Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-08-19

II the sales record of the company for
which they work mounts as high as the en-
thusiasm OF the girls composing the Sales
Record team in~ the du Pont Girls
! League, there will be considerable ex-
panSlon Of the business of that company.
There WAS enthusiasm and pep to
spare manifested in the concluding game
of the first series. and when { developed
from the result of game Thursday after
noon that another game would be neces-
sary TO determine the championship, then
indeed was enthusiasm at fever heat.
1t manifested itself at the games Thurs
day and Friday of last week, when the
championship was settled, IN every way
conceivable among the members Of the
team and their followers IN the grand
stand and on the sidelines.
Cheer leaders for both the Sales Record
and the Advertising worked overtime,
and had the crowd wrought up to pitch
similar to that of n world series mob.
Songs, catcalls, whistles, tin horns and
other noisemakIng devices were employed
to cheer the one side or the other and to
rattle the eSemy The teams PLAYED ike
veterans, and with an earnestness and de-
termination to win that was credltable
to both sides
The heroine Of the series, If one good
player may be picked from among several,
was Becky" Eisenbray of the winning
Sales Record team She did the twirllng
for the champions and the way she made
the batswomen of the opposing aggrega-
tion fan the atmosphere was aS discourag-
ing 10 Advertising as it was encouraging to
Sales Record. Miss Martin of the Adver-
tising team also had quite a large number OF
strike-outs TO her credit, and IN the game
Thursday, when she pitched her team TO
victory, she twirled fine game.
In the games Thursday and Friday
there wcre no home runs, and not great
many hits recorded, but the way the bat
ters struck at the spheroid showed a
willingness and a determination to knock
the cover off, although this did not devel-
op.
1t appeared Thursday that Sales Record
had the game seYyed up, as the score stood
to Cup 70 the last inning, and il appeared
that Becky" had them at her mercy
But, as often happens in the last inning,
there was balloon ascension, some
members of the Sales Record going ''up in
the air. When they came down. their
margin of one run had been wiped out, and
Advertising was the victor by a score of
2 to / This made another game necessary
to determine the championship, but they
had their revenge next day, when they de
feated the Advertising by the one-sided
score of III to 2.
Wrangling over decisions of the umpire
was not in evidence, as some uncharitable
people might expect in a game between
girls teams, and the decisions generally
were accepted with good grace Coaching
went on from the sidelines and from the
benches, and batters were encouraged to
sI4ine it out--you can do iti'
Come on, Xantippe; give us hit
You can do it" And Nantippe made a
swing at it as Xantippe of old might have
swung at the head of Socrates. And
Xantippe generally hit the ball during the
games Thursday and Friday, She was
entitled TO considerable credit in the vic
tory of Sales Record.
So far as the du Pont employees are con-
cerned, the deciding games in the girls
league were the greatest athletic event OF
the season. They encouraged the girls by
their presence and rooted for their favor