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wfrft trnrfr jt TS hv U4j5twi i cjg HtvtA yl 4iv 1G traEASBTO PRESS CLUB WINSyltlsft Metropolitan Chevy Chase Team PutsUpaHardRght MMMMAMMWMMMMWMMMMMMWWMMWWMWM NWMMMMM i MWMtNN Winners zn Cadet Competition artdFlag Pnesntation CHAUTTY BAIL GAME THBULS Kaleidoscopic Frtm Start to Finish Players Nursing Sore Muscles Society Crowd Helps Swell Receipts for Benefit of Providence Hospital Lively Toward End The annual baseball eui for the benefit of the free wirdi of Providence Hospital was a great success It was successful from the viewpoint of the National Press Club team because they won by a score of 11 to 8 The Metropolitan and Chevy Chase clubs combined team felt successful because up to the last out they succeeded In keeping the winning team up to Its neck in trouble Providence Hospital will share in the general success by being able to buy a lot of new equipment out of the proceeds The match was a charity cunt so far as Providence Hospital was concerned but charity between the teams conspicuous by Its absence and the number of players who spent last night rubbing out muscles kinked from chasing long drives so inhumanely knocked around the field will never be known Game Is Kaleidoscopic The ame was kaleidoscopic in character Through the practice acquired annually the young men who usually form the teams have developed the ability to fill In the ame with stretches of exceedingly good play The contest yesterday was made up of fairly good play interspersed with thrilling moments that kept the audience of society folk on edge The combined team of the Metropolitan and Chevy Chase clubs was the first at bat The game opened by Ashmead Fuller getting to first baa on balls He eventually scored making the first run for his team Melville Wallace who was next at the bat drove a nr to shortstop and was out Cartwrlgrht Church followed this performance by reaching first base on balls He also scored on a sacrifice fly of Myron Parkers The Press Club scored a run from the first batter up Stuart Price This team scored twice In the second inning four In the fourth two more in the fifth and two In the sixth They scored again In the seventh and last Inning The game as called at the close of the seventh Two Bagger by King In the seventh Charles King for the Press Club drove a two bagger and scored The Metropolitan and Chevy Chase ClUb team was some distance te hlnd for the rnoet part of the game Toward the closing Innings however they began a spectacular rally It was at this crisis of the game that those who came to throw POP bottles and advice re I malned to root In the fifth Inning this team began to work Fuller was walked to first Wallace drove a fly to shortstop and was out Church knocked a single but vu finally allowed to score on an error Parker drove the ball to deep center where It was nabbed Church scored and his run was followed by a score of Tenant In the sixth Fuller walked again and scored Pllson made a two bagger and scored also Lockwood drove a fly to center field and was out Moor we hit while walking to base Glasebrook wHt substituted In this Inning made a tally which was followed by another score by Tenant Parker was out in the seventh Pllson rot to first base and Lockwood struck out Moore was walked In all the Metropoll tan Chevy Chase team was credited with eight hits and eight runs The Press CjJb made hits and 11 runs Line Up of Teams The llne upe were For the National Press Club Steuart Price center field Charles King first base Jerome Connor left field Robert Zachery third base John Hamilton shortstop Frank Lamb second base Godwin right field Orvllle Ecker catch John Marrlnan pitcher Stephen Early manager Frank Lamb captain For Metropolitan Chevy Chase Ash mead Fuller leK field Melville Wallace shortstop Cartwrlght Church catch Myron Parker first base Lockwood center field Ballard Moore second base Glasebrook and Cartwrlght Church right field tPflson second base David Tenant pitcher Bishop pitcher umpires Henry de Sibour and William Payne Meredith With the proceeds from the game last year Providence Hospital was able to add Its beautiful sun parlors With the proceeds of the game yesterday It is hoped to add four new bath rooma COLORED CADETS TO DRILL HEARS STRIKE CHARGES yr Kt jr EdmUHrTLeiglOf the B2aad XKfB gfna Inquiry Into Allegation Take Affidavit of Men Who Say They Had to Par to Keep Their Jobs at Union Station Company Eastern High the Prize Winners BEST DRILL IN HISTORY Hirfi School Cadets Get This Praise From the Judges COMPABT VICTORY 1T0TABLE Eastern High Boys Score an Excep tionally High Average in Competition With Other Crack Companies of the Two Regiment Personnel of the Winning Command Separate Battalion Will Hold An nual Competition Tomorrow The twenty fourth annual competitive drill of the Separate battalion of High School Cadets from the colored high schools of the District will be held at the American League baseball park tomorrow afternoon beginning at 3 oclock The