Show Joy for Children May S See e Baseball Free I and baseball are E EDUCATION about to sign a a contract for fora a summer series and go whizzing hand In hand around the bases to a home homo run finish with Salt Lake grammar school students as s happy tors tore Arrangements are arc being completed com corn which will bring joy to the hearts of about six thousand children children chil chil- dren in Salt Lake and at the same time make them hustle harder for deportment honors The Salt Lake Leke Baseball club has been negotiating with the board Loard of education and it has practically been agreed that pupils tho of the tho- sixth seventh and ilith grades grade of the grammar schools will be al allowed allowed allowed al- al lowed to forsake their studies early earlyon on Friday afternoons durin during tho the baseball season to attend the games at park park provid provid providing ing thoy p pass us tho the percentage mark set by the board of education The Utah Light and Traction company has been Doen approached on the question of furnishing free frea I transportation to the children who will attend the games It is expect expect- ed od a favorable report will be made by tho the railway company within a aday aday aday day or two John P. P Cook secretary of th the th Salt Lake Baseball club has ordered ordered ordered or or- dered several leveral thousand badges badge which will be bo distributed to the teachers of the grammar school and should the plan be bo carried out the badges will be bo given to the children whose deportment cards show sufficient merit to warrant them making a short day of it on Fridays The Tho badges will entitle the children children chil dill dren dron to ride side on the street cars to the tho park and will insure thorn thom ad ad- n at the gate Tho The girls will willbe willbe willbe be seated in the grandstand and the boys in the bleachers Provision has also been boen made for a sufficient number of teachers to accompany the children as aa chaperons The plan as being worked out will it is believed be a means of creating a more earnest effort on the part of the tho children in their studies about tho the time the baseball base base- ball season opens The management of the tho Salt Lake Baseball club desires to continue continue continue con con- the policy it has maintained since its formation of catering to the tho whole public The history of tho the club sinco since its inception places it in a singularly unique po position position position po- po organized as it was through popular subscriptions participated in by more than five hundred Individual Indi vidual stockholders it immediately became in every overy sense of the tho word one of the city's institutions Until tho the past few years the support of the tho game line has depended almost entirely on the patronage of tho men said George Georgo F. F Wasson Wasson Wasson Was- Was son attorney for tho the club last night but since since then club owners and managers have Vo themselves themselves them them- selves diligently toward securing the support of the he women One of the inevitable results of this was to io immediately r and necessarily eliminate all evidence of on the playing field and to impress on the tho minds of tho the players the tho fact that any evidence of ungentlemanly behavior would not be tol tol- tol crated Nothing can so stimulate this as the tho presence of many wo- wo among the tho spectators and It may truthfully be said that the tho hearty support of the game given givon by tho the women of Salt Lake has not only contributed t to tn tho Fin betterment of rif th the tho morals I a and ad d uplift lift of the game itself but that it has haG more than any any other single reason placed the tho game on an enduring basis here Conscious of this policy the management of the club has given much thought to the means by which the tho hearts and interest of tho the boys and girls in the game might be reached We propose if agreeable to tho the school authorities said John P. P Cook to set aside for tho the use of the tho boys and girls a suitable space that to all of those who have attained a satisfactory standing in their classes cIancI and in ip their deportment deportment deportment deport deport- i ment a suitable honor badge which will admit them to the tho games The badges badges' will be returned to the teachers on Mondays and redistributed redistributed buted as before in time for the game on the tho following Friday We believe that this will be bo beneficial I to the school children in that it will furnish a reward for good standing and an In added inducement to keep up in their studies |