Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-07-30
M|NGTON PLAYERS
DOWN THE PENINSULA
Baseball is Red Hot With Local
Stars Participating in
Sport.


seaford, July 30.--The end of July
finds the baseball teams down the
peninsula waging hot battle for SUI
prenacy with the honors about even.
Several Of the teams have employed
playing coach during the week.
Coach Shipiey Of the University OF
Delaware team has been engaged hv
Tocomoke city and reported fCr duty
the first OF the week. lie Is also
covering second base for the team.
Coach Shipley came here from the
Waynesboro. Blue Ridge club. CTis-
field has engaged Roger Peck, OF
Baltimore, 20 play and coach the club.
and Salisbury has Coach Underwood.
who is playing shortslop and coach
ing that team.
Princess Anne has been weakened
during the week by Hummer. their
crack pitcner. signing with Waynes-
boro in tfb Blue Ridge League. Hum
mer had won a majority Of the games
n which he worked for the Somerset
county boys. The crack Chsstertown
team, under Coach Kibler. has been
playing this week down this way.
making Salisbury their headquarters.
They have about broken even in games
won and lost during their stay.
TIE managers OF the teams en-
gagged in the struggle are stif reach
lrg out for better players, m0py new
faces being seen during the week. The
players have come principally from
the rni-professional ranks 81 viii
mington and Baltimore. While the at
tendance and weekly subscription
lists in some Of the towns is sufficient
TO cover running expenses, II is said
in the majority Of the towns this Is
rot the case, and the writer was told
few days ago that one of the clubs
was already 81 400 behind
He was also informed that the run
ming weekly expense Of one of the big
towns engaged in the fun was close
10 81 900. The revival Of the national
pastime has created an interest in
the lower end of4 the peninsula that
has not been experienced for num-
br Of years Crisfield has put up
hleachers all the way around from
FIRST TO third bases, with a fine grand
stand in the centre. Laurel has built
an entirely new ground and erected a
grandstand. All the other towns have
improved their playing grounds in
tons more pleasant than they ever
were before. An increase in price Of
admission has also been made, and
tor some Of the games 80 cents gem
eral admission is charged with extra
for grsndstand. Some Of the towns
are still charging IS cents general adj
mission with a 15-cent charge extra
Tor grandstand, but il is presumed IL
the other towns charge so cents gem
erai admission, they too win follow
suit
While the managers generally are
securing the seni-pro ranks Of the
cities, the "old timer" is still OF the
opinion that there are many good
bail players around the peninsula, who
could make good with any OF the
teams now striving for first honors.
Dal Culver, Seaford's pitching ace,
has done very little pitching 30 far
this season. but when the newly-or-
sanized Easton, Md, team engaged
him last Tuesday; he went there and
trimmed Centreyille, FL, striking out
II and letting The Queen 'AnEe boys
down with four hits. On Thursday,
sith-only a days rest, he pitched for
Chestertown, and while nicked for
nine hits, came out victor in the con-
lest
There are some more Dad Culver's
around this old peninsula waiting for
q chance. Probably the most remark
able pitching feat OF the week was
the no-hit. no-run game, JohE Clay
ton pitched for Cambridge against
CrisfieId. Hawk Hayes and ManIoye,
two Wilmington slabmen, the former
with Salisbury and the later with
Laurel are both going good down
this way. II is said the inroads on
Wilmington players have been so
great that there are scarcely any high
class ball players left in the city
During the week the Eass New
Market team disbanded, and Moore,
Melvin and Myers, three of their best
players, have Joined the recently or
ganizd Easton team. Laurel has been
going exceptionally strong since they
joined the fun, trimming evtry team
they have tackled Crisfield, Preston,
Mardella and Princess Anne. Their
game yesterday with Easton at Lau-
rel was stopped in the first inning BY
rain. They have a hard struggle
next week, when they stack up against
and PocOmoke City. These
games viii test their strength. Dover
did not show up so wen on their two
days stop down the peninsula, losing
both to Salisbury and Cambridge.
The disbanding of the Milford club
was a surprise This team had trim
med Dover four straight and on the
day the last game was played be-
tween these two towns the old timer"
was at the game. The grounds were
packed with fans and the receipts
looked to be more than $500. Al
though the grandstand had been en-
larged previous 70 the game. it was In
adequate to hold the people WHO clam
ored for admission, If Il has ever been
SVEN out why the team disbanded, the
.old timer" has never learned it.
As the teams enter August, il will
be interesting TO watch them in their
fight for first honors. There are now
engaged IN the struggle Crisfield