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Show Baseball Contests for Boys Planned The first "Junior world series" baseball base-ball contests ever to be held will be played this year on October 11, 13 and 14 at Philadelphia. The world t fll. hnvo' hoonhnll f,o,L- ...ill hn the culmination of the American Legion's Le-gion's nation-wide baseball program for boys, which was launched this year by the Legion's Americanism commission. Championship teams of four regions, the Far West, the Middle West, Central Cen-tral and Eastern regions, will play off the junior world series. The play will be on the mornings of the above dates and will take place during the national na-tional convention of the Legion at Philadelphia, October 11 to 15. The winning team will be given a suitable trophy Identifying it as the world's champion boys' baseball team. Organization of the Junior All-American Baseball league was authorized at the last national convention of the American Legion. The National Amateur Ama-teur Athletic federation co-operated with the Legion in launching the boys' league. The plans provide for championship cham-pionship contests In local communities, In congressional districts. In states, In sections, in regions nnd finally In the junior world series at the Legion convention. con-vention. More than 2,000 boys' teams have been entered In the league throughout the nation and many hundreds more are expected to enter. Teams now organized under the sponsorship of churches, industrial plants, commercial firms, boy scouts, etc., are co-operating with the Legion's Le-gion's baseball program and are entering enter-ing the league. "Good sportsmanship among our American boys as It relates to and makes good citizenship Is the chief motive behind the Legion's baseball program," declared Frank C. Cross, director of the national Americanism commission of the Legion. The Playground and Recreation Association As-sociation of America Is co-operating In the plan and recently contacted 800 Interested persons in several hundred cities, urging them to co-operate In forming leagues. |