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Show oo- Girls Almost as Numerous as Boys in Marble Games i BOSTON, March 17 The boys of Greater Boston arc maklnc a stand against feminine assault on a sport I hitherto almost exclusively their own, I tho game of marbles On the sidewalks of the suburb, since slsns of spring appeared pass- lersby forced to detour to the curbing having found girls almost as numerous as bovs In the panics Tin- ulsters play I for keeps, too, and often w ith'a skill that has sent their own and other brothers home marbleless As a result re-sult the girls also nowadays go home with hands soiled and knees muddled and mothers find Cause to lament the itrend of the times. ! Another change In the conditions of the game as played by the new gent-ration i; the substitution of pennies for the agates and glSBttfoa, that were the objects of shot and roll in the old days. |