The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-28
Lost the Game to the Heavy
SWelIs at Athletic Park.
The Girl Baseball Players We're
''Attired in Creations.
RED CANTON FLANNEL
And Practieed the Usual Fem
mime Tricks to Win
But as Must Always Be We're
OutWitted by the Men.

amazons of the base ball arena tripped
to the different positions in the field
at Athletic park and actually beat the
Heavy SweIls." But the disgrace of
being beaten by girls ranked so in the
hearts of the SWells that a dispute was
INDUCED in and when one of the bloom
er players attempted to stab Umpire
Hal Hazlett with a hat pin he awarded
the game to the sWells by the score Of
to 0.
The Boston Boomers were attired in
delicate creations of red canton flannel
and real base ball padding insertion.
The boomers were cut full with grad
uated pleats to the waist. They wore
black belts and black drop stitch stock
ings. They carried handkerchiefs and
base ball nits. The shirt waists were cut
nigh around the neck with large sailor
collars. Blue neckties and a hat Of
black, trimmed with leather bands COM
pleted the costumes.
Before the game the Heavy Swells
INDUCED in practice bout but when
the game was called and the Boomers
went to the bat things took a different
turn. Nelly BLY, was the first lady"
up. She gave her hands a good dust
bath, graSped the bat firmly and wink
ed at Pitcher Frank Crane. That ratified
the pitcher and Nelly made a two base
hit. Julia NARROW was the next up and
while Catcher Ben Johnson was gallant
ly tying her shoe string Nelly stole third
and came in on Julia's safe hit Score
one for the boomers.
When the SWells came to the bat
Pitcher Ruth AShmOre for the Boomers
struck the position of Niobe and her
children, without the children, and fan
ned Frank Crane. That created some
excitement, but when GuilfOrd Dudley
and Ben Johnson both struck out and
the side was retired without a run the
crowd went wild with enthusiasm. The
Heavy Swells held a council Of war
after three men had struck out and de-
cided that the pitcher was not a woman
but was a. man in disguise. But it was
q woman for no man on earth would
have a hat pin damned through his
head, wear French heeled shoes and
drop stitch stockings. Then another
thing When the ball was knocked to
the pitcher she grabbed the sides of her
boomers and knelt in front of the ball
lust as a woman would try to Shoo in
chickens.
The girls team was known as the
Boston Boomers but they did not look
as if they were brought up on beans
and Emerson. None of them wore
glasses and some Of them even talked
Choctaw. Some had black hair and
some had yellow hair but all looked like
they might have been some of ]. NJ.
Barrie's women coal miners. They were
not weak sisters for Annie Laurie
Brady knocked a home run and Belle
Jennings and Maud Nelson were re-
corded as having made three baggers.
Really it seemed too bad to have so
much real energy going to waste when
harvest hands are so hard to ma.
The umpiring of DR.. Hal HazIett
was not satisfactory to the crowd.
When Clara Moore tried to steal third
and was put out half way between
bases. she just stood on the base ana
asked DR.. HazIett if he had noticed
that balk of Pitcher Cranes NOW at
that very time the doctor was watch
ing Alice White sliding to second in a
cloud of dust and hairpins, but he said
it was a, balk and advised her to hold
her base She did and became so IN
terested in a conversation with William
Wikidal that she forgot to score on a
safe hit.
Clara Moore. third basewoman, was
the star player of the team a. T..
The crowd was small About 70 IN
the grand stand and the same number
on the bleachers. The record or the
blOomer games in Kansas has been as
follows on the opposing teams. one
knee and another fell dead. Yester-
day Ben Johnson was struck by a bat
and his hand was badly lacerated. DR..
Hal Hazlett called time while he dres-
sed the wound. When the row hap
pened in the ninth the Boomers mad the
most runs to their credit.
At the time OF the regulation base
ball wrangIe the Boomers score was II
the SWells Is and they should have had
the game When Umpire Hazlett gave
the game to the men Ruth Ashmore
said You mean thing" and chased
him with her parasOl till he took ref
uge in a hack and rode to town.
The following was the line up.
SWells. Positions. Boomers.
Frank Crane .....pitcher Maud Nelson
Ben Johnson catcher FRANKIE Cole
Roy Banks .....firSt base Ruth AShmOre
Bert Nudge ...SecOnd base Julia MarlOWe
VIII Wikidal third base clara Moore
Guilford Dudley .shortstop IL. NeI7y B3ly
Terrence Ewart...c. f. eula Robinson
Theo. Snattinger. right field Alice White
NATIONAL. LEAGuE