The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-07-26
PELLET IS PUNCHED
BY SUMNER MAIDS
Whereat FreepOrt Village
Girls Biff Out Bingles.
WEIRD GARB ON BALL FIELD
Two Umpires Used Up, One of Them of
Center Sex, and Hotel Guests
Win Victory.

FREEPORT, July 25.-Play ball? Can
women play ball? The bellies of this
passing the summer in a hotel here
scorn to give verbal reply to such a
question. They simply point to a board
in front of the inn on which are chalked
the figures:
Hotel, 80; Village. rs; five innings"
That is. few of the girls point to
the sign. Fourteen OF the eighteen
can't lift their arms AS for the umpire,
he and she (for there were two of it,
can give pointers to any politician on
how 1t feels to be an object of public
scorn and loathing.
How 1t Happened.
A hotel girl met village girl this
morning. After the usual sad comments
on the scarcity of men they talked of
athletics. The hotel girl said her friends
were far more skilled in sports than any
country lass. Great was the indigna-
ton OF the village girl
'I'll pick up a baseball nine In an
/ hour that'H make you feel cheap" said
/ she.
The challenge was accepted. The city
/ girl hurried back to the hotel Her
| chums were delighted at the chance to
show their prowess. OF course. nobody
had baseball suit but bathing cos
tunes made an excellent substitute. All
Freeport gasped as the sweet nine pa
raded to the field IN pink. blue. yellow.
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there. similarly arrayed When the
eighteen got in motion a Kaleidoscope
would have busted itself in sheer envy.
Curve the ball?" murmured an on
locker The pitcher doesn't need to
When the ball gets up to the plate and
sees those suits waiting for it. It'll
curve out OF itE own accord
Play BALL
The game began and the hotel girls
went to bat. II one eminent New York
baseball writer had been down here he
would have collapsed from sheer exhaus-
ton of his vocabulary. Those girls blffed
out bingles. pounded the pellet, perched
on pouches. slid snakelike to sacks.
swfped for safeties, oscillated the ozone
ner that would have made the High
landers feel lowly.
Score OF first inning: Hotel. 10; vii
lage, 2. Score Of second inning: Hotel
10: Village. 4. With those awful odds
against them. the village girls in the
third inning inserted fresh wads OF gum
abaft their pearly teeth and started in
to do or die They soaked the sphere (as
per the aforesaid writer) for eleven
rounds OF the roosts. The hotel girls got
nothing. But the fourth inning showed
a sad reversal of form. Hotel, II; VII
lage. l.
The hotel hours were starting on
their fifth inning when a shout came
from the scorer.
Game Called.
Hey! Call the game" he said 0or
the scorer was an impartial him). I've
used up four pads of paper" He was
commanded to keep on scoring by stick
ing bits of wood on the grass. But only
one ball had been pitched when the
batswoman turned on the umpire, C.
Bennett Smith. Her lips moved. She
bore a striking resemblance to Joe
Kelley of the Cincinnatis in that per
sons moments of strong objurgatIon.
The umpire fed.
"Oh, Mrs. Van Riperl" called a town
girl TO a spectator. You come out here
and umpire!"
Mrs. Van Ripper blushed. said She
hadn't a book OF rules and hoped she d
be excused for any little mistakes. and
, stepped upon the field. Somehow the
village girls took a brace right there
Score o; NTH inning: Village, 7; Hotel, 4
1 Won't Play, So ThereI
rs that umpire going TO stay in the
gamer" demanded one hotel girl. Yes;
Then l shan't play any more"
Her companions agreed with her. They
threw their bats on the ground and
marched of the field. The great contest
had ended. Purely as matter of recort
the personnel of the teams is given:
Village Belles-Mattie Lynch, pitcher
q Madeline Livingston. catcher: Gertrud,
Meyer, first base; Mildred Carter. seconC
base; GenevIeve Fuller. third base
T Florence Lynch. right field: Lillian
, Duke, center field; Lillian Willard. lef
. field. and Blanche Murray. shortstop
. Hotel Girls-Ethel Household. pitcher
Elizabeth Household. catcher; Lillial
4 Bedell first baYe; Blanche Suits. secon
q base; Annie Raynor, third base: Ma
Smith. right field; Matte Longette. ca,
ter field; A Cousins. left field. and I
Raynor. shortstop.
. PROVIDENCE CLUB, SHORT