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Show RECREATION FOR CONVICTS. CNOLLIER'S WEEKLY seems to bo y laboring under the delusion that baseball played by convicts in penitentiaries is an innovation and therefore publishes a pictured account of the sport at Columbus, O., going on within the prison walls. Why, guards on the outer wall of the Utah prison have been dodging home runs over the fence for two or three seasons and Warden Pratt has been umpiring games inside the prison pri-son yard so long that he could easily qualify as an arbiter in a major H league, so thorough is his understand- HSfe3fetT H ing of the game. K '1 The art of handling convicts com- !&illRrl 1 prlsea two or three specific aims: !flraJr I To attract the inmate's attention MMfflmaw iH away from the sordid grind of prison ) life; to give the worthy recreation jjfflgg h along pleasant lines; to create a bet- ifiSSPiv H ter spirit and to fit the convict for "Mm!1J; H an honest, legitimate career when ho jfreljyto" Bl leaves the prison. There has been Bl a six-tea'm league at the prison this $8$&r jH year and some of the men are capa- '1f6 iH ble of traveling in fast company on I Hw ' the diamond. w(f-ffi H But there is a more serious and MtalfcAj jBB. even more laudable work ahead at "f-SES?1 I the state prison, we are informed. HhHP HI The prison authorities have author- iiHH3 H ized the formation of a prison band flR H and Mr. L. P. Christensen has been l3; given charge of the work of training ritI?2HF"r""TT I musicians. There is an abundance of WffiS&iw material and already the nucleus for !1b!9HmI I a good band has been found among ffmf&raPi 1 the unfortunates who are paying their dMtriy H debt to society. H The influence of music upon the con- 32jSP' i victs will bo helpful, inspiring; and j 3f8flfi H those who are trained well and who 'yBH:'' H show particular aptitude for the vari- -jwHrT' H ous instruments will experience no L222a difficulty in finding good positions l luMf x ! .when they return to the outer world. ffi1 H |