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Tuesday, July 29, 1947.
yPfmienio Game Is
Rained Out Tuesday;
Play Hornets There
— LEAGUE STANDINGS —
■ W L Pet.
| Opelika 57 33 .633
Valley 57 33 .633
Nev.man 54 37 .593
Carrollton 53 38 .5®2
Tallas'ee 45 48 .484
GRIFFIN 40 49 .419
Alexander LaGrange 32 58 .356
City 24 66 .237
The Griffin Pimientos’ game with
the Carrollton Hornets here Mon
• day night was rained out by the
first shower in days.
Tonight the Pimientos and the
Hornets change scenery and will
play in Carrollton. Wednesday night
flic two teams return to Griffin for
* the third game of the series. They
will play before a ladies night
throng here Wednesday
The Pimientos are still without
' the services of their veteran mana
ger, Abe White who has been con
lined to bed with a summer cold,
lie is improving and may accom
pany the team to Carrollton to
night.
Griffin club officials are attempt
ing to purchase a pitcher Brodzen
ski, from the Tallassee Indians, but
ski, from the Tallassee Indians, but
do not yet have him signed to a con
tract.
ilract. Brodzemkl would prove to be
a great help to the faltering Pimien
tos, having won nine games for the
Indians. He defeated the Pimientos
several times.
After Wednesday the Pimientos
will be here Thursday night and
will tangle with the Newnan Browns
in the last home game of the week.
Friday they go to Newnan and Sat
urday will play the Valley Rebels
there.
— TONIGHT'S GAMES —
Alexander City at Valley
Ofielika at Tallansee
Newan at LaGrange
GRIFFIN at Cairollton
— MONDAY’S RESULTS —
Opelika 7, Alex City 3
LaGrange at Newnan postponed,
rain postponed,
Carrollton at GRIFFIN,
rain.
Valiev 6 Tall asst a 5
Hartman Plays Two
Professional Sports,
Baseball, Football
’ (EDITOR'S NOTE—This is one
in a series of short biographies to
better acquaint Griffin baseball
fans with the members of the Pi
miento squad.)
Earl Hartman, first baseman for
the Pimientos, is the only member
of the squad who plays two profes
sional sports.
YSarl, whose home Is in Reading,
Penn., plavs professional football
during the fall in the Pennsylvania
State League. He Is a guard,
Earl, who packs 190 pounds of
muscle on his five feet, ten inch
.^ame, is plenty tough enough to
stand the gaff of playing first base
all summer ard then knocking
heads for three or four months In
football games and scrimmages.
Tlie 22-year-old is another vet
eran of the late war on the Plmien
tc squad, having served 32 months
in the Navy with 28 of them being
overseas. He served In both the At
lantic and Pacific theaters.
* Earl started hi<i professional base
ball career with Jamestown, N. Y.,
in 1943. He also played for Allen
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from the Reds’ somewhere young luminary in the vicinity unwinds of third for his base. sidearm For frst toss-fire ball the batter suspects the ball is coming
or curve, the ex-GI grips the ball by the
seams. He came within two outs of pitching consecutive no-hit no-run games while going after Rube
Marquard’s major league record of 19 strain’ itabl'cbed 35 years ago.-
town, Penn., and was with Albany
in the Georgia-Florida League in
1946.
Earl, who is currently hitting be
low his usual ability, still has 171
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total bases to his credit, a mark
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GRIFFIN (GEORGIA) NEWS
**1
Opelika And Rebels
Win Monday Night;
'Still Tied For First
| BV THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Opelika's Owls and Valley's Re
bels remained noclt-und-ueck today,
lor the second consecutive day, In
the race lor the Georgia-Alabama
League lead.
Both won games Monday night.
The Owls defeated last-place Alex
i ander City, 7 to 3, and the Rebels
won from the Tallassee Indians,
6 to 5.
Tne other scheduled games were
lained out.
Until Sunday night, Opelika had
had an exclusive grasp on the lea
gue all season. Valley began its
challenge Friday, July 18, when it
embarked on a 12-game winning
etreak when the Owls were 8 1-2
games out in front.
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Today Fashion Shoes started its
Annual Summer Clearance SAIJi.
Although the Sale started today
with the “Griflin Merchants City
Wide Clearance Sale" It will CON
TINUE UNTIL EVERY PAIR OF
THE 1200 pair SHOES are sold.
Besides the 300 pair White, Red
and Brown and White Sandals and
1 Dress Shoes they also offering
are
on Sale 900 pair DARK SHOES,
BLACK KID, BLACK PATENT,
BLACK GABARDINE, NAVY
AND BROWN for only 31.00 to
$3.99 a pair. The Main purpose of
FASHION SHOES reducing their
shoes so much is that this store
has a policy of showing only new
styles at the beginning of every
season and they close out their
seasonable shoes regardless of price.
Anyone that has ever- attended a
SALE of FASHION SHOES knows
what wonderful values they offer
so arrange to attend this great sale
they started today and will con
tinue until every pair of the 1200
pair sale shoes are sold, (adv.)
power at the plate,
Hartman Is another
I member of the Pimientos and his
wife’s name is Edith.
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In memory of our daughter He
len Keiley, who parsed away one
year ago today, July 29.
We are lonely dear without you.
We miss your footsteps soft and
light, your smile so bright and
sweet. And prav that someday pre
cious one, we will again meet, no
one knows how much we miss you
or i he heartaches we've had to bear,
if tears and grief would bring you
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long ago.
God knows -nir hearts and an
swers prayirs. His promises are al
ways true, we pray to Him each
nlgld and lay to be again with you.
Oh precious ono what would I give
to hold you m my arms and hear
youi voice that meant so much to
me.
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Brown.
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