The Washington herald., 1916-06-18
Shrine BEATEN
BY GROTTO Nine
Red-capped Masons Beaten
by Fraternal Brothers in
Benefit Game.
TEAMS SLUG THE BALL
BY JOHN 4. DTGAN

The red cap OF the Shrine bowed To the
GTotto shortly before sunset at the
American League Park yesterday after
noon. Ten thousand fans Of the Ameri-
can pastime crowded into the Florida
avenue stadium TO withcss the annual
baseball game for the benefit OF the Ma
sonic and Eastern Star Home. These
same fans were treated to a red-hot hat
Tie, IN which the Grotto nine rumpcd in
with a l2-tu-5 victory over the shrine
team IN a slugfest, which will long he
remembered in the local fraterraI cir
CIes
In many respects the crowd present
reminded ,one Of the opening dav gather
ing OF loyal rooters. but the large num-
per Of the fair sex and the dazzle Of the
red caps. and purple gowns Of tn.
Shriners and the black and gold head
gear OF the GTottO section. presented an
appearance which would lack an open
in2-day crowd of the board
From the time James =. Schick. presi-
aent OF The Association Of Worshipful
Masters, threw out the arst ball 10
Pitcher Tommy Thompson until I-mp,. r
Billy Betz called The game. the fans were
treated TO various styles Of baseball
everything. both good ard had, that can
pc crowded into nine innings Of base
ball happened in this memorial clash.
a'u everybody present seemed satished.
even the Oriental band o. the Shrine.
which was compelled to stand by and
listen 10 the brass band Of the Grotto At
the presentation Of the trophy which
. was made by James P. Schick after
the ball game.
No individual stars.
From the hitting ability shown by bo,o
cluos and the airtighu pitching pre-
sented by both Tommy Thowpsor n tho
Shrine, and Wilbur HiIdebrand or the
Tfotto, 1t would be hard TO name ? nero
OF the occasion. as each PLAYER was heart
ana soul in the game and the breaks Of
the national pastime were big factor in
the resul.
Shrine won the toss and chose the
last innings. Tommy Thompson got into
a hole right on the jump by passinr
Dampier. but things looked bright when
he forced Sayer 10 hit at three OF his
! fast ones. McLarren caught one Of hi,
liking for two-base blow, Dampier
scoring from third base l'huch had
moved up 10 third when Thompson cut
/ loose wild heave. Walker went out
easily. Thompson TO Sapp and Mccarthy
/ IIeW out. leaving McLarrsn stranded al
the midway cushion. Shrine evened the
count in their half. Golnaner went out
Dampier TO Newman but Smith singled
| 10 left field and stole second on the FIRST
| ball pitched. Thompson few to Mccarthy
and Smith started to third Mac heaved
/ the ball pass MCLarren and Smith
j romped in with the first tally for the
Shriners
! In the third Hidebrand hit and was
sacrificed to second by Dampier. and
scored when Sayer grounded one past
| Handy. Grotto added one more in the
fourth when Mccarthy singled and stole
! second, and scored when Bryant doubled
to left field. After getting out Of a tight
! hole in the fifth, Thompson passed
| Dampier. who scored on Savers timely
single through the right Of the inheld.
/ Shrine added its second tally in the
sixth. when Golnsner singled and stole
| second tallying on Thompson's timely
| wallop over Sayer's head
! The lucky seventh was the undoing OF
| Tommy Thompson and the Shrine team
as the Grotto crew gathered five runs
! on total of six hits combined with a
| trio of errors. In the eighth. Hide
| brand was working on six-run lead and
he let down on the speed heaving and
the Shrine team gathered a trio OF
tallies of three hits, three errors and a
wild heave by the Grotto pitcher.