Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-28
ADULTS NOW USING
CITY FAIRGROUNDS
Washington Is Divided Into
Eight Sections for The
Stars Event.

r. OF washington and PROBABLY
IL many more will hold horse
shoe tournaments this Sum-
mer, each with a local cham
pionship at stake.
Each will be a unit in the third
annual Metropolitan District
Championships sponsored by The
Star, an event that will encom-
pass, besides Washington, more
than 100 towns in Southern Mary
land and Northern Virginia.
The 81 tournaments already arranged
for here will be run off on municipal
Fairgrounds. Elsewhere on this Gage
will be found an outline Of the general
plan of the Metropolitan District Cham
pionShips.
Neighborhoods not equipped with city
Fairgrounds may hold their own tour
naments on private courts and a num-
Der are preparing to do so. Other tour
naments will be staged by groups of
players with mutual interests, such as
Federal and District Government en-
ployes and the staffs of large business
houses. The winner of each will be pre-
sented by The Star with q suitably en-
graved medal emblematic of his title.
4 LII are invited to take part, and a
"A special invitation is extended 10
those who have never pitched
horseshoes under championship condi-
tions, with regula ton equipment. The
game has ceased to be a barnyard sport
-a and has become one Of Americas most
popular athletic recreations. There is
Il It, 81 rka
ina) than the old mule slipper game and
it is a fascinating as we'll as inexpensive
pastirne.
All the city's Fairgrounds have been
equipped with regulation 40-foot courts.
each peg in the middle of a 6-foot box
filled with clay, and the playground de-
partment of which Miss Sybil Baker Is
supervisor, has supplied the shoes also.
Some of the Fairgrounds, however.
mostly those attached to schools, won't
be opened until next Wednesday.
THE mention of q playground usually
i summons to mind place for the
kidd'es alone to cavort. but Wash
ington's Fairgrounds more and more are
attracting adults. Some Of the grounds
have become recreation centers for all.
Many a daddy nowadays, with horseshoe
pitching having its inning, Is letting
Johnny follow his will while the parent
struts his stuff on nearby horseshoe
court.
The playground departments terri
torial scheme will b. followed in the
washington section Of the metropolitan
tournament. There will be eight d.
visions, with four each in the east and
west sections The winner and run
ner-up Of each neighborhood event will
be qualified to compete for division
title, and the division leaders will carry
on into sectional play.
Here's the layout:
WEST SECTION.
C1eorgetovn Division.
Georgetown Thirty-fourth and Volta
Adams, r between New HAMPSHIRE avenue
and Seventeenth street northwest
Corcoran, Twenty-eighth and owe streets
Montrose. Thrirtieth and r streets north
Fillmore, .Thirty-hfth between and
Weishtman, Twenty-third and NJ streets
Reservoir, Conduit road and Clark place
Tenieytown, at renleytevn.
Gallinger. Twenty-nrst and streets
~ Mitchell Park. twenty third and 9 streets
CHEVY Chase, Forty-hrss and LIVINGSTON
Key, Conduit road and Damn place north
Mureh. Thrty-fourth and Davenport
. Lafayette Sefs Broad Branch road and North
Hampton street
BioominEdaIe Division.
Rloominsdaie, First and Bryant streets
BrooEiand, Tenth and Monroe streets
" surrinM Eighteenth street northeast
Emer.- kkAS2ln road and Prospect north
tenth and R~arts streets northeast.
Langdon, rankin and twentieth streets
Woodridge, Central avenue between Carl
ton avenue and Vista northeast.
lows Avenue Division.
Twin oaks. Fourteenth and Taylor streets
n' Tskoms Park. Fifth and whittier streets
ny PARK View. warder and Otis streets
NJ bancroft Eighteenth and Newton streets
nq ssrnsTd Fifth and Decatur streets north
Columbia Heights. Columbus road between
Georgia avenue and Sherman avenue nortn-
west west. ,.r.-
Iowa Avenue. Iowa avenue between var
mum and Webster streets T northTess ,,r..,.
. ss y1 aa%tSFS street.: street S SolSE hF
Raymond tenth and Spring road north
Brightwood, Thirteenth and Nicholson
Cooke. II. D., Seventeenth and Euclid streets
Petworth, Shepherd street between EiEhth
and Georgia avenue northwest.
New York Avenue Division.
New York Avenue-First street and New
York avenue northwest.
oyster Twenty ninth and Calvert streets
Henry, Seventh and o streets northwest.
Happy Hollow, Eighteenth street ana
Kalorama road northwest.
Thomson, Twelfth and streets northwest
EAST SECTION.
Rosedals Division.
Rosedale, Seventeenth and Kraemer streets
Benning, Anacostia road between BenninE
road and Foote street northeast.
Keniiworth. KenilWoFth avenue between
Ord and Polk streets northeast
Wheatley, Montello avenue and Neal street
Maury. street between Twelve-and-a-half
and Thirteenth streets northeast.
virginia Avenue Division.
Virginia Avenue, Eleventh street and Vir-
GINA avenue southeast.
Congress Heights, Nichols and Alabama
avenues southeast.
Ketcham, Fifteenth and U streets south
east.
and Fourteenth streets southeast.
southeast.
stanton, Alsbama avenue and Good Hope
road southeast
Garfield Division