WW II FORT MILES SPORTS
Philadelphia Inquirer,
August 20 1943 :
Fort Miles, Delaware.
The Fort Miles Hilltoppers
base ball team won their third straight victory in the Fort Miles
baseball tourney by
defeating Cooch's Coasters 7 to 4., led by Joe Maginnis who is
from
Cynwyd, Pennsylvania a
former Temple University star who had a perfect day at bat
with four for four. The
game was played at Carpenter Field at the Delaware Capes.
Other games saw the A
Battery Lammers haand the Stingers an 8 -0 washout, and the
Hornets outlasted the
Hellcats to win, 8 -4.
Fort Miles has seven
baseball teams and fifteen softball teams, plus some real good
players,
like Tom Dunleavy of
Philladelphia, George Katsaiba of the White socks, Zip LeGates
and Frank Suthard from the
Eastern Shore League.
A field house is underway
for other sports. A few Saturdays ago one of the Fort Miles
soldiers
met Al Tribuani in a
boxing match for benefit of the post athletic fund.
Football is possible too,
with Lt. Tom Cerra , a Scranton University player, then assistant
coach at Miami University.,
Tim Wible, a Penn State guard under Bob Higgins., at bay
plus many ex high school
player's in the ranks. Games would be with other service teams
and perhaps some college
teams.
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