Evening star., 1919-05-13
MASONIC CONTEST
SET FOR June g
Shrine -Grotto Nine to Oppose
Blue Lodge in Annual
Ball Game.
BY H. C. BYRD.

The annual Masonic base ball game
will take place Saturday. June 2S.
The event is in the hands of the
Masters Association. as in previous
years, with base ball committee in
direct charge. G. Manson Foote,
master of Harmony Lodge, is hand
ling arrang ementS for the contest.
Shrine and Grotto will not meet, as
they have in the last three seasons,
the contest this year being sched-
uleG between d nine representing the
Shrine and Grotto combined and a
nine picked from the blue lodges of
the jurisdiction.
Preliminary ngements for the
game have been completed. 1t re-
mains only for the teams to be Sc
leCted. tickets to he printed and dis
tributed and for a few minor details
relative to the game itself-to be fixed
up.
Last week several members of
Maryland States base ball team be-
came somewhat peeved when they
were told that it would be useless
to adopt their suggestion and schedule
q game with the Baltimore lnterna
tional League club: also some of the
wanted to play the Washington Amer
lean League club next spring in one
of the exhibition games because I'VE
can hit Walter Johnson Yesterday
Tom Crooke's navy yard team was
ia ken out to College Park for a prac-
tice game; now some OF the Young
men who could beat the Baltimore
international League club and could
make Walter Johnson feel as if he
were being fired at by six
teen inch battery are at least
somewhat in doubt. The Navy Yard
aggregation gave them a trounc
ing by 10 to A. The State players
probably have learned that there pos
sibly may be something that the Bal
timore International League club may
know about base ball that they do
not. and after hitting for six innings
where Phil Busher did not throw the
ball. undoubtedly realize that there is
a faint possibility that Walter John
son might be able to get by an inning
or so without being bombarded so
very disastrously. 1t is well that the
not incurable.
And anent that practice game be-
tween Navy Yard and State. here's
something just a little bit too good
to keep:
Near the end of the game one of
Tom Crooke's players turned to the
big first baseman with this remark:
Say. Tom. to judge by the bones
them kids are pullin' their fathers
are wastin lot of money; or there's
somethin' wrong with education
Central High and Eastern meet to-
day in the high school series The
two teams were scheduled to play
last week. but rain prevented the
contest. The remainder of The sched-
ule Will be moved back to allow the
games to be carried out in their
previously arranged order.
Georgetown goes to Baltimore Sat
urday to meet Johns Hopkins. The
Baltimoreans think they stand an
excellent chance to win from the
Blue and Gray despite the latter's
splendid record. Georgetown, while
it has been winning very consistent
binstion that has represented Hop
kins in four years.
Maryland State plays Western
Maryland College tomorrow at Col
lege Park.
The marathon race has been elimi-
mated from Olympic games. accord
ing to a ruling handed down by a
committee representing several coun-
tries at a meeting in Europe. The
United States is said not to have
been represented at the meeting.
Treasury and Shipping Board yes
terday enga ged in an old-time slug
ging match in the Departmental
League, the former winning by 16
to TO- Treasury did most of the
clouting. landing on the ball for fif
teen SafetieS.
Naval Operations won another game
Yesterday in the Government League.
blanking the l.. and G. nine by 10 to
0. Won Herbulis. pitching for the
winners. allowed only one hit.