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Girl Ball PlayerIs Noted StarDazzy Vance Inspired Jackie Mitchell to Take Up Career on the Diamond.like the idea at all. She cannot |see baseball for a girl, j “My sisteri Josephine. Joe to • me. is like mother. She would not t think of playing baseball. Tennis and swimming ar* her games bui she isn’t a great enthusiast over either of them. Her main hobby is .drawing and printing. She wants to be an artist.j “Everything I’ve ever planned, j however, is in connection with ! baseball. I can pitch. I’ve provedI that. I’ve pitched winning base-SYRACUSE. Aus 9— Daziv baU Piwlmoiit and Mid-, , * * . ... ; Atlantic League dubs. I did wedvances fondness for children in- • . _ T . .. . .. . . . ,.T * a. ,, 1U the Southern League exhibitionsspired Beatrice Jackie Mitchell, , _ .. . . . . v.. . .. . , . . „ . until Judge Landis advised Joethe outstanding girl baseball play-.., , ~ ^ ,* »- .• * i L Engel. Chattanooga magnate. Ier tA all time, to Hake up a base- ; ,, . . . . .. .ball itouldn 1 P‘*-v ,n Wsrne bal1-Touring with the House of I)av-A high school graduate of last s June. Mis? Mitchell. 19 years old, quiet and demure, cannot recall the time when big league stardom, despite her sex, was not her life’s ambiTion.With her father and mother, she lived in an apartment across the hail from Vance wefan he was a pitcher for Memphis on his way up to what proved to be greatness as a major league pitcher.eOoming j through the hall one evening after ] a ball game. Vance noticed the girl as she threw a small rubber \ ball to a playmate.“Oh. a southpaw.” he said. “I guess I’ll have to make a pitcher oat of you.”It was lust a joking remark to Vance but the little girl took itid team is a fine experience. The players are wonderful in their attitude toward me and they are splendid, clean living athletes. Hut there is hardship in the fact that the schedule makes me pitch at leas* one inning every day.and am looking forward to home life some day. I’ve pased u.p vau- , devilie offers because I don’t like being in front of crowds. You do not mind it playing baseball or basketball because you are so interested in the game, matching your skill and your ability to think fast against someone else, that you forget there is anyone watching-“Didn’t ! tell you about the basket ball team? I played with the Chatanooga Outlooks* The team is one of the best in the South.“They say we are due for a few I days of rain soon, t hate to seeI the club suffer but I suppose rain “I nwr anythin? like that; .uarant«-e? aml iCs5l.ranee will stive before. 1 used to pitch about once protef.don an,vrd welcome a nighteven' five days. But noiv I have t-3 go night after night.“I pitched scoreless halt for seven successive innings in a total of six games and then had a ran scored on me. the seventh night. Some fans booed and said 1 wasn’t so much. That hurt a lot because I. Ike every ball player, aim to please. Bat if I had pitched eight successive innings and oe the sametheseriously and the next night VanceJ night mod not been scored upon brought a baseball home to her. • an til the eighth, when only one Then he showed her how corves ran was coanted, the fans would were thrown. He took her upon have taken their hats off to me. his knee aad he told her stories ■ *‘That is why I say there is of the fun ball players find. She hardship. It is difficaK to pitch tbrnyht he was the grandest man every night- Now aad then she had ever known and she fig- arm feels awfully tired, uied his life mas the nod won- * “I am no different thanderfal man ar woman coaid have.' «ther girt except that I like 1Miss Mitchell. 1*3 pounds af vim hall aad cam play it’ and rigor, smiled tftds morning in As she tatted she was powdering The Herald office as she tnld her her me. aad osteg the right hand story. She pitched an inning to do it.against the Byrne Seibertings. last 1 write with either hand and night at Sabaihan Park and shell ] do everything except pitch shoot he in for no inning nr more it ‘ as well olth the right as I da with Long Branch tonight against Chip- j the left. And I pie JohnsonV negroes. I get shiny.“Maybe I am n tit ndi. hat , -Traveling I do *somehow baseball has always been j t ■brnHgry work aad knitting and la my mini/* she said, *Dnd. who«whenever I lt;a« I get over the , is with me* gives the credit «* • kitchen stove nod cook meals for Vance, afily once tn a while It is1 myself and dad. I am n capable, Marne, nst m#t Mother’doesn't coak. can make my aw* clothes j_or two of res*“What do I do on the road? Oh, I visit the Kioies and shop around. I ride out with dad to the park? and the zoos. 1 visit the universities and colleges. I do what any girl mould do on a long tour of this kind. But Tm a good ball play er. Don’t forget the records: The House of David team has won IT and lost four since I have been with them”The Byrne-SHberliags filled the bases on her but coaid not score in her only innings of duty last , might as the Hoase af Davids team 1 scored a 13 to * victory.Jackie Mitchell pitched one in-aiag for the Home af David team ia the game at Winter Put here last Suaday night.The Hoase of David team defeated the strong Byrae-Sieberhags lJ-d ia a night game in Syracuse Tuesday. “Jackie” Mitchell was oa the nmaad for the whiskered lads daring the firs inning. The side was retired in short order as the Syracuse lads refused to swing very hard.don’t let my nosebit af:
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Ogdensburg Advance News
Ogdensburg, New York, US
Thu, Aug 10, 1933
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NA, 21 Jul 2023
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