June 13, 1943

Rockford Morning Star

Rockford Peaches Attract 3,500 Baseball Fans in Seven Games Here

By Harry D. Milne
Morning Star Sports Editor

Although seven night games played by the Peaches, Rockford's entry in the All-American Girls Softball league, has attracted slightly over 3,500 paid admissions for an average of a trifle over 500 per game, sponsors of the league and of the Rockford team are confident that with a better break in the weather, attendance will show a steady climb upwards.

They point out that the league, not only in Rockford but in the two Wisconsin cities, Kenosha and Racine, has had a bad break in the weather along with everything else. At some of the night games in Rockford's first home series the weather was chilly enough to be ideal football atmosphere.

Thursday and Friday nights, when the temperature took an upward slant, the attendance also went upward with the best crowd of the seven nights witnessing the Friday night 14-inning thriller.

So far South Bend is way out in front as to attendance, over 3,000 fans paying to see the first three sessions there when Rockford Peaches and the South Bend Blue Sox opened the league season. Both Kenosha and Racine run into bad weather, being forced to postpone two sessions. Racine is planning an industrial night this week at a league game with the industries sponsoring the Racine team putting on an attenance drive with war bonds as prizes and have promised the league officials a turnout of 3,000 fans for the night.

Those who have witnessed the games here appear to like them, like the snappy way the girls perform on the field and their continual chatter while out on the diamond. Those handling the tickets at the local games say that the game has made many regular attendants, the same fans coming back night after night. Rallies by the home team, good plays and fast double plays bring as much enthusiasm from the spectators as at men's hardball games.

The league is an experiment by baseball men who are sure that, if the war continues another year, there won't be any major league baseball in 1944. If the midwest league, the leagues on the eastern and western coasts, prove to be attractive enough to bring in the fans in sufficient quantities to make it pay, that next season - if major baseball is out - will see a major league of girl softball players with the leagues started this year classified as minor leagues, stepping stones for the girl players to the majors.

Feeling that the experiment of offering the sport fans a girl softball league, composed of the best players in the United States and Canada, has not had a fair trial due to inclement weather, league sponsors plan to continue the schedule as originally mapped out. Later games may be played in the morning or afternoon in order to give the different shifts from the defense plants a chance to see the girls play, the same as is being done in the major baseball leagues.

June 12, 1943

Rockford Morning Star

Kenosha Wins 14 Inning Battle From Rockford 9-8

Holle's Hit Gives Comets Winning Run

Rockford Peaches to South Bend for Four Games

A single, a sacrifice hit, a stolen base and another bingle brought to a close the longest softball game played in Rockford this season with the Kenosha Comets defeating the Rockford Peaches 9 to 8 in a 14-inning battle. Tonight's defeat drops the Peaches back into third place with Kenosha taking over the runner-up spot again.

Today Rockford moves on to South Bend, Ind., where the Peaches tackle the league leading South Bend Blue Sox in four games, one today, two Sunday and a single game Monday night.

Last night's game was a ding-dong battle with first one team in front and then the other for the first nine innings, with Peters of Rockford and Harney of Kenosha settling down to hurl scoreless ball for four innings, until the break came in the first half of the 14th frame.

The Comets jumped off in the lead with a run in the third inning, but the Peaches came back with two markers to hold the lead until the first of the fifth, when the visitors pounded over three runs. Not discouraged, Rockford came back with a three-run splurge in the sixth to lead, 5 to 4. Three more runs in the seventh gave Rockford an 8 to 4 margin over the Comets.

But Kenosha rallied to count three tallies in the eighth and then tied it up with one run in the first of the ninth. The Peaches failed to register in the last of the ninth and the tilt went into extra stanzas.

Dorothy Hunter, Kenosha first baseman, and first batter up in the first of the 14th, singled. She was sacrificed to second and then stole third, from where she scored what proved to be the winning run on Holle's sizzling single.

