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
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.
