The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-07-21
DICTIONARIES TO
STAGE TOURNEY IN
Big LEAGUE STYLE
Arrange For Capacity Crowd At
Championship Baseball
Games Next Week

Decision to stage - big league event
in big league style" was reached
Thursday night by the American L.
gion committee In charge Of arrange
ments for the Junior American
League baseball tournament which
will be held here next Friday, Satur-
day and Sunday.
One Of the reasons for the deter
mination to make the baseball tour
nament the best IN the history Of
these state championship games, 1t
developed at the meeting, was a de-
sire on the part Of local legtonnaires
to demonstrate real craftsmanship OF,
the. part Of the local legion post after
the "steam-rolling'. which it receiv-
ed at the recent state convention OF
the veterans at WilliSton.
At that gathering delegates Of the
local post charged that they were
treated unfairly by the state organ
ization" OF the Legion under the lead
ership of Jack Williams, Fargo, state
adjutant. Their desire now IS to
show the Fargo crowd" what Bis
marck can do, according to Walter
Sather, local postmaster and COM
mittee chairman.
Arrangements were made Thursday
night to put the playing field In the
best Of condition for the games and
to provide for the entertainment of
the competing teams, champions in
eight districts throughout the state.
In many ways the tournament will
be modelled after the state basketball
contests held here annually, to which
it Is comparable.
The teams will arrive next Thurs
day night and Friday morning and
will be quartered In the gymnasium Of
the World War Memorial building
during their stay, arrangements hav-
ing been made to obtain cots from
Fort Lincoln.
Entertainment Planned
It Is probable that a banquet for
team members and coaches will be
held Friday night, the veterans decid-
ing to ask the Association OF Com
merce to cooperate in staging this
feature.
Arrangements were being made
Friday to take the visitors to the state
capitol building, the visit to include
trip to the top of this structure.
Frank Anders, secretary Of the cap
itol commission, informed r. j. Dohn,
post commander, that state officials
will extend every cooperation and will
assign q man to the job Of telling the
visitors about the mammoth structure.
The capitol visit probably will cul-
inmate a motor trip about the city
Saturday morning for which arrange.
ments are to be made within the next
few days.
The committee decided to limit the
admission to Is cents for a single adj
mission to all games, including the
championship contest on Sunday az
ternoon, July 80. It is probable that
q flag-raising ceremony will precede
the opening and that prominent pub.
lie officials will form the starting
battery" to pitch and catch the first
ball.
Children under 16 years will be adj
mitted to all games for q l0-cent
charge.
Band concerts will form q part of
the program for Saturday and Sunday
afternoons.
Interest In the games, In which the
flower Of 500 junior North Dakota
teams will take part, IS increasing
rapidly, Sather said, and arrange
ments are being made to handle the
largest crowd ever to watch . base
ball game in Bismarck. The low adj
mission fee was decided upon In order
to give everyone a chance to see the
games at small cost.
Among the features new to the
championship contests this year will
be the selection of an au-state team
from among the players In the tour
nament. The selections will be made
by coaches and officials on the basis
Of the showings made in games Friday
and SATURDAY.