Arizona republican., 1911-04-13
ARE NOT A BLOOMER
 GIRL AGGREGATION
Chicago Ladies Play Ball In Skirts
 and Play It We'll

Lovers of baseball and athletic girls will find dual attraction at Eastlake park next Monday afternoon at 9: 90 o'clock when Birdie Carleton's aggregation of skilled diamond artists known as the Chicago Ladies Base ball club will undertake to put one over a Phoenix team. The Phoenix team will be under the direction of A B. Delgado and is a nine selected for the express purpose of showing the Chicago damsels that baseball! out in these parts is not regarded as d joke but rather as legitimate and vigorous warfare, whether 1t be be- tween gentlemen or ladies and gen tlemen.
 After you, my dear AlphOnso!'
 That sounds very fine in the din ing room, at the depot or on the car but inside the park grounds it will be different If "Alphonso" gets base or a run she will have to steal it or earn it. Del has a wicked arm and if he gets in the pitchers box the girls better wear "arm-or' plate. for
 
 might kill one or two of them. But he says he don't mean to and will be very sorry if it comes to that.
 Speaking of the girls Delgado says this is a sure-enough ladies baseball team and is an organization entirely different from that of the Boomer girls which were here year ago The RIoomer. girls were something of d disappointment in that most or them were in female attire II bloomers may be said to be female attire Perhaps it would be more ac- curately descriptive to say they were men with wigs on. trained to Keep their faces straight because they could not gurgle and smile like real girl. There were two or three girls among them, however and they got most of the glory. The grand stand was occupied chiefly by the male population of the city and d man is a little timid about eXchsng- ing his pretty compliments for a horse laugh.
 It is stated authOritatively that Miss Carleton's girls are mostly of the female persuasion. At least six Of them are guaranteed by the terms of the contract to be, off duty, genuine drawing room peaches. 1911 model, with weaknesses for outrageous head gear and chocolate bonbons. There may be a male battery if Captain Carleton so elects and if the pro- missed vigorous batting of the Phoe- nix players indicates the necessity of it It is understood the two or three male players will wear the club uni form which may be a bit confusing 10 those who are saving all thelr plaudits for the ladies. but at the worst the grand stand will have two chances out of three in picking a girl for honOrs. Any Phoenix fan who will not take that odds and root his prettiest is not worthy the smile of any woman.
 Speaking of the club uniform at tention is called to the further fact that the members of the ladies base ball club play the game in skirts. They are not bloomer girls but lady ball players The skirts are short to be sure but they are skirts, never theless Short skirts are about as easy to play in as boomers and then the fan is better pleased for regard less of a woman's right to wear trou- sers or anything else she pleases, at this stage of civilization she looks more effeminate in skirts than any other device of the modiste.
 The game is 10 begin at 2:3O o'clock Monday afternoon. April r, and it will only take a half dollar to see it. that charge including the grand stand It is worth a half dollar
 irI even if they can't play ball but they insist that they can play it and the local team is preparing to put them to the test. Manager DelgadO says they will have to play if they win.