The Peaches made a great effort to score in the last of the 14th, filling the bases with two out when Jackson popped out to second base. Fritz and McCreary led off with hits, but the next two batters struck out. Peters hit to load the bases, but Jackson ended the struggle with her infield fly.

STANDINGS
	W	L	Pct.
South Bend .......	9	6	.600
Kenosha ...........	6	6	.500
Rockford ...........	7	8	.467
Racine ..............	5	7	.417
RESULTS FRIDAY
Kenosha 9, Rockford 8
Racine 10, South Bend 5
South Bend 5, Racine 2

Rockford Register-Republic

Peaches Leave on Road Trip

Team to Play 14 Games Before Returning to Stadium in Rockford

By DICK DAY (Register-Republic Sports Editor)

A strange atmosphere of quiet settled down today over the 15th avenue stadium.

The Peaches, a collection of scrappy, hard-playing youngsters who in the past week have given Rockford its first taste of girls' professional softball, departed today for South Bend, leaving the premises to the echoes.

And there were plenty of those today, following last night's hectic 14-inning duel in which the Peaches bowed, 9-8, to the Kenosha Comets. The Rockford team under the leadership of Eddie Stumpf opens its second road trip of the season tonight at South Bend, and before returning to the city eleven days hence will have visited Kenosha and Racine as well as the Indiana city, playing a total of 14 games along the journey.

The Peaches and the Comets last night gave the hysterical customers at the stadium a taste of just about everything in the book - a couple of home runs, half a dozen double plays, some mighty sharp fielding, streaks of remarkable pitching and a total of 37 base hits. And just about every time you looked at the field, some speedy young lass was stealing another base.

Warwick Wins Applause

In a 14-inning fracas of this sort, one would naturally expect more than one individual to bid for the heroine's laurels. Probably the best all-around performance was that of Rockford's Mildred Warwick, third sacker who won the crowd's approval with her spectacular fielding and her consistent hitting. Milly handled seven putouts and nine assists flawlessly - and some of the chances were definitely big league stuff. In addition, she collected four hits in seven trips to the plate, including a 13th-inning double, and scored one run herself.

Homers by Phyllis Koehn and Ann Marnett of the Comets, and triples by Eileen Burmeister of Rockford and Helen Nicol of Kenosha added additional sparkle to the evening. Koehn's blow with two teammates aboard in the fifth inning was the first circuit clout in the park here this year.

Nicole was the winning pitcher. Coming into the game in the eighth inning as a right fielder, she moved to the pitcher's box to relieve Elsie Harney in the tenth. Rockford had one out and runners on first and third at the time, and Helen retired the side and kept the Rockfords under control long enough for a couple of other Comets, Dorothy Hunter and Mabel Holle, to get together in the 14th and produce the winning run.

Single Scores Final Run

Holle's single to left scored Hunter with one out in that inning and provided the deciding marker. 

Nicole, however, had to suppress a Rockford uprising in the locals' half of the inning before she could be officially credited with the win. Betty Jane Fritz and Ethel McCreary singled to open Rockofrd's half, whereupon Nicol fanned Dorothy Sawyer and Dorothy Green. Then Marjorie Peters, who went the distance on the mound for Rockford and was charged with the loss, tried desperately to win her own game. She banged out a single through center, but Kenosha's smart fielding held Fritz at third.

Nicole thereupon forced Lillian Jackson, Rockford's lead-off batter, to pop to second to retire the side and end the game.

Rockford for a time last night had a 4-run margin. The Peaches scored twice in the fourth only to see their lead wiped out with a three-run Kenosha splurge in the fifth. The sixth brought Rockford a cluster of three and in the seventh they scored three more to take an 8-4 lead. Then the Comets crashed through with three of their own in the eighth, helped along by Hartnett's homer, and added a single run in the ninth to knot the count.

Though both pitchers were in tight spots from then on, neither allowed a run to cross the plate for the next four innings.

