Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1904 — BLOOMERS NOT IN IT. [ARTICLE]

BLOOMERS NOT IN IT.

.The ball game here Thursday afternoon between the Star Bloomer Girls and a pick-up nine of Rensselaer, resulted in a score of 20 to 4 in favor of the latter. There was not a very large crowd in attendance and the gate receipts were about $126. Of this amount the Bloomers got 80 per cent and the band boys, who were managing the affair, 20 per cent. The Bloomers couldn’t play ball a little bit, and had it not been for the two or three men players with them, who are expected to do the playing, they would not have made a score. vOf course such attractions are\a graft on the public, pure and simple, and it is expected that the novelty of the thing will draw the crowd, rather than the expectation of seeing a good game.