Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-06-24
BEAT BY THE GIRLS.
THE FoResT-HlLls FIND THE REDS
TOO MUCH FOR THEM
The Fem aiss Made Russ 90 Fast that the
Score Could Not be kept-Maud's
Fine Work % . Pitcher.

The FOfest-Hill baseball team met
terrific defeat yesterday afternoon in tho
presence of 1900 "cranks" aud at least
fourscore ladies. Their conquerers were
the Cincinnati Reds" feminine team
composed Of rosy maids whose ages
ranged from II to--well. perhaps it's
best not to specify the latter figure.
The mere announcement that nine fair
sprinters woul1 daily with the horse-hide
was sufficient in itself to attract the
" rooters" and every car that sped to
Forest Hill Park was freiR Rhted down with
eager humanity. Long before the game
was called the bleacheries were packed
with cigar and pipe-smoking citizens,
while bald heads loomed up in the grand
stand like legion Of white washed cobble-
stones. The banker was there and 30 were
his clerks. while dozens OF sports aud
men, n-about-town mingled their bon mos
with the witticisms of sober descons and
elders who occupied obscure seats, invisi-
BILE TO the public. but seeing all themselves.
In the centre of an admiring circle sat
"'Souiren Donati, rotund and smiling,
and as the dashing sirens hurled the sphere
his face Lit up with q smile of Joy. for,
while an ardent upholder OF woman's =
rights, he has not heretofore believed In
her capacity to play ball.
MARVELLOUS EXHIBITION.
II was a most orderly crowd, as all the
ladies' present will testify. Of course the
"cranks" got excited occasionally. but
what mattered it If some "rooter" did
now and then cry Line her out. Maud. "
or "Shde. Emmy. slde"2 All that was
part of the contest. which. by the way, was
a marvellous exhibition of the national
game.
Two OF tho fair horseskn Founders were
sick, and so, as usual. there was o man
in the case"-in fact, a pair of them. One
of the "horrid things" played second for
the ladies'. while the other toyed with tho
warn behinI the bat. Miss Maud Nelson,
a maiden who has seen many summers,
and likewise manv winters. twlrled the
sphere for the sirens. She is chubby and
chirpy and most decided brunette. In
fact. one would take her for an Italian
that is. providing he didn't have to take
her very far, as she is quite heavy. Con-
tinual exercise and open-air sprinting nave
Drowned her complexion and developed
her feet 10 an unusual extent. menda-
cious man with an immense imagination
would call her pretty.
MAUD A GREAT PITCHER.
Maud, as the boys caressingly designated
her. is really frst-class twirler. She
hurls ball with that terrific speed which
has long since made all the hens IN Chris
tendon revere the name OF woman. Few
indeed were the runners who dared stea
second when the sylph of the colossal
pedal extremities WAS in the box. Nam selle
Georgie de We're played q rafting hrst
while Fraulein Emily Forester. naiad who
seemed fashioned expressly for bathing
suit. covered the third bag largely by hei
feet and partly by her active movements
Miss Rose Mitchell, the snort-stop, wa:
"short and sweet" Her features indicated
Hiberniau ancestry. but she was right
there" on oil the flies and liners that came
in her direction. Misses 10. Douglas, LIZ,
zie Sheldon, and May Harmon captured
the balls in the out-field, and likewise the
freckles that took the liberty or planting
themselves on their fair features. May!
by the way, is slender blonde and SCENE q
to please the cranks immensely.
WHAT THE GIRLS WORE.
All of the girls. who could doubles:
give personal "reminiscences or the Mexi
can war were clad IN black shirt waists
and abbreviated skirts, striped with rec
and black. They wore jaIn.y little caps
The color of that portion of their attire
which is politely designated as " hosiery
was black, and, sad to relate, one mait
had hole in her stocking.
The two horned things" who ASSISTED
them were John Morgan, second base, ant
Taylor. catcher.
The Forest-Hill team was composed Of
the following: Foster, catcher; Belcher
pitcher: Kahn. short-stop; Applegate
first base; Hattorf. second base; Napier
third base; Blankenship,. left field; An
thony, centre field, and Waymack, righ
field. -,
The latter nine is good one, but will
such powerful opponents they could d,
nothing. Maud's curves were too mucl
for them, while on the other hand the fai
sprinters knocked the whiskers of o
Belcher's curves. They sent the spher
whizzing IN every direction, and the man
ner ip which they tossed men out at base
was marvellous.
AN UNKEPr SCORE.
1t was difficult to keep mp with the run
the sirens captured. They piled them a
by the dozen, and at the end of tho gam
several experts announced that the scor
was 81 to in favor of the Reds" Other
claim that the dsmsels captured at leas
80 runs, but as no official score was KEEP
posterity will never know what great ball
playing those girls did. But after all
u perhaps tits bette. sOp