The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-04-04
SP0RTSNEN
ARE GREAT
ADVERTISERS
Opportunity TO Push Guthrle as
Great Health Resort Of
Southwest

An Illuminating idea Of the possi-
I biAties OF The mineral waters as an
ala % the fu.nre greatness 81 Guth.
re mas BE obtained bg glance at
the sporting pages oi the meiropt
iian paper rheY are not booming
Guthrie but are booming places far
! less attractive 0ut-ofshe-way place
With mineral waters Tar below ours
! In potency and accessibility.
This iact that Hugh h. keongh. q
famous baseball writer, had publish
ed M the staid ola Chicago Tribune
long story boosting Mineral Wells
Texas is enough argumens Others
have done the same thing in other
papers of scarcely less repate and
circulation
Ted sullivan, a baseball king, was
induced to tf4in bis team AZ Mineral
I Wells, Texas, win the result tha,
the metropolitan payers and theif
millions of Devoted baseball readers
earnestly follow the doings there.
Guthrie has everything to offer-the
water, a handsomely built, paved ana
settled residence city, the baseball
/ grounds adjoining The wells near
ness to the great centers by rail.
! the ilimate and an
There viii assaredly be a serious
effort to have some Of the baseball
magnates locate a training caml
here.
Some OF Keoughs observations
on Mineral Wells, Texas. which vii
and could Just as we'll be applied
here, are
Would Apply to Guthrle.
~A necessary part Of q big league
baseball menage Is permanent es
adjustment whereat to condition the
players in the early spring lhis Is
one OF the results of the rapid growth
os The baseball industry which ha
become an all tbs year round prop
osition, with only short period q
inactivity between the regular play
| ing seasons.
Time vas, and that moi SO yem
long ago when the play ers were LET
to exercise their will in the matte
OF fitting themselves for the season
work and n0.hing was expected o
Them bat to report in time to 0pel
the season, some time in the middle
Of April but now they are require,
70 be under fhe eye cf The manage
from two months TO six Weeks be
fore the contract period arrives.
; The managerial work which il
former times was allowed to adlus
,, itself after .he season opened, is nov
completed far In advance AS a maj
ter OF Convenience, ii not OF neces
sity these training quarters must b'
situated In che south, where sprln
arrives to stay about the first Q
March, and they are not SO plentiful
nor as easily found as one Nigh
imagine.
After wandering about In uh
southland and on the Pacific coas
in search OF suitable training groun
most Of the managers have al las
selected some permanent base wher
they are welcomed BY the residnt
for the good they brng and wner
they are sure to be supplied wit
the necessary comforts.
Discovered by Baseball Scout,
The latest permanent trainin
camp to be placed on The map
Mineral Wells Texas, whose suiti
l bmty to This purpose was discoye.
ca by Ted Sullivan who regarded
first with the eye of a baseball e.
pert with more years Of eXperienc
!; IN the promotion of The nat'on,
s game than any other man at presei
ii engaged In II can boast
Naturally after selecting Miner;
I Wells, us an ideal ramp for som
i bis league ball club Sullivan frs
s disclosed the YirMes OF the place {
). his old friend Charles Comiske
4 master OF the White Sox and Writ
ally the founder Of The America
league.
Comiskey whose notion Of tral
ing "trip had been q more OF less Q
uamental but quesuonably useful
coo mile iunke. to California Oh Me
lco and back ddd not Jump at The a
iArments OF Ted's discovery and
is moi al all certain that 1t was nc
more out Of compliment to his ol
friend than through conviction thi
positive benefits would accrue to h
club thai he consented to give the
little known but now famous Texa
watering place hal
"I{avfna falte,t for tha taAa n