The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-05-09
BAN JOHNSON
B00MS GAME
FOR YOUTHS
Plans Series of Boys Base.
ball Days in Every
League City
BY NEA Service

BY NEA Service
Chicago, May 9.-Boys who play
baseball are going to have the chance
this summer to show American
League crowds how well they can
perform.
And under the plan Ban johnson
has devised they will have such stars
as Babe Ruth, George Sisler, Ty
Cobb, iris Speaker, Eddie Collins and
others showing them how to play
it too.
How do the boys like the idea
Of the Little Potatoes Hard to Peep
managed by George Sisler battling
the sixth Street Seekers" managed
by Eddie Collins, on real big league
diamond before a real big league
crowd?
That is what is in store for them
under the plan President Ban John
son has devised.
. Real Series Planned
The program of the American
League president calls for series
Of "boys' days" in each city Of the
league during the summer. The
feature of each "day" viii be a game
preliminary to the regular league
game, which will be played by two
selected teams Of boys under the
age Of l6 years.
The teams Of boys thus selected
to play before the league fans must
be regularly organized, uniformed
and equipped, and they must have
shown merit in their play. They are
to be chosen in each city by COM
mission or committee that has in
spected their work and become salts
fled they are qualified to appear.
No team Of boys will be allowed to
repeat, thus assuring new program
for each "boys' day." and, as there
will be at least seven Of these "boys'
days" in each city Of the league, at
least Ia teams Of boys will have the
opportunity to distinguish them
selves. ..4.
When the two teams of boys ap-
pear, the managers of the two Ameri-
can League teams scheduled to play
regular game that day will be put
in charge Of the boys.
These big league managers, aided
by some of their star players, will
direct the play and coach the batters
and base runners.
President Johnson thinks this a
better idea for the boys, to interest
them in baseball and inspire them to
perfect themselves in the game, than
the plan that has been followed by
a number Of league clubs in admit
ting to the ball parks merely as
spectators, though some of the clubA
will continue to open their gates to
boys as in past season on certain
days Of the week.
Hour on Field
The plan provides for giving the
boys team at least an hour of time
on the field, in practice and play,
and, when their part of the program
is completed, the boys will leave the
I field for the grandstand and be the
guests of the club management as
spectators of the regular league
game.
In each city Of the American
League the municipal recreation de-
partment or an organization inter-
| ested in promotion of baseball for
| boys will make the selections of the
teams of youngsters, and the ex-
pectation is there will be great &C.
tivity among the boys in organizing
teams and playing games among
each other to qualify themselves for
| such selection.
1t is part of the American Leagues
. program in connection with a cam
paign being organized to promote
baseball among American boys.
Enlisted in this campaign are the
National Baseball Federation, the
National Amateur Athletic Fedora
ton and the heads of many mu-
nicipal recreation departments and
various playground associations of