The Little League for Boys, a baseball organization that has been growing rapidly and spreading to various sections of the country, has become a corporate body with Founder, Carl E. Stotz of Williamsport as its president, it was announced this week.

National headquarters of the organization will be at Williamsport where an executive office and publicity bureau will be maintained with J. Walter Kennedy as business manager. Col. W.H. “Cappy” Wells of New York City has been named promotions manager. He will operate from New York.

Initial membership of the board of director includes Ford C. Frick, president of the National League, Paul Kerr, vice president of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, N.Y. Lynn G. Lightnter of Harrisburg, Charles J. Durban and Emerson Yorke of New York, Thomas H. Richardson, president of the Eastern Baseball League, Howard J. Lamade of Grit Publishing Company, John Lindemuth, the latter two of Williamsport, Bernie O’Rourke, New England director of Little League, and Ted Husing, nationally known sports broadcaster. Mr. Durban has been elected vice president.

According to President Stotz, 16,000 youngsters between the ages of 8 and 12 were in uniform as members of 900 teams in more than 22 states. It is confidently expected Little League will grow in the next several years until all the important American cities and towns in America are represented.