Granada Pioneer, Vol. I, No. 96

              LOCAL  STARS  LOSE
FOUL-BALL  HOMER
WINS  FOR  PROWERS
   A foul-ball homer proved
to be the winning marker
for the Prowers county All-
Stars as they nosed out the
Amache All-Stars, 5-4, in
a game featured by four home
runs at the Bristol ball
park, Sunday afternoon.
   This loss for the locals
evened the series with a
win for each team.
   The Prowers boys started
the scoring as they crossed
the plate once in the open-
ing stanza on two errors
and a hit. The localites
evened the count by pushing
a run on a squeeze play by
Konji Umekubo with the bags
loaded.
   Prowers forged ahead a-
gain on Bill Quinn's 1st
homer. The locals filled
the bags in the 4th on a
couple of hits and a walk
and pushed across two more
markers on an error and
another squeeze.   In the
same inning, Prowers came
back and on Quinn's 2nd
homer drove in two runs,
and added another in the
6th on Carroll McCorkle's
game -winning f o u l-ball
four-bagger, which the um-
pire called fair, to bring
the score to 5-3.
  In the  8th with two
gone, Romeo Kitagawa hit 
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PIONEER
	Sports
September 1, 1943      Page 5
A  LEAGUE
MOTOR POOL
BEATS MERCS
   Veteran George Otani
gave up but three hits as
the undefeated Motor Pool
dumped its toughest oppo-
nents, the Mercuries, with
the greatest of ease, 8-1,
at the 10F diamond Satur-
day afternoon. This win
virtually clinched the A
league crown for the Motor-
men as the remaining two
teams on their schedule are
considered "pushovers."
   Motor Pool's Hank Wada
was the hitting star of the
contest with two hits, in-
cluding a two-run homer in
the 6th.
   Score by innings:
Motor Pool       102 302 - 8 8 5
Mercuries          000 100 - 1 3 3
   BATTS: M.P.--G. Otani
and T. Fukuyama; Mercs--G.
Matsuda and J. Hoshizu, D.
Asai.
Motor   Pool   Swamps   Dodgers
In   Lopsided,  20-8, Count
   Headed straight for the
2nd-half title, the unde-
feated Motor Pool gang
slaughtered the hapless,
hopeless Dodgers, 20-8, in
an AA league game at the
10F diamond  Sunday morning.
  The victors, sparked by
lead-off man Frank Matsuta-
ni's four-bagger over the
right fielder's head, slashed
across four runs in the 1st
frame.
   Coming back strong, the
Dodgers punched in two in
their half of the canto,
and got two more in the next
bracket to tie up the count.
A run in  the 3rd by the
Motor Pool sent them ahead
again,   5-4.
   The game,expected to be
a close one with both teams
playing heads-up, blew up
for the Dodgers in the 5th,
when Romeo Kitagawa relieved
John Arishita on the hill,
and was pounded for 15 runs
in the  remaining  innings.
   The Dodgers got one more
in the 7th when speedster
Dave Matsushima belted
a homer into left field with
a man aboard, and added
another two in the final in-
ning to bring their total
to eight  for  the  day.
   Dodger newcomer, Harry
Fukumitsu, former Skibo,
played good defensive ball
at  the   short  patch.
   Bespectacled Jack Otani
went the route for the
Motormen and gave up eight
hits.
      Score by  innings:
M.P.       401 026  043   -  20  20   8
Dod '     220  000  202  -     8    8   7
   BATTS: M.P. -- J, Otani
and T.Ono; Dodgers--J.Ari-
shita, R. Kitagawa and N.Ku-
watani.
KNINES  TRIPPED
8TH  INNING  RALLY GIVES
DELTANS  CLOSE  VICTORY
   The high-flying Deltans
came from behind in the 8th
inning to trip the Knines,
9-7, in a closeAA tilt at the
10F field Sunday afternoon.
   Going into the top half
of the 8th,the Knines clung
to a 7-5 advantage and the
hope of upsetting the Delta
boys, but their advantage
was short-lived and their
hope of victory went sky-
high.
   Two costly errors and a
walk filled the bags for the
Deltans and rookie Shiro
Kawamura came through with
a Texas leaguer scoring two
runs to tie up the game.
Tim Sasabuchi grounded out
but sent home the winning
run,and Flu Inaba's single
brought an additional tally.
   Southpaw Grove Yoshiwara
started on the mound for
the Deltans and chucked six
innings,giving up four hits
and two runs during that
time.
   Sasabuchi replaced Yo-
shiwara and ran into imme-
diate trouble as a walk
and an error followed by
Sam Fuiita's triple scored
two runs.   Fujita, however,
was caught napping at 3rd
and thrown out.   Yuk Miya-
moto lambasted another
triple, but died on base.
   The Knines scored three
more in their half of the
8th to take a 7-5 lead.
Sasabuchi gave up four free
passes for a run and Lefty
Nishijima took over from
there.  He gave up one hit
and two runs before the in-
ning ended. The Deltans's
half of the 8th told the
story and gave them their
2nd win of the 2nd half.
   Yuk  Miyamoto went the
route for the losers, and
took hitting honors for the
day with four hits,includ-
ing two triples. Deltan
George Watanabe was credited
with three bingles.
   Score by innings:
Knines     100 010 230 - 7 8 5
Delts        401 000 04x - 9 9 4
   BATTS: K9s--Y.Miyamoto
and J. Harada; Deltans--G.
Yoshiwara, T.Sasabuchi, L.
Nishijima and T. Ioka. 
SKIBOS   WIN,  10-5
   The  Skibos  took the mea-
sure of the winless Ko-Nuts,
10-5,     in the  2nd A  league
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