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SALISBURY EASILY wins
GAME With CAMBRIDGE
Sand Diggers Walk Away With First
Game With Cambridge Owing TO |
Local Players Having on Day.

For the second time in succession,
the Cambridge team has had pitch
ing of decidedly first water quality,
and has outhit the opposing club.
only to lose. Yesterday they were
severely trounced by Salisbury to
the tune of to l.
1t is easy to account for the de-
feat. The Cambridge defense was
like tissue paper Everybody. with
the exception of chosen few, suf
fered an off-day and the result men
toned above was the consequence.
When players like Duffy, John
son, Flowers and Pedone kick
enough in one game to make the er-
ror column total u" something
mysterious is in the air. The jinx
is on the warpath. Duffy, Johnson
and Flowers each kicked two, and it
these men will kick two in a row for
the remainder of the season, not to
mention having them all occur on
the same day. Pedone's error was
dropped fly directly over the toul
line in left field Pete" is another
Of those boys who seldom drop
them.
And in hitting, the local club is
hitting them hard on the nose, but
yesterday they were driven squarely
mo The waiting hands OF some Sails
bury fielder. Anterior handled not
less than three hard grounders that
would have gone as base hits, had
they been few feet TO either side
OF him. and they came with men on
the bases. Brown hit two long
flies, to right ana left field respec-
lively. Schroll hit one to the cen
him OF sure double and possible
triple. A couple of innings before
this. Schroll was robbed of single,
when he hit fast one between first
and second, but its speed caused
Schrool's out for Adams was able
to get the ball tC first before
Schroll. For the last out in the
ninth, Johnson hit one 1T May sol
hard that he could barely see il, but
it stuck in his glove. In the first
inning, this same Johnson hit one
over The left field fence. but it'll
curved around the foul flag after go
ins over. and johnny" lost his
homer.
What we are getting at in rocit-
ing all these hard luck incidents is
this. 'Old Man Hard Luck" is
making his home in Cambridge for a
few days No matter what kind of
pitching the local boys get, they can
not win while the old fellow is here.
The only way to get rid of him is to
club him to death, by winning a
game on base hits alone, but when
he is gone, the boys will cut a swath
through this league that will be
wide enough to accommodate an army
of the size that helped Sherman
make history in his famous march.
The pitchers are working fine
Nothing more could be expected
of them, except perhaps, the elimi-
nation of wildness. The boys are
hitting the old ball nthe nose and
1T must follow as the night the
day" that they cannot keep on go
ing into waiting gloves for outs. The
fielding fiasco of yesterday was of
the sort that comes once in life
time, and the boys got enough stuff
out of their system to last them for
DIT lSdSt d ilOW VII VIC
are looking for the Cambridge club
to begin to rise toward the top.
In speaking of the game, the work
of Umpire Derby must not be over
looked. He was 100 per cent bet
ter than Truitt, either Friday or
Saturday, and kept things going
with a snap and despatch that was
truly enlivening. Neither should
the sparkling double by Duffy, in
the first inning be obscured. This
was the first extra-base blow from
a Cambridge bat, this season, and
coming on the heels of Johnson's
long foul caused the hope to spring
up in the breasts of those fans from
here that attended the game that a
heavy hitting contest on the part of
the Cambridge boys was on hand.
But this was not to be.