Evening star., 1920-06-13
SHRINE RALLIES
TO BEAT GROTTO .
BY 1911 SCORE.
1900 Persons Watch An
nuaI Ball Game for Ben ..
eft of Masonic Home.
BY H. c. BYRD.

chine welded by one of them, a
goat and thunderstorm were not
sufficient to awe the followers of
iAlmas Temple sufficiently to enable
the Grotto to do anything more
than get good start in the annual
Masonic base ball game yesterday
at American League Park. Right'
at the beginning the clowns, the
goat, and the internal machine
made their appearance and they
were closely followed by a DOWN
pour from the skies, but once the
Shrine recovered from that sudden
and unexpected combined onslaught
it whaled away for dear life, and
tonight the fires burn bright on the
affairs of the Shrine while in the
cenSers OF the Yelled Prophets lie
only the dead Goals of stilled am
|bitions.
In, cold figures, the story is 1S TO IL.
AND these figures tell the story OF
about every conceivable kind of base
ball. There was base ball "A la mode.
a la buShers, a la John Anderson. a la
Everything else which is a particuS
larly good word or phrase to describe
the sport as it usually is not played
Hits galore and errors aplenty, pitch
ing that was good and pitching that
was bad and pitching that was worse,
great plays and misplays combined to
| make the afternoon from a standpoint
| Of interest in the game itself equally
one of thrills and frills.
Score Heavily at Start.
The first inning gave the spec
tators something more than an ink
| ling of what the game was likely to
| be. In it's half the Grotto began to
hammer the ball from one side of
the diamond to the other. Goldberg
started the inning by walking and
Leverton fouled out to the catcher.
| but Mclean singled Walker flew out,
and then followed in succession 4
double by Davidson and singles by
Sabins. NEWMAN, Burns and Sterzer,
and five runs were over the plate. The
Shrine went to bat in its half and
after two men had gone out on flies
| two doubles and single and an in
field error allowed four Shrine play
ers to scamper over the pan.
Then came more kinds of base ball
than usually are seen in a dozen
games, until at the end of the fifth
the score stood Grotto II. Shrine 6.
With Buck Sterzer pitching his left
wing as if he had never seen an
| osteopath in all his young life. it
seemed all over but the shouting.
however, Ddck dTOuUu TIE
| bench jumped and shouted and caioled
| and "cussed" a coatless manager who
would not admit defeat; and soon he
i rallied his cohorts and began such an
onslaught on the minions of the En-
chanted Realm that all their incanta-
tions and mystic antics were of no
avail: when the seventh and eighth
milestones had passed there was al
settled feeling of quietude and inner
most satisfaction among the hosts
who crowded and crowed around the
Shrine side of the field.
With 13 to II standing on the score
board Frye went in to pitch the final
inning and not in the language of
| the poet there was nothing to it,
Dyer tossed out Charlton and Burns
| on easy rollers to short and Buck
| Sterzer ended the game by fouling
out to the catcher.
Shrine Gets Grotto Goat.
| With that last out, the Shrine out
| mt carried out grand offensive tor
| ward the Grotto bench with the Grotr6
goat as the main objective. The OBJ
| Jective. was won without anything
| more than sporadic resistance, and tri-.
| umphantly behind the Shrine band.
led by an individual who had all the
appearance of an emperor diked out
in his fullest regalia, the ..animule"
was paraded around the field, with
hundreds of Shriners yelling at him
and prodding him to swifter motion.
1t was great ball game in a way.
and true to the traditions of other
Masonic games was just the kind of
game least expected. Nobody would
have dared venture that Frye, star
pitcher in the contest of last year.
would have eleven runs scored
against him: and who would hav1
thought that the Shrine, without prac-
tice comparatively, would clout the
offerings of Buck Sterzer for fifteen
hits and finally drive him from the SLAP.
Rain tried to put a damper on the
game in the first innings, but Ii was
impossible It would have taken a J.
most a deluge to dampen the arder
Of the twelve or thirteen thousand
or so persons who almost filled the
stands; and nothing short of the Colo.
| rado in flood would have wiped out
the desire of the opposing players Tor
one anothers Scalps.
Game Produces Real Heroes.
The game produced real heroes and
near heroes and hero worshipers.'
Tyser, Shrine shortstop, laid his
hefty willow against SterZers oHer-
ines for a double. a triple and two
singles: Lem owen made catches in
center field for the same team which
would have made CLYDE Milan turn
green with envy: Charley sao,ns,
around first base for Grotto. did some
stunts WHICH Uue "piiu nav
his 200 or so pounds of avoidupois
would have absolutely precluded-
But the real heroes Of the game [
were not on the field. In fact. we
don't know their names, as mere
was nothing on the program to do
them credit; but the men who deserve
the real credit for making the game
a success were the ticket sellers the
men who worked quietly and WITHOUT
ostentation behind the scenes T,,
la contest,
thousands of dollars which VIII
60 to the Masonic and Eastern Star
Home will bear mute testimony 10
the success Of their efforts, Just asf
the following box score shows .ne
i;nd of game through which the
weary " eau y players struggled. Score: .
shrine abb o.A. Grotto. AB II. -
Cohill. If. 4 9 Goldberglf : "
HaIar 3 3 Lev'rton.3b
INST 3b.4 3 McIean.