The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-17

frightened over the prettiness of the gay
picture, then sat upright and opened his
eyes at the way the 1.-THE, quick girl crick-
eters delivered their balls, caught them
and fielded. .'Why, but don't yot know
THIS is the real thing,'' he said to bis com
panlon IN comic amazement Miss Ella
Heather, sister of Miss Ada, who is,
perhaps. the best girl bowler, was deliver
ing the balls with an over-arm motion at q
moderate pace and variable pitch, some q
them heing, as the critic beside me pro
nounced in slow wonder, very nasty tC
negotiate, really now.' Al her of his en-
comluns was to the effect that Miss
Heather 'got a lot of breaks on her balls ,
hadn't much notion what he meant b. it.
cricket being about as blind to an outsider
as baseball, but Miss Westbrooke hit CAPT
tally and, in spite of her small size-she is
ALLOWING brunette and about the lightes-
ana slightest of the cricketers-proved her
sell no mean antagonist. All the Reds
Played steadily and well, contributing tt
the run getting until Miss Stanley began tt
poWl. The captain of the Blues is
A LEFT-BANDED, ovER-ARM BOWLER,
and an extremely bright, pretty looking
girl, whose clever work so wrought upoI
the sympathies of my neighbor that he
fairly went into ecstasies of sympathetic
excitement when she bowled three bats
men in three successive balls .tI3ah Joye p'
he said-s our true Englishman even when
excited is slow-''lf she hasn't brought off
the hat trick! Most wonderful, most won.
! derfuli''
He repeated his ''most wonderful'' until
his calm, even excitement became almost
more interesting than the game Subse.
quent inquiry has taught me that the hat
trick has been brought off by one woman
only before Miss Stanley, Miss Major ac-
Icomplishlng the feat in 1885, so that the
pretty captains performance was coming
up to the record, and as such worthy of an
plapse. There were cheers from the crowd,
which up to this time had divided its APP
probation pretty evenly between the Reds
and the Blues. In the first innings the
Reds made ia, Miss Westbrooke herself
getting 10. The Blues then went to the
bat, the Reds taking the field
MISS Stanley and Miss Moss started the
batting, and so staunchly did they keep
their wickets up that the score ran up to As
before, in an unlucky moment, Miss Stan
ley WI bowled. Miss Moss still held her
position and got run after run, securing
two threes, one two and a long score of
singles, TO the admiration of my neighbor-
ing cricket barometer, who rose to ''fair
weather" and then to ''settled fair,n and
allowed the little newspaper
REPORTER TO BAsK IN SUNSHINE
and approval. Miss Moss he pronounce
,deuced plucky," and as to the fielding he
allowed that 1t showed GOODNESS and nerve.
There began to be wagers on the issue, and
judged that there were tourists about me,
orelse that old England was rapidly becom-
ing Americanized when heard talk of ices
and bonbons in room of gloves from the
| forest of parasols. There wanted twelve
runs to tie and thirteen to win, and there
were but two wickets to fall Miss Moss
was batting and she had score of As to her
credit the longest string of the day. "Wili
she get 5O.' asked the wilderness of girls in
sailor hats and natty shirts who had sud
denly exalted her to the pedestal of an idol.
MISS Moss, as she faced the bowling, was
line example of wholesome English girl.
with heavy yellow hair, rather long face,
rounded cheeks flushed with pink, and long
heavy lldded eyes with the flash of excite
ment IN them. She looked as if she had
staying power. 1t was Miss Westbrooke
who began to bowl. Her first ball was a
right hand, over arm, with break to-leg,"
quoting the broad shouldered oracle's de-
scrlpuon, and it looked as if it might be, as
ne called 1t, quite deadly; but Miss Moss
hit it to the boundary and her 46 was made
IS amid thrills of excitement that the para
sols seemed to find at once tense and de-
nghtful. Miss Westbrooke's second ball
was slow one; think the oracle called il
''lob," but Miss Moss seemed to discern
some latent viciousness in it. for she blocked
1t without attempting to run.
The third ball
SHE STEPPED OUT TO BOLDLY,
and the parasol fringes ceased to fiutter in
their anxiety, but here the fortune of war
deserted the fair contestant, the glorious
uncertainty of cricket manifested itself and
she skyed the ball ''slap into midwicket,s
hands, closing the match with little anti
climax, which spoils my story for dramatic
enect, and which so disguised the oracle
that he rallied again at girls cricket soon
recovering himself sufficiently. however to
acknowledge that in the main the game had
been played with intelligent regard to its
technique and with uncommon grace and no
little strength and skill Warming with the
recollection Of a brilliant passage, he went
SO lar 10 aver that even as to the tiasco he
had seen plenty of fellows ordinarily good
Tor two figures make mess of it'' in pre-
clsely the same way.
The oracle having gone off for luncheon,
looked up to the two captains. Miss Stan
ley, though somewhat downcast by defeat.
assured me that the exercise, though I'M
doubtedly somewhat severe, had thus far
proved decidedly beneficial to both teams.
They were all in good health and ENJOYING
their play. The design of the picturesque
costumes was, she said, the gift of an artist
to the teams There were light skeleton
pads for protecting the legs, and special
make of wicket gloves which they liked
better than the patterns offered to men. 1t
is early in the day to venture a prediction.
but it looks as if cricket for women had
come to stay. There is already a paper
published in its interest, giving records.
ETC. OF the matches. Miss Stanley is the
editor. 1t is not likely that there will be
many more mixed matches, for girls cannot
play seriously against men, but they are
learning something better than the little
cricket of the burlesque matches, in play
against their own sex, and amateur elevens
are sprlnging up on every side l have
heard of the organization of four within
fortnight Whether this new element adj
ded TO the athletic life of women is likely
to prove good thing or not the extreme
optlmists and pessimists will, no doubt.
spend much time in discussing.
ELIZA PUTNAM HEAToN.
CHURCH AND CREED.