Los Banos Rotary Club History
Lions Trim Rotary In Annual Spree

The Lions Club softballers all but massacred the aged men of Rotary in the annual softball farce here Tuesday night, grossing a handsome 29 runs against Rotary's feeble 10. Rotarians, though, are alibing this week that their more aged members were not responsible for their defeat, but rather that the two youngest members, Frank Peluso and Bill Woo, almost single-handedly accounted for the downfall.

Peluso, "playing" at third base, accounted for some 14 errors and was personally responsible for 10 of the Lions' runs. Woo, not to be outdone, added some nine or 10 errors himself and accounted for all but one of the remaining runs. The 29th tally was donated by Dr. George B. Pimentel, who, after abstaining from such strenuous activities for several years, tried to play without his reading glasses, and missed a pop-up fly by a good ten feet.
Also contributing to the Rotary's downfall was the fact that their manager, Dr. L. R. Hillyer, was too much bothered by a recently broken leg to master-mind his team to victory.

Surprise of the evening was the pitching of George White, whom some of the Rotarians are now saying was imported several months ago from Gustine just so he could pitch for the Lions in this annual event.

Left fielder Sorensen, on the Lions squad, was also a surprise, as was the old veteran, Charlie Machado, who did a terrific job of catching. Among the lesser lights was the high school coach, Carlyle Loftin, who pitched the last three innings for the Lions and did his best to bolster dying Rotary hopes by walking no less than a dozen of the batters who faced him.

After the game members and players of both clubs gathered at the fire house clubrooms for refreshments, where the gloating of the Lions was feebly answered by a "wait until next year" by the few Rotarians who were still physically able to attend the repast.

July 12, 1949

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