The Georgia Chain Gang baseball team will highlight the Mayor’s Charity Field Day tomorrow night at Fenway Park. Nationally acclaimed as the “Comedy Kings of the Diamond,” they will be making their third straight appearance in the charity show. The 1954 Boston Park League All-Stars will furnish the opposition for the Chain Gang.
A floodlight baseball game between the Park League All-Stars and the colorful New England Hoboes will be played Monday night at the Marcella Street Grounds, Roxbury, starting at 8 o’clock. In addition to the game, the Hoboes will put on a display of comedy that made them one of New England’s top attractions. They not only excel on the diamond, but are master comedians.
Failure of two teams to take the field against the Msgr. Chittick baseball team of Hyde Park led to action yesterday at City Hall. Commissioner John J. Murphy was asked to investigate so-called discriminations against the Chittick team, and suspend any team that refuses to go through with scheduled games.
The Boston Park Department twilight baseball league opened its 21st season last night with 10 of the 12 teams in action. The Crown Burners of East Boston, defending champions, defeated the Linehan Club of East Boston, 5-2, before 3000 at American Legion Park, East Boston. Ed Fontes pitched a four-hitter.
At three Boston Park League baseball playoff games last night, home-plate umpires directed memorial services for Babe Ruth, one of sandlot baseball’s greatest friends. Homeage was paid the great Bambino at American Legion Park, East Boston; Fallon Field, Roslindale, and Jefferson Park in Jamaica Plain.
Park Commissioner John Murphy met with the 14 managers of the Park Department baseball league last night and after a lengthy discussion it was decided that Pete Marquette and St. Lazarus, the teams whose application for membership brought the issue to a head, would be welcomed as entrants – but only in the newly formed Boston Twi League. This decision is based on mathematical reasoning.
Tomorrow night the Park Department will launch another baseball league as part of its twilight leagues setup. Formed this year to take care of the large number of applicants for the Park League, the new Boston Twi League will include fast clubs of top league calibre.
Tomorrow evening opens the 1947 Boston Park League season with eight games taking place throughout the Hub. Mayor James M. Curley will throw out the first ball at the Veterans’ Administration-Linehan Club game at Cleveland Circle with Park Commissioner William P. Long.
Park League whips New England All-Star Nine before record crowd of 19,808 — Williams hits long one. Besides Ted Williams, Bobby Doerr, Rudy York and Paul Schrieber who took part in the home run hitting contest, there were four other Red Sox favorites on hand for the game.
The greatest array of young New England baseball talent ever collected for a single contest will take the field tonight at Braves Field at 8:45 p. m. under the banners of the New England All-Stars. The youths were recruited from all the New England states, less Connecticut, in a month’s search by Braves scouts, Jeff Jones and Harold Goodnough.
