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Eugene Church · 09-13-2016, 09:05 PM

THE MOBILE PRESS-REGISTER
Sunday, June 8, 1947

BEARS BULLPEN SAVES THE DAY
In a key series between two of the top teams in the Southern Association, Mobile manager Al Todd called on one of his starters John Hall (8-5/3.17) in the seventh inning to protect a fragile 6-5 lead over hard-hitting Nashville Saturday and Hall saved the day... he held the potent Vols scoreless the final three innings and gave the Bears their 5th victory in a row and narrowed Nashville's edge to just 4 games in the race for the top spot in the Southern Association... however, Roy Whitaker (4-5/4.82) registered the win, beating Pete Mallory (11-5/3.67), who was socked with his 5th loss, rather than his 12th victory... 1B Chuck Connors (.276) hit his 11th homer for Mobile and drove in three runs... the Vols had a 10-8 hit advantage over the Bears... Mobile climbed up into sole possession of second place with a 39-30 mark, sliding a half game ahead of Birmingham and Atlanta, while Nashville is 43-26.

EATON & RUTNER POWER BARONS PAST CRAX
At Ponce de Leon Park in Atlanta, Birmingham combined home runs by Zeb Eaton and Mickey Rutner with a pretty fair start from Roy Brunner on the mound to whip the hometown Crackers 7-4... RF Eaton (.317) slugged a three-run homer and 3B Rutner (.307) chimed in with a two-run blast paving the way to victory for the Barons... Eaton has 11 roundtrippers and Rutner 4... Bruner (4-6/4.01) notched the win going the route, allowing 10 hits... Atlanta also collected 10 hits with 1B Jimmy Blair (.216) slamming a two-run homer... Birmingham (39-31) is fourth in the tightly-bunched Southern Association, 4.5 games back of the top team Nashville (43-26)... with the loss, the Crackers (38-30) dropped to third place, also 4.5 games behind, but a few percentage points ahead of the Barons.

KENNEDY KO'S PELS
Bill Kennedy, a lanky right-hander for the Chattanooga Lookouts, made the home folks happy with a 5-0 whitewashing of the New Orleans Pelicans... Kennedy (7-9/4.49) whiffed six Pelicans, walked three and held them to just five hits... he was backed up by RF Gil Coan (.370) with a two-run homer and three hits each by 1B Jack Sanford (.370) and 3B Charlie Letchas (.212)... Coan tops the Southern Association with 22 HRs and 84 RBIs... loser Walt Smola (5-6/4.43) was tagged for 13 hits, but went the distance giving up only two earned runs... the Lookouts (36-34) are in fifth place in the league standings, while the Pelicans (34-38) are in the seventh spot.

TRAVS TRIP CHICKS IN 10TH
Scoring six runs in the final three frames gave Little Rock a comeback 9-7 triumph over Memphis in 10 innings and dealt the Chicks their fourth straight defeat... in the top of the 10th 2B Bob Mavis (.302) singled in the winning run and the Travelers tacked on another run via a wild pitch... the Pebs pelted out 16 hits in all, sparked by CF Jack Bradsher (.321), C Kenny Sears (.293), RF Ben Cantrell (.319) and LF Bill Sinton (.238), each with three hits... Bradsher and Sears had two doubles apiece... topping the Memphis 15-hit attack was 1B Ted Kluszewski (.321) with four hits and three RBIs... he was just a double shy of a cycle... C Vince Plumbo (.232) doubled in three runs for the Chickasaws...SS Freddie Hancock (.293) also slapped four hits... Carl Lindquist (2-13), a 13-game loser this season, claimed his 2nd win with two spotless innings of relief... Memphis reliever Al Sherer (6-1/4.34) suffered his first loss of the year... it was just last place Little Rock's 15th win of the season... they have lost 56 times... Memphis is still above .500 with a 36-35 mark, resting in the sixth spot.

