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Show oo f CONVICTS TO BUILD ATHLETIC FIELD Denver Jan 24 A six-acre base-ball base-ball and athletic field, built lor and! i convicts with accommodations fori the general public, as w ell as convicts con-victs as spectators, is the latest reform re-form in prison management planned by Tom Tynan warden of the Colorado Colo-rado state penitentiary, to be opened this spring. "To build up a man morally and mentally," said Tynan in announcing the innovation, "1 know from experi-ence experi-ence you have to build him up physical)." physi-cal)." The ball players and athletes who are io he allowed to use the field are those who cannot - trusted to work at the prison ranches or to join the fishing parties the warden allows his honor men. Permission to use the field must I ,- earned h gnod conduct which will be mailed by the presentation of an! honor button Tbe button admits the bearer to the field or to the Grandstand Grand-stand . The public will he admitted through one ga'p and the convict spectators through .mother. Provisions will be inadi to prevent breaks for liberty Vfter the baseball season closes a football team will use the field and a basketball season will follow |