Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-07-15
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from the
Democrats Pen

Well. Sir, that fellow Clarke, who
,,,,,ni,od the game of Soft Ball on
Monday, between the Salisbury Ro-
+arians and the Pocomoke Dittos, SAID
he was going to see that the POGO
mokians were on top when the dust
cleared away, and he went and done
If. The score was to in an extra
inning game; you see, they went out
to play only a ginning set-to, and
they came very near to making 1t a
full-sized rumpus on account OF the
tie-up when the time came to stop.
Reckon you-all have heard about
diamond dust; we'll there was diamond
dust out there on Monday in that
Eastern Shore League Park. That's
the reason the umpire could get in a
little of his work for the local ball
tossers. Every time, the wind blew
the dust in the eyes of the batter,
and that helped the ball-and-strlke
man to land the local boys winners.
The batter couldn't see the ball, the
umpire couldn't see the ball, and, there
was no kick coming when he yelled,
strike! Anyhow, the umpire escaped
being busted off by the Salisburyians,
the batter didn't get his pan busted
off by the pitcher, and the players
haven't got the dust out of their eyes
up to the present moment.
There was some weird ball playing
out there, in addition to the weird ar
bitration of the arbiter. George
Bunting didn't hit very well, and l
asked him why he didn't try bunting,
but he thought I was trying to get
off something smart. Ed Ham had
a sprained wrist and he said that
caused him to misjudge that fly ball
which cavorted out into right field,
allowing some of the visitors to scamp
er home.
Fuller Walters handled himself
pretty we'll on the initial sack for an
old man; DR.. Willard, showed Schlut-
er how to play third base; Clint Dun
can showed Mr.. Ehlers he wasn't a
candidate for short stop; Billy Wal
tiers, scrambled around in the dust one
time and tried to make circus play
at first while lying on his back, but
didn't connect; Stanley Bayly showed
he hadn't forgotten his high school
days; Fred Henderson had little diff
ficulty seeing the plate-dust, reck-
on: Bradshaw was a Stonewall behind
the plate; Johnson Payne had nice
time out in center, doing nothing
and Merrill Walters was on the coach
ing line, shooting off his advice to
the players, he being smart enough
to keep out of it himself. George
Henderson said he knew all about the
game, and, before it began, begged to
be allowed to make base decisions
and he did.
How-some-ever, the whole shootin
match of 'em, visitors and locals,
showed after the game that they could
eat, if they couldn't play ball. They
all managed to hobble up to the Pres
byterian Church and they didn't fun
BILE play at the table. They caught
every "fowl" coming their way, and
the way they hit that menu was a
caution.
Something was said about return
game, and the umpire asked if he
could be of service, he would gladly
give his time and patience. The Sal
isbury boys said they had man there
who was just as bad, and they would
coach him up to be little worse, if
it were necessary to come in one run
to the good. They were told that if
they would leave those two little kids
off their team, the umpire could be
as rotten as a last years egg, and still
Pocomoke would win. They said they
were much obliged for the advice, and
they would reinforce their team by
one or two more so-called kids.
How-some-ever, the large crowd en-
joyed the game very much; believe
the announcer said there were some
thirteen and a half thousand out. I
reckon he had some of the afore-men-
toned dust in his eyes. Or he may
have been afflicted as Ed Ham was,
because he said, when he called off,
that he was compelled to do so on ac-
count of a sprained ankle or some
thing like that; whatever it was, it
impaired his vocal apparatus to such
an extent he had to stop squaking.
1 haven't heard of any letters of SYM
pathy being extended or any hope ex-