The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-06-24
BOSTON
BLOOMERS
Beat the Salem Boys at Play
ing Ball.
They Make a Good Appear.
ance on the Diamond.
But Are not Accused of Being
VaSSar Graduates.

Tho Boston Bloomer Girls arrived in
this city Friday night and their intro.
duction to the Saiem public was at moi
very early hours Saturday morning
when they aronsed themselves TO make
"niggah" eyes at the boys whose curl.
osity led them to the depot, When the
managers Of the Salem team called an
hour or 20 later they were all asleep.
They are evidently good sleepsrs.
The game was set Tor 2;30 at the Fair
grounds, where canvas wall was erec'.
ed around the diamond and an assorted
congregation VAS present 10 witness the
contest. Some went to see the game,
others to see the girls, and the ladies'
attendant probably wont along to look
out for their friends.
The afternoon was cool and rain
was continually threatened, but
Mr.. Beal, OF Portland, who directs
the government sprinkler for this
part OF the country, delayed operations
until after the game of seven innings
was played.
The girls wore bright red bloomers,
loose waists aud soft felt bats. A Stan.
ford man who was present and wore q
hat similar to theirs was &C.
cuSed by them after the game
of appropriating it. The Salem
aggregation OF players we're garbed
in an assortment OF colors and
anita that mara HttaJ 10. oI,.o.. 49,. -.
casion, baseball, football the circus or
the street.
After the girls INDUCED in warming
up practice short time, the game was
called, With the local team at the bat.
Five tallies were made with little oppo.
sition AMI the eide retired thinking they
had had AN easy thing. The girls
scored three in ther second
and two more in the third. |
bat were held down then until thu sixth. |
when thsy Iil some good work. Sores
alter this counted up slowly with the |
boys, for the teams were Guile evenly |
matched, aud the BlOomers did snine
field work that WAS an eye-opener 10
many. Snme Of them hanH Il he
wagon-tongue like professionals aud
Julia st. Clair could find the curves and
knock fielders with an ease unexpected in
one OF her size but Maud Nelson tired
herself and everyone else by repeatedly
splitting the atmosphere with the bat
ia vain efforts to locate the Spaulding,
Sophia Buckley Was the best runner OF
the aggregation and the way she made a
hike for the home base won applause.
Several errors were made by Sheridan
at first and in the fourth inning he was
substituted by Felix Hamilton, who
played coolly, and the girls soon re
ceived an intImation OF the
change by three successive
outs at that base. Ia the fifth inning
two scores were added to the list by
LAud Hamilton aud Will Gilmore, but
it was on an error in the delding.
In the last two innings the girls
worked hard and piled up7 tallies and
won the game by two, the results being
l3 TO IL.
Among the bleachcrs some paid
the feminine sex the compli-
ment OF not believing that
that girls usually have such large hands
and feet, and it was suspected that they
were not what they pretended 10 be
and indeed Yeula Robertson's habit Of
exPectorating in casual manner and
the way Carrie Nation could line out a
two baEger, might aid the suspicion. but
they are jolly old girls and can certainly
present 3 fair example OF the national
game. One would not suspect that they
were Vassar graduates however.
The Ioughness OF the diamond caused |
several falis and considerable ANNOYANCE
out TIE game was thoroughly enjoyed, |
probably because OF the nnusnAl sight Of |
seeing girls play ball
The scores by innings were;
34567