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Softball Tournament 1951 Eastern Athletic Association of the Deaf |
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EAAD Softball Tournament Won by Worcester, Massachusetts
By Emerson Romero in The Silent News — (continued)
HIGHLIGHTS: The DeSales team made a triple play against Philadelphia. With a man on first and second, batter hit a grounder to the shortstop who threw to second forcing the runner from first. Second baseman threw to first getting the batter. Runner on second had gone to third and was rounding the base when the first baseman threw to third to get the runner as he made an attempt to get back to third.
The Jersey City team got the nickname of "Jersey Jackrabbits" because of their speed on the bases. As soon as a man got to first, he stole second and sometimes third too. They have no heavy hitting line–up, except in Rocco Verdi, their first sacker. But being small in stature, they drew plenty of walks. Against Long Island they drew 14 base–on–balls and scored 14 runs. All of their 11 hits were singles.
In the game with Hartford, Frederick Carter of the New York City Pelicans Club of the Deaf struck out the first three men to face him. In the second inning, he fanned three more and in the sixth again three.
The heavy hitting Long Island Club went through the tournament with five homers, two triples, 10 doubles and 42 hits in all, scoring 55 runs, but could not win the championship. Their defense went to pieces in the final.
Ernest Ovitt of Worcester proved to be the "iron man". He pitched in every game and did some fine batting too.
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