A cleverly handled story with fun in it of a kind that some may think a trifle suggestive in a harmless way more or less. Gwendoline I. Pates, a petite heiress, has an accident to her motorboat and is cast away on Long Island near the home of Frank Chance, the great baseball leader, played by himself. When he comes home, he finds her asleep by his fire and he takes one room and she the other until next morning, when he fries some eggs for breakfast. The girl's father is wrathy and is going to pack her off to Europe; but she sends a note to Chance to rescue her from watchful grandparents. While he is trying to persuade the old people to let him run off with Gwendoline, his team is losing and Papa, in the bleachers, is shouting "Where is Chance?" A boy is sent to bring Chance back and Gwendoline slips past after dressing behind a screen in the boy's baseball suit. The audience seemed to enjoy it. - The Moving Picture World, December 20, 1913

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Frank Chance proves himself to be an actor of much merit. Phil Norwood is a rabid "fan" with a charming daughter, whom he wishes to marry to an Italian Count, but the girl has a mind of her own and refuses to consent. She takes a motorboat out alone and is wrecked on the rocks. Soaked to the skin and shivering, she makes her way to a bungalow and finds no one at home. The house belongs to Chance, who comes home and finds her asleep before the fire. The telephone being out of order, they cannot communicate with her frantic parents. Hours later her father learns her whereabouts, and enraged at her escapade, punishes her by sending her to her grandparents, who keep her a prisoner. She writes to Chance, asking him to rescue her. He leaves an important game to do so and she escapes with him, disguised in the baseball suit of the mascot. Chance wins the game and the girl is forgiven by her father in his great joy at the victory.

Frank Chance in Baseball's Peerless Leader (1913)

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