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Lena Stone
Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 7
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, April 11, 1907
MARLIN GIRLS SAVED THE DAY AT MART
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It was
left to the basket ball girls to bear aloft the palm of victory for Marlin at
Mart Saturday afternoon. They met the Mart girls and won by a score of 8
to 5, after a most exciting game.
The
basketball team did not fare so well. In fact thy were whitewashed in the
most approved fashion. But their defeat was not accomplished by the high
school team of our sister town up the Genie. They were confronted on the
diamond by four or five boys and the rest grown up men, some of whom it is
asserted, play in real fast games and held their own. And again, one of
the pitchers for the Marlin team became so enamored of with the ladies that he
forsook his colleagues at the critical moment. The Marlin boys are still
wondering whether or not this was a scheme on the part of the opposition.
Anyhow
they were beaten by the brutal majority of 10 to 0. They had a splendid
time and are loud in their praise for the courtesies shown them. After the
game was concluded and the tattered remnants of our team had been gathered up
from the field, the Marlin party were given two reception(s) and shown over the
city by their hosts and hostesses. They had forgotten their defeat before
time to return home.
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