The Alaska daily empire., 1922-05-20
BAYvIEW TEAM
WINS BASEBALL;
TOWN IS ACTIVE
Win Three Games from
Neighboring Camps
School Closes.

BAYvIEW, May 7.-Playing three
baseball games in one afternoon, win
ming two of them by large scores
and standing the other team off with
a tie score, was the unusual achieve
ment of the 'Bayview baseball team
today Tho new athletic field, clear
ed and leveled by town men, has
made this place the mecca for base
ball fans and players this spring.
Games are played each week with
the local nine victorious in every
event thus far
The first of the games today was
played with a picked team of Fill
pino cannery employees from the
Klawock factory Bayviow won,
hands down, by score of 10 to 7.
Next came a tussle with the crack
players from the Warm Chuck can
merry and these mon were able to
hold Bayview to l to l score dur
ing the three innings of the match
"A walk-away for Bayview to the
tune Of 80 to occurred when Craig
sent her valiants out upon the fielt
for the third event of the afternoon
Although two games had preceded
tho Craig-Bayview clash the oca
players held true to form and al
lowed but four of the visitors tc
cross the homo plate.
Miss Lillian Mallory and Miss
Pearl Curtis, assistant government
+ooo1,orc Of p,vv;ou- loft for L OF ol,f
kan this week, following the close
of the school term. Miss Mallory
will go to her home in Oregon, while
Miss Curtis will make a trip farther
north in Alaska.
Give Play
Captain Racket. a three-act com
edy, was successfully enacted in Bay
view and Craig April % and Apri,
Us by eight young people of Bay
view as a benefit to the Tolo Club
the Athletic Club and the proposed
town library. A capacity house
greeted each performance of the skit
bringing the total proceeds to about
$50 Members of the Tolo Club made
and sold ice cream and popcorn
balls as an additional attraction
adding about $50 to the box office
receipts.
The town library movement origin
ated in the Parcnt-Teacher Associa
tion and is being backed by many
local individuals as we'll as organized
clubs and associations.
May Day Festivities
May Day festivities featured the
closing of the school year for the
first time in the history of Bayview
on April % A bevy of school chill
dren, dressed as flowers, butterflies
fairies and children May Pole dane
ers frolicked and rcmpcd on the new
town athletic field, entertaining the
May queen, her attendants and q
great number of town folk, who com
prised the outdoor audience.
Besides the dances of the spring
flowers, the butterflies and the May
Pole children, the school children
sang a number Of songs and a clos
ing day address was made by one of
the upper grade boys.
Huge banks of greens, gathered for
the occasion, made a picturesque
background for the event, bringing
the artistic costumes of the children
into exquisite relief. Miss Lillian
Mallory, primary teacher, planned
and worked out the entertainment,
presiding into at the piano, which
was taken out for the affair.
Make Gardens
Gardening activities occupy many
local people at tho present time
many boats having gone out during
the past week for Fish Egg and other
islands nearby where gardens have
been planted in previous years. Many
families, finding their last year plot