BOXSCORE
South Bend (5)						Rockford (2)
	AB	R	H	O	A		AB	R	H	O	A
Jameson cf	6	2	2	3	1	Jackson lf	8	1	2	4	0
Koehn ss	6	1	1	6	1	Burmeister cf-2b	6	2	2	1	0
M'lsen rf	3	0	1	1	1	Warwick 3b	7	1	4	7	9
Lester 2b	3	1	1	2	0	Davis ss	7	3	2	3	6
Hunter 1b	7	1	2	10	0	Fritz rf	6	0	3	1	1
Harnett 3b	6	1	3	6	1	McCreary 1b	5	0	3	16	1
Holle lf	7	1	3	3	1	Wuethrich 2b	4	0	0	3	2
Nicol rf-p	4	1	2	0	0	Cook x	0	0	0	0	0
O'Hara 2b	3	0	0	0	2	Sawyer cf	2	0	0	1	0
West'n c	5	0	2	9	1	Nelson c	2	0	0	1	0
Harney p	5	1	2	2	2	Little xx	1	0	0	0	0
Wohl'er rf	1	0	0	0	0	Green c	2	0	0	3	0
						Peters p	7	1	2	2	1
Totals	56	9	19	42	10	Totals	57	8	18	42	20
x - batted for Wuethrich in 10th. xx - batted for Nelson in 10th.
Score By Innings
Kenosha ..................... 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 3 1   0 0 0   0 1 - 9
Rockford ..................... 0 0 0 2 0 3 3 0 0   0 0 0   0 0 - 8
Home runs - Koehn, Harnett.
Three base hits: Burmeister, Nicol.
Two base hits: Warwick.
Double plays - Peters to McCreary, Davis to Warwick, Jameson to Harnett, Koehn to Hunter, Harnett to Hunter, McCreary to Davis.
Hits - 13 off Harney in 9 1-3 innings.
Struck out - By Harney, 1; by Nicol, 6; by Peters, 3.
Bases on balls - by Harney, 3; by Nicol, 2; by Peters, 1.
Wild pitch - Harney.
Stolen bases - Jameson, 4; Lester, 2; Hunter, Nicol, Westerman, Jackson, Davis, Fritz, Cook.

June 11, 1943

 Rockford Morning Star

Rockford Peaches Defeat Kenosha By 7 To 2 Score

Olive Little Hurls No-Hit For Winners

2 Teams to Windup Series Tonight At Stadium

With Olive Little, the Rockford Peaches star hurler from Canada, tossing a no-hitter at the stadium last night the Rockford team took the edge over the Kenosha Comets in the present series with a 7 to 2 victory. The win gave Rockford two wins and one defeat in the three games played here so far. The two teams end the series at the stadium tonight with Rockford going to South Bend for four games, a doubleheader on Sunday.

Both of Kenosha's runs came as gifts, the result of walks, stolen bases and an error. To start the game Little walked Jameson who promptly stole second and third, scoring when the Rockford pitcher cut loose with a wild pitch. Little struck out the side in the second inning but started the third with another walk to Jameson who again pilfered second and third, registering on Davis' error. After that the visitors never threatened to score on Little, she having the game well in hand the rest of the way out.

The Peaches scored a run in the last half of the first on four hits by Jackson, Burmeister, Warwick and Fritz. They came back with two more in the second on hits by Green, Warwick and Davis mixed up with a stolen base and an error.

Held scoreless for the next for innings the Peaches broke into the win column in the seventh on a single by Warwick, a stolen base and a bingle by McCreary. Rockford's big scoring frame was in the eighth when Green walked, Little singled, Jackson drew a life on an error with Burmeister cleaning the bases with a booming triple, adding three runsto bring the Peaches' total to seven. Warwick and Davis swung the big war clubs tonight, each getting three hits, one of Burmeister's going for three bases.

