Evening star., 1915-07-04
Exhibition at American League
Park Wins PIaudits of
''the Audience"
BOTH TEAMS ARE DRAWN
FROM MASONIC ORDER
Templeites and 0utlanders Compete
for Honors, the Former Win.
ming by 7-3 Score.

The Masons of Washington. with their.
wives and their sons and their daugh-
ters and their sisters and their sweet
hearts and their cousins and their
aunts and few other people like that
went en- masse yesterday afternoon to
American League Park to watch a ball
team composed of players from those
lodges which meet in Masonic Temple
soundly trounce and tidily trim a ball
team made up of players from lodges
which meet elsewhere than in the Ma
sonic Temple.
1t was some" ball game, too All the
Masons and their wives and their sons,
daughters. sisters, sweethearts, cousins,
aunts, etc, thought so when the game
ended to in favor of the players
from within the Temple. known as tho
Templeites. BY their superior hitting
and the services of one Thompson,
pitcher, the Outlanders-the team com
posed of players from lodges which
meet outside the Temple-were let
down with but five hits. The Temple
ties only made nine hits. by the way,
but they managed to bunch them in the
way so necessary in the game OF base
ball.
Benefit Performance.
Masonic and Eastern Star Home The
| famous band of Kallipolis Grotto. No.
Is, NJ. o. v. P. E. r. "a most astounding
array of letters to. the uninitiated) en-
| tertained the spectators who arrived
early. and all through the game tried
| madly to get in a whole tune between
innings. but never quite succeeded, owing
to the speed with which the Templeite
and Outlander players worked Ono hour
and forty-five minutes-Yes, sir.
1t is to be suspected that a great
many folks went to the grounds to see
| funny" game, one of these slam-'em-
out, fall-around-the-b bases, get-put-ou
| comical affairs sometimes staged when
ball players who are not regular" ball
players doff their Palm Beach toggery
for base ball four-ninetyfives and
stockings. But if that was what they
went to see they were woefully fooled.
for there wasn't what the candid small
boy calls rotten play in the whole
nine innings.
Nor. on the other hand. was there
| anything startling. to make the heart
of the sedate fan iip a few hops. The
nearest sas thing to anyshing like that wa:
field for the Templeites. already four runs
to the good. opened the fifth inning
for his team by landing on the ball
for nice long drive out left field way.
which the official scorer marked down
| as a three-b hit, but which allowed
the speedy one with the punch to trip
| all the way home nevertheless.
Becomes a "Real" Game.
| After the game was well under way
all the brother and sisters knew II was
| a regular" ball game-an honest, sure
enough base ball game. Pitcher Thomp-
son had the Out1anders at his mercy
throughout even IL they did manage to
mass one complete run in the sixth
and two whole ones in the ninth. II
started to rain along in there. but that
didn't worry the Templeites-they had
the game slowed away from the start.
and they didn't propose to lose 1t.
The Templeites batted heavily In the
first inning. They secured three runs
that trip, one more in the fourth. fol-
lowed 1t up with two in the NTH, and
clinched the game with very nice
one in the seventh.
The Outlanders lived up to their
name. Most of them managed to get
out without landing on the ball. Ris-
ton pitched a good game for his team.
giving but two bases on balls. ana
striking out four of the Templettes, but
the more consistent hitting of the lat.
ter team tells the story. aided and
abetted by five errors made by the Out
landers.
Twin Boys as Mascots.
The twin sons of Clifton G. Clarridge.
Clarence and Clifton. or Clifton and
Clarence. as one chooses, acted as mas
cots for the two teams. Clarence and
Clifton did the mascot stunt for the
Templeites and the Outlanders. and
Clifton and Clarence likewise mascot
ted" for the Templeites and the Out
landers. But it wasn't respectively"
Nobody knows which was which now
any more than they did before. It's
always hard to tell anybody in q base
ball suit. anyway. and when It comes
to twins-gee! The score card had II
Clifton for the Templeites. though. and
Clarence for the Outlanders, and may
be it was right.
Following the game Grand Master
Alexander Grant presented the players
of both teams with silver base ball
medallions inset with gold Masonic
emblems.
Albert G. McChesney was chairman
of the committee on arrangements.
The Jumps were William Belts and
Charlie King.
The Score.
The complete score OF the game fol-