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McHenry Plaindealer (McHenry, IL), 7 Aug 1941, p. 5

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rr-fr ft S#i <• ' ' r^mw-'"%:' EARL WALSH Johnsburg, Illinois. August 1, 1941* I Hear: | Why does the paper always write |9 the McHenry-Johnsburg games so Jjmuch ? Don't they always turn out the Shame? 7 | By the way, If that other McHenry fteam is so good, why dwiVthey play fthe "Tigerst" Yours 'til a McHenry team beats ohnsburg, "THfc BLOND TIGRESS." "Tigress": So you want as to write "ditto" fat the McHenry-lehnsborg We idea is fine, but the toss might want to know What the 'a-- he's paying us that thirty cents a \*eek exlor. Besides, if McHenry doesn't beaf ig^obotf one of these years, we plan get up « team to tani the trklt. Freund «nd "€«nq»y John** Ksris will form the battery. Utile Gkv.ny Wattles will play second, base. Larry Hack, an old third baseman | LaFlex, cf .... The local Forester ball team toured op to Harvard last Sunday afternoon rild made sure that nobody would Mike claimagainst their right to AM place in the county league final standings. Score: McHenry 8, Harvard 4. Harvard scored three runs before the local boys got any, but from the •third inning to the final out the situation was well in hand. Joe "Moose" Wagner clouter of the day, diivlhg out double and single. McHenry -- Wiser, ss Wagner, If ., Funk, 3b ... B. Britx, 2b H. Brits, If J. Wagner, cf..... ThurlweH, lb Freund, rf Howard, c „ Anderso|n, Total* Harvard Smith, lb G. Jones, 2b .-- V"i ^ •% from Relihan's Bogs, will- play the whole left side of the infield--thus allowing a bit of strategy. Yours truly will play first base . . and take all the normal throws. Wally Warner, an old veteran who played all positions, wilt also play first. Hell take the throws around tike feet! We won't need an outfield, but may | put "Bonura" Bolger out there just in incase a bad hop goes through Glenny's bow legs. What other McHenry J mean? Not - ;'J fidentially M the Shamrocks? Con- . those Shamrocks are itchin', for a chance at "the Tigers. Think you can fix things at that end 3jof the Una? . J Thanks for writing. Hope to liear from you again. , S.I.H. • '• ^ HM a card from Frank Meyer Mjjf .• ;,up Minnesota wiy. Says he went up I.^to a Flag Raising ceremony. Can't fool us on that. He's been out looking V ^for a special "B" battery. But, youH i--' have to ask Frank about that., See that new State of Illinois car thafc<Doctor Wheeler is driving? We are told that the colors are the Same as the U. of L colors, but if somebody doesn't yell "taxi" at the doctor, we'll miss a guess. Jackson, 3b J. Jones, e ..... Koch, rf ... A.-Wittmers, If Miller Noe, as Kottke .. ......... C. Wittmers, p Wittmers ......... Totals .... Two-base hits--Wiser, J. Wagner, do you I Anderson, A. Wittmers. Three-base . Those Republican boys tre making all sorts of changes, but they still haven't changed our population signs for McHeay. ^ . • -"I-- 1 Guess they havent looked around - our section (known as Quantity Hill) jor they'd start a new count. Maybe they think Leo Blake and Tony Freund live outside the city limits* - - v," With all this talk of the College All ^ i Star - Bears game a rumor stirs around about the fans selecting a local ' All-Star team to meet the high school squad. 'V I-- This is in the rumor stage, but keep - watch in this column. Naturally such r ;an idea needs the sanction of school officials. There are always angles to any plan, but well give this the try-angle. If those Pirates don't come up' lis win that National League pennant, at least the winners will feel a hot breese on the back of their necks. Word comes in that our "S. B. C." is learning to drive a car. After all these years! Makes us think of John Sutton's song -- "Clear the way . . . Look out for Shay . . • And his old ; automobile . . he bought the other day." It's a relief to read that the University of Illinois has filthily made some settlement* in their athletic feodhi'. Doug Mills|* f ormer Elgin- star athlete, takes qver the steering wheel at our state university wif$ all good wishes from thpee who have followed his Steps in the field of sports. • • I Anybody seen Vera HanrtsopT^lbu'd think he'd write;' '• <*- " Betty TCrtz, Marion K*m* and"Bar* | bara nil# went up to Lotos Beds and came home «Mi some daisies. No. Guess they said liiiies. --"I"*" Local sportsmen - who have been S anxious for sqphrrel season to open ; had batter poliirii their guns another three -weeks. Season opens September 1 this year. Bet yov couldn't direct anybody to "Harrison's Point" at Pfstakee. t1 We did not receive a box fieere on the Johnsburg - Crystal Lake game of last Sunday, but we saw the game and can tell you