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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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by The Democrat, Marlin, Falls Co., Texas.