Tagged: fans

7 clippings tagged fans.

Sports column headed Helps Fair Fans, with subheads Baseball Management Gives Them Five Free Days, Admitted Free at Gate Except on Few Occasions, Moving Pictures of Game Will Be Taken Friday, Women Should Wear White, and Baseball Dope and Comment From O'Neill's Circuit. The column urges ladies to put on white dresses and go to the ball game Friday, where the Victor film company will take moving pictures of the first two innings, then announces that on every day except Saturday, Sunday and holidays women will be admitted free at the gate, an innovation in Western league baseball, ending with a note that President Arch Catlin will send out the free tickets promised for the school children.

Helps Fair Fans

Topeka Kaws
Topeka, Kansas · 1912

Photograph headed Fans Settle Burning Question, showing a cluster of shirtless men leaning over a balcony railing at Shibe Park in Philadelphia, caps on, shirts off, watching a ball game below. The caption explains that when Old Sol's rays became too uncomfortable for the balcony bugs at Shibe Park, they decided to discard their shirts, roll up their trouser legs, and get a sun tan while watching the game.

Fans Settle Burning Question

The Laredo Times
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · 1935

Cartoon by P. Fox of President Taft as an enormous balloon-round figure floating over a ballpark grandstand eating from a bag of peanuts, above a dispatch reporting Taft called baseball the cleanest, the finest and the manliest sport in all Christendom and declared I believe they should hit it out.

Speaking of Fans, He's Got the Bug Right, This One

San Antonio Light and Gazette
San Antonio, Texas · 1909

Seven-panel comic strip titled Reddy the Rooter, He Sure Is a Noble Fourth. Reddy the office boy schemes to get to the ball game, a coworker urges him to tell the boss he is sick, Reddy instead asks the boss straight for a holiday, and the boss, a good noble youth himself, tells him to take a holiday today and enjoy himself. The last panel shows the boss at the game shouting He bit on two live ones, now send over a cripple.

Reddy the Rooter; He Sure Is a "Noble Fourth"

The Evening Journal
Wilmington, Delaware · 1911

Short front page item headlined Wilson and Fiancee See Ball Game, reporting the president and Mrs. Norman Galt leaving for the world's series in Philadelphia, her new diamond ring and the president's hat blowing down Riverside Drive.

The hat took a journey of several hundred feet before being overtaken

Evening Times-Republican
Marshalltown, Iowa · 1915

Base Ball column from 1891 San Antonio previewing a Galveston series, noting Longley throws a good speedy curve, that Butler is slightly disabled, that this is ladies day at the ball park and turning out encourages the players to play ball when the fair sex is well represented, ending with the full San Antonio and Galveston lineups.

This is ladies day at the ball park

San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas · 1891

Newspaper photograph of Miss Florence Dominguez wearing a catcher's mask and holding a catcher's mitt, framed in an ornate border, captioned as the Native Sons queen candidate for 1915.

The queen candidate is an accomplished backstop

Tulsa Daily World
Tulsa, Oklahoma · 1915