill burying
ground bear the death date 1625
—five years before Boston was
settled. The reason is that a lad
named George Darracott in
early days thought it fun to
change dates in the sandstone
markers with his jack-knife.
TEE Shots
from
Roanoke Rapids
Country Club
By Buddy Miller
There has been considerable
discussion around the clubhouse
for the past several days about
a club tournament. So far the
plans are only in the talking
stage, but it would be fine to
have a club tournament during
the month of September. The
champion would receive an ap
propriate trophy and the win
ners and runners-up in eacn
flight would get prizes. On*;
thing that members of the club
could do to help decide about
the tournament is to post their
handicaps in the locker room.
The more who post their handi
caps, the more we will know are
interested in the tourney.
Incidentally, there are possi
bilities for a v/oman's club tour
nament, too. There are about 78
women who play on the local
côurse nad if enough of them
are interested in a tournament
we'll see what cna be worked
out. They mignt stop by the pro
shop and let us know about it.
Niblick Notes . . . Mrs. Jane
Walser, who began her lessons
with the recent class, is con
tinuing her golf instruction and
shows promise of becoming a
good golfer. She's been out sev
eral times in the past two or
three weeks and gets better al
most each lesson . . .Jay Sand
ers fired a 44-43—78 last week
for one of his better scores for
18 holes . . . Pete Johnson, an
other of our regulars- shot a όύ
on thfc front nine and then blew
up a little bit to take a 44 on
the back nine recently, but the
total of 80 was one of his best
scores for 18 . . . Jimmy May
field came close to shooting a
perfect par round of golf last
week. He shot pars on the first
seven holes, then bogeyed the
eighth. He came back to bird««
the ninth and still get a par 36,
but was on his way to n;.ne
straight pars. . . . Charlie Ed
wards shot a 41-37—78 for his
lowest 18 hole total last week
. . . Shag Johnson pulled one of
the rarest things in golf last
week. He parred the numoer
three hole and was never on the
fairway on that hole. He shot a
38 on the outgoing nine, but
ballooned to 52 for the final
nine . . . Dave Tryanham, who
just returned from a vacation at
the beach, was showing the boys
around the club an umbrella
which he had won by getting
third place in a blind bogey
event. . . .
Keep those golf tourneys in
mind and lets do some more
talking and it won't be long oe
fore we get down to the final
plans.
Jays Lose One-Hitter To Kinston 3-0
Down Tars
In Slugfest
15-7 Sunday
The Jays were the victims of
a one-hit pitching job here last
night, as Armond Porell twirled
the performance to give the Kin
ston Eagles a 3 to 0 shutout vic
tory over the local Coastal Plain
League entry.
Jim Meyer, Jay rightfielder,
was the only local batsman to
nick Porrell for a hit. He slap
ped a single to rob the Kinston
flinger of a no-hit performance.
The Jays didn't look like the
same bunch of swatsmiths that
had pounded three Tarboro hurl
ers for 17 hits Sunday afternoon.
King was on the mound for the
Jays and went the full route giv
ing up nine hits, including dou
bles by Richkus, Fabianich and
Jeffries.
Collins and Peters led the win
ners with two hits in four trips
each.
The Jays infield continued its
sparkling play and marked up
four double plays to extend their
two game streak to seven double
plays.
Four errors hurt the Jay
cause considerably.
The line score:
Kinston 100 020 000 3 9 1
Jays 000 000 000 0 1 4
Porrell and Pliska ; King and
Pavlich.
Friday
JAYS 7,
NEW BERN 2.
Glenn Titus walked the first
two men to face him at Simmons
Park Friday night and then got
mad and settled down to turn
back the New Bern Bears with
a total of five hits and led
the Jays to a 7 to 2 victory.
Jim Meyer provided the long
est blow of the evening hitting
for the circuit in the third af
ter Val Gonzales and Herb May
had walked.
Speedy Andrus, Meyer and
Joe Ferra led the Jays in their
10 hit onslaught on the two New
Bern tossers, Thompson and Mi
chaels. Besides his homer, Mey
er hit a double.
Big Glenn struck out six Bear
batters and walked five in
notching the victory. He was
never in any serious trouble af
I
ter his shaky start.
The Jays had a big second in
ning tallying two runs and a
still bigger third, when they
came across with three more
runs.
The line score:
New Bern Oil 000 000 2 5 2
Jays 023 001 llx 7 10 3
Thompson and Micheals;
Brooks; Titus and Pavlich.
Saturday
TARBORO 7.
JAYS 2.
Eddie Neville continued to hex
the Jays Saturday night in Tar
boro and chalked up his 12th
victory against no defeats 7 to
2.
The Jays rapped Neville for
II blows, but couldn't bunch
them enough to score many runs.
When the Jays got men on the
sacks Eddie tightened up in the
pinches.
Van Hoose was the losing toss·
er being relieved by Brown with
no one out in the sixth inning,
He gave the Tars all ten of theiï
hits and all of their runs
Brown pitching three hitless in
nings.
Joe Ferra blasted a home run
for the Jays and John Pavlici:
hit a triple. Van Hoose and Fer
ra each hit doubles.
Ken Andrewsh slammed s
homer for the Tars.
The line score:
Tarboro 300 013 OOx 7 10 2
Jays 010 100 000 2 11 <
Neville and Marko; Var
Hoose, Brown and Pavlich.
Sunday v
JAYS 15,
TARBORO 7.
