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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1963
Page
5
Young Hobby Club holds a simple acorn pitching game with two players and an umpire. The catcher aims to catch five acorns in a paper cap, scoring points for successful pitches and penalties for bad throws. Final tally reaches seven points before rotation for five more pitches. Tomorrow: Basketball Practice Courts.
A playful inning details a catcher and pitcher exchanging roles after five pitches each, scoring points for catches in a four-foot square. The umpire’s decisions are final. The example shows Pitch 1 ruled a strike, but the catcher misses the paper cup and loses three points as the game progresses with balls and strikes.
A fragmented Cryptoquip style puzzle appears with mixed word clues and letter shifts, listing vertical and horizontal entries, several partial definitions, and notes about an earlier puzzle. The page includes a “Yesterday’s Cryptoquip” teaser and meta hints on solving speed.
On this date in 1787 the Constitutional Convention authorized the first election in the United States. Other notes include Key composing The Star Spangled Banner in 1814, Chapultepec captured in 1847, Mikasa sinking in 1905, Chiang Kai-shek elected in 1943, Atlantic City pier fire in 1949, and past years references to U S policy in Korea and Mississippi segregation battles.
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