Arizona republican., 1922-05-14
CHARITY WINS
THE BIC ROTARY
kIWAN|S CANE
Large Crowd Turns Out
For Annual Classic
KiWanis Team Is Best
Run-Getter p arad e
Precedes Game
"NeVer saw such a game,
Never saw such a game,
Never saw such a qoI darn GA

/ Never saw such goI darn game"
Sweet Charity was the winner at
the annual baseball game yesterday
at Riverside park between the Rotary
and kiwanis clubs
Records of the score keeper. conf
piled with the aid of a battery of
adding machines and alternating
shifts of frantic workers may have
shown that the Kiwanis team ac-
quired a total of 26 runs in seven
innings, while the Rotary team was
forced to be content with a score
of 4, but that is a trivial matter.
The whole great big affair was an
unqualified success it brought out
q fine crowd, with many hundreds of
tickets sold that were not turned in
at the gate, and making certain the
fact that there will be a splendid
sum turned over to the Maricopa
County Welfare league for distribu-
ton among the worthy charities as
a result of the day.
Parade Is Held
Preceding the game, the members
of both club teams, resplendent in
their uniforms, accompanied by a
goodly number of their brother mem
| bers and headed by the high school
band, paraded through the business
y
q clock. \
The parade was led by a stripped
Ford on which a cannon was mount
ed At frequent intervals during the
parade the piece was fired and more
than one automobile owner, whose
car was parked along the line of
march. upon hearing the explosion
had several bad moments until an in
spection assured him none of the
rubber" on his car had blown up.
| The parade ended at the baseball dia-
mond in the park.
| While the players for the main
event We're warming up and receiving
| the last minute instructions from
their coaches, the Junior chamber of
| commerce baseball nine engaged in
two-inning clash with the famous
| Peggy Bloomer Girls team, who
stopped off on their way from their
home town, Bloomington, H., to San
/ Francisco.
The sIoomer "Girls"
AS this famous flapper team cam
| not afford to let it be known that a
bush league team from the sticks
defeated them, the final score of the
game has been suppressed.
AS ball players, the nine chickens
! from Bloomington were great They
| had lots of speed but no control.
! Some of them were picked before
! they had attained full bloom, but
| notwithstanding this handicap they
made a very neat appearance with
| their black boomers, baby blue and
| pink hosiery, MILDLY blouses and
| dainty boudoir caps. The battery for
! the Junior chamber of commerce
were Vic Norton and Sidney Myers,
and for the Bloomor Girls, susie
Smith hurled wicked curves toward
the plate and Pauline" Miller at
! tired in a pair OF bright yellow bloom
ers. caught the curves somewhere
behind the plate.
Game Starts
Then the Rotarian nine took the
field with Capt. Claude Decatur
Jones on the mound and Dr.. kim
Bannister behind the bat, and the
great annual classic was on Guy
| Martin, the first kiwanian to face
| the Rotarian swirler. flied out and
! so did l.. B. Hitchcock but before the
! side was retired the Kiwanians had
! two scores across the plate. The Ro-
| tarians went out in one, two. three
| order before the masterful pitching
| of Whirler Judson of the Kiwanis
! club, assisted by Backstop Lorel
! Stdpley.
In the second inning the Rotarians
rotated one across the plate and then
| shut out the Kiwanis but in the third
inning the Kiwanians found Pitcher
Jones and before the onslaught was
/ check four Kiwanian foot racers
| had romped safely across the home
base. Peter Eenne succeeded Captain
! Jones on the mound and in their half
of the inning the Rotarians brought
/ in one tally
| In the fourth inning the kiwanis