The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-06-24
PLAYGROUND LEAGUES
TO OPEN new WEEK;
SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED

Major and minor playground base
ball leagues will open playing SEIZED
ules Tuesday, June %, and Wednes-
day, June 90, respectively, at $50
o'clock. This decision resulted from
meeting of playground supervisors in
the community service headquarters,
Thursday afternoon.
In addition to this arrangement.
plans were made for the holding OF
five playground meets on the morning
of July T. All of the children of the
city will be permitted to take part.
Ribbon prizes will be awarded the
champions IN each event.
The major baseball leaue, the Or
ganization Of which will include an
eligible list of Is players from each
of the five city Fairgrounds, will be
composed of boys Is years and young
er. All games played by the major
league will be on the South Twenty
Second street Fairgrounds. They will
use regular league equipment and be
under supervision of the Twenty-Sec-
ond street playground supervisor.
Schedule Announced.
Schedule of their games now pre-
pared includes the following:
Tuesday, June IS, $50 o'clock
Twenty-Second street playground team
and Sevastopol playground team.
Wednesday,. June %, 2:30 o'clock
Whitewater playground team and
Warner playground team.
Friday, July /, 2:30 o'clock-Finley
playground team and Twenty-SeCond
street playground team.
Tuesday, July 5, $50 o'clock
Whitewater playground team and the
Finley playground team.
Wednesday, July 6, $50 o'clock
Sevastopol playground team and the
Warner playground team.
First Game Wednesday.
Games by the minor playground
baseball league will be played on the
various city Fairgrounds. Boys in this
league will be II years old or younger.
They willuse theft inch playground
baseball, the same as that used by the
industrial league. Their schedule so
far as prepared is as follows:
Wednesday, June %, $50 o'clock
Twenty-Second street playground team
and the Sevastopol playground team,
at Sevastopol grounds.
Thursday, June so, $50 o'clock
Warner playground team and the
Whitewater playground team, at
Whitewater grounds.
Wednesday, July 6, 80 o'clock
Twenty-Second street playground team
and the Finley playground team, at
Finley grounds.
Five Meets Planned.
Events for the five athletic meets, to
be held at 10 o'clock on the morning
OF July 4, at the Twenty-Second street,
Whitewater, Sevastopol, Warner and
Finley Fairgrounds, are to be as
follows:
100 yard dash open to boys II and
Is years old; so yard dash open to
girls II and Is years old 50 yard dash
each for boys and girls II, IL and Is
years old; 80 yard dash each for boys
and girls, s, 9 and 10 years old 40
yard dash each for boys and girls
under eight years old.
Basketball throw divided into three
classes. That for girls under II years
DID, that for those II, u and Is years
old; and that for those girls Il and
Is years old.
CUNNING the par contest for boys Is
divided into the three classes of ages
named in the girls basketball throw
The standing broad jump event for
boys is divided into the same three
| age classes as those named. as is also
! the sack race for girls. There will
also be the three legged race, one for
boys and another for girls.
All OF the foregoing events will be
| staged on the FIVE city Fairgrounds
named on the morning of July 4.
The Richmond Tennis association
plans to hold tournament for its
members, at Earlham, on the same
day.