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Show LOCAL OPTION ON SUNDAY BASEBALL ALBANY, N. Y, July 13. The upper up-per house of the Now York state legislature leg-islature has passed a bill providing for local option on the question of Sunday baseball . A similar measure is pending in tne lower house and its backers are confident con-fident that it will pass. According to tho bill a petition signed b 5 per cent of the voters in a city, town or village calls for a vote on the proposition and a majority major-ity of the votes cast decides the question. ques-tion. If the electors favor Sunday games the place and time of playing them are left to the discretion of the local authorities. |