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1 JACKIE MITCHELL WANTS TO GET i TO TOP IN BASEBALL.tThe Only Girl Professional In tlie * j Sport I« Hera With the1 House of DavidTeam.Ione consuming ambition which Jackie Mitchell nourishes is to pitchin a world’s series.Jackie is the only southpaw girl pitcher in professional baseball. She has a fast ball, a curve and a drop good control and the sight of a Ruth or a Gehrig or a Frisch at the platter doesn’t bother her.Tonight she appears at Muehle-bach Field with the bewhiskered House of David team in a game against the Kansas City Monarch*. Jackie probably will hurl a few of the innings, but don’t look for her fast ball. She’s pitched so much this summer the fast ball is about gone.But it will come back next spring, she says, when she reports to the Chattanooga Lookouts. Her contractis with that club, the president of which is the effervescent Joe Engie. And if anybody can get Jackie into a world’s series it Ls Joe.ALWAYS HAS LIKED BASEBALL.Jackie has the Chattanooga dialect, mild blue eyes, straight hair, which is combed back, and a demure way which rather belies her skill with the baseball. But her hands are extraordinarily large for her size and she has no trouble grasping the ball firmly. |Dolls? They’ve never meant muchto her. It was baseball from thestart and when she was several yearsyounger than she is now the once I great “Shoeless Joe Jackson watched j her pitch and was convinced.“I never thought I’d live to see a girl pitch that well. he said.Then later Engle organized a girls’ team in Chattanooga. Characteristically he called them the Englettes. Jackie was the pitcher and she did so well two years ago Engle signed her to a professional contract.Jackie travels about with her mother, who has been quoted as saying she frowned on her daughter’s j baseball activities. tIT'S UP TO JACKIE.“That Isn’t quite true,” she says. ‘‘Of course, I don’t exactly like it. but I think Jackie should do what sheAnd Jackie wants to pitch. The other night she pitched against the St. Louis Cardinals. Ten thousand in the stands. One on base, one out andFrisch at bat. .f' V; ’* ’What was that to Jackie? Nothing. Who was Frisch to worry her? Awell-directed pitch, a ground ball, a double play and the inning was over.I Now how does she intend to arrange to fulfill her ambition to pitch in a world series game? She doesn'tknow. ;■ -- '$]-‘‘Next spring I’m going back to Chattanooga and if I continue to improve maybe I’ll get the chance. I know it doesn’t look very likely, butyou can't tell.** • VOh. yes, she also likes to hit, but hasn't had much opportunity to display this prowess with the House of David team because she can't be permitted to pitch the entire game. Just a few innings and maybe one time atbat.SHE LIKES TO HIT.But one time at bat makes it a chance to smash out a safe hit. Jackie’s blue eyes light up and asmile appears around the corners of her mouth.I guess I like to hit as well asanything.”Baseball Isn’t all she can do. Two years ago she was an entrant in the national girls’ basket ball tournament at Dallas. She has won track medals. But baseball is her business now andthe Eldorado for her is the world’sseries.i
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Kansas City Star
Kansas City, Missouri, US
Tue, Sep 19, 1933
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