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Show Softball Rules The News will publish each week, one or more official soft-ball soft-ball rules, until the entire set of 1946 rules has been published. Extra copies, as they are published, pub-lished, will be available to subscribers. sub-scribers. Rule Four A team shall consist of nine players. play-ers. No team shall be permitted to start or continue a game with less than nine players, and each side shall have sufficient substitutes to carry out the provisions of this section. A substitute may take the place of a player whose name is in his team's batting order, but the player for whom he is substituted shall not thereafter participate in the game, except as coacher. A base runner may have another player run for him by and with the consent of the opposing captain or manager, and when such permission permis-sion is given both the regular runner run-ner and the relief runner shall be eligible for further participation in the game. A player shall be considered in the game when his name has been entered upon the official score sheet or has been announced, and if another player is substituted for such entered of announced player, he shall not again participate in that game, except as coacher. The pitcher first entered upon the official score sheet or announced an-nounced to start shall continue to pitch until the first opposing batsman bats-man has completed his turn at bat. In the event of the substitution of a pitcher the new pitcher shall continue to pitch until the batsman then at bat or the first batsman opposing him Has completed his turn at bat or the side has been retired. Whenever one player is substituted substi-tuted .for another, whether as batsman, bats-man, base runner or' fielder, the umpire should immediately be notified noti-fied and he in turn should announce an-nounce the substitution to the spectators. spec-tators. Play shall be suspended while such announcement is being made. Provided, however, if thru oversight such announcement has not been made, the substitute shall not be called out therefor but shall be considered in the game as follows fol-lows : If a pitcher, when he takes his place on the pitcher's plate. If a batter, when he takes his place in the batter's box. If a fielder, when he takes the place of the fielder substituted for. If a runner, when the substitute replaces him on the base he is holding; and any play made by or on .'such unannounced substitute shall be legal under these rules. |