BOXSCORE
Kenosha (2)						Rockford (7)
	AB	R	H	O	A		AB	R	H	O	A
Jame'n cf	2	2	0	2	0	Jackson lf	5	3	1	4	0
Ruhnke ss	2	0	0	1	1	Bur'ter cf	4	1	2	2	0
Har'tt 3b	2	0	0	5	2	War'ick 3b	5	0	3	1	2
Mick'n rf	3	0	0	0	0	Davis ss	4	1	3	2	0
Hunter 1b	4	0	0	5	1	Fritz rf	4	0	1	0	1
Holle lf	3	0	0	1	0	M'Creary 1b	3	0	1	8	0
Lester 2b	2	0	0	2	3	Wueth'h 2b	4	0	0	0	0
O'H'a 3b ss	3	0	0	3	1	Green c	3	1	1	10	1
West'n c	3	0	0	5	1	Little p	4	1	1	0	1
Ben-tt p	3	0	0	0	1
Totals	27	2	0	24	10	Totals	36	7	14	27	5
Score By Innings
Kenosha ..................... 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 2
Rockford ..................... 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 3 x - 7
Summary:
Errors - Davis McCreary, Lester, O'Hara, Westerman, Bennett (2).
Three base hits - Burmeister.
Left on base - Rockford 10, Kenosha 3.
Double play - McCreary (unassisted).
Wild pitch - Little.
Balk - Bennett.
Base on balls - Little, 5; Bennett, 2.
Struck out - by Little, 8; by Bennett, 2.
Sacrifice hits - Burmeister, Fritz.

June 10, 1943

Rockford Morning Star

Kenosha Evens Series By Defeating Rockford 7-5

Victory Puts Comets Ahead Of Local Team

Two Teams To Clash Again Tonight At Stadium

Rallying after the Rockford Peaches had taken a 2 to 0 lead, to bunch hits in four innings the Kenosha Comets evened the series with the local team by grabbing off last night's decision 7 to 5. Rockford won the opening game of the series 11 to 8 Tuesday night. The same two teams clash in the third tilt of the series tonight at 8 o'clock.

After three scoreless innings Rockford broke into the run column in the fourth frame, scoring two runs. A single by Jackson, who promptly stole second, following by a three-base smash by Warwick, counted the first marker. Warwick registered when Nicol uncorked a wild pitch.

Kenosha came back to tie it up in the first of the fifth on hits by Jameson, Ruhnke and O'Harra, a stolen base by the latter and a sacrifice hit by Nicol, counting two runs. Hunter tripled to start the sixth inning, scoring on an infield out to give the Comets a one-run lead. They widened the margin in the next stanza when hits by Mickelson, Hunter and Holle, along with an error by Davis and three pilfered sacks gave them three more markers and a 6 to 2 lead. A walk, a sacrifice hit, a stolen base and an error gave Kenosha its final run in the eighth.

The Peaches barged back in the eighth to count twice, scoring on hits by Jackson, Warwick, Davis and Nelson and free transportation to Burmeister. Rockford added its last run in the last of the ninth when Nelson doubled and scored on Ruhnke's error.

Dorothy Hunter, Kenosha's first baseman, was the batting star of the tilt with a single, double and triple to her credit. Warwick led the Peaches with a single and a double.

