Evening star., 1915-03-28
|SCHOOLBOYS OPEN
1915 BALL SEASON
Total Number of Games to Be
Played Will Ex-
ceed 500.
PLAYGROUND DIRECTORS
PLAN BIG ATHLETIC MEET
More Than l, 500 Lads Are Expected
to Take Part in the
Contests.
Play ball,

Play ball.
This cry. the surest harbinser of
spring. has sounded on washington's
Fairgrounds.
With the most elaborate schedule yet
arranged. the playground 1915 base
ball season is on.
Games have been scheduled for thir-
ty-five schools. composing six divisions,
but Immediately after the Easter vaca-
tion three more divisions will begin
their season.
At present there are 400 games sched-
uled. this being the largest number
arranged in any season. With the add
ed divisions, the total number of games
to be played will exceed 500.
| Immediately after Easter the organi-
zation of these same divisions for the
public school athletic meet will be
begun: 1t is expected that at least
| 1900 boys will take part.
More elaborate plans for the train
| ing of boys for this athletic meeting
are being made this year than ever
before. These plans are being worked
out under the general direction of Ed
gar S. Martin, supervisor OF play
grounds, and are directly supervised by
| Guy S. Shipp.
Eleven Divisions.
| For convenience in organizing inter-
| school base ball and also track ath-
letics the schools have been grouped in
| eleven divisions. Each Of these divi-
sions contain a playground. Two OF the
divisions deal only with the colored
schools. The other divisions are given
the name of the playground.
This year one OF the large divisions
| of last year, the Rosedale division, will
be divided. teams from half of the
schools in that division playing at
Rosedale playground, 18th and Kramer
streets northeast, and the other teams
| playing temporarily at Rosedale play
ground. This second division is to play
games later in the season at the large
"Patteson tract" 9Th and nd ads riorraa 2
can be put in satisfactory condition for
the games.
Schedules Arranged.
| Schedules have now been completed
for six division. including thirty-hve
| schools The divisions and schools are
as follows:
| Georgetown division-Addison. Cor
| coran, Curtis, Hyde. Jackson. Wiscon-
| sin avenue and Tenley schools.
Mount Pleasant division x Chevy
Chase, Cooke, Dennison, Eaton, Hub
| bard, Johnson, Morgan. Monroe, Pet-
worth, fOWell hHu INOSS oShooS'
| New York avenue dtvision-Abbot
| Gales, Arthur, Blake, Henry. Morse
Polk, Seaton and Twining schools.
| Rosedale division-Wheatley. Ben
ming, Kenilworth. Blow. Maury, Pierce,
Madison and Webb schools
Patterson division-Blair. Carberry.
Hayes, Hilton. Edmonds, Ludlow and
Peabody schools.
Virginia ). avenue division ~ Bryan.
Buchanan, .cranch. Ketcham. Lenox.
| Towers. Tyler, Van Buren, and Wallach
schools.
| The GEORGETOWN schedule, which
began March "a, extends to April ~
and includes twenty-one games.
| Mt. Pleasant schedule began March
%, and seven games have been played.
| The schedule will end May II and in
cludes sixty-six games.
| Games began at New YORK avenue
March 25. Forty-s games are to De
| completed by May II.
/ Virginia Avenue schedule began
March %, and four games have been
played The forty-six games OF the
schedule are to be completed May ~.
The Gallinger division is named Tor
| the playground formerly located at
10Th and streets northwest, which
was dismantled during the winter to
make way for federal building opera
| tions.
Potomac Park Diamond.
The playground department has Sc