The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-12-30
Guy A PLANK FOR ATHLETIC
FIELD, STOVE LEAGUE SLOGAN;
ASSOCIATION TO BE ORGANIZED

building Of the baseball grandstand
and fence MS well as the fenc.
around the proposed fair grounds
when the Chamber OF Commerce
committee gets the necessary de
tails ironed out, puts the plan de
cided on into effect and purchases
the necessary ground.
These Stove Leaguers, without
whom baseball could not exist, are
stronger than the proverbial horse
radish for baseball and the fair. The
discussion opened with the question
"lfow will we get baseball grand
stand after the ground is pur-
ehased?" 3
Buy a Plank Slogan.
Jim Montgomery was the first man
to get the floor and he pledged him
self as well as the other BARRIERS OF
the city to declare holiday or in
fact as many holidays as became
necessary and donate their services
toward building grandstand and ball
park fence @'iDt steinberscr, Fred
Gay, Pat Murphy, Sar' Shun, Walter
Strong. ct al, declared themselves.
lin" on a fence building bee at any
time such stunt was staged. II was
finally suggested however, that a
gang of fence-builders, no matter
how ambitious they were, could
build but a minimum amount of
fence with no lumber to build with
and no money to buy lumber
But this times the meeting had in
creased to such proportions that the
secretary was unable to keep tab on
the roll call but as all seemed
qualified to remain for the reason
that they talked baseball, the meet
ing continued and the discussions
delved deeply into the question at
hand
In the midst of the arguments a
bright and shining idea was born.
Il know how well build that
grandstand and park" yelled one
Stove Lacquer when, by sheer force
Of lung power ne quieted the babel
o the extent that he could max
himself heard. 'We1l all buy
plank"
Idea "catches On"
Deep silence fell over the gather
ing as the idea was pondered, II
seemed that every member present
nut his 20. X" on the plan about
the same time.
"11hat's it. Well all buy a plank
yelled the assembly,.
The more they thought about it
the better they liked it and it was
finally agreed that in addition to
the members present buying plank
drive would be staged in the i'm
mediate future to get every man,
woman and child in the city and
county if possible to buy plank.
A local lumber yard furnished ar
estimate on the cost of plank as
follows: cone plank, 1 by u, l.
feet long 60 cents" Figuring on that
basis, itw as shown that if the cen
esus figures bare correct, which no
body believes, Chickasba should fur
nish between 10000 and 11Ooo
planks ~ feet long at cost Of
$4,000.
To Form Organization.
A movement is under way, as re-
suit of that impromptu meeting to
organize a Buy a Plank associa.
ton, with president, secretary, treas
urer and all the trimmings in the
way of committees and sub-commit
tees, with the one view of getting
every man, woman and child il
Grady county, or as many as can be
so pursuaded, to buy a plank for
the ball park and fair grounds
1t is pointed out that with every
school in Grady county vitally inter
ested in the athletic field proposition
as furnishing a means of staging
as they shauld be staged, the com
petitive athletic events of the county
every school in Grady should be a
fertile field for the Buy a Plank
ers" to work.
1--WE will build that grandstand
and park fence in short time after
the deal for the ground is closed, "
said one of the enthusiasts. Give
us the ground and turn us loose.
That's all that we ask. Well not
only buy the material for the grand
stand, bleachers and park fence, but
We'll get donated majority Of the
rough labor not only to build tha
fence and stand, but to put tha
playing field in shape"
"A ~ L. II