BOXSCORE
Kenosha (7)						Rockford (5)
	AB	R	H	O	A		AB	R	H	O	A
Jame'n cf	5	2	1	2	0	Jackson lf	5	1	2	2	0
Ruhnke ss	5	0	1	1	2	Bur'ter cf	3	1	0	1	1
Mick'n rf	5	1	1	1	1	War'k 3b	4	1	2	3	5
Hunter 1b	6	2	3	6	0	Davis ss	4	0	2	2	2
Holle lf	5	0	2	2	0	Fritz rf	4	0	0	0	0
Lester 2b	5	0	2	2	3	Mc'y 1b	4	0	0	11	0
O'Hara 3b	3	2	1	5	0	W'rick 2b	4	0	0	3	1
West'n c	3	0	0	6	0	Green c	2	0	0	3	1
Nicol p	3	0	0	2	2	Nelson c	2	1	2	0	0
						Skokus p	1	0	0	1	2
						Cook p	2	1	0	1	1
Totals	41	7	11	27	8	Totals	35	5	8	27	13
Score By Innings
Kenosha ..................... 0 0 0 0 2 1 3 1 0 - 7
Rockford ..................... 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 1 - 5
Summary:
Two base hits - Hunter.
Three base hits - Hunter, Warwick.
Wild pitch - Skokus, Nicol.
Stolen Bases - Ruhnke, Westerman, Holle, Nicol.
Struck out - By Skokus, 3; by Nicol, 4.
Bases on balls - Cook, 1; Nicol, 2.
Hits - off Skokus 9 in 7 2-3 innings.
Double plays - O'Hara to Lester.
Umpires: Ullenberg and Porter.
Time - 1:35.

November 25, 1947

Rockford Register-Republic

2 Peaches on All-Star Team

Kamenshek and Harrell Picked by Managers

Two members of the Rockford Peaches, Dotty Kamenshek at first base and Snookie Harrell at shortstop, have been named to the 1947 all-star team of the All-American Girls Baseball league, it was announced today at league headquarters in Chicago.

The all-star team, selected by managers in the league, named Doris Sams, Muskegon pitcher who doubles as an outfielder, as "player of the year." The complete list of all-stars

1b - Dotty Kamenshek, Rockford.
2b - Sophie Kurys, Racine.
3b - Mary Reynolds, Peoria.
Ss - Snookie Harrell, Rockford.
OF - Erythe Perlick, Racine, Audrey Wagner, Kenosha, and Jo Lenard, Muskegon.
C - Ruth Lessing, Grand Rapids.
P - Mildred Earp, Grand Rapids, Anna May Hutchison, Racine, and Dottie Mueller, Peoria.

Directors of the Peaches held their annual business meeting last night, and, as predicted, elected a new president to succeed Harry M. Hanson, who has headed the club for four years. The new president is Attorney Wilbur E. Johnson, an active figure in the Rockford club for several seasons.

Other Officers

Dewey W. Lundquist, president and general manager of Blackhawk Furniture Company, is the Peaches' vice president: Arthur Lundahl of State-Madison Recreation, was reelected secretary, and Phillip Peterson, president of Third National bank, was reelected treasurer. Carl Glans was reelected business manager.

New directors include Bill Edwards, who finished out last season as team manager, and Raymond M. Alden of Globe Imperial. Returning directors are Hubert Brauning, vice president of operations for the Central Illinois Electric & Gas company: Del Hilvers of the firm of Hilvers and O'Connor, real estate brokers and tax consultants: Andrew Charles, vice president of National Lock, and Elmer Bergren, Bergren Plumbing and Heating Supply company.

Selection of Edwards as a director was taken as evidence that he will not manage the Peaches on the field again. Edwards, who obtained a temporary leave of absence from the utilities to fill in during an emergency last summer, brought the Peaches out of their slump so effectively that the club has indicated it would be glad to have him back on the job next summer. Edwards, however, has expressed unwillingness to leave his utility post again.

Allington May Return

Whether Bill Allington, who managed the Peaches to one pennant, will be back is conjecturable. He is another whom the club would be glad to have, but last year was unable to leave his regular job in the movie industry on the west coast to return here.

Hanson, the retiring president, has headed the Peaches since the franchise was turned over to local interests, but for two years has been asking to be relieved of the job because of the press of his own business at Damascus Steel, of which he is president.

