Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-20
PLAY FOR CHARITY
Metropolitan and Chevy Chase
Clubs on the Diamond.
NETS WIN IN SEVENTH
At Least, the Score Favored Them,
10 to 2, When the Game
Broke Up.

Drawing the torrid heat OF mid-after-
noon, teams representing the Metropolitan
and the Chevy Chase clubs played their
annual game of base ball yesterday for
the benefit Of charity. Other functions
of the day. the garden party at the
White House and the high school cadets
drill on the Monument grounds, COM
bined with the unpleasant weather to
restrict the attendance at the game, but
even so. many members of the fashion
able colony went to Hilltop field, at
Georgetown, to cheer the athletes
1t might be mentioned in passing tina,
the Metropolitan Club won, because ten
of their number displayed spurts OF
energy and circled the bases, while the
Chevy Chasers either were content to
hang up two runs in the first inning and
let it go at that. or they We're prevented
by other circumstances from putting adj
ditional footprints on the home pan.
Anyhow, the game came to an abrupt
end after the seventh inning, when the
MetropOlitanS. who were already four
runs in the lead, conducted a merry-go-
round on the bases and increased their
total of runs by four.
All of the proceeds from the sale OF
tickets to the game went to Providence
sented on the field by several members
of the staff of visiting physicians and
surgeons, while the big white automobile
ambulance from the hospital. with two
house surgeons in charge, was parked
with other automobiles in the shade at
the western edge of the field. No casual
ties occurred during the game. so that the
ambulance was not called into service.
Chevy Chase First at Bat.
Chevy Chase went to bat first and
started out like sure winner. Pitcher
Bayne, on the slab for Metropolitan,
passed three men in this session, allowed
two bingles and plugged another batter
with the ball, and the aggregation of
hobbies produced two runs before Capt.
Cowan, L. S. A, who was headed for
second base, unfortunately collided with
a hard hit ball which First Baseman Gar
nett had fumbled and was called out, re-
firing the side After this inauspicious
opening inning Bayne had the Indian
sign on the Chevy Chasers and they drew
six successive ciphers In the run column
before they determined at the end of the
seventh inning to give up the struggle.
In their half of the first inning the
Metropolitans tied the score. Moorehead.
first batter up, drew free ride to the
initial sack. Bayne swung thrice and
sat down, but Garnett doubled and both
runners counted on de Slbours sacrlfce.
Moorehead walked again to start the
third inning, stole second, went to third
on a balk and registered on a secriflce fly
by Garrett.
The fourth inning furnished sufficient
opportunities to liable the Metropolitans
to put the game on ice, even though I'm
pire Abbey did miss the count somewhere
along the line and declared the side re-
tired when onlv two were out. De Sibour
opened this session by waiting for four
l;4f~ tr>VA ND
and scored on Somerville's double Brooks
singled. sending Somerville to third, and
the former registered and Brooks went
to third while Fleming Newbcld was being
thrown out at first. Brooks counted on d
sacrifice fly by Ellis. Two out. Three
runs.