The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-05

Mary The name carries with it it's own derivation, being a game that requires a strict silence, for. as it's requisite, IS a nice calculation and an undisturbed mem- ory, so the least talking distracts the attention and produces bad play. Hence 1t has been termed whistl i. e., be silent Whereas-wel, silence is not feminine characteristic, and silence is not even de- sired at ball game. So, in the good old summer time-this is the game-eVen for the most high-browed, among the scientific followers of Elwell and Foster and-our own Miss Curtis.
 Baseball Debutantes
 The baseball germ years ago fastened | itself upon the younger society girls, ana | the majority of these who revel In root ball in the autumn are summertime lans , of the studiest sort. A knowledge Of the game came just after the pinafore age 1 with the girls as well as the boys in 1 vast number of cases. You who have | occupied the same seat in the shadlest box, or the same chair underneath the blea chers for longer than you can re- member need not turn over many memory | naees to recall the days when. Mrs l Thomas Hopkins two little daughters went out to the game whether or not | their mother chose to go, and were chap 1 eroned by their nurse. And two more l little ladies who could call every member of the Birmingham team by name and 1 knew the batting average of most of them also entered upon their experience as l fans during the nursery age and were accompanied to the park by black | 'mammy." These are the Copeland girls, the two young daughters of Mrs. B. G. Copeland.
 It was probably at a similar age that a young debutante whom l nave Tn minn entered upon her interest in the sport. She is pretty and popular, and invited everywhere. Usually she motors out With a party of friends, a veritable summer girl in white linens and Panama, with chiffon veil floating as cloudy frame for her piquant face; usually sine gees this way-the picture of well-bred ease and comfort. But one day last week the "sports' writer of the Age-Herald sat beside her on the earliest car going . out from town to Redwood. His de-
 scription of her was given with the enthusiasm to be felt by youth not much older than he-one whose nat IS , off to the athletic spirit wherever he meets it. "She was sitting in corner , of the street car,'' he said. "all by her : self and she had a little white hat pulled down to keep the sun off, but 5 she was already sunburned right brown She had on one of these thin shirtwaists that was like mosquito netting almost
 and with hardly any sleeves-and the tar { showed through those. She told me she just had to see that gamel l thought
 it showed lots of pluck, for a girl tt l just go out alone like that; though oi
 course, she had plenty of friends tha' : she could sit with after she got there
 because nearly all the girls she know.
 make a practice of going"
 Golf, Baseball, Dancing
 Birmingham matron who has alway.
 been interested in athletic affairs hal occupied the same box seat every da, this season. Her programme for tn
 summer days is more strenuous thai most because 1t includes this variety
 At 7:3O every morning." she says. '' go out to the Country club and pla.
 golf. returning home usually for lunch
 con- in the afternoon I go to baseball and at night l dance"
 Many of the ministers are regular vlsi
 tors t6 baseball. One said of his ukinl