The Archive · 1938

Girl Softball Players Invade Japan in Goodwill Campaign

Police Fascinated By Bare Legs; Shorts Inspected

And Lengthening Rule Vetoed Tokyo, Sept. 17. 66QOFTBALL feyer" today threatened to sweep Japan following an exhibition of the game by 31 bare-legged American girl players. The length of their pants approved by smiling police censors, who were quoted by newspapers as admiring the shape-lines of the players' torsos and limbs, the team has enjoyed wide popularity since it gave its first exhibition game here on October Javelin Record Broken src, 10 THE "ena Helsingfors, Oct. 17.

The world famous javelin thrower, Nikkanen, established a new world record yesterday, when he threw a distance of 78.10 metres, thus beating his own previous record of 77.7.—Reuter.

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