that it ended after seven ! innings with Johnsburg leading about 23 to 7. --I-- Crystal Lake attempted to put a catcher back in the game after he had (been replaced and parked on the bench for several innings. --«- We doubt if it would have made any difference in the final outcome, but Jhe Johnsburg boys wouldn'A .CQtj-gept Jo the move. •• 1 •" Well, the fans didn't stfen to mind, being gyped a couple of innings. It was supper time, anyhow. --I-- We'd like to stick in our two cents right here to give the McHenry team and manger a pat on the back for climbing into third place after a dismal start in the county league. ^ . -- -f-- The summer seems to be breezing past in a hurry. .Have you counted the shopping days til ChristmSet - hit--J. Wagner. Home run--B. Britz. Biases on balls--off Wittmers, 3; off Kottke, 1; off Anderson, 2. Struck out--by Kottke, 5; by Anderson, 6. DOWELL AMD OOKWAY T.iin SHAMROCKS TO WIN OVER WHEATON Pete Dowell and Dick Conway led the Shamrocks to'an easy victory Over Wheaton Sunday. Pete smashed out five hits and Dick four in the Shamrocks 18-4 win. Jim Larkin pitched five innings and allowed one run on a single hit. "Lefty Ed" Blake surrendered two hits in the last four frames. The Shamrocks will play host to the St. Charles Merchants Sunday. "Big Jim" Larkin will go after his thirteenth win of the season against the i Kane County outfit. The Shamrocks will play the Johnsburg Tigters at Johnsburg in the near future. No date has been set for the eauoe. cause of the league playoffs. ^ Wheaton -- 4 Stevens, 8b .. Atens, ss w.... Johnson, 2b ... McCollum, cf , Lyman, lb .... Gunderson, If , Voight, rf ..... Bauler, rf '....... Faulksen, p ... Sico .... Grotteau, p, Payer, c be- Totals Shamrocks -- |t ' I Conway, tb W. Bolger, e P. Dowell, rf T. Bolger, 2b - ss J. Larkin, p - 2b ...... G. Larkin, lb . H. Stilling, If H. Dowell, ss Blake, p B. Dowell, c( Crouch, If - lb AB R H 0 »...« * 1 .....8 • a ....J 4 * l ^-4 $ 0 ....A k 1 l • 0 .....2 • 0 ...J • , 0 ..~.l 9 0 ....J 0 0 4 • 0 „J&4 * 4 8 AB m H t 4 .--4 « 2 .....6 ' s 6 I 1 '* - 2 4 1 .... ± # 2 -...8 i V r * 0 i 2 --8 « 1 Totals ...»-- ----.48 IS 21 9cd»t by Innings Wheaton . ..100 002 001-- 4 8 4 Shamrocks 524 030 22x 18 tl 8 Two-base hits -- Tom Bolger, Pete Dowell, Jerry Larkin. Three-base hits--Dick Conway. Struck out by Larkin, ?; by Blake, 2; by Faulksea, 2; by Grotteau, 1. Bases on balls-- off Larkin, 1; off Blake. 1; off Faulk sen, 5. Umpires--Sico, Weber. J TIGERS MEET OWNS * IN COUWTY LEAGUE PLAY-OFF TOURNEY Manager Bill Althoff' of the local Forester nine attended a" baseball meeting at Algonquin Monday night to help plan the play-off games in the County amateur league. The Johnsburg Tigers, who topped the league during the season, will meet the Algonquin Owns team next Sunday in the first half of a double, header on the Crystal Lake diamond. Hebron will meet Richmond in the second game. The two other first division teams, McHenry and Woodstock will meet on the following Sunday. Harvard will meet Crystal Lake in the second half of that double bill. Winner to State Teurney The eventual winner of the games played by the first division teams will enter the state tournament at Sycamore. Next Sunday the Tigers will face Julius "Tubby" Simonini in what promises to be a battle all the way. Bill Kreutzer, who has shown remarkable form this season, will twirl for the Johnsburg team in their bid to stay on top of the heap. The game next Sunday wili start at 1:30 p.m. Mrs. Mike Schaefer and daughter, Loretta, of Crystal Lake visited relatives here Tuesday. The latter is enjoying a vacation from her studies at St. Therese School^ of Nursing at Waukegan. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Weber and sons. Jack and Robert, are on a trip through the North. They exjpect to - - • - **»»**'*• • Hunter Ligget Res. July 28, 1941. Gentlemen: Just a note thanking yon for yoerf kind co-operation and thoughtfulness in forwarding the boys in service that timely town, tattler tissue, The Plaindealer, and I think I can speak for everyone on your mailing list, that oext to a letter from home, yours is the moot welcome news. People at home and especially old soldiers-, are wondering what life hi Army camps is like these days. Well, all I can say is things happen so fast and furious that remembering single incidents is all but impossible. Only major happenings are. embosesd in my memory, for instance, my first meeting with the old Pacific. In regard to the latter, we were practicing beach landings from about a quarter mile off shore. As planned,, we were lowered from thf lee side,1 which happened to be our starboard and landward side. Being protected for the moment by the graceful ship, we proceeded to pull