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:' ' B 1' ' I 'V; %ifv 'i::- ,.*}•••'. i by EARL R. WALSH ffe'/ < Harold Lard, whom McHenry fani will ret--mbf as tpute a baakatball plnv, «tn tha stats dbci honora at ChiMptipi in tba state pnp track meat Lett's mark was 145 fast, 2% inches. Paul Bafcaa, another Cry»tal Laka athlete, to--ad tha record distance in 1942 whan ha was Ii :\"K . m measured at 184 Ifeet, S% inches Thoaa Sdmafar Girls won't bowline. Thar . beat the >boyaM4 to 2267 last Thnzaday, then loat a rematch on Snndaj night 24S1 to 2280. Jim Frisby came up with a 246-204-162-602 series Snnday night. Ambrose Schaafer ahootin' for 600, bat mised by 12 .pins. Dorothy Schaefer led the girls in both, matches with 471 and 476 series. Mary Satton's 467, Ethel Fretmd*s 466 and Bra Hoyte's 180- 442 draw honorable mention. Edith Band had 4B7 in the first match, bat we want tell about that Snnday score. It most be a habit. Johnsbarg scored seren runs in each of their games so far this season. They beat Richmond 7-4, McHenry 7-6 and Crystal Lake 7-6. in to stop the game iunday between the Sham- IB SO 2 M0lm4Y Trailing on tha short « • to S seoca idai into n inning a\ Crystal Laka laat 8anday, JohaiDQrf'a baseball team pot aeroaa two rana to edge oat & 7 to 6 victory. George Jackson, who had a try-out in tha Wiaconsin League, waa bade with Johutbarg and took oiw his old Job behind the bat. Ted Pltaan roamed his old familiar spot in left field. Crystal Lake collected only six hits IF roomas and Anderson, bat Johnsfire errors. team is winning the league. Rain ste] here last rocks and Richmond. Hebron was 1k rained out at Algonquin. For some! g*™™* lb reason the elements favored teams «t Cry«tal L«k. „d Hunt- 1 TV "WarriMs" defeated Woodsfeoek here Monday by % score of 16 to 2. "Soni^ Mfite did a Una Job of pitching for McHenry allowing only two ldts. Woodstock used two pitchfa. the first ana tasting ony one-third of the first taming. Extra base hits waca'plentifu for the "Wmion" with a home ran and a triple by lfarpfcy. •home ran and a doable by Fraud, triplee by Neiss and 8. MiUer and a-doabie by Wagner. One et Woodstock^ hits was a doable. The "Warriors" scored in every lhanr committed fi inning except the fifth. Woodstock! The Johiudmrg scored their two rana h the second, the close ones and on their two hits, an error and aj BOX SCO: walk. Woodstock reached baae in JOHNSBURG AB only the second and tha foarth and . Howie FTeond ss a- 5 the threat of scoring in the fourth IN. Smith 2b .--«... 5 was ended lqr a snappy doable play.! G. Jackson e ---- 4 | B. Meyers 8b 5 H • A. Jackson 0 2 T. Pitsen If 6 8 B. Miller cf 4 3 L. Freund rf 4 2! S. Freund lb 8 l1 Thomas p 2 21Anderson p ll TOTALS 88 ? ! CRYSTAL LAKE AB 0 Sc bauble rf 5 J. Higgins cf S Mavis p «... 4 Tipps c 4 Eibisch 8b 4 Krause ss 4 Tessendorf 2b ........ 5 Pokorny If 4 D. Higgins lb 4" McHENR* Knox If ... Murphy cf W. Mtller p L. Freund ss Wagner c Neiss Sb .. R. MUler if Reed lb Bockman lb Bsiaert 2b ~. King 2b TOTALS Mmmmii•) 87 WOODSTOCK Calahan ss <w Heddlebtant 8b Olson c .... Pugb If .... Stelnweihe rf .. Helm lb ... Dale 2b Bealer p R 1 2 0 • | "f' 0 • . R 1 1 0 0 0 1 OFF THS COURSE Crst prise with his 78-0-78 Bennett took second with SOFTBALL STARTS UNDER LIGHTS TONIGHT 14 H e 1 • i 0 8 0 1 Hie first round of the Spring Handicap got under way over the weekend with most of the players playing off their matches. As the deadline for completing the first round is not until Friday, May 24, two matchee still remain unplayed. Earl Seepe defeated Jim Downs 8 and 2 and will meet "Huppy" Smith next weekend. "Hup" defeated Vale Adams 2 and 1. Larry Williams defeated Johii Wrublewslri 4 and 8, thus earning himself s match with the winner of the Glenn Welty-Carl Schmidt match, which is still unplayed. "Willie" Green took "Tom** O'Connell 8 and 2 to enter into the next round with Harry Fawley' as his oppoaot. Fawley won his match on a default from "Andy" Anderson. The bottom bracket includes George Johnson, Jr., who defeated Dr. J. E. Shyler 1 up on 19 holes and the winner of the other unplayed match between Ralph Bennett and James Perkins. Huntley got into the win column - „ by trimming Harvard 10 to 4. Har-! p vard, one of the new teams in the! iyvtat a l e a g u e t h i s y e a r , h a s l o s t t h i a f e ' -- games without a win. Woodstock do' 000 0- 2 > Next Sunday Algonquin will play w the Shamrocks here AlgonSuin' Wagrates as one of the strong teams in r ^ HtS~ the league and will probably be lerLNeif r?°Se fighting hard for this game since P1 w " Freund. °u^e they are hot on the heels of Johns- Miller to Peisert to Reed. W for flrrt | r,C s ko0„ULb,ror^i1feV,^X:.e;; While we think of it. Bill Bolger li51lirhn p,tc^er^ reports that Richmond will come UmPires--T. Bolger and W. back to town on Memorial Day look-; ** " ' "v in* for sunshine and a chance to play ball. Remember that game. It's a "Holiday Special." TOTALS :.. 