Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1913 — Girl and the Game. [ARTICLE]

Girl and the Game.

A young man took a young woman friend to a ball game for the first time, and in his superior knowledge he asked her after the first Inning was over If there was anything about the game she would like to have explained. “Just one thing,’’ said the sweet young thing. "I wish you would explain how that rheumatic bush-league relic in the box ever gets the ball over the plate without the aid of an express wagon.” And in the silence that followed all that could be heard was the faint chugging of the young man’s Adam’s apple working feverishly up and down.