The Washington herald., 1914-06-09
KNIGHTS BATIED
OUT OF DIAMOND
Fraternal Players, However,
Give Catholic University
Reserves Hard Game.
HUMIDITY HELPS SOME
Columbus Boys Defeated. II to 4. but
Orphan "Kiddies" Benefit as Much
as if They Had Won.

while the humidity battled with tn
score for ascendancy. "Jim" coliifiower'
knights of Columbus baseball team wen
down to sweaty defeat. to the tun'
of Il to 4. before the Catholic Universit,
Reserves at the American League Parl
yesterday afternoon, The game was Civ
en- for the benefit. OF the orphan children
of the various Catholic asyluns OF the
city.
1t was real midsummer baseball up to
the beginning of the seventh which was
anything but lucky for the fraternsl So
ciety ball-tossers. MuIchay, On first for
the X. of C.. was unable to coerce
hot liner that came through his baili-
wick, and the slaughter started
Some Binrles and Taps.
The teams were even at the start Of
the seventh, but the c. L. left fielder.
LYNCH. stretched his hit through Null
cahy for two portions and advanced 10
the three-quarters flag on bingle oy
Zachary. Donneny drew some trans
portation VIA the four-ball line and the
bases were down to the hubs. Maioney
OBLIGED with fairish single and Lynch
ScOTe0- SdStdliCo s-Py -
his shoulder and Zachary came. home to
make room on the bags In the mean
time, Greer died on a fly to center and
Cooker went down on foul TO the
first baseman.
With two runs already across young
man named Derby, sauntered to the
plate and made valiant try at a WIN
dow of a. house over in Florida avenue.
The ball fell short of the window, but
Derby sauntered home with Donnelly,
Maloney, and Cartwright ahead of him.
The score. at the end of the inning,
stood, c. L., 9; K. of c.. 3.
X. of c., under the able driving of
Collifiower, came back strong in their
half of the seventh and started what
looked good for one of those old Garri-
son finishes We used to read about First
off, Joyce tripled and White, right be-
hind him, poled one to center for two
bags more, scoring Joyce. Mulcahy sim
sled. advancing White. but the latter got
CAV around the third station and was
tagged. With Mulcahy roosting on sec
ond, Campazzi grounded to that bag and
was thrown. out. J. O'Neil lured a pass
from Pitcher Greer, but Demon Law
Ter. who followed. tried to puncture a
nretty. blue cloud with a high foul, and
he evaporated without more ado.
Rub Salt In Wounds.
The BOYS from Brookland rubbed salt in
the wound they administered the pre-
ceding canto by appropriating three more
tallies in the first installment OF the
eighth Greer. first up, hied TO le1t.
Lynch drew a one-way ticket to hrst,
and Zachary home-runned, with one SOHO
and soul-satisfying wallop OF MS ASH
bIudeeon. shooing in Lynch before him |
To make the work more complete, Dom
nelly pulled the same stunt the very next
thing, adding another homer TO the score:
After that, the game is just mass OF
statistics. ..s- re-. b. .-
Several hundred children from the vari-
ous orphan asylums of the city were on
hand and rooted hard for their faVorlte'
O'Day served ice cream
zones to the little tots during the per-
Formance The proceeds of the game
vent 10 st. Vincent's Orphan Asylum
Che score: