Evening star., 1936-06-27
81 FAIRGROUNDS
TO OPEN July |
FOR SUMMERPLAy
Space for Games and Sports
to Be Greater This
Year.
FACILITIES GAINED
BY COORDINATION
Supervisor, Miss Baker, Tells. Sue
cess of Anacostia Park Play
Center 2 Years Ago.

Announcing plans for the opening
July / of 81 Summer Fairgrounds to
augment the SO year-round areas
Miss Sibyl Baker, playground super
visor, said today the space for games
and sports events on a number would
be greater due to the program Of Co
ordination of facilities Of Federal and
District agencies.
In sections where school play
grounds are lacking or are too small
to afford an adequate play field, ad-
ditional territory has been borrowed
from the National Capital Parks, from
neighboring junior high schools OF
from unoccupied private property
she said.
"The idea for this sort Of CO.
ordinated program" said she, "orig-
mated two years ago when the play
center at Anacostia Park was opened
to augment the Van Buren play
ground and proved so successful thai
it served as a model for the rest oi
the city"
In the Northeast suburban Sec
ton, where land is plentiful, super
visors of the Brookland playground
will organize more games for boys al
a new playf1eld in Turkey Thicket.
BrightwOOd Changes. ..
In Brightwood, much needed adj
dition will be made by using the Pau
Junior High School grounds for the
boys and similar plan will be used
at the Ludlow playground where the
Stuart Junior High School space has
been allotted for use by boys
Land at Seventh and H streets
Southwest will be used for the boys
program at the Rossell School play
ground and five acres Of municipal
Fairgrounds adjacent to the Hearst
School are being developed.
A plot between Thirty-fourth and
Thirty-fifth streets on Macomb also
is being developed and the Corcoran
School grounds have been improved
for use this season. The playground
department will supply supervision at
the Langdon Recreation Center as in
previous years and will continue the
play center at Lincoln Park, which
was opened the latter part Of last
season. ......
The list Of the grounds to be opened
July /, together with their locations
and the hours they will be open
follows:
Bancroft, eighteenth and Newton
streets, TO be open from am. to 9
PM; Barnard, Fifth and Decatur
streets, hours, 8 to s; Benning, Ana
costa road between Benning and
Foote northeast, to S; Brookland,
Tenth and Monroe streets northeast,
9 to 8; Buchanan, Thirteenth and z
streets southeast, l to 6; Congress
Heights, Alabama and Nichols avenues
southeast, 9 to 6; Cooke, Seventeenth
and Fuller streets, Q to 6; Corcoran,
Twenty-eighth and NJ streets, o to 9.
Others Are Listed.
Deal Junior High, Thirty-eighth
and Davenport streets, 8 to 6: Eaton,
Thirty-fourth, Lowell, Macomb Thir-
ty-fifth streets. to 6; lexington Rec
reation Center, Second street and
Lincoln road northeast, 9 to 6; Gordon
Junior High, Thirty-fifth and T
streets, / to 4; Hardy, Foxhall road
at @ street, 8 to S; Hayes, Fifth and
z streets northeast, to 6.
Hearst, Thirty-seventh and Tilden
streets, 9 to 5; Henry-Polk, Seventh
and P streets, 9 to S; Janney, Wiscon-
sin avenue and Yuma street, 9 to s.;
Jefferson Junior High. Sixth and D
streets southwest, to 6; johnson,
Hiatt place and Lamont street, 8 to
6; Kenilworth, Kenilworth avenue,
between Ord and Olive streets north
east, 0 to 6; Key. Conduit road and
Dana place, 8 to 5.
Kingman, Fourteenth and e streets
northeast, to 5; La Fayette, North
ampton street and Broad Branch
road, Q to S; Langdon, Twentieth and
Franklin streets northeast, 8 to S;
Ludlow, Sixth and G streets north
east, 8 to 5; Mcfarland Junior High,
Iowa avenue and Webster street, / to
5; Mann, Newark street, between
Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth streets,
9 to 5.
Murch, Thirty y-sixth and Ellicott
streets, to 5; Noyes, Tenth and
Franklin streets northeast, 9 to 5;
Orr, Twenty-second and Prout streets
southeast, 9 to 5; Paul Junior High,
Ninth and Oglethorpe streets, to 6;
Rossell, Eighth and e streets south
west, o 10 6; Stoddert, Thirty-ninth
and Calvert streets, 9 to g.; Stuart
Junior High, Fourth and z streets
northeast. to g.; Truesdell, Ninth
and Ingraham streets. 8 to 5.
Van Buren at w,
Van Buren, w street, between
Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets
southeast. 9 to 5; Wallach, Seventh
and D streets, ! to 5; Weightman,
Twenty third and M streets, to S;
Wheatley, Montello avenue and Neal
street northeast, to 6.
Anacostia Park, section D, between
Pennsylvania avenue and Eleventh
street southeast, 10 to 6; Langdon
Park, Mills avenue and Franklin
street northeast, to 6; Lincoln
Park, Eleventh and Thirteenth streets
at East Capitol, 10 to 6; Turkey
Thieket, Michigan avenue and Tenth
street northeast, 10 to 6.
Banneker Recreation Center, 0 to
S; A. j. Bowen, Delaware avenue and
NJ street southwest, 9 to S: Burville,
Division avenue between Hayes and
Bell place northeast, 1 to g.; CrJ1m-
nell, Gallaudet, between Kendall and
Providence streets northeast, 9 to S;
Francis Junior High School, Twenty
fourth and N streets, 9 to 6; Garfield,
Twelfth and D streets northeast, o to
S; Lovejoy, Twenty-seventh, between
and M streets, to S: Montgomery,
" street and Champlain avenue,
to S; Morgan, Twenty-ei eighth anc N
streets, 8 to S; Phillips. Twenty eighth
and N streets. 10 to 6; Shaw Junior
High School, Seventh street and
Rhode Island avenue, to 6; Stevens,
Twenty-first, between K and l. streets,
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