Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-14

~ this keeps up, upon my head,
While oomen lose their charms and
grdoes,
By heduen, then is romance dead;
The Dentler gods knoD not thei'
places!
Song Of the Cvnic Scribe.
"C'mon there. Rose, y'old pineapple
LII ofthold pep now Gottumagoin ,
gottumbuthears-attababe!" !"
This, they say, is Katherine
Aschenfelder, nineteen years old, catcher
of the girls baseball team Of the Hess
Bright Ball Bearing Works, just as she
sounds with two on bases, two out and
the third ma-excuse us-girl up to bat.
Katherine weighs 1874 pounds, lives
at 4543 Howard street and wears regu-
lation pads, shin guards and a mnsk
when she's stopping the hot ones. She's
brunette, nineteen. single. She has
other names for other girls on the team,
but Pineapple" is reserved for her
darling pitcher, of whom more later.
Now, about this ball team. For one
thing, all the girls in the Hess Bright
works wear bloomers on the job, barring
the Office girls, and their costumes can
do double duty on the diamond.
Of course. it's only an antiquated
fool who thinks of putting cm over
the home plate' has anything to do
with that remote day when young
woman thought it her privilege and
duty to pass out real crisp and sizzling
chops, beaten biscuits and honey. pota =
toes done to a toothsome brown, for the
benefit Of the fellow in overalls who
paid the bills. 1t isn't that way any
more, you know. What we're talking
is baseball, and they do say this nine
is good.
Have Man as Trainer
George c. Campbell. their trainer.
who works in the planning department,
says that two months practice has
made snappy female aggregation of
them.
First and feminist. after the redoubt-
able Miss Aschenfelder is Rose Martin.
alias Pineapple. They say Rose, who is
3 feet 3 inches, weighs 12O. is seven
teen years old and lives at 247 West
Somerset street, is anything but pro-
verbal pitcher.
She has an incurve and out. which
she has cultivated ever since she was
kid at Visitation School, Lehigh ave
nue. and B street. Spitball she has
none, but she has wind-up like an
eight day clock and has a delivery that
makes a trench mortar look like the
Burleson blues.
Then there's the manageress, Cath :
ryn Connell. of 224 West Erie avenue.
She has blue eyes and brown hair and
she's right substantial. She plays left
field, and she's there.
In right field there is Frances M.
Dark, 112 East Westmoreland street,
who is a clerk, blonde, with gray
green eyes and an air of you can't
guess the first time" We can't. Ad-
mitted.
And Claire Crossley 5000 Water
street, of English descent, who plays
at the first sack position. She's seven
teen. She has blue eyes and can toe
dance. Imagine the advantage on first,
with a high throw from deep center
coming her way! And that isn't all,
they say she can pluck 'em out of the
soil about as easy as President Wilson
gathers a may Il not bouquet at peace
conference.
Meet also Frida Reilly, 1884 North
Reese street, shortstop, whose mother
was German and her father Irish. She
has brother in France, who is a
pitcher, and another at school who is
ditto, and she picked up a lot of the
fine points playing with them as kid
And there's quiet Marcella Rehak,
3144 Boudinot street, who is also six
teen, and weighs 112 pounds, but she
runs a lathe like man. She was born
in New York state, and despite her
European name, she looks pretty much
the dependable American girl. She's a
second sacker.
Third Sacker Absent
And so on and so on. 1t was Alice
Collier, of 1856 North Front street, who
played third base, they said, but she
wasn't around just then. And Elizabeth