seven companies which will take part will be reviewed by MaJ Cast ner adjutant general of the District National Guard before the drilL Ma William Lewis of Armstrong Manual Training School will lead in the review The Judges will be Capt Davis and Lieut A Jackson and Brown of the Separate battalion Arrangements for the review are in charge ofR Bruce assistant superintendent In charge of the colored schools of the District Company First regiment Eastern High 6chool commanded by Capt William Barkman was adjudged the best driUe team to come upon the field Thursday in the annual com petitive drill of the Washington High School Cadets and was awarded the Allison Nay lor medal Brig Gen Weaver A retired presented the prise to the winnera Company made the exceptionally high average of 9125 per cent Contest Best tn History Assistant Superintendent of Schools Stephen Kramer in charge of the cadets Maj A MeCathraiv military instructor Superintendent of Schools Ernest Thurston and the Judges were all of the opinion that the contest was the best ever held in tne history of the schools and congratulated all the companies upon their fine exhibition of military training Personnel of Winning Company The personnel of the winning company follows Captain William Barkman first lieutenant William Douglas and second lieutenant Herbert Graves Sergeants Wllber A Galahan first sergeant Caspar Cook William Mengert Franklin Speer and Roger Baldwin Corporals Londreville Ledoux George English Albert Cum mlngs and Charles Chlsholm Cadets William Burton Thomas Brimer Alan Dawson Lester A Dessez Virgil English Julian A Fisher William Fox Abe Furr James Jett Russell Lutr Arthur a Lord Elmer McGulgan Willard Nails Paul A Nlktrk Milton Plowman Joseph Powers George Reed Charles Rice Seymour Robb Rudolph Roetchi John Selby George Smith Raymond Taylor Edwin Tomlln Charles Walsh Francis Watson Virgil Wiley and Robert Bonebrake EASTERN TARES SlHsiBHWai illjpJfJfJfJfJHEliKHI of the fiiiiBI9IS 1 BBBBrSmWB Taktmr of affidavits In an effort to sub stantiate charges made by strikers of the Washington Terminal Company that they were subjected to a padrone system by certain men there consumed yesterdayyesterday and partof last night atslrike headquarters Elgnth7andF streets northeast where Edmund Leigh of Baltimore com pany investigator was closeted with the men In continuous session Mr Leigh says he will continue at this work until he has gotten to the bottom of this disgraceful condition A mass meeting was held again yester day morning where George A Nolte gen eral manager and vice president of the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen spoke He told thf men t6 go en masse to thei disbursing officer at the station when they draw their pay tomorrow This action was advised because it had been learned that the men would have to sign a paper for their pay a system that has not obtained in the past Leigh told the men again yesterday that he was acting under instructions from A Thompson vice president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and denied that he was brought here to Investigate by A Keppel superintendent of the Washington terminal Keppel repeated last night that Nlgh came at his instigation The strikers will assemble ajraJn todav at Masonic Temple Eighth and streets northeast where the taking of affidavits will continue OUTING OF WKHTLEY ALUMNI Capt William Barkman Winning Company BEST AT RIFLE TARGETS Central High School Teams Win Two Events at Winthrop AWARD COMMENCEMENT AT CONVENT at Met Lee Presides at Exercises Academy of the Visitation The slxthy slxth annual commencement exercises of the Academy of the Visitation were held Friday morning The stage was decorated to represent a forest The Rev MgT Lee presided Among other clergymefi present were the Rev Father Carroll of St Pauls the Rev Father Mills of St Matthews the Rev Father Lyons of the Catholic University Brookland the Rev Father Becker the Rev Father Buckey and the Rev Father CLeary Father Mills donated five additional prizes which were awarded to Miss Frances Fitzgerald Miss Mildred Cur ran Miss Ruth Curran Miss Louise Major and Miss Mary Delover Mendea Gold medals were awarded to Miss Sabine Wallace Miss Louise Beitiell Miss Mary Hannon and Miss Mary Holmes Miss Marie McBeth was awarded the gold medal In the graduating class liVPt Summer Catarrh Never Gets Well A cold in summer soon passes into catarrh Dust pollen and heat keep up a constant irritation on the tender membranes of nose and throat Nature accommodates herself to this condition but it often leaves chronic catarrh which never gets well of itself Peruna Overcomes Catarrh It cleans out the poisons from the system purifies the blood reinvigorates the membranes soothes their soreness and starts the victim toward Well ville Thousands once afflicted owe present health to its administration Treat your cold in time use Peruna regularly and you will not have catarrh But if you have neglected it dont worry Let Peruna do the work Its proved