Evening star., 1922-04-13
Manager When Gen Beat Yans Inaugu1uL 65
CONTEST
IS SEEN BY 24,679
Noteworthy Plays Witnessed
by Record Crowd, Including
Leaders of Republic.
RESIDENTS, secretaries, leg
islators, administrators, SOL

RESIDENTS, secretaries, leg
islators, administrators, SOL
diers, sailors, marines, police,
hremen, fappers and citizens of the
common or garden variety were
among the 1869 persons who
thronged the revamped Georgia
avenue park yesterday to see Clyde
Milan's bunch of diamond athletes
knock the cover off the base ball
season. They were all there from
the head of the worlds greatest re-
public to the lowliest worker. There
| may have been some bootleggers
and bookies among the jam, too, but
they were not tagged.
Heading the presidential delega-
! ton was Warren G. Harding-resi-
dence, White House. D. c. He ar
rived just before game time with Mrs.
Harding and a group that included
Secretary of War John w. Weeks.
Chairman of the Shipping Board A.
D. Lasker, Director of the Budget
Charles G. Dawes and Mrs. Dawes
George B. Christian. jr.. secretary to
the President; George w. Hibbard
A.
The presidential family lost little
time getting into the game. for Mrs.
Harding scored the first put-out Of
the afternoon. The chief executive,
with all the motions of regular big
time hurler, tossed a fine, new ball
to George Mogridge. George, evil
IDENTIFY planning to go south with
the sphere, showed it into his pocket
and deftly substituted another before
trekking to the slab. But willy Clyde
l1 u
procured the ball and returned it to
the President, who Immediately
passed it to Mrs. Harding. 1t was a
fast play-Harding TO Mogridge to
Milan TO Harding to Mrs. Harding.
Ban johnson Was There.
Other presidents also showed before
the multitude. Byron Bancroft John
son. who bosses the American League
when he is not hunting, proved that
he has not two left feet by keeping
step with the rest of the crowd that
marched through the field TO the flag
pole in deep center for the formal
lofting of the colors. Flanked by
Babe Ruth, slugger extraordinary,
now indulging in an enforced Naca-
tion, on the left, and Ben Minor. one
Of base balls legal lights, and Will
liam Richardson, vice president Of
the Nationals. on the right, the grand
mogul of the league did a snappy
front and center"
This parade was quite an affair.
despite the fact that Lieut.. Altrocks
platoon of Nationals found ii difficult
to dress its ranks while marching.
The Yanks had it all over the home
boys in the military stuff but Our
gang won the game, SO what's the /.
difference.
Admiral Robert E. Coontz was mar
shall of the fiag-raising procession
Preceded by Meyer Goldman's Band
and followed by a detail of sailors
the two teams. a squad of high schoo
cadet officers under Lieut.. Col. A. Z
Henkel and a troop of Boy Scout:
under Assistant Scout Executive ]
c. Drake, the admiral marched L
the flagstaff and hoisted the color
while Navy trumpeters sounded of. ..
Flag Raising Impressive.
This ceremony IN its solemnity al
dignity was impressive to degre
When the notes of THE Star Spangl,
Banner" echoed over the inclosure u
| close to $4,000 persons stood. wit
| the head of every man barred. afte
4 the national emblem was hoisted
| the pinnacle of the towering sta
| and unfurled to the breeze. The re
spectful silence of the huge tflron
was a striking commentary on II
| typical attitude of representativ
American throng gathered to Wi
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