Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-08-22 | Page 11 | Bloomer Girls Make a Hit in Ogden

BLOOMER GERLS M A HIT li OGDEN Play "Dad" Gimliirs League "Teain a Close Losing Game; Score 10 to 8. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN, Aug. 21. If Tom Smith, who caught the game for tho Boston Bloomer girls, and the other two men on" the team plaj'ing at third base and in the box had been eliminated from tho game and their places filled by women who knew the national game as well as the balanro of the team, tho result in Friday afternoon's game with the Ogdcn league team might have been a different story. It so happened that tho gamp was far from being a dead one, tho score being 10 to S in favor of the Lobster?. Tho Boston Bloomers, composed of an aggregation of women ball players, arrived ar-rived in Ogden Friday morning and met "Dad" Gimlin's Lobsters at the fair grounds in the nfternoon. Tf there is any doubt that thoro is such a thing extant as a good woman ball player, that doubt could be easily dispelled by walchiug this aggregation pla3' the game. Car.rio Nation, who held tiio first bag for the visitors, knows as many points of the game as some of the big jeaguers. She accepted some difficult chances, and made only one error during the on-I on-I tire nine innings, and figured in some really sensational plays. Maud Andrews, who started in to pitch, became disgusted in tho early stages because the threo male members of the team failed to give lier the propcrstipport, and went over to shortstop, short-stop, where she fielded some difficult chances. The way in which Norine MeAlvnny. a diminutive young miss, got under some of tho high ones out in right field caught, tho crowd. The Bloomer girls wore slightly handicapped in throwing llio ball from I lie outfield, but they worked the "relay" system lo a nicety, "Dad" Gimliti worked almost every man on hi6 team in Hie box as the easy ones tossed over put "kinks" in their arms.