Evening star., 1926-09-12
BALL GAME CLOSES
F|REMEN'S BIG DAY
Police Win, 8-3, Over Rivals
at Engrossing Contest
After Gala Parade.

The tiremen of Washington and its
suburbs for close to so miles around
had a big parade down Pennsylvania
avenue early yesterday afternoon
h1t the policemen who silently
,,arded the sidelines had a much
bigger one at the Clark Grlf1lth ota
dium a few hours later-11ght over
tbe prostrate forms Of the nreIneh
battered base ball team. =,
Having seen the helpless corpse
op +heir own nine hauled mournrully
through laughing multitudes' tehue
lv guarded by a squad OF slliiniin,S
firemen, the policemen 41,it,S 4uloK,S
dropped their splendld ue .ta h,.S,
did meekest obelsance oeioae then
overbearing umpires ana tn"a
orocaaded with methodical assurdiiCo'
- snoother the merry fire ladoles pe
meath an S-to-3 defeat. .,,,a;re
POSSIBLY 10000 persons lIioiu".s .he
+v.o of the District Commissioners 'liS
,,,nricinal departmental oniclai9 ni
:ti.,ans bieh in the social ana pusi
go, 1ifa Of the National Capltal, So
tha firemen start out 1or wv 4haj,
&C if they intended carf9ihs. Van
boasts to material1Zatloh. 80 ~ their
they saw the policemen - hanIess
Ias,ol majesty and lead the
HrpmPn SIId1S II ~
$4,000 Added to Fund.
,, ,,o,,,a at Clark Griffith StaoluiLl
Inc close one of the plsseess
nrousit a. a,ro the police Department. aiiu
leS'<'l tv.a recruitment of Wasnlhsttoa "a "a
- .iie ever known. 1t was @ f,,nd
49, the DAYS events net'eu ~. and
nc tho relief of the orPlano ~
,,-;aows of firemen ana pollce; p'd - was
10 extent of about s5o'oVo' "r orle of
certain they supplleu e, oa1a fes-
washington with "a le'nS
tival. ,a ,,omp which have
AZ t;aa to make past clashes " w w
co,iip ,!a,, and firemen one OF lile NC
t,on.,I po,I CAPITALS outstanding nf+er.
tloi,s,t t., were present YESTERDAY i,i1o 80
eVeh'9 Kan the crowds began nlahnas Nile
hooh oaium t1rnstiles hot. II We
tue ,ncommon thing for d cltiNea'
Ilo' "n +,amnine up the runways ~ 9.
~. ~ H. H.. Saat only to be way "a ~
.o io'. .n,iIing traffic policemen wiz ,,i,'d I'D
.!eiven'' him an entirely ulilei 0i''
a cricket three days before. b.va
"Iust so cents more, sh 1aat a vou
a box seat. sir. YES 81 ST., aroument.
& SIT: .,s hesieged citizens either tnousno .t; AZ
out % -. ,yorth so cents to be slr u a ,o y,
II Wa +imes bv a dictator or the u aitiU
S ,llhnS ~ chat the cause was "oA liiy
as ltA tbe additional toll. For re" una 10
,aots were empty When lil1 80,
.,ta,.tad and everybody seemed NV Do nd
SUI ~ I|nited states Marine balu
ia Tho festivities at the Dali pai n
,,.ith a concert from l:9o 49,
n,clock Then their mVleoi %'.e +he
melodies suddenly gave way ~ o,nb
niaintive drone Of the tunerdi nc nI,,ad
E;ravnen raised their hats anu 49, ,d a
their heads in abJect syhipn, 'o'.o1,yds
'.nanactful hush fell upon the croWue
Then slowly through the s@'e0 ~
q mournful procession.
Corpse and Clowns Amuse'
:. vvos the corpse" of the ponce
ao,s base ball team again. Dach "
nId haunts from its last journey % uo"n
NV nNs,I1.ania avenue, ready for inter
,%nt Solemnly borne on the shoul-
dars of six rusty, bearded plueCo~.ia
The casket was carried OUT " o
nitcher's box. In agonlzeu illo'io'.'
The "specter" within raised us nea1
gave one terrible look at lts sulLouiiu ut
ings. and sank back 10 eteLnal 20
with an awful groan. mel .lle
W. VIZ; 100 uuch the croWds-firemen
noIicamen. alike-howled with
The clowns had their turn Tor the
,oxt * minutes. Then picked mem
hers of the Fire Department, all vet,
arans of the World War, assembled
habind the Marine Band. Back OF
them the two teams lined up, ana
while the band played The star
Snanpled Banner" and all stood at at
tention. the Stars and Stripes was
boisted to the top of the mast IN deep
center field. One flashing march
around the arena, with the band play
ing Sousas "Stars and stripes for
ever" snappy salutes from the STANDS
as the colors passed. and everything
was ready for the battle to begin
Firemen Lead OFF.
The firemen, first up. started out
like they intended to even up solne
old scores with Finney Kelly, the
nolicemen's star twirler. and make
base ball history by handing the blue
coats their first defeat at the hands
of a fireman nine. Two hits and
base on balls gave them a counter
and they almost got two more. Hun,
pitching for the firemen, set the po-
licemen down easily in their first trip
to the plate.
In the second inning the flremen
counted again. and again poor head
work cost them at least one run. But
then Hull began to get wild and his
mates became even wilder, with the
result that the policemen scored their
first run. In the next inning, the
firemen tossed up the sponge. With
a single hit, the bluecoats scored
three runs. Only the firemen know
bow MANY errors thew made, but after