Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 19, Number 35, DeMotte, Jasper County, 29 July 1949 — FOUR TEAMS LEFT IN DEMRA TOURNEY [ARTICLE]

FOUR TEAMS LEFT IN DEMRA TOURNEY

The heavy rain of last Tuesday forced a postponement of the semi-final games in the local recreation association’s softball tourney. This coming Friday has been set as thejiight for the playing of the postponed games. The semi-final line-up has the Lions Club meeting Christian Reformed in the first game and the Legion going against American Reformed in the second contest. The Legion and American Reformed both advanced from first round games by way of victories over the Fire Department and First Reformed, respectively, last Friday. Against the Fire Departmen the Legionnaires had big innings of nine and six runs in the second and fifth and had already marked up one in the first. Final score: Legion, 16, Fire Department, 2. First Reformed couldn’t get started at all against American Reformed until the fifth inning when DeVries’ boys rallied with five counters, but in the meantime Kikkert’s American Reformed nine had scored twice in the first, once in the second, three times in the third and fourth, and once in the fifth for a safe 10-5 victory. Commendable pitching was performed by D. Peterson for American Reformed, and the team as a whole showed strength and balance that will provide plenty of opposition for the Legionnaires. In a called meeting last Wednesday team managers voted their desire for an inexpensive trophy to be given the winner of the tourney now in progress. The trophy is on display in a window at the Evans Plumbing and Heating Shop. Managers also juggled their playing schedule for the use of the diamond after the tourney has been completed. American Reformed and American Legion have the use of the diamond for Tuesday, August 9, for the playing of teams of their choice, local or outside, while on Friday, August 13, First Reformed and Christian Reformed are planning to make use of the same opportunity. Last Monday night, and according to a managers’ vote, Christian Reformed and the American Legion re-played from the beginning their previously rainedout game from the round robin tourney. Fans who had to be absent really missed some aboveaverage softball. Behind E. Bierma’s excellent pitching, Christian Reformed showed once again its power and team play to win 5-3, and incidentally, the round robin championship with a record of six wins against only one loss. Always a team eager to get into the scoring column its first turn at , bat, Jabaay’s team did just that with two counters to none forthe Legion, who in turn, blanked the Christian Reformed group, 1-0 in the second inning. The winners, however, capitalizing on a couple of costly Legion errors, scored three more runs in the third as the Legionnaires were adding two to their score. Proof of the pitching pudding, so far as E. BiermU was concerned, comes from L strike-out record kept by announcer Herman Heimlich, who paced Bierma’s total at or near ten. Final League Standings: W L Pet Christian Ref. 6 1 857 Lions Club , 5 2 714 American Ref. 4 3 571 Fire Department 4 3 571 American Leg. 3 4 429 Methodist 3 4 429 First Reformed 2 5 286 Boy Scouts 1 6 143