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Show Wanted A New Baseball Rule Walter Johnson was pitching for the Washington team, and Mr. Jennings who was trying to pump optimism into his despairing players, sent up an am-bitious am-bitious young man to try to make a fnl' aCt6d briefly- After swi"S-ng swi"S-ng wildly at two of Johnson's offer-ings, offer-ings, he made a third wild swing and enurely by accident, popped up a Ut'-Ue Ut'-Ue fly to first base As he loped down toward first, and -as called out, he turned to Jennings fr out a stream of emphatic and vTc-uresque vTc-uresque language, and wound up with this observation: "I'm a son of a mm if h oughtn't be a ruleak.n hat Tul bang lights on the ball'" 6 7 Jennings, who got his start In life as a miner, smiled grimly "fe ing'- he' dv ;U think you'r rk- Sine "-The P T' "In a coal The Popular Magazine. |