The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-05
Proved Drawing Card at Calder's
Park Yesterday.
THEY PLAYED BASEBALL
WITH a PICKED TEAM FROM
THE ELKS.
Elks Won By Score of z to Cit
Wasn't Right Down Serious Base
ball, But It Afforded Good Amuse-
ment For Over 5000 People-One
of the Bloomer Girls Man.

The Boomer Girls proved pretty good
attraction at Calder's park yesterday. as
approximately 5000 people went out to
see them play game of baseball with
a. nine from the Elks. 1t was certainly
the biggest crowd at the park recently,
and the managers must have reaped a
big harvest of coin.
From a sporting standpoint, the game
was a very tame affair. But there was
enough novelty about it to make it in
teresting, and had the grounds been man
aged properly few of those who went
out would have regretted it, AS it hap
pened, the crowds became unwieldy and
surged all over the grounds. finally clos
ing in around the diamond until there
was an open space only about as big
as a fair-sized cockpit. In this space the
contest was fought.
The crowds began to move towards the
resort in the early afternoon. Every
available car of the Rapid Transit COM
pany was pressed into service, but still
1t proved insufficient to accommodate all
who wanted to go out between and 4
O'Clock. Every car was loaded to its full
capacity ard more, too, while many en-
that conductors had to go on top of their
cars to collect fares. Arriving at the
park, the people first filed up the two
grand stands and then made themselves
comfortable around the bicycle track,
within which is located the diamond.
PICTURESQUE BLOOMERS.
The game was advertised to begin at 8
o'clock, but it was nearly 4 o'clock be-
fore the buxom iassieS showed up for
the contest. The majority of them looked
well IN their red suits. made all same
gave the bleachers a chance to specu-
late on the probable result of the game.
There was no betting, however; at least,
there from pure curiosity and to have
some fun. and fun they did have.
About the time the Boomers made their
appearance the crowd pressed forward
and surrounded the diamond so COM
pletely that there was no room for play.
A portion of IL made a rush in front of
the grand stand, obScuring the view of
those who had paid their extra quarter
for seat. Then there was noise enough.
The people in the stand shouted for the
special officer to clear the ground, but
that individual found it too much of a
job after humping against the fists of
several husky fellows whom he tried to
put outside the ropes Finally. Sergeant
Hilton and several members of the police
gave way. only to be formed again, to
the great chagrin of the grand stand oc-
cupants. Three or four fist fights took
place in rapid succession and a little
gore was split, but no one was much
hurt and it proved a great entertainment
for the crowds.
a MIGHTY SWIPE.
The Bloomer Girls went to the bat and
a husky maiden gave the sphere a Swipe
that sent it into 1G the eornfield: ~G0od
Hot stuff came in true baseball fash
ion. The girls didn't mind anything like
that. for they buckled down to hard
work. Though they did some good play
ing, the first innings resulted in a goose
egg for both sides. The second resulted
ditto but after that some runs were
made
During the course of the game it was
discovered that one of the "Bloomer
Girls was a man. He wore a black wiz
and made about as good-looking a wom-
an as any of them.
The lady pitcher was a novelty. She
twirled balls in splendid shape and kept |
the Elks guessing. She was up to all the
tricks of the profession and pitched seven |
innings straight before the "man-woman'' !
was put in the box.
To describe the game in detail would |
be useless. Neither side had much the /
best of it, and the score resulted to /
N favor of the Elks. Meincke pitched |
for the latter but his balls were unusu-
ally wild which probably accounts for
The even score.