Arizona republican., 1909-03-15
IA FEMININE VIEW
 OF 4 BASEBALL GAME
How IL Was "Doped Out" by Tempe Normal Girl.

The Student" the Tempe Normal
 journal, offered a prize of S5 for the
 best account, written by a girl, of the
 baseball game for The Republicans cup. This is the way the prize was
 won by a ''first-year" girl:
 The high schools had their first battings. They went out. Earl Stand age has just hit a ball. It went be- | tween the pitcher and the catcher at his right side. They have quit batting and are just taking turns coming to first. These are the younger boys, and it's no more than fair because they ! couldn't be expected to hit as well. Johnnie Mullen has been hit on the pants. That's Dan or Mir Morris-I cans see. It's Dan. He's going to knock a home run. Why. he did. Har- | ry says it was the hardest bat he ever saw. But like to see them go up in the air. l think the best hits are j counted up in the air. Of course, that's more likely to be caught. It's a bet ter kind os hit, know that-I mean from a batting average point of view
 But. of course, it's more likely to be caught. and that's a big disadvantage
 They're out now. although no more ! I i don't see just how they could put them out without catching something. though, of course. there are other ways. such as touching them on the back, head. neck or shoulder.
 Now we're batting. High school made nothing We made four scores. ] They didn't count Dams run, after him | hitting that pitch and all the others | coming in. Harry says he cut third. | The umpires are as mean as the fac ulty about cuts. l like Dan.
 Speaking of the faculty. there they | all stand, and MT. Matthews just looks ! grand in his new suit And there's | Mir. Peters and MT. Jones and Will | Woolf-he used to be the best foot ball player the Normal ever had. l wish this was a football game. The senior old maids just in front of me are talking about the faculty. but it's | Mir. Wilbur and NIT. Peck they're look ing at I wish I was a man. They seem to have the most fun standing around home base and talking and smoking.
 Now Mir. Aver is batting. My Isatini I wish l had my biology. He always makes me think of that. Why. he hit it with the handle away out past one short stop and the other short stop is now getting it out of the corral where MT. Jungerman's fanny yellow pony is. Mir. Aver is on third base, and I'm just as excited, The score is six to, nothing and they have gone on as per above, only once they had quite a discussion. IL was right near me. SO I could hear. Maurice turned the wrong way He ought to have slid In, I think. and turned up from under like a summersault. the way John Dykes and JShn Lynch do. Anyway. that's settled now. so l don't need to mind MT. Cuber just looks grand out there that's all A little while ago he walked right back towards a great big high one. IL might have hit him.
 "The games over nOw-eight to nothing I stopped taking down things just as they happened because there was pretty near a fight, and the game stopped a minute. anyway. and there wasn't anything to write. I can write it better in my room now. besides. I'll just put down the essentials That's what MT. George says is the way for journalists to do think it's just
 
 dent and everything. That may sound as if wanted the five dollars. but l do think i.. and I don't care if l don't get it just because it sounds like flat tery I'll say it. anyway. And besides, if it was flattery. wouldn't I know it. and wouldn't I have sense enough to draw q line through it. even if didn't want to copy the pIEe. Gt did have a line through 1t. but the following didn't-Ed) And MT Hall. too And isn't he kind to dogs and Joe, I guess he does more for The Student than anybody. He handles all the money and everything. and gives out the tick cts.
 "Tll just write the main points. The fight wasn't anything. Mir. Aver and Mir Clark and some of those queer kind of boys you see standing around liv- cry stables. It didn't amount to much. and I guess those bows don't either. Earl Standage caught the dandiest one, He caught it right at his feet. run ming. It was a double play. and must say he surely was doubled up some thing fierce.
 But Mir. Morris is the one I like. He's nicer than MT. Cuber. I think. and everybody's crazy about Leo. l wish they'd stay and graduate with our Class. Why. MT. Morris is just awful nice. and he's smart, too. This isn't in the game exactly, but still if is. because he isn't in a place to be seen SO much and l can't tell what he did. He just stands up there and lets the pitcher throw them into his hands aw- ful hard. and he never says word. and I think it's about the hardest place to play of all.
 There were other important things in the game. such as Mir. Ayers cool ness and the g>ntlemanly way of MT. Stevenson and MT. Tebben, the two umpires. though never knew they had two umpires and I've attended ball games all my life. We learn lots by writing things for the paper. and l like to do those things for the good of the school when know anything to do But my Latini l hope MT. Hall won't think I was flattering him so he would give me the prize.
 Tanned, IS: walked, none: three base hits, Critchley: two-base hits. Lynch Batteries-Todd and Tebben-
 "I copied that from The Republican. |