The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1922-09-04
CAMBRIDGE TAKES BOTH
ENDS OF TWIN BILL
With POCOMOKE
Schroll Hero OF First Contest. Plank
Wins Own Game In Second Battle
Second Game Ended In Moonlight.

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Wins Own Game In Second Battle
| Second Game Ended In Moonlight.
What is believed to have been the
first game of baseball ever played by
| moonlight in this city was Witnessed
! by quite a crowd on Saturday a1ter-
| noon. when Pocomoke City" Sala-
manders" and the Cambridge War
riors" engaged in battle for two con-
tests. the decision in each case rest
| ing with the local club.
Owing to the heavy and contlnu-
GUS rains of Saturday morning, the
first game was not gotten under way
until half past three O'Clock, ana
then only after the infield had been
sprinkled with sawdust and gasoline
and burned Off The opening con-
test went for nine innings, and re-
suited in a victory for the local club
by margin of one run, the score be-
ing three to two. Angie Schroll,
who has been manager Armstrong;
iron man all season, was on the
mound for the Warriors, and allow
ed the invaders from Pocomoke City
only four scattered hits, striking out
fourteen of their batsmen. The two
Pocomoke runs were scored in the
ainth inning and resulted from two
bases on balls and a hit through
third and short, which bounded by
Hinkle and went for two bases.
Luna was beaming brightly, in all
her iredescent splendor, when UNI
pire Cloak decided that he had had
enough in the closing contest, and
called the game. Cambridge at the
time was leading by margin OF one
run for the second time of the day.
eddie Plank, besides pitching mas
terful game, hit the ball far over left
field fence to start off the fifth IN
ming, and this proved to be the only
marker rung up during the fracas.
Real fielding features were scarce
as hens teeth, but the muddy
ground brought out some very nice
plays, which were funny as well, and
served as a help in entertaining the
crowd. Augie Schroll, with one out
in the second inning of the hrst
game, hit a sharp one to Mcknight,
who doubled Armstrong at second
and then had Schroll caught at first
by fifty feet, owing to a headlong
dive taken by that worthy gentleman
in getting away from the plate.
Skeets Wilson for Pocomoke and
Jake Flowers, for the Warriors,
made rafting good plays out OF
stumbles on the muddy field.
All three of the Cambridge runs in
the opening game were scored upon
hits by Robinson, the miniature right
fielder, who lambasted one over rlgnt
field fence for homer in the second
inning, scoring the first counter OF
the day. This was the hardest ball
Robbie has hit all season, and sailed
over the wall in line, losing no
time whatever while en- route. HIS
second hit of the day come IN the
third inning, with two out and three
on base. A single over second scor-
ed Reynolds and Jake Flowers and
gave Schroll a three run lead which
he held until the ninth inning closed.
These two games increased the
winning streak of the local club to
eleven straight games, and Will go
down in history as the greatest
come back made by any team in this
circuit during the first year of its
existence. Cambridge already has
WOu Ill &c mO1 gaines LII q "" $780,
did Parksley at the beginning of the
year, and has shut out all of her OPP
ponents, with the exception of Girls
field, who was beaten three tines
straight, in so doing. The streak
has brought the club from Re cellar
position to second place, or hin al
rev PONIES Of It, and i Is II ii ley
monument to the ability OF manager
Herbert E. Armstrong, who may be
looked upon as the miracle man OF
the local circuit. All hail to the ac-
complishments of Army" and stand
together for his returning to Cam
bridge as manager of the Warriors
in their campaign of next year, and
the chances are that someone will be
second to Cambridge, instead OF
Cambridge being second to someone
else, when the 1923 pennant is nm
furled and the 1929 post season SER
les begun.