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AmarilloTen DaysLeague This Year* The St. Joseph club o£ the Western League will likely transfer its ren^ir.-ing homo games to Amarillo this aca-3on with tho prospect of Amarillo getting the St. Joseph franchise in 1927.E. B. Tracy, one of the owners of the club, In wires to the Board of City Development and The New3*Globe has stated that such a thing is likely providing he can get the permission of the clubs in the Western League.* The club would open hero Saturday, September 11 and play through Tuesday, September 2H. meeting Oklahoma City, Wichita ond Tulsa.Mr. Tracy wired that he w:»u!dho given every co-operation in bringing his club to Amarillo this-fall, under the condition that this city get a franchise in tho Western League provided the experiment this fall proves a success.Tho final decision, however, rest3 with tho Western League club owners.Recently.it was announced .by Texai Lenguo club owners that prospects for Amarillo getting a Texas League franchise .were not Aon promising in the next decade. .MOODY UNABLE 10 SPEAK HEREALVIN OUSLEV TO DELIVER ADDRESS AT ALL-PANHANDLE .' RALLY HERE NEXT WEEK(By ll«** Associated Press* . SHERMAN. Texas, August 14.-Charles Perry, negro, about i^ixty years old,' was found hanging in the cook acack on the Rattan farm- near Melissa, Collin county, tHfc morning. ^he coroner's verdict had not been returned late Saturday. i Special to The Sunday News-Glohe)DALLAS. Aug. 11.—Dan .Moody will not be able to apeak in the Panhandle during’the run-off campaign, but hih fight .in that district' will be renewed with an all-Panhandle rally at Amarillo one day next week, when Alvin Ousiey, former national commander * of the American Legion,, will be the main speaker. Colonel Ousiey, one of tho chieftains of the Moody campaign and one of the greatest ocntors of the country, announced at noor. Saturday, following the forenoon conference of Moody supporters, that he would covet the Panhandle country in speeches and would-be pleased to make hla opening address in Amarillu, -The date is to be set by the Amarillo committee.“It’s time to get mad in this affair rfhd do something, said Ousiey. TheLUBBOCK AND BIG LAKLubbock 3; Canyon I.Big Lake H; San Jon 0. * TODAY'S GAMES Amarillo vs Panhandle ’Refining. Wichita Fails. ' *Lubbock vs Lamest.Lubbock anil Big Lake emerged victors In the first day of tournament play in the first annual News-Globe baseball tournament at Metropolitan park yesterday afternoon.Lubbock had a battle for her win and Oscar Kcjihardt, Canyon manager. allowed only f;re hltwonly to see his game lost on errorsBig Lake romped away with San Jon, H to 0. collecting every conceivable kind of a hii including four homcruna Cnsid? te park, and seven triples.Han Jon used five pitcher* but was handicapped by the absence of four of these leading players who were unable to reach Amacitfolatime for the game due to tho condition of the roads.More than 1.000 peraons saw the two games yesterday afternoon despite the fact that a big circus was showing adjacent to the ball park. Most of the crowd left during the San Jon-Big Lake game.Lubbock scored the first run of the tournament in the second Inning. Kckhardt got a little too much saliva on Itls spitter and walked C’onnallv. Sloan sacrificed Eck-hardt to Mitchell and Connalty perked on second. 11. Gibson hit to Mitchell and he threw the runner out at first, Kckhardt taking the ball. Connally advanced to third. l»oc Dean, veteran Panhandle player, singled into right scoring Connally.F.ekhardf* crew were putting up a mighty battle against tne Hubbers and they icocud .n the fifth. L’lilUp.i struck
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Amarillo News Globe
Amarillo, Texas, US
Sat, Aug 14, 1926
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