June 9, 1943

Rockford Register-Republic

Rockford Peaches Share Second Place in Girls' Pro League

Meet Kenosha Again Tonight

11-8 Win Over Comets Moves Rockford Team Into Tie With Racine

STANDINGS
	W	L	Pct.
South Bend .......	6	5	.545
Rockford ...........	6	6	.500
Racine ..............	4	4	.500
Kenosha ...........	4	5	.444
RESULTS TUESDAY
Rockford 11, Kenosha 8
South Bend at Racine, postponed
GAMES TONIGHT
Kenosha at Rockford
South Bend at Racine

By Dick Day
(Register-Republic Sports Editor)

Now sharing second place with Racine in the All-American Girls professional softball league, Rockford's Peaches tonight renew hostilities at the 15th avenue stadium here with the Kenosha Comets, whom they licked, 11-8, last night in a free-hitting contest, which from the standpoint of all-around performance and flights of oratory, ranked as the best offering presented on the local field since the league produced its Rockford opener last week-end.

Rockford has now won six games for a .500 average, an identical percentage to that posted by Racine on the strength of 4 wins and 4 losses. Racine's game with South Bend at Racine was postponed last night.

Meanwhile the Rockford girls and their Kenosha guests were putting on a rousing exhibition that included 25 hits, five of them for extra bases, and several displays of elocution. As a result of one of the debates, Rockford Manager Eddie Stumpf and his third baseman, Mildred Warwick, watched the last two and two-thirds innings from the aisle leading to the dressing rooms.

Umpire Wins This One

Mildred thought that she had put the ball on Pitcher Elise Harney as the latter stampeded into third, and so did Stumpf. Umpire Charles Ullenberg couldn't see it that way, though, and in a few seconds he was surrounded by a bevy of chattering girls. As usual the umpire won the decision, and the discussion ended with Kenosha scoring three runs in that inning, the seventh.

Those three runs, however, failed to balance the 11 runs that the Peaches had plucked prior to the seventh. Outfielder Lillian Jackson opened the Rockford scoring by getting hit by a pitched ball in the first and coming home on Betty Jane Fritz's single to left. In the third the Rockford girls picked up a cluster of three runs as the result of a pair of triples by Eileen Burmeister and Warwick, coupled with a double by Gladys Davis and a sacrifice by Ethel McCreary.

The fourth was a tough inning for Kenosha's Harney, for the Peaches touched her for five hits and stole a couple of bases to garner five runs. Two more runs in the fifth saw the end of the Rockford scoring for the evening.

Comets Score 3 in First

Rockford's Marjorie Peters had her own troubles, too. Kenosha touched her for four hits, one a triple by Mickey Mickelsen, in the first inning and collected three runs. The Comets went scoreless from then on until the aforementioned seventh, however, when they netted another trio of runs. In the ninth, with a pinchhitter operating for Pitcher Harney, they collected four more singles and two runs, but Peters put a period to the rally by marking Mabel Halle hit to Fritz in short right field for the out that ended the game.

Determined on holding the advantage that last night's win gained for his team in the league standings, Stumpf was believed likely to lead off tonight against Kenosha with his Canadian star, Olive Little. If Olive, who won a 5-4 decision from South Bend on Monday, is not ready to go Josephine Skokan, the slow ball artist from Chicago is likely to get the call.

Manager Josh Billings of Kenosha probably will nominate either Catherine Bennett or Helen Nicol to do the Comets hurling.

