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JUNE'S 1976 KU7 Ymkees Shut ai Mi PSAL Me A Stadium Prelim RILL TRAVERS Tha New York Yankees threw a curve at the Public Schools Athletic League, thus striking; out the schoolboy baseball title contest from being played as a preliminary to the Yankees night game next Wednesday. tilt was The championship originally set for June 9 before Nm photo bv Ed Moiinari School bus taking Cobble Hill students on tour of historic sites in Brooklyn parses monument at 15th St. and Prospect Park West. for 50 cents as part of G.O. night.

It is a day that the kids would never forget." The June 7 date was rejected for a second reason. If the Yankee Sunday doubleheader with Oakland was rained out, the schoolboy nines would then be shut out of a championship site. About 3,000 youngsters attended each of the past six contests and while the revenue collected is not great, every little bit helps the PSAL which has already suffered extensive budget cuts. "They told us they were afraid of ripping up the field before the Yankees play," added Mitko. "You tell me how nine kids would tear up the field.

If our game isn't played, 50 major leaguers will be practicing. Wouldn't that tear up the field more? But they insisted, they didn't want anything on the same day as a big game." The Yankees admitted the cancellation and a spokesman said the main reason was that "we didn't want anyone or any- the Yankee-California game as it was for the past six years, but after the date was set verbally between Ed Mitko, PSAL baseball commissioner, and a Yankee official, the date was canceled as final plans were being arranged. are extremely upset," admitted PSAL director John Glading, former Richmond Hill teacher, yesterday. "It was an excellent showcase for our kids and also good relations for pro sports and the high school scene. It's a shame it has to end." The Yankees did not pull the carpet out completely on the scholastic players.

They offered an alternate date (June 7) when the Yankees had an off day. But this was not satisfactory to the PSAL. "Part of the date is for the kids to play in front of a major league crowd." said Mitko. There is the thrill of sitting in the dugout with the Yankee stars and a chance for manv ids Track freedom Trail imng aisrupting lnlield and bat- youngsters to see the Yankees ting practice before a Some Lines Derailed Dn Plan for Subway By THOMAS RAFTERY The last and third phase of the Transit Authority's subway realignment program, designed to save the city $12.6 million a year, will go into effect in August, it was learned yesterday. It reflects ridership patterns and decreased patronage, a TA spokesman said.

usually view the film a few days before they make the tour, Casey said. The film and tour are very effective," Casey said. "There isn't a kid in the district who doesn't recognize three or four of the sites." Among the stops along the trail are Greenwood Cemetery, the burial place of many famous Americans, a number of sites in Prospect Park where much of the Battle of Long Island was fought including Lookout Hill, the Maryland Monument, the Litchfield Villa and the Lefferts Homestead. In addition, the tour takes in the Old Stone House at Fifth Ave, anJ Ninth St, the Lafayette Monument at Ninth St. and Prospect Park West and the burial place of 256 Continental soldiers killed by the British and now the site of a quilting factory at third Ave.

between Seventh and Eighth St. A Cannon lmprese Enjoying their corning of learning away from the classroom, the students bustled with enthusiasm throughout the trip, but had the most fun when they were permitted to leave the bus and investigate such sites as the Litchvield Villa and the Lefferts Homestead. "Look at this," an amazed Raymond Cruz called to his schoolmates when he looked out the front door of the Lefferts Homestead and discovered a small cannon aimed out at Flat-bush Ave. The children snapped pictures whenever they could, and only time prevented them from walking through every site. But as Nar-mar Soriano, 11, said as the bus headed back to PS 29 for lunch: wouldn't mini going out to see each site even if it took till 6 o'clock." lly SALVATORE ARENA Ten-year-old Jean Garcia, a fifth-grader from PS 29 in Cobble Hill, and her schoolmates peered through the window of a school bus yesterday to view what appeared to be the Independence Savings Hank at Atlantic Ave.

and Court St. The youngsters didn't have to blink twice. It was a bank all right. But they had to employ bit of imagination when Bernard i'lotkin. their assistant principal, explained that 200 years ago the site was occupied bv Fort Ponkiesburg-Fort Cobble Hill and served as a headquarters, for Gen.

