The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-11
FROM A WOMAN'S
POINT OF VIEW
She Tells All About Yesterdays Base
Ball Contest.
DID NOT 90 TO SEE SULLIVAN

Mr. hee1e-sAfter Ilring oil ASKING
Questions About the Game, She
She Decided to Write the National
Game as She Saw II.
There is no reason in the world why,
when a woman begins to talk about
base ball, every man in the vicinity
should Immediately proceed to smile
pityingly and with sort of pathos.
1t is rather exasperating to her when.
thirsting for information, she asks
some little question about the game,
to see men look at each other in
queer kind of way as If she had been
swearing. or they had been caught in
the midst Of a recital of something
not designed for women's ears.
Now woman went to the game
yesterday. Unlike the other people
who flocked to the park she didn't go
to see Sullivan, but to learn about
base ball. For the most part her ef-
forts to acquire knowledge were not
marked with as much success as K
they had been treated with more grav-
| ity by those of whom she expected in
| structions. When much tumult arose
| after some importuning on her part
she was told that "Bonner's chuckled
on the middle pad; a performance on
| Bonner's part which may have been
| eminently praiseworthy, but which
| needed further calculating to bring 10
to the range of her feminine compre-
hension. When she anxiously inquired
| why, If the men wore spikes in their
I-I,
them to keep from sliding to the end
of the league, her question was greet
ed with so much levity that she de-
cided to pursue her investigation un-
aided except by her own intuition
| and judgment. This determination
was confirmed when In an unguarded
moment she again asked why only one
man at time was allowed to wear
the somewhat unshapely bib apron
which was in evidence. The wither-
ing scorn which this innocent enough
inquiry called forth influenced her
decision to just tell all she knows about
that game.
In the first place it seems to be neces-
sary to mention the fact that John l..
| Sullivan was there He would be a
| why Soou lOohllb man IL ne WASH so
| fat AS it Is he cannot be called as
| handsome as our own umpire, Mr.
Keefe, who, in civilized clothes, and a
| modest manner really behaved very
nicely. Mr. Sullivan stood in the mid
| die of the lot well out of harms way
1t was a good thing for him that he did
so, for there wasn't any bib apron, nor
a muzzle big enough to fit him, and he
| tpb
| probably have cost our association
more than he was worth--to us. It
was rather disappointing though to the
ladies who hoped to see him at closer
| range.
He had a very still, small voice yes
terday. Once in a while you could hear
a faint whisper "Baw-l-l," but only
after man had dropped his club and
walked disconsolately out of the ring
was 1t certain what the umpire was
umpiring. 1t is pity the association
hadn't thought of providing a mega
phone for his use. Aside from his voice
he was so big that when a small man
they called Gillon was over in his vicin-
ity throwing ball. he seemed to be a
| little uncertain where to aim it, as he
couldn't see around the lot, owing to
the umpire's all pervading presence. II
seemed according to the popular sentS-
ment that very questionable proceed
ings were going on in the places where
| Gillon couldn't see, on account of the
intervening form of Sullivan-stealine
was one of the things mentioned. There
really should be more policemen up al
the ball park. 1t is understood that
since Mr.. Silliman's order regarding
free street car rides for patrolmen when
not on duty, that there aren't enough
officers there to prevent base stealing
or almost any other crime unprinci-
pied visiting clubs may perpetrate.
| There seems to be a great improve.
ment in the Scranton Base Ball team
over what 1t was in the past. There
aren't so many marvelously fat men
with queer names, and then somehow
the players now don't look as II they
had groveled as much as they used
Quilted neither garments also appear
to have gone out of fashion, the mer
now wearing sensible enough bloomers
which don't look quite as ridiculous
as the golf suits OF Country clubites
One man yesterday wore gay red stock
ings. Those who assume to know say
that 1t is because he Is the richest
member of the club that this distinc'
tion is allowed He couldn't seem tc
run any better thus arrayed than the
other individuals more soberly clad.
The uniform of the Scranton team
isn't pretty, that is as far as color goes
1t seems to be rather diversified, but
yet not distinctive enough to suit the
average woman spectator who hates tC
be discovered "rooting" If that is what
her soft little squeals may be termed
for the adversary.
Mr.. Smith belongs to that side. Yes
yerday he wore a shirt with the frst
initial of his name carefully Jrked
monogram-wise thereon. He was tht
only man who ventured to hit the um
pire and there wasn't as much of s
row about 1t as one might imagine
Everybody was particularly polite tC
the umpire. Manners certainly have
improved in base ball. Mr.. Gill0l ap
peared to occupy a wider range of posi-
! tons IN the popular heart yesterday
than any man in the crowd. He wal
} the one who did Delsartean poses anC
had little kick like a skirt dancers
When he threw the ball very well tn,
people cried He's doing all right
told you he would" When the wronl
man ran entirely around the pat ch af
ter Mr.. Gillon had kindly thrown tn
ball so that it was convenient for tn,
man who happened to have a club
the same people all groaned: "Didn'
tell you? He can't pitch" TheI
when he got fiim-fiamed by the sam,
fellow who fiim-flamed the Wilkes
Barre darkey, and afterward lie
another fellow fall on burlap
the very same men all yelled