Granada Pioneer, Vol. I, No. 98

              PIONEER  Sports
September 8, 1943__________________Page 7
FIRST   2ND   HALF   LOSS
MOTOR POOL UPSET BY OUSTERS,  12-7
4-RUN  RALLY  CINCH
TILT IN  BIG   WIN
   The over-confident Motor
Pool aggregation found it-
self on the short end of a
12-7 score as the underdog
Dusters did the unexpected
in a tense,exciting strug-
gle Sunday afternoon at the
10F diamond.
   This defeat threw them
into a tie with the Deltans
for the 2nd half crown.
The Deltans have already
copped the last half cham-
ionship.
   The game was played un-
der protest by the Motor
Pool from the 7th inning
resulting from an umpire's
decision.   More detail may
be found elsewhere on the
Sports  page.
   The Dusters went into
the final inning with a
slim 8-6 lead but iced the
tilt by crossing the plate
with four more big runs.
Miles Hamada got on th e
catcher's error and stole
second. Kenji Umekubo filed
out, but Jack Hagihara
blasted a triple scoring
Hamada. Then Sats Uyekubo,
Richard Nimura, Chick Ku-
nisaki, and Shig Sugano
hit successive singles to
score three. That ended
the   spree.
   The Motormen came back
with a run in their half of
the, inning but did no other
damage.
   Joe Nakamura, southpaw
twirler of the Motormen
was off his usual form and
allowed a hit and three
walks in the 1st canto and
gave way to Jack Otani with
the bases bulging. Before
the inning was over the 
Dusters had crossed the
plate five times-on one
hit-to take a commanding
lead.
   Coming from behind, the
MP's scored twice in the 
2nd,added four more in the
4th to take the lead 6-4, 
but only for a couple of 
innings as the Dusters 
bagged two in the 6th, and 
another in the 8th to bring
the count to 8-6 and set
the stage for the final in-
ning rally.
   For the Dusters Richard
Nimura got 2 hits, while
Motor Pool's Tad Ono got a
double and a homer on an
error to lead their respect-
tive teams.
   Score by innings:
Dus ' 	500 002 014 - 12  8  ?
M.P.        020 400 001 -  7 11 9
  BATTS:  Dusters-J. Nii-
zawa,  B. Umekubo, and N.
Matsukawa, N. Hamada; M.P.
--J.  Nakamura, J.  Otani,
G.  Otani and T. Ono.
3 RD  IN  ROW
Deltans  Subdue   Dodgers
Behind Yoshiwara’s Hurling
   The high-flying Deltans
won their  third straight
tilt in the 2nd half of the
AA league by troucing the
revamped Dodgers,12-4,
Sunday morning at the 10F
field, in a 7-inning game.
   The Dodgers, with new-
comer, bespectacled Harry
Makita on the mound, and
veteran Frank Shoji at the
short patch, appeared as
though they were going to
give the Deltans a tough
battle.
   Opening their half of
the 1st with a mighty homer
by Romeo Kitagawa, the
Dodgers added another in
the 2nd, two more in the
3rd and tied up the Deltans,
who had pushed across four
in the 1st two stanzas.
   Then Mas Hoshino's boys
petered out as Grove Yoshi-
wara who replaced Tim Sasa-
buchi in the initial frame
with the bases loaded,went
to work and held them score-
less and hitless.   He whiffed
eight men in a row and es-
tablished a new AA record
for consecutive strik e - outs.
   The Deltans broke the 4-
All deadlock in the 4th
Panel by sending in two, 
And piled up six more tal-
lies in the next three in-
nings. They scored in
every inning except the 3rd,
Makita was blasted off the
mound and replaced by side-
arm specialist John "Oni-
ons" Arishita. 
   Hitting stars of the day
were Deltan pitcher Yoshi-
wara with 3 for 3, and
teammate George Watanabe
with a triple and a double
in three tries.
   Score by innings:
Delts     220 212 3 - 12 12 1
Dodgs  112 000 0-     4  3 4
   BATTS: Deltans-T. Sa-
sabuchi, G, Yoshiwara and
T. Ioka; Dodgers-H.  Maki-
ta, J. Arishita and B. Ku-
watari.
MOTOR   POOL  ENDS
SEASON UNDEFEATED
   The champions of the A
league, Pop Otani’s Motor
pool gang, breezed by the
Scrappers, 10-5, Saturday
afternoon at the 10F dia-
mond in their last league
game and hung up an unde-
feated-season record.
   Motormen Hide Noda,for-
mer Rambler, was the hick-
ory star of the game with
3 for 3.
   Score by innings:
Scrap          010 010 12 - 5  6 5
M. P.           302 004 10 - 10 13 5
   BATTS: Scraps- S.Sako,
J. Kawata and Y.Otani; M.
P.--G. Nakano, T. Fukuya-
ma, T. Kimura and R. Iino,
H. Sugiyama.
GIRLS’  TILT
AMACHE  DUMPS
GRANADA, 12-5
   The Amache Girls’ A11-
Star Softball team trekked
to Granada Monday evening
and  trounced the Granada
girls to the tune of 12-5
at the high school ground,
   Behind pitcher Shinobu
Kunimoto’s one-hit, no-run,
and 12 strike-out perform-
ance in the first five in-
nings she chucked,the local
girls pushed across three
markers in the 3rd and
bombarded pitcher W. Mayhou
for a total of nine runs
and five hits in the fol-
owing inning to win hani-
ly.
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