its usefulness by 44 years of success Tablets or liquid whichever is more convenient at your druggist The Peruna Company Columbus Ohio Out of 30 Firing In the Sharpshooters Course Only 7 Qualify While 10 Made Good Oat of 42 in the Marksmen Contest Good Scores Made by Students The Figures A rifle team of four from Company of Central High School won the intercompany match and the Central High School Rifle Club team of four won the interclub match at the annual Brig Gen Weaver A resenting the Flag to Captain of the Winning Command rifle clubs in the parade will be taken up The various clubs are requested to consider the question of participating In the parade before their officers attend the meeting on Wednesday Thursday Is to be Army and Navy Union monthly day at Winthrop The range will be open for both marksman and sharpshooter courses Other club members are also invited especially for the sharpshooter course where there will be plenty of room Every Wednesday is expert rifleman day and later ZL320t 7wM2l have qualified there will be a range day each week when the national match course will be fired under the national match rules School Cadets shot off yesterday on the marine corps rifle range at Winthrop Mi The interschool match was won by a team of eight men from Eastern High School Capt William Harllee was in charge of the riflemen who numbered 112 Members of Company Team In each of the three matches yesterday there were two kinds of Are namely slow and changing position nose composing tne teani irom company of Central and the number of points made by each In slow and changing position and the totals respectively are as follows First Lieut Faris 88 49 137 Private Richardson 97 41 188 Private Morris 96 38 129 and Sergt Stokes 96 47143 making a total for the entire team of 647 points Other companies participating in the intercompany match and the total made by each were Company of McKln icy xiia ocnooi oio company oi eastern 4 company oi eastern 4S9 Company of McKlnley 475 Company of Central 464 Company of Business 401 and Company of Central 371 Central High School Winners Those on the Central High School Rifle Club team that won the Interclub match and the scores made by each In slow firing and changing position and the totals were Second Lieut Harbough 97 88 135 Private Richardson 95 34 129 Private Morris 93 46 139 and Sergt Stokes 98 60 148 making a total number of points for the club of 561 The total number of points made by the other clubs participating were as follows McKlnley High School Rifle Club 629 Eastern High School Rifle Club 480 and Business High School Rifle Club 389 Interschool Match Victors The men composing the team that won the interschool match from Eastern High School and the scores made by each for slow fire changing position and the total number of points made was Borkman 96 45 141 HC Graves 97 43 140 Mengert 96 46 142 Hummler 92 46 138 Chlsholm 94 44 1S8 Small 96 46 141 Earnshaw 84 2 120 and Moffott 86 34 120 making a total number of points cf 10 8 Mc Klnley High School took second place with a total number ot points of 1053 while Central High School took third place with 1026 points Sharpshooters and Marksmen Out of the 30 persons firing the sharpshooters course only seven quali fied namely Cooper witn 1M points Bennett 12 A A Ruark 165 A Muir 78 sk Furceit 165 Strait 151 and Hummler 152 There were 42 persons whoUlred the marksmans course and 10 qualified namely Hartley Busners 178 LaRew 171 Earnshaw 161 Buuratnn 153m OStokea4l Loomis l7HrColvin 5 HMainT waring 77 Dudes 169 ana1 Holmes 78 Clubs Discus the Parade Whether the rifle clubs of thie District ofJCalumbla will participate lnthe pre pareaneas parade en June i will be de cided at a meeting of the District Rifle Clubs Wednesday afternoon in rooms of the board of trade Cot RJ Slmms will preside A a entirai ola OUTING OP KEANE COUNCIL Knights of Columbus Will Go to Marshall Hall on June 8 Keane Council Knights of Columbus will celebrate the eighteenth anniversary of Its organization at Marshall Hall on Thursday June 8 This excursion 4s complimentary to members families and friends The chairmen of the committees In charge consists of Joseph Cain Thomas A CantwelU Andrew I Hlckey Samuel Tucker John Keenan John Burns Ma loy Jr Smith Dr Flynn Kehoe A Shreve ODea OLeary Eugene Edwards Ma loy sr Nitand Darr Chatjes Kraemer Barry Brady and Thomas Gallaher The committees have arranged a number of athletic events to be participated in by the members and others attending as follows 60 yard dash for boys 40 yard dash for girls 75 yard dash for boys three legged race for hpys three legged race for girls potato race for girls sack race for boys shoe race for boys shoe race for glrlp 30 yard dash for women throwing baseball for distance for women 75 yard dash for members of Keane Council 60 yard dash for fat men and baseball game between married and single men In addition to this there will be dancing In the pavilion and a band concert on the lawn The first boat leaves the