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Show YOUNGSTERS CLAIM USUAL RIGHTS OF SQUATTERS DEFY INTERFERENCE WITH BASEBALL BLEACHERS JUNIOR fans who confidently occupy seats of antage m front of The Tribune score board and valiantly hold their positions I " against all invading foes Enthusiastic Boys Bravely Hold Asphalt Plain Against Adults. BY Bquatters nght the front rows before The Tribune s new electric score board belong to the kids these outhful base ball bugs pre empted the space the f rst day the board was in operation and have held it ever since The adul( fans have accepted the situation not encroaching on more than the fnnge of the kids bleachers and for the most part contenting thcmsel es w tl spots on the oppos te s de ot the street n tho fnendly Shade ot the Kearns buil l ng Lest presumptuous grownups should conf Bcate their space howe et, the youngsters are on the ground early and remain nt the last play is made on the board The lively childhood sport of chas ng each other takes some of the buglets under the feet of the adult fans on occasional sorties but tho ma n body of the kids stays on guard hoi 1 ng the block of pavement directly in front of the score board against all comers Discomfort Disregarded No matter how warm the day ndr how torrid the street pavement the kids squat on their haunches and accompany the plas on tho score board with trenchant comment and belligerent cnti , cism Their overalls apparently immune them from the heat or the pavement Were adult fan disposed to usurp the place of the kids and tako the sun bleachers unto themselves they would find the experiment trying If not dan gerous. The grown npe have no desire to do so there is plenty of room for them elsewhere B t th s is merely supposing sup-posing that thev d d Flnnlfpr! in .'ipriintv In the first place the A third and B fourth grade of the kids bleachers is securely hemmed in by the A seventh and B eighth grades, anno 1 with by cycles This mounted brigade is an im penetrable barner No hardy adult with any regard for the looks of his trousers and the shine on his shoes wo Id attempt to get through the line To attempt it would be just like be ing run over on the legs by a hun Ired bicycles and I aving a hundre 1 pairs of bare but soile 1 toots e woots os tr Ige over his n cc clean wh to or brll liant black sh es But even if the hazardous alult did get through the b cycle cordon new lan gers wo Id confront him Tho lead center of the llcachers Is no lace for a grown up nan There s a reason In the Danger Zone The a ic out and popular pastime of shoot ng sp twads by means of rubber ban Is wh his ally flo rishes only in school ooms has be n revive 1 with sc a Ing s en by tl e elomentan gr leu v s o of 1 he Tr bune s base ba I f s I very kl 1 whs on 1 and yesterday will a rubber baud Son e went so armod with the deliborato Intention of opening fire u on all their coi patriots Tl o othors cqu npe 1 themselves as a matter of solf defons The grown p outer g tho A third anl B fo rtl K ndes tl e faces In a way tl o snmo la gers h I es the c tlzen t Nogules Arr vl id is at across tie line from N gulps Mexi o Down thorn somo c isse 1 Mex ca ain i l, at a f Mow desperado on I Is own s 1p of the I c sun Is n strnv b 1 let Into Nognles, 1 H A explain ng tl o pro alone of bullet proof hotols in that locality So it is that stray spitballs are n t to at ng the faces of d Its who wnn ler I to th bns ball gazing M onghnl I of tl o o ngiters |