The Theater vs. The Newsroom
Local journalists take to the baseball diamond to soundly defeat Cordray's Theater team.
Cordray's theater baseball team, which has been flaunting its colors since it got the better of a team from the 'Blue Jeans' company two weeks ago, was forced to lower them yesterday to the prowess of the newspaper men who had donned the spangles for the occasion. According to the score it was not a fine exhibition if measured by the professional standard, but there were features in abundance. Chief among these were the coaching of Sam Morris and the all-round work of 'Ginger' Williams, the ebon-hued outfielder and mascot of the actors' nine. What put the most ginger into the game was the enthusiasm of the audience. It numbered away above the average one at a league game, and having suffered no financial drain, was not hard to please. It was ladies' day, too, and the fair spectators enjoyed the circus plays and were just as well pleased as if they were at last Sunday's fifteen-inning contest.
“What put the most ginger into the game was the enthusiasm of the audience.”
A vivid look at 1890s Seattle social life, showing the rivalry between the local theater scene and the press. It captures the amateur, boisterous nature of early civic entertainment before the professionalization of sport.
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