BOXSCORE
Kenosha (8)						Rockford (11)
	AB	R	H	O	A		AB	R	H	O	A
Ja'son cf	4	1	1	2	0	Jack'n lf	4	3	2	3	0
Ruhnke ss	2	1	0	1	2	Bur'r cf-ss	3	2	2	1	1
Mick'n rf	5	1	2	1	0	Sawyer cf	0	0	0	1	0
Koehn 3b	4	0	1	2	1	War'ck 3b	4	1	2	3	1
Halle lf	5	0	1	1	0	Davis ss-3b	4	2	1	3	3
Lester 2b	4	0	1	2	0	Fritz rf	4	1	2	1	0
O'Hara 1b	4	2	2	9	1	M'Cre'y 1b	4	0	2	10	0
West'an c	4	1	1	5	2	Wuet'h 2b	4	0	1	2	3
Harney p	3	1	2	1	3	Green c	3	0	0	2	0
Hunter x	1	1	1	0	0	Peters p	4	2	1	1	2
Totals	36	8	12	24	9	Totals	34	11	13	27	10
x - batted for Harney in 9th.
Score By Innings
Kenosha ..................... 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 2 - 8
Rockford ..................... 1 0 3 5 2 0 0 0 x - 11
Summary
Errors - Koehn 2; Westerman, Harney, McCreary, 2.
Two base hits - Davis, McCreary.
Three base hits - Mickelson, Burmeister, Warwick.
Left on bases - Kenosha,3 ; Rockford, 7.
Struck out - by Peters, 1; by Harney, 4.
Baes on balls - Peters, 1; Harney, 4.
Double plays - Wuetrich (unassisted: Lester to Koehn; Peters to Warwick.
Stolen bases - Jackson, Warwick, Wuetrich, Peters.
Sacrifice hits - Jameson, Ruhnke, Burmeister, Fritz, McCreary.

June 8, 1943

Rockford Register-Republic

Kenosha Comets Open Series at 15th Avenue Stadium Tonight

Rockford and S. Bend Divide

Rockford Girls Lose Windup After Taking Opening Game, 5-4

By Dick Day
(Register-Republic Sports Editor)

Unable to lift themselves above the .500 level in the percentage column since their recent four-game winning streak was snapped just before their return to the home ball yard, Rockford's Peaches make another bid to regain lost ground tonight when they open a series with Josh Billing's Comets from Kenosha at the 15th avenue stadium here.

Winners of five out of eleven games and down towards the bottom of the standings in the All-American Girls softball league, the Rockford Peaches hope to use the Kenosha series as a stepping stone to front rank position. They won two out of three from Kenosha in an appearance there last week and, due to the tightness of the league race, are only one game out of first place right now.

They might have been even nearer the top today but for a bad second inning last night in the windup of a double-header here with South Bend. The Rockford girls won the opener, 5-4, but after yielding 5 runs to the Blue Sox in the second canto of the afterpiece, never recovered their poise and ended up on the short end of a 12-2 count.

Outfield Star

The green-clad Comets are likely to give the Peaches some trouble with their comeback plans tonight, too, for Billings, the old Cleveland and Detroit catcher and former farm manager for the Giants, has assembled a slick aggregation at Kenosha.

One of the real "stars" of the Comet lineup is the smallest girl in the league, Center Fielder Shirley Jameson of Maywood, daughter of Tuffy Jameson, former Western league and St. Louis Browns hired hand. Shirley already is rated as the best outfielder in the league, size notwithstanding.

Ann Hartnett of Chicago is one of the league's top third base guardians, and in Elsie Harney of Jacksonville, the Comets have a fast-ball pitcher of real merit.

Peters Starts Tonight

Eddie Stumpf, the Rockford manager, will lead off with one of his topflight twirlers tonight when the Kenosha series starts, having given the nod today to Marjorie Peters. The Peaches, however, will be without the services of one of their regular outfielders, Dorothy Kamenshek. Dotty left for her home in Cincinnati today to get her high school diploma and will rejoin the team at South Bend on Saturday. Stumpf also announced the release of Rella Swamp, infielder from Milwaukee.

The opening game of last night's twin bill with South Bend gave Olive Little, the Canadian pitcher, a chance to make her debut to home town fans in style, and she set the Blue Sox down with a pair of hits.

The Rockford girls scored twice in the opening frame, Betty Jane Fritz slashing a single to right field to bring home Eileen Burmeister and Mildred Warwick. They picked up another in the third inning, Gladys Davis scoring on Fritz's infield out, after having been given free passage to first and advanced by means of a walk and a stolen base.

