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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JULY 4, 2017
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Coach Tyler McGrorty talks
with his Warrenton Youth Base-
ball team at the Summer Bash
Tournament last weekend.
Warrenton
Youth team
rallies on
Day 2
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SHELTON, Wash. — The War-
renton Youth Baseball 10U team
scored 37 runs in their final three
games over the weekend, eventu-
ally falling to the No. 3 seed team
in the “Summer Bash” tourna-
ment at MCRA Field in Shelton,
Washington.
Warrenton lost pool play games
Saturday to the Maltby (Snohom-
ish, Washington) All-Stars (13-3)
and the Renegades (20-6) to finish
with the No. 11 seed for Sunday’s
action.
And the Warrenton 10U’s
bounced back in the champion-
ship bracket, first scoring a 16-1
win over the No. 7 seed Knuck-
leheads (Chehalis, Washington),
as Warrenton quickly built a 14-0
lead after two innings, and fin-
ished with 14 hits in three at-bats.
Brayden Greenwald scored
three runs, while Ian McCormick
had a pair of doubles.
Warrenton kept the momentum
going with a 13-2 victory over
the Hoquiam Grizzlies, the No. 2
seed.
McCormick had another four
hits to lead Warrenton’s 17-hit
attack, while Greenwald and
Talon McGrorty held Hoquiam to
just two hits with eight strikeouts
and a walk.
McCormick and Calvin Olson
scored three runs apiece for War-
renton, which held a 7-1 lead after
two innings.
Warrenton’s luck ran out in
the final game against the Sand-
berg Baseball Club (out of the
south Puget Sound area), which
rallied from an early 5-2 deficit
with five runs in the third and six
in the fourth, on its way to a 14-8
win.
McGrorty had two doubles for
Warrenton. Liam Sheeran, Alex
Quiles and Joseph Floyd all had
two hits apiece for Sandberg, and
combined to score seven runs.
Scappoose
defeats Seaside
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Ebin Hillard prepares to make contact with a pitch at the plate for Astoria during Monday’s game against Warrenton.
Early lead holds up for Astoria Ford
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There was no shortage of hits and base run-
ners Monday afternoon at Aiken Field, where
Astoria Ford hosted Warrenton in Junior
Baseball action.
In addition to a combined 23 runners left
on base, the two teams racked up 19 runs and
22 hits, and both the Fishermen and the War-
riors had base runners in every single inning
in a 14-5 win for Astoria Ford.
Three Warrenton pitchers combined for
nine strikeouts and six walks, while Asto-
ria’s Michael Moore, Dylan Junes and Ryan
Stutznegger had 10 strikeouts and eight walks.
Offensively, there were eight extra-base
hits, including two doubles apiece for Warren-
ton’s Gage Threet and Ryan Hoaglund.
Meanwhile, the Fishermen had a hit batter,
followed by five consecutive base hits in their
first at-bat, as they built a 6-0 lead before the
first out was recorded.
Will Reed had three singles for Astoria,
and Stutznegger had the big hit of the day, a
bases-loaded triple in the second inning that
gave the Fishermen a 10-3 lead.
Astoria pitcher Dylan Junes took the
mound in the second inning and had a rough
start, but struck out the side in the fourth
inning, after giving up a leadoff double to
Jacob Morrow.
Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
Dalton Knight fouls off a pitch at the plate for Warrenton during Monday’s summer
league game versus Astoria.
Gabe Breitmeyer pitched a solid four-plus
innings in relief for the Warriors, striking out
five with four walks.
Warrenton’s Duane Falls took over in the
sixth with the bases loaded and no outs, and
after a walk to force in a run, Falls retired
three in a row to end the inning.
Reed had three RBIs and Ebin Hillard
drove in a pair of runs for Astoria Ford, while
Dylan Rush had a single and a double.
1918 World Series key in US love affair with national anthem
The 100th season
since anthem
played at series
By DON BABWIN
Associated Press
The Daily Astorian
SEASIDE — Seaside held
a 6-2 lead through four innings
before the Scappoose Indians
scored seven runs in their final
three at-bats for a 9-6 win over
the Gulls Monday night in Junior
Baseball action at Broadway
Field.
Brayden Johnson had three
of Seaside’s seven hits, while the
Gulls drew 11 walks off two Scap-
poose pitchers.
Seaside scored twice in the first
inning and tacked on three runs in
the second and one in the fourth
for an early four-run lead.
Johnson and Payton Wester-
holm limited Scappoose to just
six hits, with eight strikeouts and
four walks, with Westerholm tak-
ing the loss.
