The queen candidate is an accomplished backstop
Tulsa Daily World, 1915. View the original
Miss Florence Dominguez of San Francisco campaigned for queen of the Native Sons of the Golden West with a portrait in full catcher's gear. The paper vouched that she is an accomplished backstop.
Plenty of 1915 queen candidates posed with flowers. Miss Florence Dominguez of San Francisco, candidate of the Native Sons of the Golden West for queen of 1915, posed in a catcher’s mask with a mitt on her hand, and the Tulsa Daily World ran it under the headline “Native Sons’ Queen Candidate a Baseball Fan.”
The caption does not treat the gear as a costume. It calls her “an ardent baseball fan” and adds, with the paper’s own quotation marks, that she is “an accomplished ‘backstop.’” The photograph shows her with catcher’s mitt and mask, says the caption, as if the voters needed the equipment verified.
A San Francisco queen campaign photo running in an Oklahoma sports section is its own little story about how far a good picture traveled in 1915.
| Place | Tulsa, Oklahoma |
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| Year | 1915 |
| Newspaper | Tulsa Daily World |
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