The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-11
g. S. Dickinson is Making Great
Success as President of the
Southwest Texas
League.
MAKING NAME FOR HIM
his Administration of the Affairs Of
That League Have Brought
Him Forward Quite
Prominently.

As president of the Southwest Tex
as League, B. S. Dickinson, brother
of j. N. d. Dickinson and Charles w.
Dickinson of this city, and former
Keokuk resident, has been making a I
great success during the past two !
years. Under picture the Houston |
Post published the following article:
The gentleman in the above picture |
with the Van Dyke cut of beard and
the singularly pacific but thoughtful
cast of countenance, is B. S. Dickin- |
son, president of the Southwest Texas |
League. Mr.. Dickinson has acquired |
the thoughtfulness from two years
strenuous endeavor to keep the South
west Texas playing out it's schedule.
Incidentally, it is worthy of note that
he has Notwithstanding that
probably no other man in the state
could have accomplished.
The Southwest Texas closed early
last week with the Beeville Orange
Growers as champions of the second
series and, under the league ideas re-
garding remnants, a post-season series
was on the cards. The Rice-Eaters
backed gracefully off the map, how
ever, and conceded the flag to Bee
vile and with the forfeiture of the
pennant the second and probably last
pennant chase of the southwest Tex
| as league came to an end.
1t is no small tribute to Mr.. Dickin-
son to say that he carried the league
THROUGH two or
out badly shaken, it is true, and rath-
er worn in many spots, but it finished
/ its playing schedule, even if two cities
I had fallen by the wayside. And, above
everything else, the results were due
! to the sterling executive ability of the
man who guided the helm. B. S. Dick
| inson is a human being and he has
made his mistakes But he had the
courage of his convictions and-well,
his mistakes were few at that.
/ Nerve, backbone and sheer admins
tratiye ability are the three ingredi-
ents that Mr.. Dickinson furnished his
| league. With wonderful dash, he en-
Unused spirit into those whose hearts
failed. His personal efforts were ap-
| piled as often as was necessary to
pull the circuit through its bad holes.
| He never lacked time or initiative to
help his struggling clubs
! In 1910 B s. Dickinson was almost
unknown to the diamond world He
had been secretary of the Texas
league, but SO far as the big work-day
world of the great national game was
concerned his name stood for but an
obscure man, the president of an OBJ
scure league somewhere in the wilds
of Texas. The achievement of Dickin-
son and his circuit in weathering
! through that first year was notable
enough, though it was not sufficiently
appreciated But it is certain fact that
once Mr.. Dickinson got into nation
al association meeting as the repre-
sentative of his league, he came out
of the obscurity.
The big fellows-Kavanaugh Muir
: name, Tip O'Neill and others who are
making the diamond history of organ
lied baseball in the mnors-will tell
you what Dickinson with his ready
mixing habits and his ability has ac-
complished. Right now he is probably
the best known president of a class d
circuit in the country.