aS npr ears ————————R SUSQUEHANNA LEAGUE STANDINGS Dallas Legion Shawnee Tavern Wanamie AC Miners Mills Railway AC Hudson AA Larksville West Side I BE Ie oJ « Jie Jie] = © ONO uU Ul Ulu LAST WEEK’S SCORES 9 West Side 9 West Side Shawnee T Miners Mills (Both games by League Forfiture) | 642 .642 .642 .615 .538 .500 .285 .166 0 0 The DOME tells you when jar is sealed! The new Ball DOME/ (2-piece metal) Lid is the easiest to use, surest to seal. Fits any Mason jar. Just press to test — if DOME is down, jar is sealed. You KNOW your foods are safe when you can them in ‘Ball Jars sealed with Ball DOME lids. Get a supply from your gro- cer today! Buy your Ball Blue Book of canning methods and recipes from him — or send name, address and 10c to: BALL BROTHERS CO. MUNCIE, INDIANA Re SUSQUEHANNA LEAGUE SCHEDULE Miners Mills at Railway (Huber Field). Dallas Legion vs Wanamie at Smith Field—Playoff game for first place. OFFICIAL BI-COUNTY LEAGUE STANDINGS Beaumont 31 3 .786 East Dallas 10 4 .714 Orange 10 4 714 Noxen 8. 5...615 Vernon 6 T .462 Shavertown 508 1.385 Carverton 310.231 Harding 1:13 .672 LAST WEEK’S SCORES All games rained out. BI<COUNTY LEAGUE SCHEDULE PLAYOFFS Noxen at East Dallas. Orange at Beaumont. Games to start at 2:30 P.M. Although rain halted all sched- uled games in the Bi-County and Susquehanna Leagues, were straightened out in hastily called meetings early this week. Tuesday night Bi-County League managers decided to cancel all re- DIG POTATOES THE EASY WAY! Ransomes Potato Digger elimi- nates the hard and expensive part of potato raising. Loosens soil and throws potatoes out in rows to be picked up easily.” Can be pulled with team or comes with tractor hitch. . WRITE FOR DETAILS AND FREE BOOKLET RANSOMES POTATO DIGGER —Sole Distributor in U. S. A.— SNYDER FARM EQUIPMENT CO. R. D. 1, Pittston, Pa. Marie Pomeroy, Sales Manager standings ! THE POST, FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1948 maining games and begin the play- offs immediately . . . . Orange and East Dallas, who were to have played last Sunday to decide a tie for second place chose to flip a coin. Lady Luck was with East Dallas as it won the toss and be- came the sole possessors of second place. Playoffs start Sunday with fourth-place Noxen meeting second- place East Dallas on Dallas Town- ship diamond . . East Dallas will start Art Bellas and Noxen is expected to counter with Gran- It will be Lou Evans on the mound for Orange and ‘Old Reliable” Matt Taylor for Beaumont . . . .. There will be two paid umpires at each playoff game. Meanwhile the Susquehanna League is in such a tangle that no one, not even League President Charles Lawson, knows what is going to happen next . ... At a meeting Monday night, West Side elected to forfeit its remaining two games (Shawnee Tavern and Min- ers Mills) . .. . This move jumped | Shawnee into a three-way tie for first place with Dallas and Wan- | amie and enabled Miners Mills to | be in a position, if it takes the measure of Railway AC Sunday, to close the race with a four-way tie. As it stands, according to the decision, of the managers, based on the old reliable method of flip- ping a coin, Dallas Legion and Wanamie will play the first game, while Shawnee draws a bye...... | Then comes the confusion, if Miners Mills beats Railway, it'll play Shaw- nee and the winner of this game will play the victor in the Dallas- Wanamie encounter to decide the first place spot . . . . . If Miners Mills loses Sunday, Shawnee will play winner of the Dallas-Wanamie game, with the victor of the final tilt to take over first place. At the rate the games are going it will be at least two weeks before the playoffs can begin. Dallas Legion will travel to Smith Field, Wilkes-Barre Sunday to tangle with Wanamie AC . . . . This will be one of the toughest encounters of the season and the Legionnaires will be on their toes for this one . . . . Although minus | the services of pitcher, Jack Fiske, who left for Florida this week, the Legion is confident that it will ¥ oF Government Regulations Effective In September Will Restrict Low Down Payments And Long Terms. BUY YOUR CAR NOW ¢ ON OUR PRESENT EASY PAYMENT PLAN. | WE HAVE RE CAR FOR EVERY BUDGET LONG LOW EASY TERMS ON THESE! ’48 Ford Conv. Coupe ’48 Ford 4 Dr. Sedan '47 Ford Club Coupe '47 Ford 2 Dr. Sedan ; '47 Ford 4 Dr. Sedan ’47 Chev. Aero Sedan ’A7 Buick 4 Dr. Sedan ’47 Stude. 4 Dr. Sedan — | 48 Chrysler Coupe ’46 Plymouth 4 Dr. Sedan ’46 Plymouth Club Coupe ’46 Chev. 2 Dr. Sedan Chev. 4 Dr. Sedan '46 "46 '46 Chev. Aero Sedan Mercury 2 Dr. Sedan [H Chev: 2 Dr. Sedan | 41 Buick Sedanet ’41 Plymouth 4 Dr. Sedan | '41 Plymouth Conv. Coupe ‘41 Buick Conv. 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MOTOR TWINS OPEN NIGHTS AND SUNDAY TELEPHONE 2-2144 ville Scouten or Art Blizzard . . . .| Orange will travel to Beaumont... | hold the Indian sign on ‘Wanamie and hopes to make it three straight from the city lads . . . . The game is a 50-50 split gate proposition with expenses shared by both teams . . . . Umpires assigned to the game are George and Rilk, As the tang of autumn fills the air, thoughts turn to the gridiron World Series is yet a month away But already professional | leagues, with a few exhibition games under their belt, are rush- ing the season . . . . Lehman’s footballers started the preliminaries Tuesday,’ while the i Red and White of Dallas Township had its first practice Wednesday afternoon . .... Tunkhannock is talking of playing night football and is considering a lighting sys- tem which will enable it to play the lights . . . . The setup involves a sizeable sum of money, but the backers feel that the investment is worth it and would pay off in a few years . . . The Orange and Black Tunkhannock’s Tigers will be seen in a new single wing forma- tion this year instead of the T of the past years . ... . All in all it looks like an evenly balanced ‘Pig- skin Show” this fall with fresh coaches in most schools and with unknown new material coming up. YOUR NAME PRINTED ON EACH CHECK *NO REQUIRED BALANCE *NO CHARGE FOR DEPOSITS OPEN YOUR ACCOUNT WITH ANY AMOUNT AT ANY TELLERS WINDOW IN OF WILKES-BARRE ne WIOMINC Zena NATIONAL pak 114 YEARS OF BANKING SUCCESS AT Corner Market & Franklin Streets Sember Fed. Deposit Insurance Gorp'n. ATTENTION PARENTS! HAVE YOUR CHILDREN'S VISION CHECKED BEFORE SCHOOL STARTS Dr. Aaron S. Lisses Eyesight Specialist SIMON LONG BUILDING 54 S. Main St., Wilkes-Barre (2nd floor—Over Sun Ray— Elevator Service) Office Hours 9:30 - 5:30 Eve. by App't. Phone 3-3794 We install lightning pro- tection for homes, farms, and industries. 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