Evening star., 1939-01-01
1899 Junior Baseball Season
Aided by $4,000 Grant
Two Major Leagues Give Funds to Help
Make Legion Program q Success

| The success OF the 1889 Junior
Baseball season has been assured
by another grant Of $4,000 made
to The American Legion by the
two major leagues. The money
was voted by the Baseball Com
mission at its annual meeting in
New York City.
The contribution will be payable
in $4,000 instalments on July !
and August 1. 1t will bring to $780,
900 the total funds given by the
two big leagues to help finance
Junior Baseball since 1928. The
money is used each year to defray
the transportation of the cham
pionship teams to the regional and
sectional tournaments and to the
Junior World Series.
The season will open June 80,
when more than 10000 boys again
will enroll. They form some 0,0O0
teams. San Diego, Calf, won the
1888 championship.
A number of changes in the rules
governing Junior Baseball partici-
patton have been made by the Ma
tional Americanism Commission for
1889. OF these two are especially
important. One extends the age
limits by three months, providing
that any boy born in 1922 or there
after is eligible to play. This makes
January /, 1922, the deadline for
eligibility in age instead of March
81 as in former seasons. All boys
who are amateurs and who will not
have attained their 17th birthday
before January /, 1899, can enroll.
The other important change in
rules requires that hereafter every
boy enrolling in Junior Baseball
must present a certified copy or
record from the Department Of
Health Of his birth certificate,
along with his own signature for
identification purposes. He must
also present a photograph of him.
self and set of his fingerprints.
Another change Is the provision
that hereafter no department will
be permitted to enter a team in a
national regional tournament un-
less there was held an official State
tournament with two or more reg
ularly certified teams participating
to determine the State champion
ship.
The next regular meeting of Co.
lumbia Post will be held at Soldiers,
Sailors and Marines Club rooms,
Eleventh street and Massachusetts,
avenue NV, on January at 8 pm.
Members of the James E. Walker
Post played Santa Claus to a num-
Der of Washington's needy families
by distributing baskets of food
Christmas morning.
Open house, to which World War
veterans not members of the Legion
are especially invited, will be held
in the armory of the 1st Separate
Battalion in the Pythian Building,
Twelfth and U streets NV, tomor-
row, beginning at 2 pm.
National Cathedral Post, No. 10,
Sons of the Legion basket ball team,
will play its first practice game in
the gymnasium at the Unitarian
Church, Sixteenth and Harvard
streets NV, January 4, at 4 pm.
The Sons of the Legion rifle team
will meet at the National Guard
Armory on January 9.
A Sons of the Legion ring will
be awarded to the member of the
squadron who brings in the most
members this month.
The Sons of the American Legion
Drum Corps resumes practice on
January 6 at the National Guard
Armory from 6 pm. to 8 pm A
section of the corps will accompany
Sergt. Jasper Unit on its visit
to Mount Alto Hospital this morn
ing. Rifle range practice will start
January 9, from to 7:30 pm.
United States Bureau of Internal
Revenue Post, No. 80, will hold its
third annual Washington birthday
post ball at the Mayfower Hotel on
February IT. Comdr. Johnny A.
Long and his staff are arranging the
details. National Executiveman
Joseph j. Malloy, Department
Comdr. James T. Brady, with his
staff, and Grand Chef de Care Cass
Schroth, with his staff, will be the
guests of honor.
United States Department of Agri-
culture Post met on December 16
and several films of movies were
included in the program of the
evening.
AS part of the welfare work Comdr
Berger, assisted by Comrade Ehrlich
distributed toys and baskets of food
to six needy families on December "a
The next meeting of the post will
be held in room 1899, South Building
on January 6, at $50 pm.
Fort Stevens Post will meet in
Stansbury Hall next Thursday, 8:15
pm, with Comdr. Abraham Miller
presiding.
The Senior Drum and Bugle
Corps and the Squadron, Sons OF
the American Legion, will resume
regular Tuesday night meetings in
Roosevelt High School, commencing
January 3.
Vice Comdr. Arnold E. Graham
has been appointed chairman OF
the Committee of Arrangements for
the seventh annual birthday party
and dance, to be held in Stansbury
Hall on February 4.
The U. S. S. Jacob Jones Post
distributed IA baskets of food to the
needy for Christmas, and IS chill
dren were supplied with toys and
clothing. Hospital and Sick Chair
man Jessie Collins gave gifts to all
the sick comrades at Mount Alto
Hospital.
On January S, at pm, the
| Advisory Council meeting will be
held at the home of Charlotte Berry
161 v street N E., who will serve as
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