09-13-2016, 09:05 PM	#284
Eugene Church Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 36,228	THE MOBILE PRESS-REGISTER Sunday, June 8, 1947 BEARS BULLPEN SAVES THE DAY In a key series between two of the top teams in the Southern Association, Mobile manager Al Todd called on one of his starters John Hall (8-5/3.17) in the seventh inning to protect a fragile 6-5 lead over hard-hitting Nashville Saturday and Hall saved the day... he held the potent Vols scoreless the final three innings and gave the Bears their 5th victory in a row and narrowed Nashville's edge to just 4 games in the race for the top spot in the Southern Association... however, Roy Whitaker (4-5/4.82) registered the win, beating Pete Mallory (11-5/3.67), who was socked with his 5th loss, rather than his 12th victory... 1B Chuck Connors (.276) hit his 11th homer for Mobile and drove in three runs... the Vols had a 10-8 hit advantage over the Bears... Mobile climbed up into sole possession of second place with a 39-30 mark, sliding a half game ahead of Birmingham and Atlanta, while Nashville is 43-26. EATON & RUTNER POWER BARONS PAST CRAX At Ponce de Leon Park in Atlanta, Birmingham combined home runs by Zeb Eaton and Mickey Rutner with a pretty fair start from Roy Brunner on the mound to whip the hometown Crackers 7-4... RF Eaton (.317) slugged a three-run homer and 3B Rutner (.307) chimed in with a two-run blast paving the way to victory for the Barons... Eaton has 11 roundtrippers and Rutner 4... Bruner (4-6/4.01) notched the win going the route, allowing 10 hits... Atlanta also collected 10 hits with 1B Jimmy Blair (.216) slamming a two-run homer... Birmingham (39-31) is fourth in the tightly-bunched Southern Association, 4.5 games back of the top team Nashville (43-26)... with the loss, the Crackers (38-30) dropped to third place, also 4.5 games behind, but a few percentage points ahead of the Barons. KENNEDY KO'S PELS Bill Kennedy, a lanky right-hander for the Chattanooga Lookouts, made the home folks happy with a 5-0 whitewashing of the New Orleans Pelicans... Kennedy (7-9/4.49) whiffed six Pelicans, walked three and held them to just five hits... he was backed up by RF Gil Coan (.370) with a two-run homer and three hits each by 1B Jack Sanford (.370) and 3B Charlie Letchas (.212)... Coan tops the Southern Association with 22 HRs and 84 RBIs... loser Walt Smola (5-6/4.43) was tagged for 13 hits, but went the distance giving up only two earned runs... the Lookouts (36-34) are in fifth place in the league standings, while the Pelicans (34-38) are in the seventh spot. TRAVS TRIP CHICKS IN 10TH Scoring six runs in the final three frames gave Little Rock a comeback 9-7 triumph over Memphis in 10 innings and dealt the Chicks their fourth straight defeat... in the top of the 10th 2B Bob Mavis (.302) singled in the winning run and the Travelers tacked on another run via a wild pitch... the Pebs pelted out 16 hits in all, sparked by CF Jack Bradsher (.321), C Kenny Sears (.293), RF Ben Cantrell (.319) and LF Bill Sinton (.238), each with three hits... Bradsher and Sears had two doubles apiece... topping the Memphis 15-hit attack was 1B Ted Kluszewski (.321) with four hits and three RBIs... he was just a double shy of a cycle... C Vince Plumbo (.232) doubled in three runs for the Chickasaws...SS Freddie Hancock (.293) also slapped four hits... Carl Lindquist (2-13), a 13-game loser this season, claimed his 2nd win with two spotless innings of relief... Memphis reliever Al Sherer (6-1/4.34) suffered his first loss of the year... it was just last place Little Rock's 15th win of the season... they have lost 56 times... Memphis is still above .500 with a 36-35 mark, resting in the sixth spot. Attached Images Last edited by Eugene Church; 09-13-2016 at 09:32 PM.