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lie in my power,— Charleston News and Courier: When the bloomer girls cancelled their contract to play in Charleston they switched over to the Georgia territory and had easy sailing until they struck Cedartown. Cedartown didn’t like it.Neither did the ministers of the city look with favor on the big posters, in which Maude Nelson, the champion female pitcher, was attired in a Knickerbocker costume, with a bat slung over her shou-Jder, The good people got together, held a conference of war and applied to the courts for an Injunction by which the females would be restrained from showing curves on the diamond. Maude Nelson was named in the suit because she was the only player the ministers could get a line on. The game was stopped andthe gang moved out to seek other Georgia worlds to conquer. The matter created much feeling in Cedartown and the Injunction may be an issue in the next municipal campaign of thattown
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Yorkville Enquirer
York, South Carolina, US
Sat, Mar 28, 1903
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