away and toward shore. All went well until reaching the outlying calm waters end, where the churning, angry ses begsn to pitch and roll our over-crowded boat. About this time we were nearing that very trickish last two hundred yards where the sea begins to roll and form hups breakers that thunder into shore and threaten to smash the v^ry beach away. Our boat began edging sideways with the oncoming waves despite all efforts. Before I realized the danger I was sailing overboard, as were the rest. Until that time I had never been in water that seemed full of rolling hills, but soon became very used to it. My first thought as I reached the crest of an oversized ripple was the whereabouts of our boat. I was not long in thinking, for as I tumbled and somersaulted from my lofty perch, something seemed to rise and meet me. It met me all right, smack dub on my outstretched abdomen. The good old terra firma that we had intended to take in a vertical position took me in a horizontal one. Happenings such as this make you forget the trivial everyday experiences and always furnish a part of our night life, where we gather around barracks or a post exchange and relate our thoughts to each other. We are very fortunate out hero. ( Our camp is located near a number of j large cities, such as Carmel, Monterey, ] and Salaines. The boys can go to town and indulge in a few drinks or maybe dance to a well known, band. Congestion is not felt here as in other encampments where large concentrations seek the relief from camp life by visiting tile nearby towns of, say a few hundred population. And as a result,1 soon become a ^regular nuisance by hanging on street corners and over populating the various hangouts. You people at home think time passes slowly here in service, but quite to the contrary. This seventh division is a field army, so it spends most of Its time at war games. Therefore, such problems as one would meet in actual combat are gone over and carried out to minute detail. Now and then I run into McHenry's little round man, Tony Wolf. He is a member of Headquarters company and is doing his bit at a switchboard. During our last maneuvers I bumped into Tony out near Jolon. It had been an awfully hot day, so towards evening I set out in search of a place to bathe. It didn't take me long to find a cool mountain stream, so as I followed it I came upon a bridge the en gineers had constructed, over which a huge Eucalyptus tree affording the only shads available for about a mile. I proceeded to yank off my uniform bit by bit when I heard a faint buzzing from the vicinity of that tree. All I could think of at the moment was that the Red Forces were in here giving out information. So I crept up to a vantage point where I could overlook what was happening, and whom do I see but our little round man, just as busy as a bee. His hands were going this way and that, plugging in wires and checking calls. 1 yelled to him and he grumbled a few words and went on working. All in all, he waa just too busy doing his job for Uncle Sam to greet an old pal. Well, I believe I've told enough for one note so I'll add just one more tiling. I hope the other boys in service are getting as much out of this one year (as it started out to be) as I Mb * pfinte Loren G. Mill%4 32nd Inf. Co. Service, , " . Fort Ord, California. JVfl HOME "Bring me some cold porridge," •aid the soldier to the waitress. "Bum some toaft to a cinder," he added. "Fry two eggs and serve them on a dirty plate. Make the coffee so that it tastes like mud and bring it in a cradwd cup so that it drips down my Chin when I drink it." The concoction came--and the puzzled waitresa askod: "Is there anything more?" "Yes," said the soldier. "Now sit 4o«q and nag me. I'm homesick." Bcvmge 4 Small boy was t© celebrste Ms birthday frith • party in th» garden. Me had had a quarrel with one of his friends, BiBy, and did not .invite him. Hit mother insisted that Billy should be tiivited. The iittie heat called upon his former friend. "Will yov come to my garden party tomorrow?" he asked. "It's too late now," answered Billy; "last night I prayed for a bliMMd." i Capacity "That's fine, Zack!" declared Grandpa, adjusting his ear trumpet. "Your woman weighs 315 pounds and takes food like a canary?" "No, Grapdpa!" shouted Zack. "I said Martfc* weighs 3S0 pounds, wad takes food like a CANNERY F . TO GET HE FACTS visit Canada Word has been received that Private Alvin Miller, who was stationed at Fort Sheridan after his induction into the army, was transferred last Wednesday to a branch of the Infantry at Camp Wheeler, Ga. Miller, who was a native and a resident of Ringwood, had been employed by A. P. Freund of McHenry as a Diesel Cateipillar operator ^ the time of his