Evening star., 1943-07-11
American Legion
To Aid Baseball
Day on July %

10y VII July 20
American Legion units will ado
color and pageantry to the Baseball
- Day benefit game between the Chi
cago White Sox and Washington
Nationals at Griff1th Stadium on
the night Of July 28, entire gate re-
ceipts Of which go to war charities
The Legion will have major role
in the program, chief feature OF
which will be display of the worlds
largest American flag which is being
shipped here from San Francisco
SO huge is the flag it will take 800
legionnaires to carry it, not to men
ton youngsters from Legion junior
baseball teams.
Among the other Legion units al
ready lined up for the big occasion
are the National Guard Of Honor
and the James Reese Europe Post
drum and bugle corps.
Department Comdr. Patrick j.
Fitzgibbon has named Lester H.
Steinem. department Athletic OFF,
Ger. as chairman of the Committee
on Arrangements.
One-third of the proceeds go to
the bat and ball fund for service
men.
Complete details have not been
worked out. The program will open
at 8 pm. The baseball game Is
scheduled to start at pm.
The Washington Touchdown Club
Is sponsoring the game in the hopes
of exceeding the attendance Of any
of the other Baseball Day games
PLAYED in the American League.
Lester H. Steinem, department
athletic officer, chairman OF the
committee, has called meeting at
the Legion clubhouse tomorrow at
8 pm. Post commanders who are
ex officio members of this committee
are requested to be present or to
send representatives.
Department of Labor Post NOM
mated Gail Judd for the Watson
B. Miller Trophy, which is presented
each year to the outstanding Legion
naire of the District of Columbia.
United States Department OF Agrl-
culture Post will meet at the Legion
clubhouse on July 16. Delegates to
the department convention will be
elected and officers nominated.
On July II the post will entertain
patients at Walter Reed General
Hospital.
Fort Stevens Post elected the fol-
lowing delegates and alternates to
the department convention: Dele
gates, D. B. Guynn, j. A. Ashi, G. ".
Dessez, Joseph N. Purks, Luck Gold
berg and B. F. Darnall. Alternates,
j. r. Long, 1t. Comdr. F. G. Caskey,
j. Raymond Miller, A. Miller, Carl
H. Rittenhouse, C. l.. Borneman, E..
l.. Donaldson and B. K. Perrin.
Comdr. Joseph A. Walker Is chair
man.
The post will participate in the
observance of the battle of Fort
Stevens today at pm. on the site
of the Civil War fort. The officers
of the post are cooperating with
the ladies of the G. A. r. in ar
ranging the program.
The post is planning moonlight
sail on the steamer Potomac on Au-
gust Is.
The next meeting will be ad-
vanced one day to August 4.
National Cathedral Post elected
to membership Michael F. Dolan
and Eugene H. Dawson.
Vincent B. Costello Post elected
is delegates and 16 alternates to
the department convention.
James Reese Europe Post partic-
ipated in dedication exercises at the
Lomas A. M. E. Zion Church, Green
Valley, Va, last Sunday.
Meetings This Week Are:
Monday-U. S. S. Jacob Jones,
Lincoln and Government Printing
Posts, American Legion clubhouse;
U. S. Treasury Post, Colonial Hotel.
Tuesday - James Reese Europe
Post, Fifteenth and @ streets NV;
George E. Killeen Post, 1904 M street
NV; Department of Labor and
Capital Transit Posts, American
Legion clubhouse.
wednesday - Kenneth H. Nash
Post, 209 Pennsylvania avenue Sc;
Police and Firemen and McAllexan-
der Posts, American Legion club
house, and Internal Revenue Post,
Stansbury Temple.
Thursday-Stanley Church Depue
Post, American Legion clubhouse;
Kenna Main Post, 1910 Good Hope
road Sc.
Friday-U. S. Department of Agri-
culture Post, American Legion club
house