The Archive · 1938

Against Second Battalion, 5-4

UNCIIING three of their six hits in the second half of the ninth inning, the First Battalion, U.S. Marines, scored two valuable runs to tie the Second Battalion and then proceeded to upset their opponents in the two extra frames by snatching a victory of 5-4 in yesterday's ball game at the Race Course.

The contest marked the opening of the 1938 City League and the success achieved by the First Battalion certainly put a crimp in the champions' aspirations for a second pennant season,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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