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A Snide Aggregation Furnish A Stale Kind of Amusement to A Fair Sized Crowd. The Boston Bloomers, an aggregation of female baseball players, was adver tised to play in Ames Friday. When the train arrived from the north at 11 a. m., bearing the beauties in a special car, there was a crowd at the depot— not of course to see the Bloomers, but on business—in fact men had business there, who had not visited the depot be fore in six months. Disappointment, instead of a leg show met their gaze, as the blinds on the special car were all closed. At two o'clock, the Bloomers appeared in a wagonette, and went down main street to a vacant field, where a canvas fence, carried for the occasion, was stretched around a field of oat stubble. The Bloomers were all females but the catcher and short stop, who were very rusty looking ‘‘females.” The Bloomers went to bat, and the Ames boys were of course nervous and timid, until one of the girls at the bat came near knocking the Ames catcher’s chest protector off with a swinging swipe at the ball, which whistled through the wind, like a hired man call ing hogs, missing the ball a foot or two. This brought a smile from the crowd and broke the ice for the gallery gods, who occupied the fridge around the edge of the diamond. It was evident from the start that so far as playing was concerned, the girls were engaged in a business foreign to their build and ability. Maud Nelson pitched for the girls, and played pretty fair ball, the little thing looked real cute even though her bloomers bagged at the knee and her face was burned by the scorch ing sun. Georgia Gorman who played first, was long on legs and short on ball, she couldn’t play a little bit, but had a face on her, which when turned to the north stopped a passing freight train. Emily Forester, played third. Emily was slim, very slim, and went after the ball like a weasel after a young chicken. Laura Ellis played second and the flow ers of the beautiful golden rod, wilted when she turned that face toward them. Annie Jennings did the short stop—the most conspicuous thing about Annie, was a good sized mustache, and bloom ers that fit very snug. Carrie Ellis played left field, and had no distinguish ing characteristics worth mentioning here. But say, that center fielder, Frankie Ormsdale, was big as a box car, and as she waddled around over that oat stubble after the ball, made the earth fairly shake, under her great avoirdupois. Ada LaBeau played right field, and Ada was a real pretty little thing, really a handsome girl. Smiley Smith played behind the bat, and while he wore the same kind of bloomers as the girls—close inspection revealed the fact that he also was a “female.” The Ames boys got along very nicely. Larry Winnie’s extreme modesty cost the boys a few errors, as he didn’t seem to be able to hold the balls, thrown to him, when there was a bloomer in sight. Mills didn’t keep up his old time repu tation behind the bat and utterly failed to hold Zinzer’s balls, as he twirled them from the box with his old time vi gor. “Sliv’ Sexton attempted to make a mash on the girls, by doing a little fancy work in the field, and made sev eral errors. German, he of the Chester field on air, just allowed the bloomer on second to put him out, because he didn’t think it would be nice to beat the dear girls too badly. Kettleson, on second, let everything that were bloomers pass that base without a struggle—he is young, and didn’t know what part of their anatomy to put the ball on when he got it. The boys won the game hands down, and the aggregation de parted for Story City, where they play ed Saturday. The audience which watched the game here was noted for the absence of bald headed men, not over two-thirds of the crowd being made up of men who had long since had all the hair between them and the blue sky removed by age. Manager Poole, who is not ordinarily bashful, wore a crim son hue on his face, that brought his friends to think that he was suffering an attack of fever. Mahoney was safe, as he was at the gate, not within shoot ing distance of the diamond. CHAPEL RIDGE: The “prairie hen” once more becomes lawful prey. It's dangerous, lately, to even look at the clouds with a “silver lining.” ‘All is not gold that glitters,’ judg ing from some of the rhetorical efforts of some of the defenders of the single standard, in this neck of the woods. Time spent in quarreling over the merits or demerits of free silver, sel dom puts much of either in the needy man's purse. Henry Springer, wife and children were Ridge callers Monday evening, taking home with them a fine Jersey calf. Clover cutting for seed has been the order, and will continue to be, for the next week or ten days. The crop is un usually well filled and promises fully two bushels per acre. The corn crop is rapidly maturing, the present windy weather being just the thing needed to hasten it along. A week or two more of just such weather will tide the crop safely over the frost alarm. Fannie Outwater, of Boone, spent several days of last week at her uncle Robert Liddle’s house. Miss Outwater's many friends in this vicinity are always glad to welcome her. Mrs. Robert Liddle has just returned from a pleasant visit with friends in Clinton county. John Rex is rapidly pushing the work on his new house, and will probably have it ready to move into ere Bryan or McKinley shall have been elected. Thus. B. Jones left on the excursion Monday morning for Minneapolis to munch “hard-tack”’ and “Ss. B.” with the rest of the boys, Mrs. Walters and daughter Blanche, left Monday morning for Rochester, Minn., where they will spend a week with relatives. Kate Wright began the fall term in District No. 1, Franklin township, last Monday morning. Mrs. Peter Marshall returned from her Nebraska trip one day last week, and we rather surmise that Uncle Peter will gladly turn over his culinary affairs. We are sorry to learn that Fincham was under the doctor’s care for a few days last week, but hope a change of weather will bring him out again. F. Hunter is monarch of all he sur veys these days, since Mrs. Hunter has gone north to spend a few days with her sister at Alexander, Iowa. Mrs. Smith and daughter, Maggie, of Ames, spent a couple of days this week at the Sherman home. Lillie Barker came up from Des Moines the first of the week to attend the marriage ceremony of her sister Grace, which came off September 1st, at 8 o’clock p. m., at the home of Chas. T. Barker, Rev. Douglas doing the clerical work. No one but immediate relatives were present. Success to yourself and bride, Delbert, is our con gratulation.
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Ames Times
Ames, Iowa, US
Thu, Sep 03, 1896
Page 2
Full Page
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John K.
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