Score Two in Fifth

Warwick singled and Davis walked to open the fifth and both scored on Lois Florreich's error in handling Ethel McCreary's tap. South Bend scored one run in the fifth without benefit of a hit, and three more in the sixth with the aid of two hits, a walk, a hit batsman and a passed ball. The first game was a seven-inning affair.

The South Bend team batted around in the second inning of the afterpiece when a pair of hits and four Rockford errors gave them a total of five runs. Rockford got one run back in the second frame, Davis again scoring, this time on McCreary's infield out. A walk two infield singles and a couple of rollers gave South Bend three more runs in the third inning. Davis scored again for Rockford in the fourth on Fritz's fly to right field after having reached first by the error route, but South Bend pushed two more runs across in the fifth and tallied one more in the eighth before quitting for the evening.

Clara Cook, the Rockford southpaw, was relieved in the ninth after having yielded six hits and being made the victim of bobbies behind her. Doris Barr, the South Bend southpaw, went the route.

Tonight's game starts at 7:30. Last night's box scores:

FIRST GAME
South Bend (4)				Rockford (5)
	AB	R	H		AB	R	H
Wilson lf	4	0	0	Jackson lf	4	0	1
Stefani 2b	3	0	0	Burmeister 2b	3	1	1
Floreich 3b	4	0	0	Warwick 3b	2	2	1
Hageman 1b	2	1	0	Kamenshek cf	2	0	0
D'Angelo cf	3	1	1	Fritz rf	3	0	1
MacLean c	2	2	0	McCreary	3	0	0
Jochum lf	3	0	1	Green c	3	0	0
Schroeder ss	1	0	0	Little p	3	0	0
McPadden p	2	0	0
Coben p	0	0	0
Barr x	1	0	0
Totals	25	4	2	Totals	25	5	4
x - batted for McPadden in 6th.
Score By Innings
South Bend ................. 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 - 4
Rockford ..................... 2 0 1   0 2 0   x - 5
Summary
Errors: Floreich 2, Davis 1.
Stolen bases - Stefani, Schroeder 2, McPadden, Jackson, Davis, Fritz.
Struck out by Little 7.
Bases on balls - Little 3, McPadden 6.
Hits off-McPadden 4.
Umpires - Ullenberg and Porter.
Double plays: Floerreich to Stefani, Tronnier to Hagemann, D'Angelo to Schroeder, Davis to McCreary.
Stolen base: Hageman.
Hits off Coben 7 in 7 2-3 innings.
Umpires: Ellenberg and Porter.

SECOND GAME
South Bend (12)				Rockford (2)
	AB	R	H		AB	R	H
Jochum lf	5	0	0	Jackson lf	4	0	1
Stefani 2b	5	1	0	Burmeister c	1	0	0
Floreich 3b	5	0	0	Green c	2	0	0
Hageman 1b	4	0	1	Nelson c	1	0	0
D'Angelo cf	4	3	3	Warwick 3b	4	0	0
Baker c	5	2	2	Davis ss	3	2	2
Barr p	4	3	0	Kamenshek cf-1b	3	0	1
Schroeder ss	5	2	1	Fritz rf	4	0	0
Tronnier rf	5	1	0	McCreary 1b	3	0	1
				Sawyer cf	1	0	0
				Wuetrich 2b	4	0	1
				Cook p	3	0	0
				Skokan p	1	0	1
Totals	42	12	7	Totals	34	2	6
Score By Innings
South Bend ................. 0 5 3 0 3 0 0 1 0 - 12
Rockford ..................... 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 - 2
Summary
Errors: Rockford 6, South Bend 1.
Two base hits - Baker, Schroeder.
Left on base - by South Bend, 5; by Rockford, 6.
Hit by pitcher - Cook 1.
Bases on balls - Cook 2, Barr 3.
Struck out - Cook 2, Skokan 1, Barr 3.
Hits - Cook 5 in 8 innings.