Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-06-18
GROTTO IS WINNER
OVER SHRINE TEAM
Thousands of Persons See
Yelled Prophets Defeat
AImas Temple, IL to 5.
FUNERAL MARCH PLAYED
OVER SHRINE IN EFFIGY
Victors Go Through Ceremony,
Bearing vanquished Away on
Stretcher.
By n. c. BYRD.

Something like 5000 persons
wended their way to American
League Park yesterday after
noon to have a good time enjoy
ing the antics of the annual Ma
sonic base ball game. For six
innings, though, instead Of the
customary fun the great crowd
lost itself in absorbed interest in
splendid struggle between rep
resentative teams of the two
Fairgrounds of Masonry. But
the opening of the seventh
caused the telling of another
story, placed the Grotto away
ahead of the Shrine, and when the
end of the final inning came the
Kallipolis aggregation had proved
the master, IN cold figures by
II to 5.
There undoubtedly are great
secrets in the Mystic Shrine it
could not be otherwise-but
there are certainly none pertain
ing to base ball that the Yelled
Prophets failed to solve. The
dark magic known to those
familiar with the domains of the
enchanted realm proved unsur-
mountable, keeping within itself
the secrets of its own power and
not failing to meet with adverse
incantations the treasured arts
of the Arabic knights.
But the exposing Of their secrets
would not have bothered SO much those
who owe allegiance to the Almas Tenn
their wells at the end Of that seventh
inning and gone into mourning over
the corpse OF tho departed brother
the Shrine. Over from the Grotto
cadence Of the funeral march. and from
between the grandstand and pavilion
there marched forth most solemn
procession. bearing slowly and with
dead body Of the Shrine Four veiisd
prophets carried the stretcher in front
OF an escort with bowed heads. The
last respects were paid with the most
wells there came the audible sound of
conyulSfye laughter,
And then right on top OF that the
Grotto band broke on its dirge ana
blared forth Hail. Hail. the Gangs
All Here" Somebody on the Shrine
bench smiled over toward the Grotto
section of the stands, then turned his
head. gritted his teeth and commented:
''Ali right. we'll bury you next year."
Sings Original Song.
Out from the Grotto side rang forth
an original song. a copy Of which was
sent over to the Shrine bench with the
ironic request that it be sung in unison.
Here it is:
There amt nothing to the shriner team,
As bunch Of players they're a laugh and 4
But the Grotto team it plays ball zine.
It's rippin'. it's pippin. it's wonderful
The Shrine can't field and the Shrine can't hdt
They can't play ball q dog-gone bit.
skaddle de mooch. skaddle de mooch, fiddle do
Listen to this. Kailip-polis puts 'em on the
bum.
When the game is over watch the Shrine and see
picture of misery.
And the Shrine had a band. too-and
whiskers. Whiskers of all shapes sizes,
kinds, colors. from the patrfarchal hir-
suite decoration of the leader to the.
daintiest little goatee. And such mu-
nA.-
out with "Kismet" again he will not
have to bother to go to Africa to get
such sounds as come forth from the
tents of the Ouled Nails
But that band did the work In the
eighth. 1t was a new and particular
set of sounds it dispensed, but their
magic did the work, because all the
sorcery of the Enchanted Realm had to
be brought to bear before the on
slaught of its diamond representatives
was halted, and then not until after
-hree men had gone home with runs.
Had the Shrine band had another piece
Is potent as that played in its march
lround the field in that period. there Is
10 telling what might have happened.
Possibly that big silver cup might have
it's favorite nook for the next
year.
FuIkerson Real Optimistic.
But to get back to the ball game. No,
Vail u naihutS. Ahds wouio hoe 10 SAeuI
Until after something has been said
bout Roe Fulkerson and his cow bell.
he COW bell he swung around tied to
lis hand with a long string. II there
s any man in the world more optimis-
ic than the subject of this paragraph,
hen he has yet to be found. The
core at the end of the seventh inning
vas such that it seemed the Grotto
yould win by an even larger count than
really did but Fulkerson walked to
he bench and said: Say. you fellows.
ye.ve just begun to play. Watch US
o out and get 'em this inning" and
ure. enough they did, to the extent of
hree runs. And as a coacher-well, he
there. =.
And after all, the game can be sum-
ned up in the words of James p.
'chick. when he presented the cup to
William F. Guide, representing the
rotto, at the end Of the contest:
..Rrathers of the Grotto and Shrine