The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1905-06-30
GIRLS PLAY BALL

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The Famous Boston Bloomers Put
kImbali to the Bad
Score 10 to3.
Cut boyish-taced youngsters hair
close, adorn his pate with wig and
dress him up In boomers and out on a
ball ground it is pretty hard to tell
whether he is man, maid or monkey
especially If he is bright enough to
keep his month shut. effects girls
mincing gait and gives u peculiar
twist to his arm in throwing a ball.
Herein lies the continued success Of
the Boston Bloomers," an alleged
ladies base ball club, to which is
added the glamor of a special car
highly decorated, advanced by circus
posters with the usual exaggerations.
The Boomers keep the crowd guess
ing which IS girl and which is a boy,
and before the spectator has finally
got them sized up the game is over,
the canvas screen pulled down and
loaded on cars and for the first time
the fellow who coughed up plunk for
two seats to see three girls play ball is
wondering if he isn't fish.
AS Il snappy lot OF nice, clean ball
players the Bloomer aggregation is all
right. AS ladies base ball club it is
pure fake. In the game Monday
the first base, left field and center
field were covered by young women.
The other SIX positions were played
by boys and young men. If the outfit
has any more girls who play ball
which is doubtful they were not in
evidence. The enterprise has the
Cardiff giant beaten to a standstill.
The wonder is how it holds the boards
and draw crowds, unless it is follow
ing the old theory of the late P. T. B.,
that the public likes to be humbugged
Nevertheless, it is an open question
ii 1T isn't worth the price of admission
to see one girl play ball like the young
woman who covers first base. She is
sure pretty ball player and she can
bat and throw as we'll as she can catch
She is the nucleus around which
gathers the whole shooting match and
one forgets the fake as a whole in
watching her movements. Almost as
much may be SAID of the dark-haired
damsel who guards left field-a neat
batter and as slicka base runner as
the best of amateurs. The blonde in
right field gathered beautiful fly in
the game, showing that she is on to
her job, also. Altogether the three
girls are as good ball players as the
boys with them and the team is even
ly balanced. Not a strong team by
any means, but daily practice togeth-
er for week after week enables them
to hold their own with clubs really
stronger. With the same amount of
practice the nine picked up of Kim
ball players who made such poor
showing Monday could beat them to a
fareyouwell. The boys they have with
them are, all but two, understood and
with their wigs and boomers appear
as much like girls as the girls them
selves. They are on to all the tricks
Of the game While putting up a gen.
tlemanly contest. One of the slickest
tricks they play is to skip their poor
5atrcrs completely when in a pinch
an Indian trick. One of the girls only
went to the bat once, even though she
lined out daisy cutter and reached
first when she took Il try-out. The
slickest trick they played was when
the girl in left was stealing home on
Pat Quirk' pitching. he caught her
at it and threw home and the man at
the bat (their catcher} basted the ball
SO the catcher could not gather 1T in,
1t was a sacrifice hit, but one fol
which both should have been calico
out, as Pat was not IN position.
The Kimball boys put up a wretched
game, are open to censure for no,
strengthing their nine with more out
side players and giving the people
their moneys worth as long as they
got per cent Of the receipts ample tt
pay the expenses. Not until the
seventh inning did they get man
home, when by a little carelessness or
the part Of the pitcher they managed
to get in three scores. That was al
they got in the game. Twice the boys
had the bases full early in the game
but they ran the bases like Holsters
and it was a pudding for the trained
Bloomers to put them out in all sorts
Of shapes.
The regular ball ground was tot
wet to use and the game had to b
played in a pasture north Of the track
The diamond was lald out in a slip
shod fashion. short between bases arc
the pitching distance proportionately
with no boundary MARKS or base line!
all of which contributed to the triLk
of the Boomers and the undofng o.
the picked up nine matched against
them There \yaS ~ 1.rro crowd ,,r.