Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 19, Number 31, DeMotte, Jasper County, 1 July 1949 — CHRISTIAN REFORMED STILL LEADS LEAGUE [ARTICLE]

CHRISTIAN REFORMED STILL LEADS LEAGUE

With an enviable record of four wins against only one loss, Ding Jabaay’s Christian Reformed softball team is still leading the rest of the field in the recreation associaton summer league. American Reformed is running a close second but has played one game less for a record of three wins and one loss. Last Friday’s first game, between American Reformed and the Boy Scouts, was won by American Reformed, 16-9, which is a good clue to the kind of ball that was played. The jittery Scouts couldn’t stand the property of having won their first league victory, so once again it was not until the last inning that they showed enough fire to produce a four-run rally, but needless to say it was then much too late. American Reformed was never really pushed. In the second game First Reformed never could get started against the Fire Department and were deluged, 10-3. There is a possibility that the First Reformers were victims of “rebounding” after they had been the giant killers in handing the Lions Club its first defeat.

Last Tuesday night Lions manager Ramp, was about to i send out a hurry call for more recruits as his Clubbers finally put out the Fire Dept., 11-8. The Clubbers kept holding a safe lead until the final frame, when Bob Walstra’s Firemen pushed over four runs. The Lions Club had already had their last chance and though they had done well enough with a four-run inning of their with a four-run inning of their own making. The Firemen almost batted a complete round before the Lions could squeeze in that all important last out. The evening’s second encounter was almost the league’s first “skunking,” but Klip managed to score for the Scouts, while Christian Reformed, playing hard-to-beat softball, tallied seven times for a final score of 7-1. The Scouts’ numerous errors hurt their cause as much as the caliber of the team they were playing against. Seven of the league’s managers, plus one representative of the Recreation Board, and the league director; held an important meeting last Monday night and decided upon the following: Starting next Tuesday, July 5, each manager will certify a list of 12 or more players as his team roster and will agree to limit his team to those players he certifies, with one excetion, which is that in the event a manager does not have nine of his players present ready to play, he may choose enough players from other teams or from a reserve list of players wanting to get on teams, in order to complete his total of nine for the game to be played—but all such “outside” choosings to be done withthe complete approval of the manager of the opposing team and before the game has begun. In regard to this ruling, set by the managers, they wish it to be known that there are several openings yet on some of the teams, and so they have provided for two players’ sign-up lists to be placed in business establishments for the convenience of players who are not‘now on any team but who would like to be. These lists will be placed at Duvall’s Restaurant and at Zeck’s Standand Station. The managers also ruled that they be permitted to use one-half >f the load All-Stars battery in their line-ups, if they so desire, the one-half being interpreted as a regular All-Star pitcher or catcher, but not both working together at the same time.. Finat managerial decisions were a resolution to maintain the attitude of clean and fair play among their personnel, and a plan for a second tourney to start

after the present round robin affair has been completed. The second tourney will be an eightteam bracket single elimination tourney, the drawings for which will be published next week. Friday, July 1, it’s American Legion vs. Ist Reformed, and American Reformed vs. Methodist, league Standings W L Pct. Christian Reformed 4 1 800 American Reformed __3 1 750 Fire Dept. _l___„_3 2 600 Lions Club ~ 3 2 600 First Reformed 2 2 500 American Legion - _1 3 250 Methodist 1 3 250 Boy Scouts 1 4 200