STAMFORD INDUSTRY SOFTBALL LOOPOur irO softball team entry in Stamford's IndustrialY.M. C. A. loop is well <strong>on</strong> the way to avery successful seas<strong>on</strong>. To date our boys havecompiled three wins and <strong>on</strong>e loss, in good positi<strong>on</strong>for first half h<strong>on</strong>ors.In the initlal game of the seas<strong>on</strong> D-O defeatedNortham Warren by a score of 9-4. The sec<strong>on</strong>d gameproduced a loss to the very str<strong>on</strong>g HartfordEl~ctric squad, 4 to 3. Errors cost our teamthis game. In the third game pitcher Gene Zanelliwas at his best. Flexible Barrier Corp. was heldto just two hits as Gene pitched no hit ball forfour innings. Final score - 7 to 3.Our team looked very impressive in theirfourth game. They picked up the third win of theseas<strong>on</strong> by defeating Clearol Corp., 7 to 6. The0-0 entry is living up to pre-seas<strong>on</strong> predicti<strong>on</strong>sand with c<strong>on</strong>tinued success will be str<strong>on</strong>g c<strong>on</strong>tendersfor the city champi<strong>on</strong>ship.MEN'S OFFICE GOLF LEAGUEOur Inter-office Golf League is organized <strong>on</strong> aterum basis this year, a complete departure fromthe setup of years past. Players in the Leaguehave been divided into two 5 man teams and three6 mrun teams <strong>on</strong> a handicap basis. Each team c<strong>on</strong>sistsof members with evenly matched handicaps.Play has been split into eight rounds. Eachround must be played within a two-week period atthe end of which, scores are collected and thethree lowest scores become the team total forthat particular round.In this manner, scoring is arranged to promoteterum competiti<strong>on</strong> rather than individual. Itinsures high scoring players a chance to win someglory if their group does well as a team duringthe seas<strong>on</strong>.This setup guarantees a str<strong>on</strong>ger more enJoy;'able league seas<strong>on</strong> for the twenty-eight members.It was suggested by Jerry Hubbard of EngineeringDevelopment & Standardizati<strong>on</strong>, a good golfer andcoordinator. The Mashies - Bill Ballo (captain),Dick Mullins, Frank Paternostro, Nestor Sabi andJerry Hubbard - led the League early this m<strong>on</strong>thwith 216 total strokes in the first round.PAGE 6BABE RUTH LEAGUE- Dom RomanelloThe <strong>Dorr</strong>-<strong>Oliver</strong> entry in the Nati<strong>on</strong>al Divisi<strong>on</strong>of Stamford's Babe Ruth League began their thirdseas<strong>on</strong> ot League play this year. On May 27 theydropped a 6-5 decisi<strong>on</strong> to the Elks Club entry.In their sec<strong>on</strong>d game the boys were <strong>on</strong>ce again <strong>on</strong>the short end of the score, losing to Slim's Service,last years city champs, by a 'lO-2,score.The Babe Ruth League team is comprised ofplayers 13, 14 and 15 years of age. Managing for<strong>Dorr</strong>-<strong>Oliver</strong> is Dom Romanello of Industrial Tech.He is assisted by coaches John Meehan, Procurementand Lou Stabile, Sanitary Tech. With <strong>on</strong>lysix players of a possible ten returning fromlast year s team and with the additi<strong>on</strong> of five<str<strong>on</strong>g>new</str<strong>on</strong>g> thirteen-year-old players, the coachingstaff is faced with the task of molding an almostcompletely <str<strong>on</strong>g>new</str<strong>on</strong>g> lineup.There are eight games remaining in League pI ElY.All games are played at Barrett Field in Belltown.Sunday gam es commence at 5: 15 P. M. andM<strong>on</strong>day and Tuesday games commence at 5:45 P.M.Schedules are posted <strong>on</strong> various bulletin boardswithin the office. For an enjoyable evening ofbaseball we recommend attending some of the remainingBabe Ruth League games.STAMFORD OFFICE SOFTBALLArrangements were completed early this year forthe entire League seas<strong>on</strong> to be played at theNortham