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Plan Girls’ Major Softball League By Next Summerflv DAVE HOFFAP Features CHICAOO, June 16—Professional girls softball, with a fiOO.OOO bankroll and the brains of two top-notch baseball organizations behind it, hopes after spending this summer in an experimental hothouse to j blossom forth next year in the nation's big cities—right alongside its big brother, major league baseball.When Philip K. Wrigley, the Chicago Cubs' owner, and Branch Hickey, the Brooklyn Dodgers' vice president and general manager, j formed the all-American girls’ I softball league, they weren't just' doing it to throw away excess cash.j They visualize a day when fans j will Jam the big city ball pnrits to watch young lady *'naine” players perform.’ Operational Setup This tear the all-American girls’ softball league will operate on a minimum scule, in four smaller cities in the Chicago area. But the operational setup is the same that will be used if their dream of a couple of major softball leagues and a flock of minors some day comes true.F.verything possible is being done to keep the girls' league from resembling the men’s game. Tire girls will wear three-quarter length skirts no slacks, no shorts. Boyish haircuts are out. And the salaries being offered are good enough to assure the finest and fairest of talent.For instance life lowest salary | called for in a current contract is $45 a week, more than the average stenographer or factory girl gets, j and far above the pay of the aver- j age Glass D minor leaguer.The best salary is $H5 a week.! comparing favorably with the pay1 received hy players in tin* top minor leagues.And in usual baseball style the! girls get, all their expenses paid while they're on the road.League Signs Girl*Inst ( ad of being under contract to their respective clubs, the girls will be signed by the league which will distribute the talent at the start of the season as equally as possible among the tour teams. The , first games were listed tor May 30 with upwards of 100 contests carded for each club. Thus this is a full-time Job for each of the playersSOFTBALL TONIGHTYMCA vs Marsh at Fourth Ward.Rorrien-Kquitv vs Container Company at Second Ward.Convoy Merchants vs Motorists Mutual at Convoy.WARD SOFTBALL PLAYERS TO REPORT THURSDAYRon Peters, YMCA physical director, lias issued a call for all Ward League softball players to report Thursday at 9:30 A. M. at Fourth Ward diamond. All teams will be organized and a practice session will follow.The league play will open the I coming week and double-headersj will be played during the season’s play on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10 and 11 A M. The diamonds Iwill be rotated and the lid openers are scheduled for First Ward. Softball play is for the grade boys.RESUME(Continued from Page One)Iraq visas, the radio said.Other events nt-a-glance:* Russia - Leningrad broadcast declares Red armies set to hit Germany a mighty crushing blow” from the east, synchronized with Allied invasion of Europe; Soviet troops again heat off strong Nazi assaults in Orel sector.Burma Allied warplanes ham mer five Japanese liases, blast enemy from Arakan front to Mandalay.China Chinese troops press offensive on Cpper Ynngtbe River, disrupt rail communications to Japanese base at Yochow.Transcontinental air service was inaugurated in Canada in 1939 when the first planes took off on lligllts of 8.RA0 miles.because of industrialThere are a few changes made in the standard softball playing rules The pitcher is 40 feet instead of 35 from home plate. There are only nine players on each team, wth the traditional short, fielder eliminated Base runners may take a leadof! The pitcher may use a glove to fa -The four member cities—Ke-cilitate deception in deliver)’ nosha and Racine in Wisconsin. Sooth Rptiri tnd.. and Rockford.111.- have been chosen the large number of plants near by.If the attendance is good and the league shows workability, if “name stars develop among the original players, another year or two mAy find the girls invading the major league ball fields, playing at home when the local baseball team is on the road, traveling when the major leaguers are homeBagiev's sell and apply Mule-Hid heavy-weight roofing. Free esttmates on any job Phone 3033.
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Van Wert Times Bulletin
Van Wert, Ohio, US
Wed, Jun 16, 1943
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