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ball over th« Panhandle. They will play here when the Wcstorn league club Is on iti road trips.Improvements are to be made at Metropolitan-park, making it ideal for amateur baseball teams, with a seating capacity of 4,500 persons.It is understood that the Western league club owners are highly in favor of amateur baseball, taking the stand that it will be n real help in sponsoring baseball interest and In making baseball fans. This attitude is being taken over the entire country.Tho News-GIobe tournament, which last year attracted enough attention and crowda to be a great factor in Amarillo securing a Western leaguo club, will bo staged again and it will likely attract moro entries than it did a. year ago.Amarillo will have a great year in baseball In 1927, a Class A Western league club, a fast independent team, and a city league will give this city an unusual number of baseball players and fans.CLARENDON HIGH BEATS CLAUDE TEAM, 26 TO 6(Special to Tho Sunday Kowa-Globo) CLARENDON, Jan. 16.—The Clarendon high school basketball team evened a two-game series with Claude herean opportunity to get acquainted here and it will mean a let ai publicity tor this city.Tho Western league season opens on April 14 and it is exported that Amarillo will open at home with Tulsa playing here.Mr. Tracy and hia associates, Hisl Withorspoon, J. O. Whittington, ..Bob Ames and Cal Farley, announced this week that a *40,000 grandstand, seating 9,000 persons, would be erected an an eight-acre site purchased from J. Bea Russell of Oklahoma City and located Just north of the Great West Mill and Elevator plant in the Bidgemere addition.The new park will be the second modern athletic plant in the elty. Metropolitan park being erected here in the summer of 1920.The Amarillo Texans, Class A Westers league club, will be managed this year by Joe Kelly, who piloted the cub under St. Joseph's banner to third pace last season. Kelly has signed a contrast for the year.This season will bo Amarillo's find; oxporicnce in Clasa A baseball. Ama-' rillo has formerly had teams In ti separate Casa D leagues, the West Tex-:.; as leaguo in 1922 and the Panhandle-,'; Pecoa Valley league in 1923.For the past three seasons lndepend-1 ent baseball has drawn huge crowds I#' the ball parks.
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Amarillo News Globe
Amarillo, Texas, US
Sun, Jan 16, 1927
Page 66
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