Warren fiel~ as our own field at HavemeYer<strong>Lane</strong> will not be completed this year. Hereare the highlights of the first six games:May 13th: Industrial Engineering - 19 ; FinancialSales - 18. Following the throwing out ofthe first ball, very nicely handled this year byVice President Bud OUver, the ini,tinl game ofthe seas<strong>on</strong> was begun. In their first turn at batIndustri-al sluggers walloped in 12 runs off thesomewhat shaky serves of D<strong>on</strong> schwinn. At 6 inningsof play the score was 19 8 favor of Industrial.MIn the top of the 7th Financial-Sales struck backwi th vengence, scoring 10 runs <strong>on</strong> the offerings ofD<strong>on</strong> Van Cotto The inning saw 15 batters at the
Fast acti<strong>on</strong> at first base as Dom Romanello beats outthe throw to Bob Deviney.plate and with 2 outs and 2 men <strong>on</strong> base, DickAllard, Sale~ first baseman, drove <strong>on</strong>e to deepcenter field. center fielder Bill Kocis wasequal to the l<strong>on</strong>g drive however and hurled it infor the third out and the end of the game. Homeruns were hit by Ed Piorkowski, D<strong>on</strong> Van Cott,Bob Farrell and your reporter.May 20th: Sani tary Engineering - 15; PlantEngineering - 9. With a score of 10 to 9 in thetop half of the 7th, Sanitary picked up fiveinsurance runs <strong>on</strong> five hits from Dick Stockman.In the last of the 7th Plant Eng. went down inorder under the very effective pitching of DickMullins. With the company but a short time, Dickperformed well for his first try<strong>on</strong> the mound.Home runs in the game by Oris Alberts<strong>on</strong>, JimLuzzi and Stan Massari.May 22nd: Industrial over Procurement-Estimating,12-6. D<strong>on</strong> van Cott gave up ei ght scatteredhits in a game which saw his Industrial teammatesscore in every inning. Procurement, muchimproved , could not match the plate power of In-Umpire Jim Muir and catcher Len Ac<strong>on</strong>sky watch clos elyas Glen Eckstrom s lams out a pitch for IndustrialEngin eerin g.dustrial. Dom Romanello and D<strong>on</strong> Gardner scoredhome runs to lead the attack.May 27th: Financial-Sales over Procurement,8-7. In the best game of the young seas<strong>on</strong> Fin.Sales scored early and managed to hold the leadthrough every Procurement threat. Round trip hitswere scored by Larry Mappa, Dick Allard and D<strong>on</strong>Schwinn and a good game was enjoyed by all eventhough Procurement lost its sec<strong>on</strong>d try in a row.June 3rd: Sanitary over Industrial, 26-7. SanitaryEngineering, behind pi tcher George Lambethwith a handicap of three outstanding playersmissing, collected 27 hits from the serves ofD<strong>on</strong> Van Cotto The tremendous bat work was led byDick Attridge who scored two home runs. In thefield they committed <strong>on</strong>ly two errors while theIndustrial defense all but collapsed under theweight of base pI!),)'. No better at bat, IndustrialProcurement-Estimatin g's Dam<strong>on</strong> Bush registers mixedemoti<strong>on</strong> as his team goes down under heavy Industrialba ts, 12 t o 6.photos by Tom woohcollected <strong>on</strong>ly 9 hits from Lambeth. A third homerun was scored by Frank Fiorito.June 5th: Financial-Sales over Plant Engineering5-2. All 0-0 fans at thi s game were witnessesto <strong>on</strong>e of the tightest beer league games in al<strong>on</strong>g while. At the sixth inning of play the scorewas 2 to 1 Fin. -Sales. In that inning the winnerspicked up three runs and behind Joe Sheehan heldPlant En g. to <strong>on</strong>e additi<strong>on</strong>al run. Fiel d play byboth teams was superb. Joe Sheehan finished withjust seven hits; shortstops Vin Bocchino andJay Hague made impossible stops and no home runswere recorded.8 iLL 8a L L 0.. .. *"One ma chine can do the work of fifty ordinarymen. No machine· can do the work of <strong>on</strong>e extraordinaryman. "Industri a l MinutemanPAGE 7