Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-06-24
SHRINE IS WINNER
| OVER GROTTO NINE
Takes Annual Masonic Ball
Game by 10 to 9, After
Real Struggle. J
| MANY STUNTS ARE PULLED
BY 81. C. BYRD.

Candles are burning today on the all
tars OF the Shrine. Frankincense fills
the censers and myrrh covers the hot
Goals in the braziers. And the order Of
such things was arranged yesterday,
when was laid away in a specially pre-
pared receptacle. there to await a full
year for possible redemption. the dead
body OF the Grotto-goat and ALL
year ago. when the Grotto was con-
| Quoting the burial OF the Shrine. an
| occasion when it won the spoils in the
| annual Masonic ball game. Virgil
Fookes sat disconsolately in the Shrine
dugout and gritted out with a grim
smile. All right. make the best of il:
wen bury you next year" And bury
they-the Shrine-did. First it was the
goat. and then goat and PROSTATE body
OF the Grotto together were laid peace
fully to rest. And the goat especially
acted Is IL he did not care much how
| quickly the ordeal was over
Big Crowd Is Present.
Near 10000 persons wendell their way
to American League park to watch the
doings at the annual diamond strug-
| gle for the benefit of the Masonic and
Eastern Star Home They expected
representatives OF the two Fairgrounds
OF Masonry to do things that would be
worth while, and following the game
not one single trace of disappointment
| showed anywhere. That is not quite
| true, because there were a dozen or so
urGtso players players including Coacher Cold
surprise and chagrin. They had not
| expected the 10 to defeat
PRECEDING the contest a parade
| started from the Masonic Temple. and
1 II
the city wound up at the bali park.
Inc teams marched on the field. the
Grotto nine followed by its brass band
ma the Shrine with the collection OF
lne oriental Band. 1t was a band
al right and no stranger sounds than it
gave forth ever came from the tents
| OF the Ouled Nails. And that band had
whiskers. too. whiskers OF all kinds.
Patriarchal hirsute appendages and
dainty little COATES were in evidence
! And such sword as the leader car
ried; brought along especially to be-
| head the Grotto. Henry Lansburgh
waved it and waltzed about in a way
that foreboded i'll to the Grotto; all the
incantations and spells OF the Yelled
Prophets of the Enchanted Realm could
| not Withstand its magic sweeps.
Somebody-he was SO dressed that
everybody was in doubt as to his iden-
tty-appeared with the Grotto goat.
| The goat was humble-awed into sub
mission by the homogeneous appearance
Of his keeper. A pair of old black
trousers made connections somewhere
in his middle with a sleek black jersey
| and were kept from sliding down by
suspenders made of good old mantle
| rope. Perched rakishly on one side OF
the individuals head was a high silk
! hat. and that hat had the goat mes
| merized. hpynotized, magnetized OF
| some other kind of lied. because as
| long as his eyes rested on it he was
| docile as lamb, but whenever it dis
| appeared from view several individuals
had to get holds on various parts of his
anatomy In order to persuade him to
move even a few steps.
But were getting away from base
| ball, and 1t is necessary to get back to
| it. There was real ball game: fire.
works. too. literally and otherwise.
usual formalities, held amid yelis from
| Grotto players to Let us at 'em." the
! game was begun.
i Shrine Team Begins Well.
Right in the beginning it looked like
saulted the delivery of Hildebrands
Grotto pitcher. in the most shameful
| manner. Absolutely no respect was
accorded the offerings of the blond;
their number had died on the base
paths three had found their way clear
around the circuit. When the Grotte
failed to score in its half of the
about time to make its presence felt.i
1t did.
Grotto got out a feeler in the second
effort and one man went over the block.
Then somebody set of the fireworks.
base on balls. single and hit BATS
man signaled somebody to touch fire.
to package of snapping-crackers and
throw them on the base lines. They
went off rat-a-tat-tat-tat, and then
somebody thought a cannon had ex-
ploded, but it was instead a mighty
whack of McCarthy's bat against the
ball for a homer, which cleaned the,
sacks An encore was two more runs
in the next period and the cracking of
another pack Of the crackers. set or
on the other side Of the diamond.
to take it easy. with we are SUI
perior" look on their faces they settled
back to enjoy slaughter, with them
selves playing the roles of slaughter
ers. But in the fourth the Shrine be-
gan to sit up and take notice, and in
the sixth it became very live corpse.
The score was tied then. and at the
end of the sixth stood to S.
Grotto Goat Is Stolen.
Two Shriners stole over to the Grotto
side of the field. the noise of their go
ing drowned by the boom of tom-toms
and the walls of accessory instruments
That goat was the object of their
search They reached his side. unteth-
in the peculiar raiment was looking the
other way, and by divers methods. such
as pushing. pulling. hauling, lifting.
cussng and pinching, finally persuaded
the animal to take a position in deep
center field. There was blast of a
deep-throated horn and through the
gate across the field few one OF the big
emergency hospital ambulances. 1t
stopped at the goat, and three or four
doctors and nurses jumped out and
started a diagnosis of the case. They
decided the disease was too desperate
and acute to yield to first aid. and ush-
cred the subject into the ambulance by
lifting his front feet and pushing hard
on the portions of his anatomy that
would sell for mans II he were a pig.
Another great blare of the horn. and
ambulance and doctors took MIR. Goat
out for resuscitation
That spurred the Grotto on. and in the
next inning IL got another run. Those
PLAYERS wanted to redeem that animal
they had spent too much for the gilt
on his horns to let him go into strange
hands.
another run put the Grotto ahead, and
as soon as it reached the point of van
tare somebody yelled Come on and
on they came-as fine and solemn fu-
neral cortege as one ever saw. Behind
the entire Grotto band marched the
stretcher bearers and following them
came members of the Grotto, heads
barred and faces twisted to attain an
appearance OF greatest solemnity On
the stretcher was the body of the
shrine The Grotto went through its