The Washington herald., 1914-06-21
MASONIC
OUTFIT TRIMS
HARMONY Club
Bill Belts and His Tribe Take
"A to 5 Contest Before
Big Crowd.
CURLY" BYRD POUNDED
While Tommy Thompson Pitches
Clever Came-l6.000 Tickets
Are Sold.
CURLY" BYRD POUNDED
ny cHARIEs W. SWAN.

washinston's army Of Masons had
their day yesterday.
Bully Belts and his AIl-Masonic ban
club overwhelmed the baIl nine OF Har-
mony Lodge. In the big benefit game at
American League Park. with a crowd
estimated at 5000 witnessing the com
bat Some 1900 tickets for the contest
were sold, and the endowment fund OF
the Eastern Star Home will be greatly.
enlarged within the next few days.
Vice President Marshall threw out the.
arst BAH, the Grotto Band OF the Yelled
Prophets played throughout the after
noon. the ''Schaefer and AItrock'' pair OF
Harmony Lodge, Ham Smith and
Roe Fulkerson were on the JOB. and
everything went on without hitch
But to get back to the ball game
Curly" Byrd did the fiinging for the,
Harmony Lodge club. which challenged
the other Masons, and he received a.
beautiful pounding. Billy Belts hard
hitting tribe simply jostled him loose.
from his shoes. grabbing total Of twen-
~ safe blows in nine innigs. while Tom
my Thompson. who worked on the mound
for the All-Masonic outht. was never In
danger. Thompson allowed seven hits.
three OF these being scratch blows.
tanned ten batters. and also connected
for brace Of doubles himself.
Manager Betts Raves.
Bill Belts. who has handled the Iudi-
Gator in amateur and professional games
for the past twenty-five years. became
an umpire batter huself In the early
part Of the game. when the score was
close. Umpire Harry shurtlen failed to
call a couple Of balks. as Manager Betts
thought. and then the battle started
Manager Belts raved throushout the ~
mainder OF the game. sitting en the
bench
The Au-Masonic club proved TO be the
best hitters By far. the veterans OF the
local sand-lots playing great ball Mer-
rill Vaughn. on third; Joe Leyerton. at
short: Jack Dodge. on second: Andy
Walker. in center. and. in fact. every
member Of the club played Championship
ball
The Harmony outfit also # yed well
in the field. but were heIpIe/ 5efore the
great hurting Of Tommy Thompson. The
little Railroad Lacquer had the Har-
mony club scrapping all the time. tanning
the side in the fifth frame with ease.
The fielding features Of the contest
went TO Cy Macdonald. Charley King.
and Moffett Bradley. In the third inning
Hardester hit slSw roller to right. Big
Cy, coming with rush, snagged the ball
anu uldue poor peg 10 hinS. on nFsl-
But Charley was on the job. and with a
neat stab. retired the runner
Bradley In BimeIiRht.
Bradley's feature stunt came In the
eighth session. With Riddle on second
and Mike Macdonald on third. Cy Mac
donald hit low liner to left Bradley
lost the ball in the sun. and then recov-
cred II. catching the ball close to the
ground With a good peg to Leverton.
he doubled Riddle at second
Yesterdays contest will more than like
" lead to the formation Of a Masonic
League among the Eastern cities Man.
ager Billy Belts. Of the AIl-Masonic team.
has already been challenged to a game
by the Baltimore Masons, while the local
Elks are hot after him for a contest
Manager Belts viii endeavor to arrangs
game between his club and the Phil
adelphia Masons to be played at Atlantic
City some time next month
Plans for the formation of a Masonic
League. along the lines of the Printers
League. viii be discussed within the next
few days.