SCOREBOARD
JUNIOR BASEBALL
Astoria Ford 14, Warrenton 5
Warrenton 031 010 0—5 9 6
Astoria Ford 640 103 x—14 13 2
Knight, Breitmeyer (2), Falls (6) and
Morrow; Moore, Junes (2), Stutznegger
(5) and Hillard. W: Junes. L: Knight. RBI:
War, Scott; Ast, W.Reed 3, Stutzneg-
ger 3, Hillard 2, Feldman, Rush. 2B:
War, Threet 2, Hoaglund 2, Morrow;
Ast, Rush, Junes. 3B: Ast, Stutznegger.
HBP: War, Hoaglund; Ast, Fromwiller,
Hillard. LOB: Warrenton 12, Astoria Ford
11.
CHICAGO — This afternoon, the
crowd at Wrigley Field will be asked
to stand and “gentlemen” reminded
to remove their caps for the playing
of “The Star Spangled Banner.” Fans
who can recite the words as easily as
the alphabet will sing or listen to the
story of a flag that continued to wave
throughout one of the most famous
battles in American history.
What they may not know is that
Francis Scott Key, apparently better
at lyrics than melody, put his descrip-
tion of the battle of Fort McHenry
to an old English tune that had a lot
less to do with patriotism than it did
with booze and women. Or that this
year marks the 100th season since the
song was played for the first time at a
World Series game — an event that
helped cement it in the national con-
sciousness and become the national
anthem that is now simply assumed
to be part of game day in Ameri-
can sports, from Little League to the
Super Bowl to medal ceremonies at
the Olympics.
“Certainly the outpouring of sen-
timent, enthusiasm, and patriotism
at the 1918 World Series went a long
way to making the (song) the national
anthem,” said John Thorn, Major
League Baseball’s official historian.
World Series
On Sept. 5, 1918, newspapers were
dominated by news of World War I,
including the latest American dead.
AP Photo/David Goldman
A spectator takes a photo of a U.S. flag as it is unveiled for the national
anthem as part of Military Appreciation Day before a baseball game be-
tween the Atlanta Braves and the Washington Nationals in Atlanta in May.
In Chicago, one of the headlines read,
“Chicagoans on the List,” and it was
a particularly harrowing moment in
the city for another reason: Someone,
possibly self-proclaimed anarchists
and labor activists, had the day before
tossed a bomb into a downtown fed-
eral building and post office, killing
four people and injuring dozens more.
The World Series was in town,
with the Cubs hosting Babe Ruth and
the Boston Red Sox. The Chicago
games were played at Comiskey Park,
the home of the White Sox, instead
of their new home at Wrigley Field,
what was called Weegham Park at the
time, because it held more fans. But
in a city jittery over the bombing and
weary from the war, Game 1 that day
attracted fewer than 20,000 fans, the
smallest World Series crowd in years.
When they got there, they didn’t
make much noise, though that could
have had something to do with the
1-0 masterpiece Ruth was pitching —
yes, pitching — for the Red Sox.
“There was no cheering during the
contest, nor was there anything like
the usual umpire baiting,” reported
one Boston newspaper.
Seventh inning
Then, in the seventh inning, a
band from the Navy training station
north of Chicago started to play “The
Star Spangled Banner.”
The song had been played before
at major league games, from at least
1862 and on opening day in 1897,
in Philadelphia, Thorn said. But this
time, reported The New York Times,
something happened that was “far dif-
ferent from any incident that has ever
occurred in the history of baseball.”
Players took off their caps as they
faced a flag that fluttered atop a pole
in right field as the 12-piece band
began to play.
All of them except Red Sox
infielder Fred Thomas .
Thomas was in the Navy during
the series — he played on the team
fielded by the Great Lakes station that
was also home to the band — but was
granted furlough so he could play.
When the Wisconsin native heard the
music, “he turned toward the flag,
kept his hat on and gave a military
salute,” said Jim Leeke, author of
“From the Dugouts to the Trenches:
Baseball During the Great War.”
A few fans began to sing. Then
others joined in “and when the final
notes came, a great volume of mel-
ody rolled across the field,” the
Times reported. And when it ended,
“onlookers exploded into thunderous
applause and rent the air with a cheer
that marked the highest point of the
day’s enthusiasm.” The Red Sox went
on to win the game and the series, part
of a Cubs’ championship drought that
ended up lasting 108 years but was a
mere decade old in 1918.
Big deal?
Not everyone thought what hap-
pened was a big deal. Chicago sports-
writer Ring Lardner mentioned it, but
only as a punch line as he reported
that Thomas had stood at attention
three times during the game, once
during the anthem and twice when
the umpire was calling him out on
strikes.
The leader of the Navy band at the
time was conductor and composer
John Philip Sousa. He was not at the
game, but had recently arranged the
standardized version of the song that
is still played today The 1918 World
Series would have been one of the
first times the band could test drive
the new version, according to Mike
Bayes, senior chief musician for the
Navy Band in Washington.
“It was a very important thing for
him to put the anthem on a national
stage in its new form,” Bayes said.