The phrase "a baton for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to a baton that is intended for a specific purpose or activity, such as a relay race or a conductor's baton.
Example: "The coach handed the runner a baton for the upcoming relay race."
Alternatives: "a stick for" or "a tool for".
It also shows his partner, Yelena Bruzzese, striking Mr. Halevy with a baton for more than two minutes.
The relays involve four runners per team, each member carrying a baton for 25 percent of the total distance before passing it to the next team runner.
Leave for an hour, then, using a lightly oiled worktop and hands, shape into rolls or into a baton for a tin loaf.
On Tuesday evening Mr. Bloomberg — emulating Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, who conducted the New York Philharmonic at the inauguration of New York City Center in 1943 — took up a baton for the gala reopening of the center, newly colorful and resplendent after a $57 million renovation.
The video, posted online on Sunday night by CrownHeights.info, shows Officer Vega punching the head and body of Ehud Halevy, 21, and another officer from the 71st Precinct, Yelena Bruzzese, battering Mr. Halevy with a baton for more than two minutes last week as he tries to fend off the blows.
With his DSLR and fish-eye lens in hand, Del Aguila said he's been swung at and hit with a baton for filming.
And WGBH-TV in Boston, along with a company called Crowing Rooster Arts, won a silver baton for a documentary on how a strict deportation law passed by Congress in 1996 affected immigrants.
In another award for international coverage, the PBS series "Frontline" and its PBS station sponsor, WGBH-TV, won a silver baton for a story of a far larger massacre, the slaughter of 800,000 Tutsi by their Hutu enemies in Rwanda in 1994.
and its producer, Walter Brock, won a silver baton for a portrait of Arthur Campbell, a disabled man fighting to live independently.
ABC's "Nightline" won a silver baton for a program on AIDS in Africa.
An independent producer, Stanley Nelson, won a silver baton for a 90-minute documentary tracing the history and impact of black-owned newspapers.