Our Jays looked like anything
besides cellar dwellers here
Sunday afternoon as they
pounded out ο 17 hit attack tc
notch a 15 to 7 victory over the
league-leading Tarboro Tars.
The Jays went to work or
Joe Currin in the first inning
and tallied four runs on three
hits and an error and then in
the second added six more runs
on six hits and an error and
then tapered off in the third in
ning with three runs on as
many hits. Mr. Currin wasn't
around very long, but Ray Die
trich was the victim of some of
the pasting before he finally
settled down.
Grnad Slam Homer
The big blow of the game was
Herb May's grand slam home
run in the second inning. That
was the inning in which the
Jays batted aroud. Tommy Prit
chard, who went the route on
the mound for the Jays in the
blazing hot sun· was safe cn
an error to open the inning. Milt
Bolick took a third strike called,
before Stu Martin rapped his
second striaght single. Val Gon
zalez singled to left and the
bases were loaded. That brought
up Herb. He pounded a long,
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Batting Averages
Given For Seoul
League Leaders
Batting average for members
of Baseball team of Boy Seoul
Troop 141, Boy Scout League
leaders with 5 games won and
none lost.
AB H Pet
R. Burton 4 2 50C
R. Joyner 21 9 428
Lynch 12 5 41'
W. Carter 21 7 33Σ
B. Carter # 19 6 31Î
W. Hargrove 13 4 30'
M. Joyner 18 5 27'
R. Acree 8 2 22i
S. Welch 4 1 22f
R. Babb 13 2 154
W. Polston 7 1 14i
C. Whitby 12 0 0(M
T. Babb 6 0 (XX
Local Golfers
Play Emporia
Golfers Here
The Roanoke Rapids Country
Club Golf team will be host
Wednesday afternoon to the Em
poria, Va., golfers.
The match is scheduled to get
under way about two o'clock
over the local nine hole course
So far this season the loca!
golfers have played eight match
es and have won six. They losi
two matches away from home
one to Henderson last week anc
one to Warrenton.
Drop 7 To 3
Decision To
Wake Foresi
The Roanoke Rapids America
Legion Junior baseball team is
far back in the Area One, Lea
gue Two, elimination play.
Yesterday the local juniors
journeyed to Wake Forest and
dropped their fourth game in five
starts in the playoffs losing to
the Wake Juniors, 7 to 3.
Bernard Walters, Wake ace,
handcuffed the local juniors with
six hits during the ball game,
while the home team was getting
eight including a home run by
Frazier.
Messer and Matthews led the
losers with two hits in three
times at the bat.
The line score:
R. Rapids 100 000 Oil 3 6 1
Wake Forest 000 400 30x 7 8 4
Edwards, Spence and Wheel
er; Walters, Hawks and White.
Thursday
JUNIORS 5,
WAKE FOREST 2.
Raymond Edwards pitched the
Roanoke Rapids American Le
gion Juniors to a 5-2 three-hit
triumph here Thursday in εη
Area One League playoff con
test.
For eight innings, Edwardi·
had a no-hit shutout, but First
Baseman Davis of the Wake For
est nine lined out the first pitch
in the top of the ninth for a
clean single and the Wake For
est outfit went on to score twc
runs in a lively rally that end
ed short by three runs.
Harold Messer and Huberl
Lowder led the local Juniors at
the plate in the eight hit attack.
Messer and Lowder each had
two hits in as many official ap
pearances to spark the local at
tack.
The victory was the first in
the playoffs for the local juniors.
The line score:
Wake Forest 000 000 002 2 3 4
R. Rapids 000 220 Olx 5 8 2
Watson and White; Edwards
and Wheeler.
^
Friday
WILSON 6.
JUNIORS 4.
The Roanoke Rapids American
Legion Juniors took one on the
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Merchants Win
Warrenton Loop
Softball Title
For First Half
Warrenton — The Merchants
softball team is the first half
champion of the Warrenton City
Softball League.
The Merchants and the Vet
erans tied in the regular season
played for the top position, nec
essitating a playoff game.
I In the playoff, which was
held last Tuesday night, the
Merchants defeated the Vets 13
to 10.
The game was close and hard
fought all the way, with the
Veterans getting 18 hits to 11 for
the Merchants.
Duke Miles with a triple and
double and Tom Roberts with a
single and a double led the win
ners. Dick Miles was the big gun
in the losers' attack, getting
three straight singles.
Steve Daniel was the winning
pitcher and Bill Read was the
losing chunker.
Play in the league will con
tinue throughout the summer
and the winner of the second
' half title will tangle with the
I Merchants for the city chani
I pionship.
ι
Troop 141 Beats
Troop 142 7-4
Troop 141 defeated Troop 142,
both of Roanoke Rapids Satur
day, July 10th by a score of 7-4,
and thereby reached the half
way point in the Boy Scout Lea
gue games with a perfect score
of 5 games won and none lost.
R. Joyner hit safely twice in four
tries to pace Troop 141's attack.
Davenport got the only hit for
Troop 142.
Score by innings
R. H. E.
Troop 142 000 200 2 4 1 5
Troop 141 014 002x 7 4 3
Corn crop forecast at 3,137,
000 000 bushels, 2rd record high.
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Hits Grand Slam Homer
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Herb May. Jay leftfielder, walloped ihe first grand slam
home run of ihe season for ihe Jays Sunday afternoon when
the Jays beat the league-leading Tarboro Tars 15 to 7. Herb
pounded one over the leftfield fence and the pellet hit a light
pole to bounce back in the park. On base at the time were
Tommy Pritchard, Stu Martin and Val Gonzales.
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