Girls' Softball Team To Open Home Season Tonight
Rockford To Tangle With Indiana Nine
To Seek Revenge For Three Defeats At South Bend
By Harry D. Milne
Morning Star Sports Editor
Rockford's entry in the All-American Girls Softball league will officially open the league season in Rockford this evening at the high school stadium when the Rockford Peaches tangle with the South Bend, Ind., team. The game is slated to start at 7:30 p.m.
Appropriate ceremonies will be held at the stadium with the flag raising and with the players and fans singing the "Star-Spangled Banner." The two teams of girl softball stars, attired in their natty uniforms, will march out onto the field and will form a big victory "V."
To Throw First Ball
The game will get underway with Mayor Henry Bloom tossing over - he hopes - the first ball to Ken Sells, president of the league. Tonight's game, as will all league games, will be nine innings with the girls playing under men's hardball rules and with nine players on each team.
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| C. Henry Bloom |
Dorothy Green of Boston, who reported to the team Thursday at Kenosha, will probably be behind the bat. Miss Green caught from the fourth inning on Thursday night and looked good. The Rockford team has been weak in the catching department regarding stolen bases but Green possesses a fine throwing arm and pilfering of bases by the opposition appears to be headed for disaster with her behind the bat.
Tonight's Lineup
The remainder of the Peaches tonight will probably see Lillian Jackson, Nashville, Tenn., in left field; Lorraine Wuethrick, Milwaukee, at second base; Mildred Warwick, Regina, Canada, at third base; Gladys Davis, Toronto, Canada, at shortstop; Dorothy Kamenshek, Cincinnati, center field; Betty Jane Fritz, Oshkosh, right field; Ethel McCreary, Regina, Canada, first base.
South Bend plays here tonight, Sunday night and Monday with Kenosha following the Blue Sox team of Indiana for four games June 8, 9, 10, 11. Following the Kenosha series the Rockford team leaves for South Bend for four games in three days. June 12, 13, 14, then going to Racine for its first encounter with the Belles, who are currently leading the league with three wins and one defeat through Thursday night. Rockford plays four games there in three days, ending the series June 18.
Rockford lost its first three starts with South Bend but came back to win the next two and the Peaches are anxious to take three out of four here from the Blue Sox to have the edge in the two series.
Kenosha Beats Rockford 15 To 5
(Special to The Morning Star)
KENOSHA, Wis., June 4 - The four game winning streak of Rockford's Peaches in the All-American Girls softball league was terminated here tonight when the Kenosha Comets snapped out of a three-game losing mood to salvage the final game of the series, 15 to 5.
Sixteen base hits rattled off the bats of the Comets who drove Oravets to the showers with four runs and one in the first, continuing the assault all through the game on Clara Cook. Elsie Harney of the Comets was nicked for 14 hits with Davis and Kamenshek each collecting three for Rockford.
Kenosha batted around in the first inning for 6 runs, added four in the second, one in the third and seventh and three in the eighth. Rockford, meanwhile, had one marker in the first, two in the third and one each in the fourth and seventh frames.
Ella Burmeister rapped a triple and scored four of Rockford's five runs.
| BOXSCORE | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rockford (5) | Kenosha (15) | ||||||||||
| AB | R | H | O | A | AB | R | H | O | A | ||
| Jack'n lf | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | Jam'n cf | 4 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| Swamp lf | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Ruhnke ss | 6 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
| B'ter 2b-c | 5 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | Mikck'en rf | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| War'k 3b | 6 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | Koehn 3b | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Davis ss | 5 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | O'Hara 1b | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 0 |
| Kam'ak cf | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | Lester 2b | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Fritz rf | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Holle lf | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| McC'y 1b | 5 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 0 | West'n c | 5 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 |
| Green c | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | Harney p | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| W'ich 2b | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| O'vets p | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Cook p | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Peters x | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Totals | 45 | 5 | 14 | 24 | 5 | Totals | 41 | 15 | 16 | 27 | 9 |
| x - batted for Green in 6th. Hit by pitched ball | |||||||||||
| Score By Innings | |||||||||||
| Rockford ................. 1 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 - 5 | |||||||||||
| Kenosha .................. 6 4 1 0 0 0 1 3 x - 15 | |||||||||||
| Errors: Burmeister, Davis, Ruhnke 2, O'Hara. | |||||||||||
| Three base hits: Ruhnke, Harney, Burmeister | |||||||||||
| Two base hits: Ruhnke | |||||||||||
| First on balls off Harney, 4: Oravets 2, Little 2. | |||||||||||
| Struckout by Harney 3, Little 5. | |||||||||||
| Double plays - Fritz, Davis. Umpires - Gembler, Green | |||||||||||
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