Saturday 25-Apr-1959: Rotary 2, Jaycees 1


Account from The South Bergen News, 30-Apr-1959. Used by permission of Leader Newspapers, Inc.

By GEORGE BRERETON
Journalism Department, Fairleigh Dickinson University

The Rutherford Little League opened its 1959 baseball season Saturday at Memorial Park before a crowd of 500. In the National League, Rotary shaded the J.C.C. by the score of 2-1.

Coming to bat, in the top of the second inning, Ryan hit into the hole between second and third base. Vanderels got Hill on a strike-out but LaForge hit a double, scoring Ryan. Vanderels put out the fire by retiring the next two batters. McKenna only allowed two hits, up to the bottom of the fifth inning. Keins hit a soft liner into center field. Then Salomon rapped out a double, moving Keins to third. McKenna loaded the bases by walking Howe. Strauss grounded to second, but a high throw allowed two runs to cross the plate. There was no threat in any further scoring by either team.

Vanderels struck out 10 players, walked 1 but scattered six hits. McKenna struck out five players, allowed 4 hits, but two of the hits resulted in unearned runs. Fielding was good, except in one or two instances.

The box score:

J.C.C. (1) AB  R  H     ROTARY (2) AB  R  H
Wilson, 2b 3 0 1     R. Strauss, 1b 2 0 1
Denny, cf 3 0 2     Vanderels, p 2 0 0
M. McKenna, p 3 0 0     Pico, cf 2 0 0
Catterall, 1b 2 0 0     Norville, ss 2 0 1
Ryan, c 2 1 1     Roach, 3b 2 0 0
Hill, ss 3 0 0     Stoehs, c 2 0 0
LaForge, rf 2 0 1     Keins, 2b 2 1 1
Ellis, lf 2 0 0     Chapin, rf 1 0 0
LaFalce, 3b 1 0 0     P. Strauss, lf 1 0 0
Cote, c 0 0 0     Salomon, rf 1 1 1
Hayes, 3b 1 0 0     Howe, lf 0 0 0
Meyers, lf 1 0 1     Decker, lf 0 0 0
Russell, c 1 0 0    
Bader, 3b 1 0 0    
25 1 6     17 2 4
J.C.C.    0 1 0   0 0 0  1
Rotary    0 0 0   0 2 x  2
Runs batted in — M. LaForge.
Pitching   IP   H   R BB SO
McKenna L,0-1 5 4 2 3 5
Vanderels W,1-0 6 6 1 1 10
Umpire — Karl.
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