Washington during the Revolutionary War battle of Long Island. The bank was the first stop on the Freedom Trail, an historical bus tour taken by 90 fifth-graders through the neighborhoods that make up School District 15. including Park Slope, Sunset Park, Red Hook. Cobble Hill. Windsor Terrace, Carroll Gardens, South Brooklyn and Kensington.

"it's the first time that we have taken the youngsters from this district on a trip to show them that they live in an historic area." said Alfred Meiov, superintendent of the district. "It really allows them to identify with their own neighborhoods." More than 5.000 students from District 15 schools will have taken the tour by the end of the school year, said William Casey, the district's media supervisor, whose office developed the program. The multi-media center also prepared a 40-minute film anJ a descriptive tape recording detailing the 25 historical sites that make up the tour. The students Phase three will affect the routing and scheduling of the CC, EE and lines. The waiting time between trains is not to be affected by more than two minutes at any time of the day, the spokesman said.

The EE train will be discontinued. It presently operates weekdays between Continental Ave. in Forest Hills and White- Me Senate Crosses a Yin (Gateway Ry CLAIRE SPIEGEL Albany, June 1 (News Bureau) Legislation which would amend, reportedly to everybody's satisfaction, the provisions surrounding the transfer of city and state land to Gateway National Park, has passed the Senate and is scheduled for consideration in hall St. ia Manhattan. The train will take over the route.

The train service which now runs from Stillwell Ave. in Brooklyn to W. 57th St, Manhattan, will be extended oast to Continental Ave. during the day, taking over the EE line's stops. During peak hours, alternative trains will operate to Whitehall to replace the discontinued EE line there.

The CC, presently a rush-hour local be.ween Bedford Park Blvd. and Grand Concourse in the Bronx and Ci.ambers Manhattan, will be extended to Park. The which now runs Uocal to Rockav.ay Park in the rush hours, will terminate at Chambers as it presently duos during the rest of the day. This will increase the passenger load on the CC and A between Brooklyn and Manhattan. The train will be discon-tined.

It presently operates daring rush hours only, between Eastern Parkway-Broadway Junction in Brooklyn and 57t'n St. in Manhattan. Passengers effected in Brooklyn will still be served by the and trains to bring them to Manhattan, although they will have about two extra minutes of travel time, the TA spokesman said. TTirrr nc j. for Sixth Ave.

in midtown Manrattui would change at Delancey-Essex Sts. for the train. Also, the train would alternate rush-hour trips to lGSth St. and to 57th Manhattan. the Assembly this week.

ha3 been working on a master plan for the park's development consulting with community groups and leaders for nearly a year and a half. An environmental statement has been released and it is expected that a draft plan will be given to the general public about in October with public hearings late in November and December. Actual appropriation of federal money must be preceded by a master plan for the park. Gateway already has the largest budget of any national park, currently 3.2 million. In addition to six miles of ocean beach ia public use this summer, it has 12 miles of bayside beaches.

Its 20,000 acres could grow to 26,765 acres of land and water nearly 42 square The original phrasing of an act. passea in 1373, stated that if this land were ti)t "suitably developed" it would revert to the city and state. The U.S. Department of Jus-tile objected that the clause wa3 vague, thereby holding up federal fund for the project. Substitute Clause The amending legislation, sponsored by Sen.

John Marchi drops the controversial phrasing and substitutes the clause that "no airport, jetport or related facilities" may be built and neither may housing or-sew la 1973, Congress authorized $93.5 million for development of Gateway the largest amount ever for a single park, according to Rettie. He said that Marchi's amendment "is satisfactory to all parties and will solve the problem." The bill also extends the dead-lino by two years for the city andstate to turn over land to the park. Furthermore, the bill provides that the governor, mayor and state legislative leaders review plans for the park before any transfer of land takes place. -A eam age waste treatment facilities be constructed. More than half the Gateway domain, which sprawls from Jamaica Bay and Riis Park across the harbor to Sandy Hook, is made up of land that originally belonged to the city and state, according to Dwight Rettie, the National Park Service director's personal representative on Gateway planning in Washington.

"Before giving our land away to the federal government we must have assurances that the areas so transferred will only be used for park purposes," said Marchi, in support of the legis-JattODU' as a i.