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Saturday was another opening day
for the Cambridge ball club. They
helped initiate the season at Laurel
by losing to the Blue Hens" by a
4 to 3 score. While the crowd was
not so large as the one here on the
preceding day, $40 paid admissions
were received.
The first ball of the game was
thrown across the plate by Gov.
William D. Denny, struck at by
Mayor H. X. Fooks and caught by
Ex-Governor Simeon S. Pennewell.
Prior to the game, the members of
both teams lined up in front of the
plate and marched to the flag pole
in center field, where the flag was
raised by the Governor, assisted by
managers Sam" Frock and Herb"
Armstrong, of the opposing teams.
The music was furnished by the
Laurel band. After these ceremon-
les, the teams marched back to their
dug-outs and the game was on.
The contest was close and full of
thrills from beginning to end.
Pedone the first batter, walk ed;
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right field, and Laurel fans began to
feel for their pitcher. Duffy forced
Pedone at second, however, and
died a moment later in attempting
TO steal second. The first three
Laurel men to face Jensen were easy
outs. ManniN, first up, famed,
Flowers then threw out Donoho and
Johnson performed like ceremonies
for Stup. -
Jensen, the big left-hander, was
sent to the mound by manager Arm
strong. and looked awfully good, eX-
cept for his wildness. He allowed
only two hits during the 1-3 in
nings he pitched, both of these be-
ing garnered by Slaughter
The fourth inning brought the
downfall of Cambridge. After Jen-
sen had tossed out Mannix at first,
Donoho hit high bounder through
pitchers box, which Jensen defect
ed toward short with his glove.
Flowers had started iii to field the
ball, and was forced to change his
direction and fumbled Donoho
reaching first. Stup, the next man,
walked With runners on first and
second, Jensen forced Sweeney to
hit d roller to second, which Spaeth
fielded nicely, and had turned to
throw to second when Stup, going
from first to second ran into him
turning him toward first and pre-
venting a double play. In an effort
to catch Sweeney at first, Spaeth
threw the ball away and DonOho
scored the first run. A moment
later Slaughter singled to center and
Stup and Sweeney scored. Jensen in
tercepted Duffy's throw in which
would have failed to catch anyone
at the plate, and nailed Slaughter at
second for the second out. Oeser
then hit an easy one to Jensen, end
ing the inning.
Under the rules, when Stup collid-
ed with Spaeth, the runners were
prevented from advancing. and the
batter called out, but Umpire Truitt
presumably did not see it this way,
and allowed all runners to advance.
Truitt again failed to see a play a
reversed decision on which might
have saved the day for Cam
bridge. In the eighth, Brown
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next pitched ball Marvil threw to
first to pick him Off Brown reach
ed the bag safely. in the minds Of
the majority of these present, but
was ruled out by Umpire Truitt
Doc Dolan, who disputed the de-
cision, was banished to the bench
for so-doing. for the first time in his
career, which is made up Of twelve
years of professional ball. AS Pres
ident Miller was one of spectators,
it was Immediately rumored that
the game would be protested, but
this has not yet been the subject of
discussion among the | ocal d.
rectors
The Cambridge boys came back
fighting hard next two innings, and
tied the score, coming through with
five singles, and driving Peters from
the box. Brown brought ever the
tying run on his being hit in the