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Identifier: publicprovisionf00hayn (find matches)
Title: Public provision for recreation
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Haynes, Rowland
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Publisher: Cleveland, Cleveland Foundation Committee
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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fashion. No charge is made for admission toany of the games played in the parks. It has there-fore seemed necessary in order to keep the gamegoing to have backing from somewhere, and the Hnebetween paying expenses for supplies, etc., and giv-ing some kind of indirect compensation to the playersthemselves has been hard to draw. There is, nodoubt, a certain amount of gambling in connectionwith the games. This seems to be unavoidable butit is very definitely suppressed and dealt withvigorously wherever detected. Football.—Approximately 100 football games and75 soccer contests are estimated by the Commissionerof Recreation to have been played in the parks dur-ing the year of 1918. Football grounds are locatedas follows: Park Football Fields Brookside ParkEdgewater ParkGarfield ParkGordon ParkWoodland Hills Park 3 4233 Total Football Fields 15 The use of the football grounds is controlled in thesame way as the use of the baseball diamonds, by theissuance of permits at the City Hall. 136
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