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.