The Washington herald., 1922-09-10
DISTRICT POLICE
DEFEAT FIREMEN
0NDIAMOND, D,5TOO
Annual Benefit Game
Proves Huge Success.
10000 See Game.

applied a 5-to-o coat of whitewash
to the local IRE laddfes before a
crowd of 10000 fans at Amer
lean League Park yesterday.
The game was played under aus
p.ces Of the Home Defense League
sor the beneht Df the widows and
orphans funds Of the two organi-
Zations, and was an all-around
success.
The Marine and Elks bands en-
livened matters between innings,
md Nick Altrock was very much
IN evidence throughout the after
noon, amusing the spectators with
lis antics and assisting in auc-
tioning off the frame containing
the first ticket sold to and auto
graphed by President Harding. the
fountain pen that the President
used. and a IS gold piece paid
for the ticket. which incidentally
brought the sum of SSfO into the
organizations treasury.
Joe Grant. veteran District wres-
tier, gave an exhibition OF a wres-
tier defending himself against two
would-be assagsins armed with
knives. clubs ard revolvers, pre-
vious to the start of the game:
the Marine Band played the national
anthem. while the American flag
was raised to :he flagstaff in CEN
ter field.
Get Firemen's Goat.
The fremen exhibited much more
pep than the blue-coats, with an
organized cheering section. all
armed with horns apd other rack
et-making devices, but the guar
dians of the law put the quietus
on their enthusiasm in the lucky
seventh when Capt. Fathers. sin
gle-handed. captured and led the
formers goat into the police
stands.
twirled a heady game. was unhit-
table in the pinches, allowed but
FIVE hits and struck out eight bat
ters. while Anderson was touched
up for rine safeties. including a
two -bagger. walked three men. was
accorded wretched support and COM
mitted a balk which proved costly.
An interesting feature of the
game was the fielding Of Catcher
Glasscock and First Baseman Ma
zurski. of the victorious nine, who
divided twenty-three of the put
outs between them with but one
misplay, that by Glasscock on a
pop fly that looked foul and ap-
parently headed for the grand
stand. but proceeded to drop di-
rectly in front of the plate through
some uneXplainable cause.
The cops threatened to score right
off the bat when Boyd led of in the
first with a screeching single to
center field, but a moment later was
caught redhanded off first base.
Stewart hit a grass cutter through
second, Prestle singled to right,
Hiser grounded to short and Stew
art started for home, but fell upon
rounding third and was run down.
Finan to Davis.
Dikema and Moore hit safe in the
firemen's half, but were left
stranded
Glasscock beat out grounder.
in the second, advanced on Statz'
error of Fitz. infield smash but was
nailed at the plate attempting to
count on Mazurski's hit to short.
Kelly scored Fitz on a hit over first
but could not get around as Ander-
son frightened up on the next two
batsmen.
In the last of the second Statz. of
the iremen, worke dhis way around
to third on a single to left field.
reached second when Kelly passed
Brown. stole third, but was nipped
trying TO steal home.
The firemen were never again in
position to score. However, the
cops added three more in the
seventh on one hit, three errors
and a balk