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Show Put Ban on Stalling in American League Race "Stalling" will be reduced to a minimum in the V.Y2S American league race. President E. S. Barnard said in his personal iterpretation of the league's new general and ground rules. In the future the batter will he expected ex-pected to remain in his box until his ; time at bat Is ended unless granted permission to leave by the umpire. No parades of succeeding batsmen j each swinging anywhere from two to 1 four bats, will be permitted and the I players will be prohibited from taking I seats in the stands, a practice in some parks. To further speed up preliminary i practice, one umpire will be delegated each day to be present on the field tin hour in advance of the advertised time of starting to Insure visiting teams its proper time for batting and fielding field-ing practice and to preclude possibilities possi-bilities of a late starting game the president said. |