FREMONT MOVING CLOSING IN ON HARLEM

Harlem continues to hold on to first in the NorthEast at 21-11 , but Fremont (18-15) has gotten hot and won their last 5. Meanwhile, Pawtucket (14-19 ) and Sahara (15-18) continue to falter and remain behind the pack.
Montgomery's managed to hold off Hattiesburg in an early-season clash. The Burns (19-14) are 2 games over the Dee-Dubs (17-16). North Dallas (14-19) has pulled themselves out of the cellar, passing defending champs St Louis (13-19).


PLAYER OF THE MONTH FOR APRIL

Bill Terry

Player of the month for the month of April 1931 is First Basemen for the North Dallas Forty Bill (Memphis Bill) Terry. Bill started out the month on fire hitting safely in the first twelve games of the season and is currently on a six game hitting streak. Bill was only held hitless twice for the month, had twelve multiple hit games including two three hit games, two four hit games and one five hit game. For the Month Bill batted 46-112 (.411) with four home runs, eight doubles, drove in twelve runs and scored seventeen times himself. Currently bill is the only full-time player averaging over .400 for the season and leads the league in hits and is second in slugging average.

PITCHER OF THE MONTH FOR APRIL

Watty Clark

Pitcher of the Month for the Month of April 1931 is RP Watty Clark of the Harlem Knights. For the Month Watty is a perfect 3-0 with eight saves having an ERA of 0.38 allowing only one earned run in 24 innings. Watty appeared in seventeen games on the month amounting ten strikeouts, ten walks and only allowing eight hits. During the month Watty appeared in eight straight games for Harlem, amassing six saves and one victory.

ODD NOTES FROM THE DBS

  • Red Kress of Hattiesburg leads the DBS with 27 RBI, while managing only 27 hits.
  • Tom Zachary of Harlem has allowed only 4 runs this season, but each run has resulted in a Harlem loss. His record currently stands at 1-4.
  • North Dallas' team batting average (.294) is almost as high as Sahara's, Fremont's, Harlem's, and Hattiesburg's top batsman's average (Sahara's Chapman is hitting .303, Fremont's Wally Berger is hitting .308, Harlem's Bill Dickey is hitting .310, and Hattiesburg's Kiki Cuyler is hitting .311). North Dallas, however, has a worse record than all four of these teams.
  • The top two slugging teams in the DBS (St. Louis and North Dallas) have the worst records in the league.
  • Fremont's Rube Walberg has already pitched a no-hitter and a one-hitter this season.


    CONTROVERSY IN FREMONT

    AP wire report from the Grand Rapids Press, The Grand Rapids Press report that newly acquired SS Glen Wright has been demoted to the Furtraders AAA affiliate Argyle and that little used SS Leo Durocher has been called up to replace him. The story unfolded something like this, Wright had been staying with Manager Quin while he looked for an apartment in Fremont. After his demotion a distraught Wright went on a bender. When he returned to the Quinn home, an inebriated Wright allegedly crawled into bed with Quinn's wife. Upon his return from the office Quinn finds Wright in his bed and punches him out. Quin gave Klenk an ultimatem it is either Wright or me. Wright has been demoted for the time being.


    PLAYER OF THE WEEK

    Kiki Cuyler

    Player of the week for (May 1st � May 7th) is OF Kiki Cuyler of Hattiesberg who was a runner-up last week and wanted to prove a point this week. For the week Kiki batted .571 (12-21) with three doubles, scored seven runs, knocked in three and had two stolen bases. This gives Kiki a two-week average of .500 (23-46) one home run, seven doubles, nine runs batted in, scored thirteen runs and nine stolen bases. For the week Kiki appeared in six games hitting safely in five of them and getting more than one hit in four of the six.


    POWER POLL

    The War Version

    1 HARLEM World War II
    2 MONTGOMERY War Between the States
    3 FREMONT Trojan War
    4 HATTIESBURG American Revolution
    5 SAHARA Boer Wars
    6 PAWTUCKET Norman Conquest
    7 NORTH DALLAS Peloponnesian War
    8 ST LOUIS Falkland Islands

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