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Ark., are grateful to Ray Doan, off Muscatine, ffor the publicity his baseball school with Its colorful array of major league instructors has brought to their fair city, and they’re not keeping it a secret.They intend to show their gratitude by helping Ray put over a game between the classiest of his pupils and the St Paul club of the American association this Friday — the 13th day of the month, by the way.The game with the Twin-city club will mark the close of the two months* session of baseball study, and the citizens of Hot Springs are planning to makeIt a big event as an inducement to Doan to bring his school back another year.——O——Doan, as well as his school, is given a verbal pat on the back in an article appearing in the Hot Springs Sentinel-Record recently. A hotel manager endorsed the wind-up game with St. Paul as follows:* I am glad to see the chamber of commerce backing the proposed game, because I consider the Doan Baseball school one of the most valuable assets in its line that has ever come to HotSprings.•‘Any time big league starscome here the resort gets pub-. That being true, consider that this school had a faculty of big league ftars, and that from the first days the school opened there has been a steady stream of publicity going out of Hot Springs as a result. Furthermore, stories have been syndicated about the school. It has gotten into thesound movies.'i| h[-‘‘There ii another factor to consider. We like baseball clubsto train here. They don’t come from one city. This baseball school has over 150 boys from 20 states. Every student at the school leaves an advertiser andbooster for Hot Springs. In other words, we are getting a fine line of publicity in every state from which there Is a boy in the Doan school.“Last, but by no means least, we should do this for Ray Doan, who is as fine a sportsman as any one would care to meet. It was he who brought his school to Hot Springs. He could have taken it to Florida where a majority of the big league teams train, but he preferred
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Muscatine Journal
Muscatine, Iowa, US
Tue, Apr 10, 1934
Page 6
Full Page
Clipped by
Michael W.
NA, 24 Jan 2023
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