The Washington herald., 1910-06-05

James >. SneTudug vic AASS44SHe "
the United States and baseball fan ex-
traordinary, saw the Chamber of COM
merce nine trim the knights Of Colun- +.
bus team, Is to s, in a game for the bene-
fit of the Fairgrounds movement at
American League. Park yesterday after
noon.
The game was. for charitable purpose,
and charity sure does cover a multitude
of poor baseball. The 1900 fans who saw
the game were shown an exhibition Of
run-getting and error-making that sell
dom has been equaled on the big lot.
Occupying box with Vice President
and Mrs. Sherman were President GuGe.
of the Chamber of Commerce. and Mrs.
GUIDE. The Vice President did not stay
through the entire game, but left early,
it was said. to find out just how the Ma
tionals were doing in Cleveland.
Capt. King quits.
Capt. Phil King. Of the Chamber OF
| Commerce nine. stayed in the game only
| two innings, directing the proceedings
! from the bench thereafter. Capt King
made the circuit of the bases twice and
puffingly ordered a substitute to replace
him. Capt. Jimmy O'Shea, Of the Knights,
did not get into uniform, but ran close
second 10 Conny Mack as a director from
the settee Jimmy says mere trife ike
one defeat won't stop his team. which is
booked to clean Up the Elks soon.
Fifteen great big healthy runs were
stacked up in the first four innings by
the Chamber of Commerce team, and
then Pitcher Mcknight settled down apd
was as Tbera a. 5Ietty Green when it
came 10 giving hits. The Knights then
began to do things. and had the game
continued a day or two longer. il would
have developed into an interesting con-
test
The early part of the game was a
pitchers battle between Smoke" Bal
ger and Johnny" SheckeI-a battle 10
retire the opposing side by strike-outs
as the only sure preventive OF run-get-
ting. Each man saw it was apparently
up TO the pitcher 10 come 10 the rescue
and did so with some strike-Out work
that was startling.
Enjoys Red-hOt Game.
After Vice President Sherman tossed
the first ball, he settled back in his chair
TO enjoy a red-hot bali game Every
thing sty ted well, the first three Knights
facing lsheckeil going down in order.
When Leverton. first up for the Cham
Der nine, was famed. the Vie President
hunched his chair up q bit and said
Great Some ball game this, ! guess.
Now, whether the Knights heard the
remark and got nervous Is question.
but there is no doubt that something
struck them. Capt. Phil King, next to
face Baker lined daisy to right and
took second when Mcknight booted
Smiths grounder That was the signal
| to cut the ropes and circle about the
atmos-air. Bielaski's error gave c. King
a life. while Phil King lost nine pounds
and hts hat In seooting home with the
4 first tally. Then Smoke Balzer threw
Ia slant over near the Vice Presidents
! party and two more came in. He settled
down and retired the side Immediately
after relieving himself OF the wild heave.
Four more were snesked across in the
second by the Chamber team, while the
Knights hung up a goose egg. Three er-
rors, a wild pitch, walk, and singles By
; Leyerton and Smith did the trick, and K.
OF c. stock dropped below par.
Two Runs on Heave.
The Knights saw their opponents wert
in real earnest, and proceeded 70 COZ
three talies in the opening chapter O
the third. O'Nein and Belzer walked
and advanced on a double steal. Nc
Carthy grounded TO Quinn. who threv
wide TO Smith at the plate. The bal
went 10 the stand and two runs came in
Mccarthy scored on an out a minus
later.
A two-sacker by shecken, a pass
BaIzers balk, and a single by Phil KIM
brought two more for the Chamber in tn
third. and incidentally. saw the finisl
of Smoke Balzer. Capt Jimmy O'She
ordered Mcknight to go in and stem tn
tide in the fourth As q stemmer, Ma
was not there right away.
A bit of comic opera baseball greete
his appearance in the box. Members 0
the outfield and infield contributed gen
erously to the error column: and not 1
!, be outdone In generosity, Mac issued tw
passes. When you put combination Tx
8 that In close proximity 70 two single
and a two-baser, something usually re
suits. This time there was 40 excuse, ans
u according to lightning ealeuiators VIII
- watched the runners, six NEE crossed I'll
pan.
le That ended the scoring for the Cham
l. Der nine, for Mcknight settled down i'm
Z, mediately afterward. The knights wer
k just waking up about that time an
r started to play good baseball.
A. The eighth saw Mcknight get IN