87 ° 6 6 Score by innings: JohnsSursr 010 810 002--7 Crystal Lake 000 240 000--4 Two-base hits -- Thomas. Struck out by--Mavis, 4; Thomas, 7; Anderson, 2. Bases on balls off--Mavis, 8; Thomas, 6; Anderson, 1. Winning pitcher--Anderson. Shot of the Earl Seepe holed out a three on the eleventh hole in his match with Jim Downs but the thing is it wasn't good enough. Jim hit a good drive and picked up his trusty eight iron and dropped it into the hole for a deuce and a eagle! That's shottin'! the much talked-about aoftball league is finally a reality. At a meeting of the managers last Thursday evening a schedule waa drawn up and George P. Freund and John Loose were elected president and secretary-treasurer, respectively. According to the schedule there will be a double header each Thursday night starting at 7:80. The fiftt game will be a twilight game and the other will be played under the lights. The high school field still needs a little work but the boys intend to take care of that shortly. The league championship will be determined by 3 rounds with a play-off of the winners of each round after September 19. The schedule for the first round is as follows: Schedule FIRST ROUND May 28--Case Eagles vs. Newsboys. Co-op's vs. Thurs. N. Club. May 29--Case E. vs. Thurs. N. C. - Co-op's vs. Newsboys. June 6--Newsboys vs. Thurs. N. C. Case Eagles vs. Co-op's. June 18--Tlturs. N. Club vs. Co-op's. Case Eagles vs. Newsboys. June 20--Newsboys vs. Co-op's. Thurs. N. C. vs. Case Eagles. June 27--Case Eagles vs. Co-op's. Newsboys vs. Thurs. N. C. Why Girls Tend Switchboard In the early dsys switchboard operators were boys, replaced later by girls, because "girls are steadier and do not drink beer," a history of the telephone industry shows. Washed . Brooms washed in medium aoapy water and thoroughly dried will keep in good condition, the wira Will not rust. Waif Meafth Tha month of January was named for the two-faced Roman god Janus, with the idea that he could look backward into the past year and forward into the coming year. The Anglo-Saxons called January the wolf-month, because at that season hunger * made the wolves bold enough to invade the villages. Will fit m - In ttrfs produce i milk • year, df this m cent is sold aa M »«* 44 #ar cent is canned. Keep Oat of Keep all dusts and aprayg |p tightly closed containers sudl Ml" jars or tins, and keep them ai>y from food and out of reach of cMft», dren and animals. A high aheM 1% a closet or a locked drawer or cop-" board may be the safest stnraga place. - "TCiere was also a Blind Bogey played on Sunday with Carl Schmidt Union Membership • Trade union membership hi the United States and Canada rose from less than 8 million workers to af> proximately 12 million between 1988 and 1943. Tough Glass If the breakagft rate of glass tumblers is high in your house, take hope. A new "heat treated" tumbler is about to appear on the market. It can take a lot of shock and practically bounces when dropped. / S A V E §5T Rabbits Prove Profitable Any former prejudices which have been held against wild rabbits Should not be held against the do- LesFe^TPerirfi? kSoS rab.bit' whic.h ls ®n. _m operator at Long Lake, was en^irei^ ®rent .° n?eat prod- Johnsburg travels to Hebron next!found dead on the floor of his home, uc^-, Domestic rabbit is white meat, Sunday to see if they can keep up "ear G™b HU1 road one evening wholesome, tender and fine-grained, their 7-runs-p6iv(Erftme. Or maybe! week. The discovery was made with a delicate flavor which is usualit's seven come eleven! jby neighbors who had been asked to ly considered to be delectable. In the ' investigate his disappearance. Har-1 average breed of domestic rabbit, We hear that McHenry will have 0,d Reinhardtsen and William Drew young fryers may reasonably be exa new ball park next year. It will, ynt. *9 *5® Perkins cottage and pected to attain a weight of from be west of the present site. A. p. found the front door locked. They | to 4 pounds at an age of 2 or 8 Freund is willing to give a piece! entered the building through a win-1 months. It is not unusual for such of land but plans will have to be <[<"?• ^ discovery followed. The rabbits to dress off carcasses which made for the purchase of additional,Sp ^ 50 to 56 per cent of tend. More .bout it l.ter-we hop,! u,f Uv. weight, .nd v.rv otWn DC o«t It probably isn't much of a story man had been dead for several days. since they landed home safely, but people out east of McHenrv rer>ort "Muggs" Wattles and Phil Unti "comin' in on a wing and a prayer" one night recently. The lights went out--the car lights! Air Technique la Fish Coring Air technique developed by a London company for proper curing of wood for airplane propeller blades has been used in the curing of fish. Electric Lighting In 1940, 84 per cent of our population lived in electrically lighted houses. Of the homes wired for electricity by 'the end of that year, 95 per cent had electric irons, 63 per cent refrigerators, 54 per cent clocks, 49 per cent vacuum cleaners and 85 per cent coffee percola- *ra. . «• t-. . Let Our Hearts Be Ready, Too Our baskets of poppies are ready. They ha\*e been Ijv tflie hands of the disabled veterans, men of both wars, working side by side in hospitals- and in workshops in every part of this country of onrs. ' We have the privilege of taking these flowers to the people of our communities; of offering everyone we meet an opportunity to wear one of the bright red blooms so beautiful in meaning. ' We will be offering everyone the gratification of contributing toward the welfare of those who are suffering becaase they served America. Our baskets of poppie? are ready. Let our hearts be ready, too, for the exalted enterprise of Peppy Day. 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