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Show Wanted A New Baseball Rule. 1 Waltor Johnson was pitching for tho I Washington team, and Mr Jo""18' who was trying to pump optimism Into his despairing players, sent up an ambitious am-bitious young man to try to make a I hit Ho acted briefly. After swing-1 swing-1 g wildly nt two or Johnson's offer. 1 ngs. ho made aJhlrd wild swing, and, entirely by accident, popped up a lit-1 lit-1 tlo fly to flrBt baso. As he loped down toward first, and was called out, ho turned to Jennings, let out a stream of emphatic and pic turesque language, und wound up with thlB observation: "I'm a Bon of a gun If thoro oughtn't ho a rulo making that guy hang lights on tho hall!" Jennings, who got his start In llfo us a minor, Binllod grimly. 1 "Whcro do you think you'ro work-1 work-1 Ing," ho naked softly. "In n coal I mine." Tho Popular Magazlno. |