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Baseball and Bloomers
Also known as {Baseball in Bloomers}
(1911) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: William Garwood, Marguerite Snow
Thanhouser Company production; distributed by Motion Picture Distributing & Sales Company. / Released 6 January 1911. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Snow’s film debut.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Miss Street’s Seminary for young girls has a very ambitious class of pupils. The young athletes, not content with basketball and tennis, aspire to shine in the great American game, and organize a baseball club. They are so satisfied with themselves that they finally send a challenge to Adair College, which has a crowd of husky young athletes and a club that thinks it amounts to something. When the challenge is received, the boys are first angry, then amused. They decide to accept it, to have fun with the girls. The young women, after some practice, realize that their team, while it may be pretty to look at, is of little real use on the diamond. And the prospect makes them weep. Fortunately for the girls, Jack, the brother of their president, arrives from Harvard. His chum, Jim, is with him. These two young men are baseball stars themselves, and when they are told of the predicament of the girls, they good-naturedly offer to help them out. The University men disguise themselves as girls, act as battery for the young women, and the college boys, who had looked for a laughable victory, are mowed down, inning after inning, because of the work of pitcher Jack and catcher Jim. The other members of the “Girl Team” have nothing to do except to look pretty. When the boy athletes have retired from the field vanquished, the girls reward their battery with one kiss, only one, from each of the other seven players.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Sports: Baseball
Listing updated: 24 November 2023.
References: Website-IMDb.
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