The first baseball game in the 1939 City Baseball League will get under way this Saturday afternoon on the Race Course diamond when the Amateurs are to meet the First Battalion, present holders of the championship, starting at 3.30 p.m.
Both teams have been seen in action Over the past week-end. The Amateurs walloped the USS. Oahu on Saturday by 14-1 while the First Battalion trounced the U.S.S. Augusta on Sunday by 15-7. With the return ai Joe Honeycutt, veteran pitcher, the civilians possess a strong hurling staff as, in addition to Honeycutt, there are Al Huebner and George Adams.
The First Battalion are rather weak in the battery as both pitchers, Davis and Lefty Houston, failed to settle down against the "Auggies" even when the sailors were not in batting form. The handicap in pitching should give the Amateurs a good chance to make a successful start in this year's campaign.
On Sunday there will be a double-header and the Amateurs will be seen in the nightcap against the Navy at 4 pin. In the curtain-raiser ' the Second Battalion will meet Headquarters.
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