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Show today's sport I ANGLE & The sport pages carried a very in- W teresting item the other day. ' The Pa s cific Ci league ed to us-o the rubber-center ball the coming sea- son." read the news Item. B On 111 e perhaps there doesn't appear to be anything unusual about such an item, ye to the ball player B I and manager, as well as n-r. . carried au Important message. It has always been customary for the baseball leagues to u.e a stand- Bj ardixed ball. U "BJ t one time the rubber-center ball , was genciallv used Then by expert- 1 men! the manufacturers Qf baseballs Ln went tu the uso of the cork-center 'If This was regarded as a step forward Wt in tht manufacture of baseballs. Prac- A1 tically ull the leagues, us well as too amateurs and semi-professionals, B' tinted to the cork center. Bh There Is no question but that the Bjc action of the rubber ecu r ana cork fl ili center are different ill players m.A will tell vou there is a daiercnt fee BvJ to the ball. That is their way of ex- plaining it BBJ the three big minor leagues. Its rank- Lvfl lng 1- JUSt a .-had. I 1 low the major H leagues. BBJ For so big a league to adopt a ball BBi that will differ from the ball in gen- 'BBJ oral use is or great interest to thoso interested In baseball fiom a playing BBb and business standpoint ,BJ There will bo an air of uncertainty LVfl attached to the records made Jn tht. BB coast league, because of the use of a M ball that Is different from the gener- BBS ally accepted type . ..BJ Whether oryioi then, is anything " B to It, the rubber-center ball will be BBfl given as the re tson for all things good tBl or bad that happen in the coast LVJ league this year BjBJ |