Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-06
GIRL READY TO RUN
MILWAUKEE, TEAM
Believes Father, Who Died
Recently, Would Want Her
to Assume Task.
BY MARY IVA MCDONALD.

Al 1LWAUhEE, WS., feDruary o.
NH A popular member of Mil
N waukee's younger society set
4 a has stepped out Of her dancing
slippers into her fathers work.
a-day shoes. She Is Florence Killilea,
IS, who, through the will Of her father,
the late Henry J. Killilea, University or
Michigan foot ball and base ball star.
becomes president Of the Milwaukee
Base Ball Club. MIR. Killilea died Janu-
ary %.
Since her graduation from the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, Miss Killilea has
devoted her time to world travel, to her
favorite sport of horseback riding, to the
social activities Of her set and to her
fathers interests.
The relationship between father and
laughter has ever been for Milwaukee an
idyl of comradeship. Since the death of
Mrs. Killilea, 9 years ago, the father
and daughter have visited strange cor
ners Of the world together. Together they
attended base ball games and accom-
panied the Brewers as the Milwaukee
team Is called, on Spring training trips
to Little Rock, Ark
The pleasure was the daughters. The
responsibility always the fathers. Now
it becomes hers. too, and she intends to
accept it gravely and earnestly.
A slender girl, feet and inches tall,
blonde, gray eyed, intensely feminine,
but buSinesslike withal. she holds her
fathers desk in the ONCE of the Mil
waukee Base Ball Club from $50 am.
to 5 pm. and later.
Certainly shall not sell the team
until I, at least, have trial at running
it myself" Miss Killilea replied to the
report that the team would have An
other owner before the season was over.
I'm no way, I believe, could hurt or
disappoint father more than by giving
up the team. 1t was a dream OF his
| that Milwaukee should win the pen
nant. Death took him before he achieved
that desire and he passed the RESPONSE
blltty on to me. I must make good on
1t, If I possibly can"
Miss Killilea, even though she Is not
overconfident, is no novice In the world
| OF base ball. Her father has talked
base ball to her since she was a baby,
she says. He took great pride in her
| growing knowledge Of the game. It
| thrilled him when she was able to pick
good pitcher from a bad one. The
girl haunted the ball park. She went
with her father and the team for
| Spring training in the South. She be-
came the pet of the team, for she was
the dancing partner of each of them
az Tile pdTLleS Oclu IN LTal01ng camp.
There is nothing high hat about the
| girl owner.
! Although the decisions in the choice
of players will be left to Secretary
E, Louis Nahin and Manager Jack Lelivelt.
Miss Killilea has definite plans for the
future of the club.
II believe that more should be done
to interest women in base ball" said
the new president. II expect to in
crease the number of ladies' days at
the ball park, days when women are
admitted to the games free. And
hope, If not this season, at least very
soon, to enlarge the seating capacity OF
the park by double-decker stands"
Miss Killilea has left for short visit
with friends in youngstown, Ohio.
Upon her return, she WIN 20 to Little
Rock with her team to watch the train
ing.
IT do not expect, however, to accom-
pany the team for the out-of-town
games" she said. I'VE don't favor hav-
ing the players wives 90 with them and
II went 1t might cause some dissen-
sion among the women who stayed at
home"
Miss Killilea has held two woman
predecessors in the ownership Of the
Brewers-Mrs. Otto Borcherdt and Mrs.
A. F. Timme. Neither remained long
in the job
I'm going to stick" says the girl
boss, I'll make or break, because that
is what father would want me to do"
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