Granada Pioneer, Vol. I, No. 80

              PIONEER
   Sports
July 7, 1943           Page 7
Johnnie
  presents
  by tsuruta
THE CASE OF A SHOE
   Dave Matsushima, Dodg-
ers ' short, patch, has a
funny habit or whatever
you want to call it. Play-
ing a practice game against
the Motor Pool of the A
league he slammed two extra
base blows to right field.
Everytime he rounds the
turn at second base he just
lets his shoes fly off and
runs in his stocking feet.
The first time he left one
of his spikes behind, and
the next time he left both
of them. In fact, during
his second time, he forgot
to touch second base and
had to come back and be
satisfied with only a dou-
ble.   I guess shoe ration-
ing has hit him pretty bad.
Take it easy, Davy.
"PEPPER MARTIN" ISHIGAKI
   Mas Ishigaki, second
baseman of the Deltans,
showed some Pepper Martin
stuff when he walked,stole
second, third and home.
THE MAN OF THE WEEK
   Our men of the week are
both pitchers.
   Bobby Umekubo, pitching
for the Dusters showed mid-
season form by pitching
five innings of no-hit,no-
run ball, and allowed only
two hits and a run in the
six innings he worked on
the mound.
   Lefty Nishijima, pitch-
ing for the Deltans, al-
lowed only nine scattered
hits and struck out the
same amount of men.  He
also starred at the plate
getting three out of five
including a triple and a
homer.   It was his big day.
TOO HOT
   It sure was a hot Sun-
day afternoon at the Dus-
ter-Knine game.   It can be
seen by the fact that both
catchers couldn't go through
the nine-inning games. Joe
Harada catching for the
Knines left the contest at
the middle of the fourth
inning in favor of Roy Sa-
tow.   Duster Miles Hamada
also retired at the middle
of the sixth inning and
Chick Kunisaki had to take
his place. Yes, pity the
poor guys behind the plate.
Yes,the umpires too.  They
sure work hard, and it is
hard work especially when
it is hot.
A REQUEST
   The rec dept asks that
everybody keeps off the 10F
diamond  on Saturday eve-
nings.
   With the cooperation of
the fire dept,the field is
watered and made ready for
Sunday morning's AA game,
so let's stay out.
AA GAMES
DELTANS,  DUSTERS  TOP
FOES  IN  HOLIDAY  CLASS
NISHIJIMA   STARS
   The Deltans and the Dus-
ters celebrated their Fourth
of July with victories,
Sunday.
   In the morning game,from
9:50 o'clock, the Deltans
with Lefty Nishijima pitch-
ing good ball, dumped the
Motor Pool, 13-3, at the
10F field.
   For four innings it was
a pitching duel between
"Yuba Joe" Nakamura, and
Nishijima.   With the score
2-1 in favor of the Motor-
men,the Deltans began their
Fourth of July fireworks by
running across four runs,
featured by George Watana-
be s and Tom loka's homers
and knocked Nakamura off
the mound.   Sam Matsutani
and Jack Otani took turns
on the mound for the  Motor
Pool without any effect.
   The Motor Pools'two runs
came in the second inning
on a walk by Kanemi Ono, a
triple by Soapy Miyashima,
and Frank Matsutani's sin-
gle.   They added their fi-
nal run, in the sixth inning
when Tosh Shimizu connected
with one of Nishijima's of-
ferings for a circuit clout.
   Nishijima also clouted
one over the left fielder
for a homer in the eighth.
   Hitting stars of the
game were Deltans Flu Ina-
ba and Lefty Nishijima with
three hits apiece and George
Watanabe with 2 for 3.
   BATTERIES: Deltans--L.
Nishijima and T. loka; Mo-
tor Pool--J. Nakamura, S.
Matsutani, J. Otani and H.
Okada, B. Takamatsu.
   Score by innings: 
Del'  010 043 212 - 13 12 2
M.P. 000 001 000 -   3  9  3
KNINES LOSE, 8-9
   In the afternoon game,
the Dusters nosed out the
hard fighting Knines, 9-8,
in a close battle.
  With Bobby Umekubo strik-
ing, out the first four men
to face him and hurling a
no-hit, no-run ball for
five innings, the Dusters
went ahead 8-0 at the end
of the fifth.
   In the sixth inning the
Knines got to Bobby for one
run on two hits when he
showed signs of tiring.  John
Niizawa relieved him in
the seventh and ran into
trouble.   With a couple of
costly errors and walks in
tight spots, the Knines
tied the score at the be-
ginning of the eighth at 8-
all.   In the last of the
ninth inning, Pitcher Nii-
zawa got a life on an error
and advanced to second on
a sacrifice.  He started
for third on a wild pitch
and came all the way to
score the winning run when
the catcher's peg to third
went wild.
   Knine  George Matsuura
was the hitting star of the
day with 3 for 5.
   BATTERIES: Knines--P.
Yamamoto, Y. Miyamoto and
J. Harada, R. Satow; Dus-
ters--B. Umekubo, J. Nii-
zawa and M. Hamada, C. Ku-
nisaki.
A LEAGUE
CHANGES  PLANS
   The plan to have two
divisions in the A baseball
league has been eliminated,
according to Joe Harada and
Harry Shironaka, athletic
directors.
   Games will be played on
Tuesday and Thursday eve-
nings, and a doubleheader
will be featured on Satur-
days. The league is ex-
pected to start on the 10th.
   The teams entered are
Ramblers, Yankees, Motor
Pools, Raiders, Wakabas,
Scrappers,Ko-Nuts, and the
latest entry, Mercuries.