Evening star., 1919-06-27
BY H. c. BYRD.

| Masonic base ball teams are sched-
nual game for the benefit of the East
| ern Star Home. The contest will be
| played at American League Park and
begin at o'clock. The game is to
! be preceded by a parade, which Will
start at the Masonic Temple at 2
! o'clock and proceed to the ball park.
| Players of both teams are lined up
| for the battle. Without doubt, the
mines due to face will be the best
| equipped with playing talent that
have faced since the Masonic contests
began in 1914. About IS per cent of
base ball is in the pitching, and with
Frye and BuScher opposing each other
on the slab a real pitchers battle
should result. Frye is to do the hur-
ling for the Shrine-Grotto nine and
| Buscher will throw them over for
the Blue Lodge.
G. Manson Foote. master of Har
mony Lodge and chairman of the base
ball committee of the Masters Asso
citation. believes that a record crowd
will attend. 1t is his opinion that
more tickets have been sold than for
any Of the games of former years and
that the crowds of the last two games
will be far exceeded. About 10000
persons attended year ago. Mai.
Robert H. Young, father of the base
ball sc ne, also voiced the idea yes
terday mat indications for a great
attendance are the best since the
game was originated.
L. Whiting Estes and Charley
Shackelford. heads of the Shrine and
Grotto, are not giving out opinions
about anything except the depth of
Blue Lodge team. The former is in
clined to spade out hole SO deep that
the Blue Lodge players would be able
! to crawl out in about the same length
of time that it took the frog which
got up one foot and fell back two
every time it tried; the latter is
! more merciful, as he only wants to
bury them just deep enough that they
VIII be able to get out by next June
in time to be buried again.
Just what stunts the Shrine and
Grotto are devising are about as mys-
terious as what will happen to the
league of nations when the Senate
gets hold of the peace treaty, but if
the Shrine -Grotto team wins it prob
ably would not be bad idea for the
Blue Lodge aggregation to hit it as
| crow flies for the back fence
sb1ns sut SERIOUSLY a0G ro,1e the 0ypay Up of the
grounds Of Masonry, forms one of the
most interesting features of the game
For the last three years these organi-
cations have been opposed to each
otHcT, anu HOW tndC Cney nave COM
bined should give a "show" well
worth seeing.
The game is going to be interest
ing in actual play and in it's side
lights. In fact, no contest of the year
offers so much of all-round attrac-
tiveness to either the directly inter-
ested or the casual spectator
Ordnance defeated Treasury in the
Departmental League yesterday by
IL to II. scoring four runs in the last
inning in order to attain the victory.
Dyer pitched well for the winners and
! also got three hits. Griffith. second
baseman for Treasury. made four hits
Following is a letter relative to a
statement made in this column Mon
| day that the Washington Canoe Club
! four. which raced at Philadelphia last
| Saturday. had never been defeated:
| Il have just read with much inter-
| est your article in regard to the
| success of the Washington Canoe
! Club four at Philadelphia, wherein
you state they have not lost a real
| match race. There is no doubt that
the Washington Canoe Club has a
| fine four, but certainly you have not
! forgotten that the Riverside Canoe
| Club defeated the w. c. c. bunch in
| 1912. once on the basin and once on
| the Potomac. The Riverside four was
made up of Calleghan. Krauskoff,
Purdy and Boothby. The races were
| exciting and close. and Riverside g
!, proved the dark horse in the events "
The statement in the. above para
graph is true. but does not affect the
! assertion that the present Washing
| ton Canoe Club four has never been
| whipped. The four is made up of
! Burch. Rutherford, Knight and Wag-
! ner. and since these men began pad
| ding together. in 1914. no four has
| been able to lower their colors. A
! period of victories stretching over
| five years is quite an accomplish :
| ment. and If the Riverside four was
| anywhere near as good as the w. c.
| C.'s present quartet, then the River
| side club had a real boat.