The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-07-11

told to get our case before these people.
It may save Us some very disAgreeable
surprise. a.h,&s.n..
4 AMATEUR BASEBALL
People who love baseball become very
critical about It. They re,sores on any
thing short Of major league talent. If q
player makes ap error, they yell to have
him talkn out. They commonly feel that
II . town can't afford o fast professional
team, it II not worth having any team ct
ell So they are apt to . discourage at-
tempts to organize baseball on an anna
tsur basis to take in . lot Of the common
ruin ofplayers. !,
Yet you don't get the good results of
athletic sport by sitting up on the bleach
or boards and watching someone else &C
quire skill and develop his muscle.
The city Of Dayton, Ohio, worked out
very well last year the benefits Of anna
teur baseball. They had had trouble In
getting backing enough for good profes
sional team. So they undertook to organ
ize amateur ball and SIG, 900 was secured.
They formed ninety-six teams, played
496 gains, before audiences aggregating
400, 600 people. There were 1895 players.
Over q thousand men were thus encour-
aged to keep Up their athletic develop,
ment. The sggregshe ,@ the audience
must have been larger than team could
expect to- draw in q season In that sized
city Young people were given . whole
some recreation and sport, and encour.
agd 70 find their enjoyments ct home.
r Any town can have amateur baseball
on that basis providing sport for It'd
young men,. Every neighborhood might
well have its scrub games, and every fac.
tory industry its nine, all developing play.
ers for the town team. OF course garden
work takes the precedence over any sport
now. But plenty Of fellows are loafing
around evenings who would do much bet
ter to spend their time practicing for reg
ular Saturday afternoon play. The long
twilights under daylight saving give
plenty Of opportunity.
WHY TOWNS GROW
{. It Is great problem in community
psychology why some towns grow and
others remain stationery. Most Of us can
see marvellous changes in this respect.
We can look back at q certain pair Of
towns, and find in the language Of the
scriptures. THU M Nh taken and the
other left.
AT the start the two seemed much alike
in situation, size and character. But one
town had in it the elements Of growth
Soon 1t became q sizeable city, known far
beyond the confines Of its own state.
The other remained as it was, pleasant
and friendly, and not bad place to live
in. But it could not grow. The ambitions
Of its citizens were disappointed. Its PEG.
pie keep along In the same rut today that
they plodded through twenty-five years
ago.
What maks the difference? why does
one 60 ahead, and another stand still?
Growth is q natural ambition for any
town to entertain Our people here in Lo
gan cherish it. We have the elements fol
good business and agreeable living. Blu,
the future Is hidden from us. Have. w
in ourselves the elements of advance, OF
NC we built on stationery model?
Some conservative people are not am
bitidus for growth. They like their little
cozy circle as it Is, and do not cordially
welcome newcomers in a town. But that
is not the American spirit. Every wide
awake town wants to double in popula.
ton and business. Growth If rightly han.
died should bring new advantages, new
wealth, more favorable conditions Of Nv.
ing. Let us give thought then to the con
diHons that prevail in growing tears and
In stationery towns, so that we can form
an impression to which class our future Il
likely tn hoIOnU