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is Showdown iker Story; to Owners in Meet11AMARILLO WILL HAVE AMATEURBALL IN 1927NEWS-GLOBE TOURNEY, INDEPENDENT TEAM AND CITY LEAGUE ON SCHEDULECLUB OFFICIALS WILL MEET HERE ON FEBRUARY 5$40,000 PARK ANNOUNCED FOR AMARILLO TEXANS THIS WEEKinn-Announcemont of a Western league club for Amarillo in 1927 hai caused an unusual amount of interest to be shown in amateur baseball here.Plans are under way now for a combination Sunday School-City league to ploy a regular schedule.C. C. Gibson, manager of the Amarillo independent team last season, declares hia team is to bo organised again this season nnd will piny independent baseball over the Panhandle. They will play here when the Western league club is on its road trips.Improvements are to be made at Metropolitan pork, making it ideal for amatour baseball teams, with a seating capacity of 4,600 persons.It is understood that the Western league club owners are highly in favor of amateur baseball, taking the stand that it will be a real help in sponsoring baseball interest and in making baseball fans. Thla attitude ia being taken over the entire country.The News-Globe tournament, which last year attracted enough attention and crowda to be a great factor in Amarillo securing a Western league club, will be 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 loague club, a fast independent team, and a city league will give this city an unusual number of baseball players and fans.Tho schedule mooting of the Western league will be held In Amarillo or February 6, according to M. T. Anfenger, Denver, club president and member of a committee to solcct tho place for tha meeting.Announcement of the scheduled meeting was made yesterday in Denver and came as a climax to a week or rapid developments In Amarillo in connection with a Western league club here.'Tho schedule meeting, one of tho most important sessions of tho league owners, was brought to Amarillo upon the request of E. B. Traey, owner of half interest in the Amarillo club and who securod the transfer of tho 8t. Joseph franchise to thivelty.“The meeting will mean n great deni to Amarillo,” said Mr. Tracy, daring the past week. The dob owners and Dale Gear, league president, will hove an opportunity to get acquainted here and it will mean • let ef publicity for this city.”Tho Western league seeson opena on April 14 end it is exported that Amarillo will open at home with Tulin playing here.Mr. Tracy and his associates, Hial Withorspoon, J. O. Whittington, Bob Ames and Cal Farley, announced this week that a t40,000 grandstand, seating 0,000 persons, would be erected an an eight-acre eita purchased iron J. Bee Russell of Oklahoma City and located just north of the Greet West Mill and Elevator plant in the Bidgemere addition.The new park will bai the eeeond modem athletic plant in the city. Metropolitan park being erected here in the siue-mer of 1920.The Amarillo Texans, Class A Western league club, will be managed this year by Joe Kelly, who piloted the cub under St. Joseph's banner to third paea last season. Kelly has signed a contractCLARENDON HI6H BEATS CLAUDE TEAM, 26 TO 6(8p?elsl to The Sunday News-Globe) CLARENDON, Jan. lG.—The Clarendon high school basketball team evened a two-game series with Claude here last night, winning, 20 to 0. At Claude Tuesday night Clarendon lost, 16 to 12.for the year.Thla season will bo Amarillo’s flnl oxpcrience in Class A baseball. Ama-f rillo has formerly bad teams In separate Casa D leagues, the West T os league in 1922 and the Psnhand Pecoa Valley league In 1923.For the past three seasons Indepe ent baseball has drawn huge crowdt te the ball parks.Scotland has a campaign to abolish the killing of animals for sport.Everything ForF.vprti Offirp
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Amarillo News Globe
Amarillo, Texas, US
Sun, Jan 16, 1927
Page 66
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