The Grange in Happy Camp, Calif., formed two youth baseball teams in 1924 that played against teams from other towns. A local poet named 鈥淩ex鈥� described their enthusiasm:
Let us view the contest right
Every sport enjoys the fight
Our banners high we have unfurled
It鈥檚 Happy Camp against the world.
The girls鈥� team nearly always won. The Sedros sisters played catcher, pitcher and second base with the High sisters in the outfield. They and their girlfriends traveled to other towns, even challenging boys鈥� teams and winning them, too.
Poet 鈥淩ex鈥� describes a local game:
The rooters鈥� howls they rent the heavens
The scorecard read just 3 to 7
And now that Ranger band are good and sore
Next Sunday鈥檚 game will be for gore
They swear to even up the score
When Gerad Gosell was manager of the boys鈥� team, he bet against Billy Storrs, manager of the girls team. The girls won and Gosell and his boys had to don female bloomer uniforms to the great delight of the crowd.
Source: Davis, Hazel "The Old Ball Game." The Siskiyou Pioneer in folklore, fact and fiction, vol. 4, no. 5, 1972, pp. 97-98.
