Evening star., 1925-06-28

| Unusual indeed to those who
/ it began more than a decade ago wa
of the players as well as spectators
manifest.
The throng seemed to sense that
the teams on the field were stronger
than usual and that the exhibition
would be worth while. Players paid
little attention to the preliminaries
and seemed anxious to begin a
struggle they were willing to put
their best efforts in to win.
Shrine and Grotto organizations,
accompanied by knights Templar
DeMolay. Eastern Star and Daugh-
ters of Job units, all led by Henry
Lansburgh, potentate of the Shrine;
l.. Whiting Estes, monarch of the
Grotto. and the Association of Wor-
shipful Masters, which manages the
entire affair, held forth for an hour
before the game. Frequently rip
pies of applause from the stands evil
denced the throngs appreciation of
the convolutions of the units.
! Daughters of Job Applauded.
Probably it would be amiss' to say
that any of the drill teams excelled
the others, but if one group did get
more than its share of applause, that
group was the Daughters of Job. In
their white uniforms, trimmed in
blue, they went through drill move
ments with the precision of trained
soldiers. Once while the organiza-
tions were leaving the field. they
stopped just back of home plate for
an especially difficult vancouver and
all in the stands in that vicinity rose
| in tribute
After all the drill teams had left
the field. just as the ball game was
about to begin, there came out the
most motley crew ever seen at one
of the big games, or anywhere else
for that matter. On the big base
drum. carried in a baby carriage.
was the information that it was the
Luney Temple Nut Band. Where Vir-
gil Fookes got his characters is not
known and never will be, because
nothing like it ever was heard of
before. Virgil himself resembled
some pictured inhabitant of Mars
| rather than an earthly being and the
| get up" of his band members was
a sight impossible to describe. If
this is doubted. ask any one of the
$4,000 or so persons who saw ii to
tell about the costumes. 1t seemed
to the writer that every vaudeville
comic opera and grease paint char
acter of all time and then some, had
part and that all musical instru-
ments from the walls of Jericoo 10
the present were in evidence. And
| it sounded that way too.
Grotto Comes From Behind.
But to the ball game.
The Grotto, it seems, has come to
consider it as one of its inalienable
rights to beat the Shrine. 1t just
figures that it makes stronger medi-
otra Tha Ch,-fy, do =.
special effort to get out good team
and felt that this was a Shrine year
and 1t began the game as II its ideas
were just about as sound as New
toms. But 1t seems that the boys
had not quite recovered from that
trip to the coast, or that somebody
in the Grotto still was capable OF
throwing enough shoes into the
machinery to gum up the works. AT
any rate, in the sixth inning some
| thing went wrong with Shrine plans
In the opener an error. a sacrifice
and long fly sent Harnesberger over
the plate with the first count for the
Shrine. The next inning found Sus SIS
leading off with a hit and going to
second on a passed ball and scoring
/ on Desper's single to left. That gave
the Shrine two runs and made 1t fee
comfortable-until the sixth. Then
| the IlreWOrkS, the QeiuSe, the CdtdS
trophe or whatever word is best used
to describe a general smashup. And
two were down when things happened
Something like the sinking of ship
with port just in sight.
After Burns had dropped out an
| easy fly to Suess. Jenkins started the
triumphant onslaught for Grotto by
driving a srounder safely through
short. Hiser then popped an easy f1y
| TO Harnesberger. and with two down,
| the Yelled Prophets seemed to be for
that inning just plainly out of luck
But Johnny Eiseman hit over the
shortstop's head: Worden Dyer, Shrine
first sacker. let Homan's easy ground
er go between his legs and ther
Krucoff and Jones singled and Pfei
doubled and when the prints over
home plate had been counted it was
found that it had been dented JUS
Ave times. The Shrine got one more
in the eighth. when it seemed ain &
fair way to get more, but that five
the Grotto had marked up was plenty
big enough.