Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-25 | Page 28 | Riotously Happy Scenes When School Children Attended Ball Game between Oaklets and Beelets at Bonneville Park Friday

Riotously Happy Scenes When School Children Attended Ball Game Between Oaklets and Beelets at Bonneville Park Friday a .. .... ... . .... - .. v.- ..v.-.-w ....x...v.v...........;..v. vv..-. :...w--'N?" '.MTlWKSSSW.'fTA .!' J , , - .. . . r ' - : - . - 'i a . r - v-- .-Vv : - f ' n . - 4 ;; tu -V . .,- . 1 1 - - - Six Thousand Boys and Girls Root Futilcly for Home Club. U QUESTIONABLY tho happiest phase of baseball in Salt Lake is that it makes . thousands of school children happy. Two years ago the plan of admitting free of charge pupils of the grade schools who achieved certain specified marks in their studies was inaugurated. The children were gnosis of the Stilt Lake baseball club. The- school authorities author-ities found the plan a wonderful help, for every boy and' girl studied hard to attain the required point of excellence excel-lence in order that a Priday afternoon after-noon ball game might be enjoyed. No other inducement for hard wrork on the part of the pupils approached this plan for effectiveness. Last Friday the ball club threw open its gates again to tho children. It is estimated that some liOOO sawr the game between the Oaks and the Bees. They wrere riotously happy and wildly enthusiastic. en-thusiastic. The camera caught groups of tlicm in the grandstand and the bleachers at moments of intense excitement. ex-citement. One of tho scenes reproduced herewith is that of the kids in the south bleachers when Marty Krug knocked the ball over the fence in the sixth inning. Another picture shows the crowd in the grandstand, where most of the girls congregated. The din set up by the thousands of voices was terrific. No doubt it. could bo heard at a distance of a mile or more. The children were f ortttuate in being present at a close game. Th issue was not decided until the tenth inning. From the sixth to the finish there was ample opportunity to shout, and there sure was some shouting. When the plan of children 's day was inaugurated' the street car company carried the bovs and girls from their schools to the park free of charge. This year the company has refused to make any concession whatever, according to club officials. -U the close of the 1917 season the Salt. Lake City board of education adopted a resolution of thanks addressed ad-dressed to the club. The resolution said that the plan had been a "real stimulus" stimu-lus" to application and deportment. Admission Buttons. The children are admitted through a button system. Every boy or girl making mak-ing the necessary mark is given a button but-ton inscribed "Baseball honor day." Upon his return to school the button is taken up by the teacher, to bo given, out again for'the following Friday. The teachers accompany their classes and keep a watchful py on their charges, but, not too watchful a one, of course. It is possible that one other club in the United States will adopt, the svstcui. J. Cal Ewing of the Oaks was enthusiastic about, the scheme when ho was here two years ago and watched the. happy kids' at the park. A few dnvs ago Business Manager John P. Cook of the Bees received a letter from Oakland, asking for details of the system. These he supplied in an exhaustive ex-haustive explanation of the plan.