Granada Pioneer, Vol. I, No. 89

              johnnie
  presents
     by tsurata
   Joseph Patrick Ide, our
outside news man is guest
writing  our  column today,
   the 2nd half of the AA
league is scheduled to get
under way tomorrow, and,
from here,it looks as tho'
the big-shot deltans will
continue to monopolize the
win column and repeat their
1st half performance of
no  losses...
   offhand, we can't think
of a team that can hand them
a setback,unless it be the
dusters, they have a young
outfit full of get-up-and-
go, a good coach, and a
smart manager. whats more,
they have two top-flight
chuckers in bob umekubo and
John niizawa. we think
niizawa should be used more
frequently,he 's got plenty
on the ball...
   the rumored breakup of
the doleful dodgers may
become reality.   if this is
so,the biggest booty would
be leftfielder jack hama-
hashi, the best in the
league.   the dusters, we
hear, have first call on
his services.   nob kuwatani,
joe shiro, and dave matsu-
shima are other prize
catches.   the disbanding of
the dodgers would mean one
thing:  the loss of color
on the playing field, their
uniforms are uniformly
colorful…
   about A leaguer jiro
tani of the waks: back in
'28, while scintillating
as ace moundsman for the
roosevelt high nine in 1.a_,
he chalked up a 1-hit win,
but that isn't what makes
this interesting, he struck
out 24 men!   he'd still
chuck, he says, only his
wing  is   shot...
   the best game yet played
in either league was the
recent A bracket set-to be-
tween the league-leading
marks and the under-rated,
raiders, which ended in a
0-0 tie.   the kids showed
pro form and whipped thru
6  frames   in 1 ½ hrs.
we like the deltans,who
would be just another team
without nishijima, against
the always dangerous motor
pool, tomorrow, and the
dusters   against the knines,
despite opponent-demoraliz-
ing kay sugahara bellowing
from the  coach's   line…
NISHIJIMA  RETAINS
A A  SWAT CROWN
   Mas "Lefty" Nishijima,
Deltans' slugging pitcher,
dropped almost 150 points
in two weeks, but retained
his AA batting leadership
with a neat .529 average,
getting 9 for 17, as the
first half of the circuit
ended  Sunday.
   Those hitting .300 or
over  include:             	 AB        H              Pct.
J.Kubochi,   MP 	       	    9        4	.444
B.Takamatsu, MP      	  14        6	.428
G.Watanabe, DT       	  14        6	.428
J.Harada, K9		  15        6	.400				
Y.Aoki, DT		  15        6	.400
S.Fujita, K9		  10        4	.400
J.Hanamura, MP		  15        6	.400
J.Nishimura, DS		  10        4	.400
B.Umekubo, DS		  10        4	.400
G.Matsuura, K9		  18        7	.389
Y.Miyamoto, KB		  18        7                .389
E.Igasaki,   K9		  18        7                .389
D.Matsushima,   DG	  16        6                .375
F.Matsutani,  MP		    8        3                .375
G.Maruyama, E9		    8        3                .375
K.Ono, MP		   8         3                .375
S.Uyekubo,		 15         5	.333
N.Kuwatani,   DG		 12         4                .333
M.Hamada,   DS	                  9          3	.333
J.Kaneko,  K9		  3          1	.333
T.Sasabuchi, DT		  3         1		.333
B.Satow, K9		  3         1		.333
J. Hamahashi, DG	                13         4		.308	
   LEGEND: MP, Motor Pool,
DT, Deltans; K9, Knines;
DS, Dusters; DG, Dodgers.
AA TEAMS' BATTING AVERAGE
GP   AB   R   H        Pct.
M. P. 			4     140  42  45    .3214
Deltans                                   4     141  51  38    .2695
Knines                                    4     145  23  40    .2656
Dodgers		                4     129  15   28   .2171
Dusters                                   4     139  24   29   .2086
DOUBLE HEADER FOR
A  LEAGUERS TODAY
   Two undefeated A league
teams will meet at the 10F
diamond at 1 p.m., this
afternoon when the Motor
Pool, clashes with the Skibos.
   Both teams are noted
for their heavy slugging,
and the performances of the
pitchers should decide the
contest.
   In the second tilt of
the day at 3 p.m.,the cel-
lar-dwelling Ko-Nuts will
play the Ramblers in an A
league game. Both teams
have yet to win a game but
the Ramblers will enter the
fray as the favorites.
SCRAPPERS  WIN,  3-2
   Behind pitcher Sueo Sa-
ko's 2-hit performance, the
Scrappers  nosed out the Wa-
kabas, 3-2, in a thrilling
A league game at the 10F
diamond Thursday evening.
   Score by innings:
Waks	    2 0 0 0 0-2 2 2
Scraps   	    1 0 0 1 1-3 4 1
   BATTERIES: Waks-I.Iso-
mura and Y. Matsumoto;
Scraps-S. Sako and Y.Ota-
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  Sports
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AA  TILTS  TOMORROW
TWO GAMES  SCHED
   The Dusters and the
Knines will open the sec-
ond half of the AA league.
tomorrow morning when they
meet at the 10F diamond at
9 o 'clock.
   The contest should be a,
toss-up, but the Knines
will be out for revenge,
having dropped a close one,
9-8,in their first meeting.
   The Dusters will start
Johnny Niizawa or Bob Ume-
kubo on the hill with eith-
er Chick Kunisaki or  Swede
Furukawa behind the plate.
   Yuk Miyamoto and Shiro
Nomura are expected to form
the Knines' battery.
  In the feature game of
the day, the undefeated
Deltans will tackle the
Motor Pool at 2 p.m., at
the 10F diamond.
   In their first meeting,
Deltan Lefty Nishijima and
Motor Pooler Joe Nakamura
hooked up in a pitchers'
duel until the fifth, when
Nakamura was blasted off
the mound, by the Deltans'
vaunted hickory power.
   The Deltans will be the
big favorites to cop the
fray but the Motor Pool
cannot be counted short.
   Lefty Nishijima and Tom
loka will start for the
league-leaders, while the
Motor Pool is expectud to
have Joe Nakamura or Jack
Otani and Harry Okada as
its battery.
aa   League  to
PLAY Split  SEASON
   The AA league will play
a split season-the second
half to begin tomorrow--
instead of a straight season
as planned originally, the
athletic department stated
yesterday.