Evening star., 1918-06-12
SHRINE PRACTICES
|. FOR GR0TT0 GAME
Spectators Will Witness Real
Ball Game, Says Poten-
tate Estes.
BY II. @. BYRD.

All Of the ball players listed to
wear the Shrine uniform in the an
nual Masonic contest with the Grotto
are busy at practicing every after
noon on tho White Lot While little
has been said about tho caliber Of the
team that will oppose the Yelled
Prophets Of the Enchanted Realm,
from all that can be learned-and it
Is not easy to learn anything about
that Shrine agsregation-the Shrine
Is likely to give the Grotto all it Is
looking for According to Potentate
L. Whiting Estes. the opposing team
Is going to set all that and Just q
little bit more
'fYou need not worry about US hav-
ing strong team Saturday" says Mr..
Estes. "as we are going to be out at
American League park with an even
moro capable aggregation than rep
resented US q year ago. We have q
crackerjack bunch Of players prac-
ticing every day. getting in shape to
give that Grotto aggregation a dose
Of about as bitter medicine as It has
had in long while. am not going
though probably we. shall announce
the lineup some time before Satur-
day. You may rest assured Of one
thing, though, and that Is that specta-
tors will see a real ball game-at least
a real ball game from Shrine stand
point"
In the championship high school
swimming meet yesterday at the
bathing beach the Central squad made
80 for Technical and l for Western.
Business and Eastern failed to count.
Newby of Central starred by scoring
16 points. Results of the meet
soo-foot relay-won BY Central; second.
Tech; third. Western:
ond. sinclaire tTechl; third. solomon Gen
traD; fourth, Spur lCentraD.
22o,yard dash-Won BY Diekey icentrsp i;
traL; fourth. Houston (centrab. Time. 8
minutes; 2e.2 seconds.
Breast stroke-won by Winkjer tTech); Sec
traD; fourth. Dalton (WesternJ. Time, IS
minutes. q seconds.
PLY. Plunge ] s.. astanss b Spur Ecsnt,sn ae
traD; fourth. Buhser 1centTan. Distance. s.
feet. 8 inches in 80 seconds.
Central; second. Jackson 1centraD; third.
T,ms Wnkter e Tsen} fourth Tavernner reeh
second, Nswby Central: third. Spur (cen'
ute. seconds,
second. Houston tCentraD; third. sinclaire
(Teeh); fourth. Heron (Western).
Marines won from Navigation in the
Navy Interbureau League yesterday
by to 0. Singleton pitching fine ball
for the victors. Singleton allowed
only four hits and famed seventeen
of the opposing batters He had the
game at his mercy from start to fin-
ish. Corwin, working behind the hat
for Marines, held up Singleton in fine
shape and took care of eighteen put
outs Jack Miller led in the bat
ting, with three hits out of four times
at bat.
Lyons pitched good ball for tho
winning team in the Departmental
League. tanning eleven of the Finance
and Accounts players while on the
slab for the Marines Meyer also
hurled creditably for the losers, not
withstanding that his team was de-
feated by IL to 2. Lyons, besides
pitching brilliantly, led In the batting.
connecting for four hits out Of four
trips to the plate.
Ordnance took a fall out Of the
League, though it> did not get thu
long end of tho 6-to-3 count until
after 1t had put forth every effort.
Humphreys pitched good ball for the
winning nine until he was banished
for dispuung a decision Of tho UNI
pire. Busoher, though touched up for
many more hits than his opponents on
the mound. kept the bingles scattered
and struck out twelve.