Granada Pioneer, Vol. I, No. 88

              PIONEER  Sports
August  4,   1943____________________page 5
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Dusters Win In
Hectic Ninth
   Scoring their winning
run in the last half of the
ninth inning on a series
of wild throws,the Dusters
finally broke their hard-
luck streak by nosing out
the Motor Pool, 9-8, in an
AA fracas Sundey morning
at the 10F diamond.,
   In the fatal ninth,first
batter John Niizawa of the
Dusters walked and was sac-
rificed to second by John
Nishimura.   On an all attempt
to pick off Niizawa, who
was rounding second, Soapy
Miyashima overthrew.   Nii-
zawa continued to third.
Second sacker Ben Takama-
tsu on retrieving the ball,
threw wild to third, and
NIizawa romped home with
the all-important tally.
  The Dusters started
their scoring in the initial
inning by sending across
four runs, and added two
more in the second on Richard
Nimura's  two -run homer.
They came thru with another
in the  fifth and also in
the seventh.
   Trailing 6-1 in the
third,the Motormen came to
life in that inning thanks
to Jim Hanamura who blasted
a long right-field homer,
driving in three runs.   They
piled on three more in the
seventh, and another in
their half of the final
stanza to tie the count at
8-all. This was short-lived
however, as the Dusters
chalked up the deciding run
in the final half.
   Yuba Joe Nakamura of the
Motor Pool, who relieved
Jack Otani in the second,
was charged with the de-
feat.
   Hitting stars of the
day were Motor poolers Ben
Takamatsu, George Fujimi-
tsu, and Jim Hanamura with
three each.    For theDusters,
Sats Uyekubo, Richard Ni-
mura, and John Nishimura
got two each.
   Score bv innings:
M.P.  103 000 301 - 8 10 6
Dust' 420 010 101 - 9  9 5
   BATTERIES: M.P.- J. 0-
tani, J. Nakamura and H.
Okada; Dusters --J. Niiza-
wa, B. Umekubo and C. Ku-
nisaki.
MOTOR POOL WINS
PROTEST; TO REPLAY
RAMBLERS   SOON
   The recent A league game
between the Motor Pool and
the Ramblers,which was un-
der protest,will be played
in the near future,accord-
ing to the rec dept.
   The St. Louis Sporting
News ruled on the Motor
Pool's protest as follows:
   "The batter is out if
the attempted third strike
fouls.   However, he is not
out if he misses the ball
on an attempted bunt on the
third strike, and he could,
go to first if the catcher
misses the ball."
   In the game, which the
Motor Pool lost, 2-1, the
batter reached first but
was called out.
SAB KAWAMURA WINS
PITCHING DUEL, 5-2
   Sab Kawamura outpitched
John Kawata in a tight
mound duel and led the Ski-
bos to a victory over the
Scrappers, 5-2, for their
second straight victory in
a Saturday  afternoon A
league doubleheader.
Scrappers 002 000 - 2 4 4
Skibos      103 10x -  5 4 3
    BATTERIES: Scraprs-J.
Kawata and  Y. Otani; Ski-
bos-S. Kawamura, T. Abe
and T. Abe, T. Miura.
RAIDERS  IN UPSET
WIN  OVER RAMBLERS
   Playing heads-up ball,
the underdog Raiders led
all the way and beat the
Ramblers, 4-2, in the sec-
ond A league game of the
day.
   Raider Ralph Maeda was
credited with a round-trip-
per  in the third   inning.
    Score  by   innings:
Ramblers  000  002  0  -  2   5  3
Raiders     001   210 x  -   4   5  3
   BATTERIES: Rambs-Y.
Yotsuya,H.Noda and T. Ono;
Raiders--B. Shiro and H.
Hamanishi.
DELTANS’  4TH  WIN
DODGERS  TAKE
23-2  BEATING
   Amassing a total of 23
runs to their opponents'
2, the high-flying Deltans
made it four in a row in a
seven-inning AA league
game Sunday afternoon at
the   10F d iamond.
   The Deltans scored in
every inning except the
fifth, as they rolled up a
big 15-0 lead at the end
of the third inning,bombard-
ing the offerings of Koi-
chi Kimura and John Arishi-
ta.
   In the third inning,which
saw 16 men take their turns
at the plate, the winners
ran across 11 runs, fea-
tured by Lefty Nishijima's
third homer of the season
and Harry Shironaka's first.
The Dodgers contributed to
their own downfall as they
muffed six times in that
inning and   11   in the game.
   The Dodgers scored their
pair of runs in the fourth
when with two outs and men
on second, and third, left
fielder Grove Yoshiwara
dropped a long fly off the
bat   of  Kane Miyoshi. 
   Yorio Aoki and Masa  Ishi-
gaki were big guns for the
Deltans   as they got 3 for 4.
   Score by innings:
Dod's  00 0  200 0  -    2   5  11
Del's   2311 701 x  -   23   14  2
   BATTERIES: Dodgers-K.
Kimura, J. Arishita and K.
Miyoshi, K. Yoshida; Del-
tans-L. Nishijima, G. Yo-
shiwara and  T.   Ioka.
===STANDING===
   AA BASEBALL LEAGUE
		W            L                 Pct.
Deltans		4	0	1.000
Dusters		2	2	  .500
Motor Pool	2	2	  .500
Dodgers		1	3	  .250
Knines		1	3	  .250
SIX-RUN   RALLY
GIVES MOTORMEN WIN
   A six-run splurge in the
first inning cinched the
game for the Motor Pool
as they walked through the
Wakabas, 9 -3, for their sec -
ond A league triumph Fri-
day evening at the 10F dia-
mond.
   Score  by  innings:
Waks       0 1 0 0 2     -    3 5 1
M.  P.       6 1 2 0 x     -    9 9 3
   BATTERIES: Waks--Y. Ma-
tsumoto,G. Nozawa, I. Iso-
mura and I. Isomura, Y. Ma-
tsumoto.