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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 3 Aug 1939, p. 8

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called Stolp siuggers to ive.,safetiés and three runs. Ail three runs were une:rned. Miiiot Kati stdoffped Stolp with, a sharp single, but died the succeeding hitters. After two men were out in thé last half of the firsi inning, Chuekl Morrison singled .and Warren 1Y, clean-Up man, socked one of Phil Corpers offer-, ings f or the circuit. From this point. on the Villa gers kçept hammeriflg away, gradually in- creaslng their lead. In the last hait of the sixth,4 with Malizio. on base, Joe Radke .poled a homer over, the right fielder's head. George Eisen- brand and Joe Huerter bit safeiy and scored in the samne inning as a resuit of some Stolp errors. The boys at the Village Green are pull- too can conquer Stôlp which will give the Village Green a chance to share top hônors. The Village Green Seniors mnade it two stralght for the weeks' worlc when they took the Vattmnan Seniors into camp 21 to il. A ten run rally i the fourth inning put the gamne on ice for the Village Green boys. Vattmnan Junior boys gave the Village boys a set back 17-5 and just about knockoed. out their chance of catching the Stolp juniors who lead the league. The team', standings July 28 are as folows: SENIORS W. L. Pet. Stolp...................~ 5 1 .88 Village Green........... 4 3 .571 Vattmafl Park ....... ...1 6 .143 JUNIORS W. L. 'Pct. Stoip Playground .....5 .883 Viflagè Green......3 .4 A29 Vaittman Park.........2 5 .286 TAB~LE TENNIS TOUItNEY The Wilmette Playground's annu- ai Viiiia<-wide Table Tennis tourn- AWULT SOFTBALL LEAGUE The Lynam's Sinclairs staged a four run rally in the sixth inning to defeat the C. 0. of, F. 10-6 ini the Aduit Softball league, and keep pace with Casa Lonma. -Both the Casa Loma and the Lynam's Sinclair have won seven straight games without a buss. The River Inn's came fror» týehind to defeat the iHornets 17-11. A nine. run rally in the last inning saved the day for~ the ~River Inns. The Hornets won a closely contested gaxne from the Wiimette Taiors 8-7. The Hornets led 6-2 at the end of the fifth inning. The Wiimette Tailors scored five runs in the sixth and seventh inning to take the lead 7-6. The Hornets then scored 2 runs in their hait of the seventh inning to win 8-7. Other scores were, Pandas 16, Wilmette Tailors, 7; Ed Richard's Carpets 10, Crosse and Blackwell 2; Pandaýv bed out weIl before being flled each morning. ,Enjoy Boat Race This week, on one of the warmest days, ail activities at the play- ground were stopped while we hiad a sail boat race in the pool. The contestants lined up their boats, which at the signal whistle were shoved from the edge by the owner. The rubes were not very clear to anyone so, the owners or bystand- ers tried to hurry their boat or a friend's boat along. by making .waves with. their hainds or feet. In- stead of heiping they made the boats turn around and come back to port. There was lots of cxcitement as the winnè rs drew in. to shore, on the opposite side of the pool. The winners of the first raceý were: ist, George Stone; 2nd. Fre d Koerber; 3rd. Jimmy Ramsey. Motor Boat Race, Too After the sali boat race there was a mntor boat race. Jim Fischer had The bail teamns1 were jubilant .this, week for, while the senior girls did notplay, the'Junior kickball team won from the Village ýGreen 17-7 and the Junior Boys won from Vil- lage Green. Lose Pisyiates Vattmnan. Park is very sad at los- ing tWo of its rnost regular att end- anýts littie P atty and Judy Ashworth The family movecl to Texas the. first of August, and weM said good-bye, to the two little girls. The last day they came wearing cute littie Sun bonnets that their mother- had un- earthed when beginning. to pack, Thèy had worn themn when only a year and a balf and two and a hall years old. They are only, 3 and 412 years old now, but each made a reed basket and payed with the group ahl the tirne, and we are sor- ry to lose themn for the coming playground years. Rap Returns Well, thank goodness Hap is back with us, yes, old man Appendicitis bas been licked and Hap Gather- coal, a director at Vattman Play- ground is back on his legs again. We have missed him a lot and we know he'h1 help us win the track meet. Tennis Tournarnent Play opened i the Wilmette Play- ground and Recreation second an- nual Village-wide Tennis tourna- ment hast week and several exciting matches were played. Robert Gruhn won a close match from Tom Mc- Cann in the men's singles 6-2, 7-9, 8-6. Gordon Wells won frorn Foster Gilges 8-6, 4-6, 7-5. George Arns, Jr., won the first set from Howard Jones 6-2 but could not stand the Pace and lout the next two sets 6-8 and 0-6. In the other first round, matches in the men's singles Rich- ard Josiin defeated Bili Terrihi f6-4, f

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