BASEBALL NOT FOR GIRLS.
Why Young Women Should Be Only Spectators of the National Game.
The formation of two baseball nines among the girl students of Fort Edward Institute is a novel expression of a popular infatuation over the "national game," so-called, says the Troy Press. Whether baseball is a national game or not, we should say it was an essentially masculine game, and therefore not adapted to improve the lively and lovely lissome institute girls who are just now making a "fad" of it.
Indeed, playing baseball is a pastime the effect of which upon young ladies is the reverse of desirable.