The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-26
WOMEN AND BASEBALL
WIVES AND SWEETHEARTS OF
PLAYERS IMPORTANT
News About Them and Their Doinos
Would 30 Of Greatest Interest
to Feminine Readers Of
Sporting Page.

In travelling through the sporting
pages and perusinE data on our ma.
ttonal pastime you could not have
failed to note an absence Of anything
calculated to hold the attention of the
feminine part of the populace. In send
Ing Information from the front the
busy baseball writer's fail to take into
account the large number of their
readers who are avid to get an linking
OF news about the members of their
own sex who are connected by mar
r1age with the great game.
This body, as a whole, cares not
that joe Clinker looks the very picture
OF health and is getting up an alarm
ing rate of speed on sack work, Of
that Johnny Nevers never ran so fast
since the day he YVES born. That Mr..
Parents will probably be put on the
block and 60 to the lowest bidder is
entirely lmmaterial. There is no &C.
stacy displayed over the fact that DR..
Night has hit upon an unheard of way
to put 'enl over the disk. Not at all!
What Is needed to alleviate the suffer.
Ing Of the gentler sex is more light on
the dofngs of the wives ami woman
friends Of the camp heroes.
Will not the woman and girls be de.
lighted to learn that one player has
been engaged for nearly three months
and not soul knew word about it?
Not even tie girl. He took it for
granted she would use only the word
yes" when he spoke to her about t..
He guessed right. The maiden is
noted for her classic beauty and is one
of the sweetest little persons one
would care to meet. She told friend
at her home that stories to the effect
that her papa was against the match
was wholly untrue. Papa did hold out
for a while, but gentle persuasion on
the part of mamma and Luella brought
about a change. He finally agreed
that If the fiance's fielding average
came up to last years standard he
would withdraw all objections The
happy player when advised OF the
facts telegraphed Immediately that
he'd break all precedent or dislocate
both arms in the attempt.
Mrs. Hance appeared at the hote:
yesterday and at once became the
center of vision. She wore beautiful
fOulard trimmed with cluny lace and
old rose. The skirt was without plaits
and hung perfectly. Her hat was one
large willow plume built on a shape
Of pale violet. 1t was work of art
and is being copied widely.
Mrs. Gren, the famous pitchers
wife, took but one glance at Mrs
Hance's wonderful headpiece when
she began teasing her life partner for
some plumes like it. She even threat.
ened to cry right then and there. Eze
kiel, big boy that he is, wouldn't have
such thing happen for worlds. He
lifted the cloud from his little wife's
heart by promising to buy an ostrich
all for herself and let her raise he,
own feathers.
No, Murtilla, all is not roseate al
the camp. They had much to worry
them there lately. The Perkinses
gave birthday party last evening ir
honor of Mrs. Perkins. The guests
were seated about the festive board
and ponderous cake, bearing light
ed tapers, was borne into the room or
the shoulders of seven men. The
wife of another member of the team
scrutinized the cake, counted the can
dies and remarked in a voice thai
could be heard in the next room
where are the rest of them?"
Luckily, though, no serious damage
was occasioned by the remark and the
teams hopes of winning the pennant
are as bright as ever.