The Archive · 1939

Battalion's First Win

Amateurs Unable to Connect Off Deliveries of Ben Fuller; Adams Receives Poor Team Support LICHI" the tight pitching of "Fireball" Ben Fuller, the Second Battalion broke into the winning column for the first time yesterday when they trounced the Amateurs by the one-sided score of 13 to Z onthe Race Course diamond, after two unsuccessful starts in the City Baseball Leagu George Adams hurled for the civilians as Al Huebner was still absent from the line-up. He was given poor support by the team.—1n the nine innings he travelled, Adams whiffed only one batsmen and walked four. The Marines tagged him for 15 hits, which incidently, were all singles.

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