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FROM THE ARCHIVEOct 27, 1938·Juneau, Alaska

SOFTBALL GROWS LIKE BASEBALL

Scanned from The Daily Alaska Empire, Oct 27, 1938
SOFTBALL GROWS LIKE BASEBALL
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By CLIFF STERRETT POLLY AND HER PALS ITS NO USE SAMBO THEY JESS LOAFS AROUND AN1 LAFFS AT IT 1 VSO HAFPHf ED T1 VCLS AFTER VUH LEFT Tri PC ER party las1 night HxN j YUH MEANS THIS SHINER I HADDATAYl k ACCIDENT 7 THAIS y all WOT DOES yoURS 3AYTV41 FIERCE y DOS ER JESS YOU WAIT AN1 yOULL SEE m SOME ACTION SOMETHIN AN WOT TH1 HECK HAPPENED T1 VOU j SAME THING r WIZARD f MEN WAITED FEP M Si Softball Grows More and More Like Baseball DETROIT Oct 27 Softball the game that has grown to be the pastime of thousands continues to alter its rules to make them more like the code of its big brother baseball Clarence E Brewer of Detroit chairman of the joint rules com nittee of the Amateur Softball. As sociation has announced that the only major change for 1939 will permit the scoring of runs on a wild pitch passed ball or throw back from the catcher to the pitcher. In the past runners have been forced to stay on third base on wild pitches passed balls 01 throwbacks although they coulc go from first to second or iron.

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