departure. Camp Lee, Va, > . August 2, 1941." Dear SHd *'• * A line or two to convey my thanks for The Plaindealer received this week. Camp Lee is located about twentyfive miles from Richmond and there are many places of interest withifl shert distance from here. 5 Truly yours, Private James E. V 2nd Battalion, 7th Q. M. Regiment, . ' -0* v; Camp Lee, Virginia. Mrs. Bessie Sfefcik, Mrs. Frank Vales, Miss Virginia Vales and Miss Charlotte Wagner of Chicago were guests Sunday in the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Marshall. Gregory Cairns was a Crystal Lake caller Saturday. Rosemary Denning began studies this week in St. Joseph's School of Nursing at Elgin. She is one of a "Don't you think a man's character can be found out by reading his palm?" "A better way^s to ask hie ueifli» bors, I think." Kegaiaed Health Quickly The over-catttiou* visitor, with several imaginary diseases, was registered at dM resort hotel. "But is (ni# a koally healthful place?" he asked the desk clerk for the th|rd time. "Absolutely," smiled the clerk. "This season a man was carried in here on a stretcher. After two weeks he ran away without paying his biiL" a*#':*; - 1 * -- j j* j - . * ' . Wit Ifcln a * "In New York," he said, "they have e company that does nothing but answer yhoae calls for other people." "Shucks," said the man with three pretty daughters, *Tve "been doing that for years, myself^ Trouble - "What's wrong with these shoes, boy?" asked the More clerk. "No matter how I fold my feet," explained the strapping courtly , lad, "I can't get 'em in." •is Life'; Watching the doughnut-making machine in the window,- toe golfer sighed: "How easily it makes a hole-in-one." •aagerowft Practice "My mm wants to be a racing motorist. What shall 1 do?" *1 wouldn't stand in his wep»¥< NO TKMFKE "That prima donna is said to have a nasty temper." "Sh, artists don't have tempers. They have temperaments." K| I A Safe Place Fitt--You know, no matter where I keep my money, the missus always finds it. Hitt--My wife never finds mine. I keep it in .the basket with my undarned socks. • tf;:, { Stop Strongly AdvtsahlM Lady--Conductor, does this train stop at San Francisco? Conductor--Well, if it doesn't lady, there's going to be one terrible splash. ef heavy Mack Bengalee is ana ef fee newest numbers far late CsM wee?. Vie Isager Jacket a4ds giaeetel Mass, as skewn by fee pretty n«Mv Priedto Lane, B«Hhne< Us star. pockets, reaaftoA at an* lour large naB encrusted are Interesting trim COAMTJUtASUW. OKAPTLSS JJEH When IrAMtefAefe the giant Spaniard^ duHSsplifee ropes at Pfcg's Arer«v1n«jntill% August 8, he will be seeking to prolong his winning streak against Jim McMillen of ' Henry Bueh, 15-year-old sen of Mr, and Mrs. H. E. Buch, out-raced cars last Saturday afternoon t# Wfas Antioch in a sixtytmiante windup bout! r£n™aI ^cHenry C°m*9 that heads the wgnla*all-star weekly » ™ ^ nW card at the Graysiakenrena located at nZ. * Woodstock. ^ routes 54 nd 120. Martinet is the big I tr L* ** youngster who raised the fans to a 'trophy> donated by the Chevrolet comfrenzy last Friday when he smashed all the opposition out of toOgh and rugged G<ailla Grubmypr in a record four minutes. . In the semi-windup position, Michele Leone, Italian grappler of no littlr 1 fame will be taxed to the extreme1 jj^ pany, as a distinction for his successful effort. A large crowd, estimated at 1,040 persons, Witnessed the sfSedy race. The winner will enter the national races at Akron, Ohio, August 17. Congratulations, Henry . . .And, when he faces powerful Scelie Samara ! in a thirty mintue time limit bout. | One of the rwrtatnipg preliminaries ' brings Gerard* Laoth eif Naperville ' who has been bothWlijifHIH promoters 1 for a chance, a gjdttMajUiah. The remaining bout ' tajdia ;^«e Millkrh 1 against flashy Jack ^kfrboorn that good luck at Akron! ! j Mrs. Edward Holle of Oak Park and:. , Mrs. Celia Knox of Crystal Lake eall- 1 ed in the home of their parents, Mr/ and Mrs. Martin Conwa/, Sunday, j John Retondo, who has been em- , ployed at the Ringwood Chemical eor- , jporation, returaed to Chicago Sundays shotdd be plenty ftrons start lb ^ vorir for the company there, finish. 1 TEDDY PrraroANB MANA0S 5 rALL-STARS KITTEN-SOFT COAT y Pitmen m&n&ger of the Johnsburg Tigers, and the Ale mite manager, Bob Woods, have been named to n*anagi.4he McHenry County All-Stars in » gmfee with the Kane County All-Stars at Sycamore, August 18, in a night game. • • Both ma&fcgers guided their teann successfully all season and ended up in the 1-2 spots In the county league. Three players from each county team will be picked, giving the managers a chance tb choose a starting lineup from this group. 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