Connie's Athletics Get 1400 Child Rooters from Camden

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Newspaper photo of hundreds of Camden children waving beside a line of buses bound for Shibe Park, July 1941.
Camden Courier-Post, July 30, 1941
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Connie's Athletics Get 1400 Child Rooters from Camden [illegible] AT SHIBE PARK
Photo caption describing Edward Garrity's annual outing taking Thirteenth ward children to Shibe Park.
Camden Courier-Post, July 30, 1941
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It was a big day for the juvenile population of the Thirteenth ward in Camden yesterday when Edward Garrity, Republican committeeman, conducted his annual outing at Shibe Park in Philadelphia to see the Athletics oppose the Chicago White Sox in a baseball game. Above are seen the children aboard the buses which left from Louis and Whitman avenues. Included in the party were Commissioners Mary W. Kobus and Dr. David S. Rhone, Mrs. Marion Garrity and Police Lieutenant George Frost.

It was a big day for the juvenile population of the Thirteenth ward in Camden yesterday when Edward Garrity, Republican committeeman, conducted his annual outing at Shibe Park in Philadelphia to see the Athletics oppose the Chicago White Sox in a baseball game. Above are seen the children aboard the buses which left from Louis and Whitman avenues. Included in the party were Commissioners Mary W. Kobus and Dr. David S. Rhone, Mrs. Marion Garrity and Police Lieutenant George Frost.

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