The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1916-04-01
BAY St. LOUIS To Be
REPRESENTED At THE
BIRMINGHAM MEET
Bay st. Louis Will Raise
From $4OO to $500 Neces-
sary to Send Seventeen
Athletes to Birmingham,
Ala, For Southern ANA
teur Athletic Games, May
10 and Goth.

The Bay has found itself and in the
last six months, mainly through the
instrumentality of the ST. .Stanislaus
College, it has set pace in athletics
too fast for any other city in the south
of our size to follow. Right on the
heels of capturing the Southern Prep
School Championship of the South, the
College has had two track meets, with
clubs from New Orleans, winning both
meets by big scores. Six months ago
the college was unheard of in track
athletics, now she looms up as the most
formidable candidate in Dixie for Cham
pionship honors. The papers from
New Orleans, Mobile, Birmingham and
other Sourhern cities are almost daily
chronicling happenings over here.
The citizens here with their usual in
trepidity and progressiveness were not
slow to appreciate that the worm had
turned and that henceforth they wanted
Bay st. Louis to take its place with the
leading athletic centers of the country.
Not desiring to hide their light under
busheI, the Executive Committee of
Athletics, composed of Messrs. Chas.
G. Moreau, J. N. Wisner, l.. B. Cap
depon, Emile J. Gex, Geo. Toca, Harry
Glover, Ed. w. Edwards, Jim. Lefebvre
and H. L.Heymann are now formulating
plans for sending team of seventeen
boys from St. Stanislaus College to
Birmingham for the Southern Amateur
Athletic Union games to be held on
May 10Th and Goth. 1t will take about
S4O0 TO $500 to defray all expenses and
these gentlemen are already busy rails
ing the amount. Needless to say that this
will be easily accomplishe. Sas there is
not single citizen Of Bay 6. Louis
who does not realize what a tremendous
boost it will mean to our dear little town
70 have team compete in this meet,
which usually draws its numerous
entries from only the biggest cities in
Dixie. It will be advertisement that no
amount of money could buy. 1t is the
sort that people read about naturally
and not through compulsion. We will
not be footing our own horns, the papers
Thousands of readers through the entire
South will be talking of us daily and
wondering what sort of place this Bay
ST. Louis can be that sends team to
compete in the Championship games.
And then, let US not rest at the mere
fact that team will leave to represent
the Bay. What is more important, the
boys are going to make showing such
will cause the experts to situp and take
notice.
Besides the members of the track
team, quite number of citizens have
already signified their intention of 60
ing to Birmingham for the meet and
when the meet is over and We leave the
Metropolis of Alabama, people will
know that there is a little town in
Mississippi called Bay St. Louis which
is small in size onlyebut as big as any
of them in the matter of civic pride and
loyalty.
The athletes and rooters will leave in
a private coach from Bay st, Louis at
IL P. M. May 18th.
The subscription list for expenses to
defray the trip is now in the hands of
Mr.. Geo. Toca, one of the best known
and most progressive citizens of the
Bay. "A man who has always proved
his love for this place and has always
considered his interests subservient to
those of his town of adoption, Bay ST.
Louis.