The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-04-21
CHEVY CHASE LOSES
Metropolitan Club Wins Ball
Game, Is to 8.
GRAND ACRoBATIC EXHIBITS
High and Lefty Tun.bIing by society
SeiOns the Chief Feature of Contest
for Chsrity-PrestOR Gibson Shows
College Day Form ia the Pitchers
Box-Nothing Ever Like IL.

CARRIED as for a Thanksgiving Day foot
bah orgy. society sat shivering in the
grand stand at the Nationals baseball
grounds yesterday afternoon while thir-
teen Metropolitan clubmen and nine
Chevy Chase clubmen, in summer fan
nels and outgrown college day baseball
uniforms, rendered their Interpretation
of the great national pastime, to the
great JOY of all beholders. the benefit of
the Providence Hospital. and the ultimate
defeat of the country club aggregation by
a score of Is to g.
The indifference of the weather gods TO
the success of the charitable undertaking
as manifested by the biting nor Wester
that whistled through the unprotected
stand and played havoc with spring mill
merry and MARCEL waves, chilled the en-
thusiasm Of the general public respect
fully invited to contribute. Although the
grand stand was we'll filled. il was al
most entirely a gathering of smart peo-
pie. However, a substantial sum was
netted for the cause
II is doubtful il the old grand stand has
ever borne the weight of so distinctly
outre an assemblage as sat huddled in
furs or with upturned coat collars yester-
day and laughed or applauded decorously
while scions of WashingtOn's best fami-
lies cavorted upon the diamond in alleged
athletic combat. From Baron Rosen. AM
bassador from Russia, to little Quentin
Roosevelt, extremes of dignity and boy
tsh strenuosity, the elite of this city spent
at least part of the afternoon at the
game,
Never Anything Like 1t.
They were rewarded by an exhibition
of baseball such as is seldom witnessed
On those grounds Not that there were
many errors. for the helders seldom got
near enough to a batted ball to make a
faux pas Of this sort; but I'm its acrobatic
character was the game unique. For in
stance. there was Reggy Huidekoper, NJ.
F. H. of the Chevy Chase Club. whose
terpsichorean and high and lofty tum-
bling qualifications. as evidenced in his
pursuit Of the elusive spheroid whenever
it came near his stamping ground around
third base, was a thing Of beauty and a
Joy forever. They say he caught one in
practice" remarked fair fan TO her as
fair neighbor after one of 'Reggy's" eX-
ceptionally well-executed misses.
From the outset it was apparent that
the Metropontans had the shade over
their country cousins, for when the town
team took the field in the first inning
their strength was disclosed in its near
Yale battery composed of Preston Gibson.
pitcher, and Ned Mitchell. catcher.
''Presty," whose residence is mostly In
tricky incurve that made him an almost
pitcher OF the Yale varsity team years
and years ago, and the star of his class
team. Backstopped by agile Ned Mitchell
who once wore a for his proficiency in
this gentle art. the invincible Preston
made eleven Chevy Chasers taste the bit
terness that turks in the punch.
Get the Lead Early.
Heavy stick work on the part Of the
town clubmen quickly garnered them a
nice little lead of = to in the first four
innings. Captain and Pitcher Bayne. Of
Chevy Chase. at This juncture held con-
sultation with Capt. Murray Cobb. Of
the Nets" in which it was divulged
that the Chevy Chasers didn't think
"Presty' ought to pitch so hard, espe-
cially as he is only a nonresident MEM
Der of the club. and. therefore, more or
less 'butting in" Word was passed 10
''Presty" and he promised to be nice and
pitch easy ones for a while.
Immediately there came ID betterment of
the Chevy Chasers' standing. three runs
being CLEANED in the fourth and another
trio IT. the fifth. all due, of course, to
'Presty's' generous disposition. But after
the six tallies had been recorded Capt
Cobb told his nOt-quite-COllege pitcher to
tighten up again, with the result that the
ChaseTs We're BANKED in the sixth, while
the Nets gained one more. But in the
seventh the Country Club boys began 10
get a line on p Gibson's parabolas and
grabbed off another three runs.
Bayne was getting better. and the
Chevy Chase team wanted 20 continue
the game for the fun nine innings. instead
of the seven. as agreed, but the victorious
Nets were satisfied to cali a truce to
their unwOnJed exertiOns The stand by
this time was half emptied of its bril-
liant thrOng, and as there seemed to be
no prospect Of finishing the game before
dark, play was abandoned
After the game a small but select circle
of younger brothers had a few joyous
moments down on the field throwing at
each other the few dozen lemons that at
various times during the contest had been
showered upon the players by their ad-
miTing friends
The score.
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