wharf at 10 a and the last boat leaves Marshall Hall for home at 945 Two hundred ladles who under the chairmanship of Mrs Samuel Tucker so successfully conducted the entertainment for the benefit of St Anns Infant Asylum Easter Monday will be guests COMPASS CLUB GIVES SMOKEB Curdy Jones Dunn A Searle York and Messrs Gauss Sillers and Holmes More Than 14200 Members Students and Friends at Marshall Hall More than 1200 alumni studants and members of the faculty of McKlnley Manuel Training School went to Marshall Hall yesterday on the annual excursion of the Alumni Association A steamerjyas chartered for the day and three trips were made to the resort the last boat returning to the city at 11 oclock last night The program at Marshall Hall consisted of athletic events a baseball game and dancing but because of the rain in the late afternoon the athletic events were oply started and will be finished on the school track at 230 Wednesday afternoon There was a baseball game between a team of Cadet Company and a team from Takoma Park the latter winning by the score of 8 to 7 The 75 yard open dash was won by Klrby second place by Sheehan and third by Wheeler The 880 yard run was won by Sheehan with Tibbott second and Carr third The 75 yard dash for Juniors was won by McNamura with Hough second and Carr third Prizes will be awarded by local merchants after the completion of the meet next Wednesday A silver loving cup will be awarded by the Alumni Association to the contestant making the greatest number of points The officers of the association are John Hardell president Dr Stewart Angelo first vice president Miss Jessie Weyrich second vice president Miss Dor6thy Crist corresponding secretary Miss Carrie Hastings recording secretary and James OConneU treasurer Lieut Comdr Douglas Dead Pensacola Fla June 3 Lieut Comdr Spencer Douglas 8 retired died at his home here today after an Illness of more than a month I BRADLEY HILLS will convince you that the search for YOUR home site has been definitely ended HYou will find all the advantages you have looked for without success in other suburbs country charnv urban conveniences accessibility good neighbors See picturesque Bradley Hills today excellent motoring roads trolley service Villa Sites and Farm Lands in Bradley Hills as Low as 1000 Per Acre LOTS IN SECTION 1 Wisconsin Avenue and Bradley Lane with macatjajn streets sidewalks sewerage water electricity and gas as low as 10c ft ENGLISH VILLAGE LOTS choice location this side of the Montgomery Country Club with water electric lights and sidewalks as low as 8c ft MONEY FURNISHED TO BUILD House and Bungalow Plans on View at Our Offices Real Estate Trust Co EXCLUSIVE AGEWTJU ELD RIDGE JORDAN President 14th and St Phone Main 4081 BUY YOUR COAL HOW Maury Dove Company ANNOUNCES Its prices for June delivery are from 30c to 50c per ton lower than its prices for the same coal will be next fall and winter It advises all of its customers to take advantage of this discount and BUY THEIR COAL NOW OF Maury Dove Company Wholesale COAL Retail Principal Office 12th and Sts TELEPHONE MAIN 4270 Connecting With All Offices and Departments Largest Credit Jewelers in the World Our Annual June Sale Lowest Prices Easiest Terms Were starting a big June Sale by offering bargains that you must not overlook Diamonds and Silverware are rapidly advancing in price but were not taking this into account The finest wedding gifts and commencement presents may be found in these lines and youll save money by coming here for them Join Our Thrift Club Save a Diamond Select any Diamond in onr store and well arrange the club does so you can pay for it in small weekly amounts You have the diamond at once and never miss the money by this easy plan NilA TftT No investment will pay you a better or surer profit than a good Diamond Well guarantee you the finest quality and the greatest value your money can buy At any time in the future you wish to ex-change for a more valuable stone we 11 allow you all you have paid us iilh Special 30 and 35 Values Postmaster Chance and Mr Dockery Among Master Masons Guests Postmaster Merritt Chance and Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Dockery were among the guests at the first smoker of the season given by the Compass Club of Master Masons ot the Postomce Department last night at the Efcbttt The entertainment program was espe cially attractive The Fraternity Band made up of members of the clubs of the various departments and led by Prof Williams gave selections and there were songs ana recitations oy a ju Dennison Kahn of the Washftigtoa Players Chib I Meyrowlts and Werner The speakers Included Dave Brown president ot the chrt Alexander Trout man Postmaster Chance and Air Dock ery Those present besides the speakers were BrldwelL Thompson Vesey Julian Belfleld John Dennison John King Hk Brount I Marks Anthony Lohr Charles Brooks 6 Lewan Clarke Harry Kkrtx Warren Hammacher Gorge Badeiv Hart John Young 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