Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1904 — The Blooming Bloomers Play A Blooming Good Game. [ARTICLE]

The Blooming Bloomers Play A Blooming Good Game.

The Star Bloomer Girls, a .Chicago female aggregation who go about playing exhibition games of base ball, with local teams, for 75 per cent, of the gate money, were here Thursday, and played with a picked-up Rensselaer team, but a good team for all that. The Bloomers are not all girls as three of their players ere young men, and make no pretense not to be, while still another, their pitcher, is evidently also a young man, dressed in girl’s clothes. And the manner in which this pitcher revealed that he was of the male sex, was about the most highly appreciated feature of the gajpe. Russ Harmon was the umpire, and while the Bloomers were in the field, and the pitcher was playing short stop, Russ gave a decision that roused the pitcher’s wrath and she or he took a shot at Russ while his rear elevation was in the pitcher’s direction. The pitcher had the range well and it was a bull-eye shot so to speak, and if the pitcher’s hind sights were not raised when he fired, Russ’s was

when he landed, and his wrath also. He shook his fist menaceingly in the hostile pitcher’s direction and said he put her or him off the grounds, if the act was repeated. The game resulted in favor of the Rensselaer team by a score of 20 to 4in their favor. Nearly 500 persons witnessed it. It was a good game all things considered.