Rockford Morning Star
Girls Softball Stars In Training
Seventy-five girls, the pick of the United States and Canada softball teams, are in the midst of a training session in Chicago that will determine the sixty that will be selected to make up the personnel of the four league teams to play in Rockford, Racine and Kenosha in Wisconsin, and South Bend in Indiana in the All-American Girls Softball loop. Pictured above are three of the stars drilling in Chicago. Above are Irene Runke (left) and Clara Schillace, star shortstop and outfielder. To the left is Edythe Perlick, the "Babe Ruth" of the squad. Driven indoors by the inclement weather for five days the girls were able to use Wrigley Field for their workouts Saturday and Sunday. Four team managers, all former pilots of major and minor league teams, will pick the four teams May 24 and 25 and the groups will be assigned to the four cities. The Rockford team will come here May 26 and workout at the high school stadium, where all home games of the local team will be played, until May 30 when the team leaves for the league opener at South Bend. The Rockford opening game has been set for June 5.
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