The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-30
Star Electrics Were no Match for the
Curves Of Charlie collard
and His Feminine
Backing.
rs. w. r." CRIMMINs
Mabel, Josephine, Frances, May ano
Evelyn Put up Some Classy
Ball Game; Win
to 1.

Chagrined by their defeat of yes
terday, nine members OF the Star
Electrics amateur baseball team, a.
local aggregation, are trying to ex-
plain to their inquiring friends and
relatives today how they happened to
lose real comic section game to the
Bloomer Girls OF Boston, on Sunday
afternoon.
There are several reasons which
stand out more prominent than the
others because the once-supposed fast
home group dropped the session into
the sunkissed lunch hooks of the
non-too good looking girlies and one
Of these and perhaps the foremost is
the chivalrous nature of John Grim
minis, pitcher for the Electrics. Sir
Walter Raleigh, If he should came
back to earth, would have to go some
to beat the gallant Crimmins who bow
ed and scraped to the ladies and toss
ed them over minus steam.
Then too it was impossible for the
locals to find Charlie Collard who was
on the center turf for the "fems.'
Collard held the Electrics to five hits
and only one of these was for more
than base. HIGHLAND, who played
second for the power named gang,
sent three bagger to left in the
| first inning and Frances Lowe, dumpy
little chicken, who snatched two from
the sky, went chasing to the fence to
get the pill. On May Pratt's error,
Hogland scored, but that was the only
run the Electrics got in the whole
game as Collard frightened up and his
support was extra fine.
Be it said right here before the err
ror of May Pratt's is forgotten that
that little dame is some short stop,
and she and Snooky-ookums McGaf-
figan would make some hot small pair
in case the latter needed any assist
lance around short and the makers
of the national pastime decided to
play ten instead of nine players. May
| is real girl too, because Irma Dag
Igett, who is one OF the substitutes,
honored the score box with her neat
| little self for about a quarter of an
hour and poo-hoohed the idea OF Mays
tbeing man in disguise.
All told, the Boomers used six OF
the weaker sex in their lineup, Bill
Andis relieving Lorine Miller in
| the fifth because the lady had head
ache and her hair refused to stay I'M
lder her cap for some reason or other.
| Mabel Wright was the star grille
of the infield, and If the Electric even
had thought of getting by "Mabe'
they had another idea coming as the
fast maid gobbled every throw per.
lfectly. Meecham threw wild to Mable
once when Jack Reidy was running
down to first and the peep-peep EN-.
braced the gent right square around
the neck in her effort to stop the ball
and put out the left fielder. The
incident probably unsettled Reidys
nerves as he quit right after that and
the dark-skinned Faber went to the
loutfield When Lorine Miller was TAX
en- suddenly Ill in the fifth, Andis took
Mabels place at first and Mabel play
ed in center, nabbing one long fly
from the bat of Duck" Hitler as IL II
was natural as eating three square
meals day.
Josephie Smith on second, deported
herself in easy style and got two
swell young hits during the nine in
ming go. The second one of these wa.
a two Dagger, which the dear ham
mered in husky fashion to left, Hill
Ter, Dunn and Faber scampering after
the blow like they were on full
fledged goose chase. Evelyn Woot
ress in right, didn't get half show
at any blue domers as the infielC
and Chuck Collard were working sc
much like clocks insldes that hard
" anything got past the diamond.
Spider" Schneider, behind the
stick for the Electrics, had two OF
three passed balls, one of which was
responsible for run, and Others ad
vanced the girls from one bag to an
other. The wool-topped backstop was
tagged long before the game cot un
der way and chasing wild heaves OF
passed ones, proved a much more
strenuous task than carting ten.penn,
nails or bird shot
Jan Hayes, who is supposed to be
somewhat Of sSicker, himself
Whitfield three times out Of three ~