Arizona republican., 1909-12-06
BLOOMER GIRLS LOST
 TIE INITIAL GAME
But IL Was a Close Contest and a Scare for the Home Team
 Sccre to 4.

Though the Boomer GIFTS are nlC' lot, the Salt River Valley baseball tcaH
 was not gallant enough yesterday tC
 take the jibe, of being beaten by a bunch of women, so they handed then a score of to 4. It was a good game;
 better than lot of people expected though. of course. it lacked the speed
 of league exhibition. That is. tho
 speed in play, though everything moved
 off pleasantly and the game Wal
 played in good quick time. Int
 weather was fierce A worse day could
 hardly have been selected in this re- zion, except when it is actually rain
 ing. for it was cloudy and unusually cold. land besides the Elks services at the theater drew heavily from the class of people who otherwise would have been in attendance. Nevertheless about 25o people witnessed the game and enjoyed it greatly even though they were shivering. spatting their hands and pounding their feet to keep rom freezing.
 Last night there was d frigid rain, followed by snow which, of course. melted as fast as it got here. and this morning it is hoped the climate will be gin to get next to itself clear up. If it does there should be a fine ball game this afternoon. for the grounds will dry quickly if they have half a chance There will be no charge for ladies in the grandstand. though the gentlemen must expect tn give up a quarter in addition to the general ad- mission of 9 cents.
 If one may be permitted to size up the BloOmer team on its exhibition of one days work. there are grounds for saving the the five Bloomer girls played better than the four Bloomer gents who were in the lineup yester- day, with the exception of the catcher. fine game. She is a south paw" and knows her job perfectly. though of course, she hasn't the muscle of a league pitcher to hurl the leather speedily. Nevertheless she has a repertoire of left-handed curves that rather fooled the home team, and some of the boys who were accused of hit ting at everything rather carelessly, in sist that they had to for they never could tell what q ball was going to look like until after they had jabbed at it. No box score was kept, but the fans report that Waddell earned some thirteen or fourteen strikeouts against eight for Myers. the valley pitcher.
 The lady on first base did some good work though it would be to her ad- vantage if she could grow a little taller. The third basewoman as well as the .-h, ho bp second sack all played very nicely. The shOrtstOp though committed fe ex- pensive errors, as did others, though they were due to the fortunes of war rather than the sleeping sickness. The third gasewoman had the glory of in- itiating the only double play when she murdered a home player on the line and put the batter in the morgue through q fatal throw to first.
 Each side made one two bagger and several errors. Sullivan very impolite- " caught an enormous fly that One of the ladies brushed off her bat, but it was up to him to do his duty even if he had to be discourteous. Magoffin was umpire and his fine Italian judg- ment was only questioned once on each
  the teams Were well matched was evil denced by the fact that they tied with four runs each in the ninth inning and the home team picked up the fifth run in the tenth.
 The home team led at the start, mak ing one run in each of the first two innings In the third the Boomers broke the ice with hit to left, mak- ing second on slide that would have TOT The runner was advanced to third by the next batter and scored on the following play The other team got nothing and the two innings following neither side scored.
 In the last half of the sixth Phoenix got another score. Three batters reached first base. each being enabled to do so safely by errors of the oppos- ing side. and all after two. outs had been recorded. The first managed to work around to the home plate. where the second Of the trio, Harter, was killed making the third out
 The seventh inning was the only one in which so many as two runs were made by anybody and they were credit ed to the girls after one out had been made. The second batter walked and The next girl. who was also a man, a two bagger. when the sec ond batter up, the real girl who had taken the walk. scored. The rooters then aroused themselves. and the