Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-04
GRADE SCHOOLS
IN ATHLETICS
.Washingtons Capture Baseball
Championship Girls
And Lafayette Boys Win.
SOME LIVELY |. s CONTESTS.
Fight on the Diamond Lasted Full
Nine Innings Wien Three Dagger
Wins the Game.


s5NNandaineres was not the prettiest
place In the country. this morning, also
the noisiest, IT was not the fault of
nature or the youngsters who assem-
5bled there for the ticd-day exercises
5of@the public schools. One enthusiastic
spectator remarked tina there must be
nearly a million Kids down here and
IT. certainly looked that way. They
We're running, jumping, swinging, boat
riding, roofing for their farorite teams,
drinking soda-pop, laying the founda-
ton for acute cases of indigestion
and doing a hundred and one other
things.
N Parents and teachers We're also there
and they had$a good time. too. They
We're proud of the youngsters and we'll
they might be, for a finer. collection Of
bows and girls would be hard to find in
any mans country.
Z For the track, and field events sched-
suled to be run off this afternoon there
are entries from every school In nea :..t
every event and there is no telling
when the games. will be finished. The.
days sports began at . this morning,
and before. that hour there were hun
5dreds in the grounds.
The first event Was the champion
ship baseball game between the Wash
sington team. representing the west side2
aud the, Sumner mine representing the
east side. And say, it was game
Retter, ball may have. been played. but
not between boys teams, 1t was nip.
and tuck all the way and though seven
innings has been the length OF the
grade. school league games, t took full
nineii,nings to decide the question. and
then the game, and the pennant to be
presented by the athletic board, went
TO the Washingtons- bS a score of to
Won. by a timely and Well placed three
bag ger by Yeats; who brought in Berg,
the latter going to first on a passed ball
after two men We're out and three
strikes called on him. But for Yeats
three hagger they might have been
aging yet. 1t was good ball ALI the
way. Jrors being few and far between,
the fielding good and the pitching all
that could be asked for.
The teams linedtup as follows:
Washington. Position. Sumner
PapWorth -. (. ..,... .t.i. ..s..3.. Johnson
Burtiette 49,. ...'..., p. SiddoWays
Geisler, ....s.....S..1 LIST b.. 9umph
Hansen .........2nd b...... ~ Sid daway
snyder .5fu d 5ihSliIl
Lees .s........,.s s......... Nooley
Berg $50. ,,..l f......... Patterson
Hanna. ...s....5..3.sc Gemplsri
Yeates ........5.,.r # -. ddoway
BASKETBALL GAMES.
The ha sls etfa!l games were hotiy con-
tested They started with the girls.
Lowell VS. Puplar Grove. No time WIS
taken out in either game and 10 minus
halves were played Nfter the girls fin
ished the first half the boys Lafayette
VS.. Poplar Grove started. The Lowell
girls won by a score ~ to q
The Lafayette boys team, had al the,
better OF it in the game with the Pop
lar Grove five. The winners had an
in weight, height and reach,
but the little Poplar Grove lads gave
their bigger opponents a warm raae.
warmer, than the score indicates The
Lafayette team won by IA score of SS33
TO II. a feature of the game was the
fine throwing OF Harry Williams of the
Lafayette school. The games have now
ended, the winning teams in each event
are hailed as champions for the year.