Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-02
SWIFT GAME OF BALL
Metropolitan and Chevy Chase
Clubs Compete.
PLAYERS Do STAR STUNTS
Result Favors the Chevy Chasers,
Score 16 to IL.
FANS CHEER THE COMBATANTS
Proceeds of the Ticket Sale Donated
to Maintain Free Wards in
Hospital.
FANS CHEER THE COMBATANT'

The Chevy Chase ball tossers defeated
the team from the Metropolitan Club in
the annual interclub game yesterday at
American League park. The score when
| the dust of battle had subsidized and the
| frenZied scorekeepers had sized up the
situation. was found to be 16 to IL in
| favor of the Chevy Chase team. Scores
of Washington's most prominent men and
women, in social and official circles, turn
ed out to cheer the clubmen on. The pro-
ceeds from the sale of tickets will go to
| the benefit Of the free wards in Provi-
dence Hospital
1t was a great day for Chevy Chase.
The Metropolitan Club already had the
advantage of two winnings on the hand
| some silver cup, which has beeh donated
as a prize for the interclub games, and
| had figured on cinching the trophy yes
| terday. But. DIR. Blair Spencer and his
| faithful cohorts thought otherwise Dr.
| Spencer being the leader of the Chevy
| Chasers The Metropolitan team was
lead by DR.. breckenridge Bayne.
| For the first half dozen innings the
scoring was pretty even, though each
| team was getting plenty of runs right
along but in the sixth and seventh the
| Chevy Chase players cleaned up. They
| picked up seven runs in these two in
nings and gathered in safe lead that
was never really threatened again.
Chevy Chase First at Bat.
| Chevy Chase was first at the bat. That
! crafty veteran of the slab, Leonard
/ Nicholson. was doing the twirling for
the Metropolitan Club. and DR.. ''Breck'
/ Bayne was wearing the mask and body
/ protector with all the nonchalence of
| "a suffragctte batting a minister of the
| British government Nick was there with
the artful shoots. but Meredith and
| Elongated yer Garnett tore the cover
| off the ball. and. aided by IA timely hit
/ by Frank Poe, scored two runs.
1t might be we'll at this juncture to
/ give the lineup Of the two teams. The
| ability of the various members of the
! teams to play almost every position and
the rapidity with which they Were shift
| ed from place To place on the diamond
| makes a diagram of the line of battle
| necessary.
The Chevy Chase team was constituted
| at various times-as follows: Frank
Poe. catcher; DR.. Blair Spencer, DR.. A.
| Y p Garnett and Hicks, pitcher; Or.
A. y. p. Garnett, DIR. Tom Neill. first
base; Hoffman. second base; Hicks. P.
Spencer. third base; +. Spencer and DR..
A. Y. p Garnett shortstop: Willett.
| left field: Frank Ellis and Jack Schneid-
er, center field: Meredith. right field.
| The lineup of the Metropolitan Club
team was as follows: DIR. breckenridge
Bayne. Randall II. Hagner catchers;
team was as follows: DIR. breckenridge
Bayne. Marbury and MacCartney. pitch
ers; Fleming Newbold first base; Scott
| breckenridge. second base; DR.. w.
Mason. third base; Lewis. shortstop,
| Calvert. left field: Capt. Pat" Evans,
center field; Newton Gulick. Leonard
Nicholson, Marbury, right field.
Game Details, Once More.
To get back TO the game: The Metro
politan Club team. not dismayed by the
two-run lead Of their opponents. in it's
half of the first inning rolled up three
| TALES. by the means of the strong right
arms of Fleming Newbold and Scott
| Breckenridge aided also by a couple of
errors on the part of the Chevy Chasers.
! Errors, by the way, made their appear
ance with considerable regularity. but
they We're so picturesque. and added so
much to the joy of the spectators. that
instead of getting black marks for their
misdeeds the players were wildly ap-
rlauded.
Inc uniforms of the teams were marked
by their lack of uniformity Anything
went from duck trousers and tennis
SHOES. to the real thing as sported by
Fleming Newbold and Newton Gulick.
Newton wore a Yale base ball suit with
a large 'Y-A-L-E' across his chest, hut
II is Understood he had borrowed it from
the umpire, Preston Gibson. Preston. who
in the past has shown upon the diamond
as pitcher for the Metropolitan Club
team. acted as arbiter in the dispute yes
terday, and his decisions were SO fair
that not kick was raised, until the last
inning when he called Randall Hagner
out on a ball which went foul, striking
Randall. who was at the bat.
| The second inning was the big night
for the Chevy Chasers. No less than five
runs were scored in this period by the
ICountry Club players and Leonard Nichol-
son was found to be weakening fast. But
| along came the Metropolitan crew in their
| end of this inning with q bunch of hits