The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-09-20
BUY GROUND F OR
ATHLETIC FIEL D
Recommendation
Greater Chickasha Committee
Receives Report from Investi-
gators On Sites; Johnson
Land is Favored.
PLAN OUTLINED SAYS
INCLUDE GRADY FAIR
Need for Playground Shown;
Fine Stock, Farm Products
Abundant in County But No
Place to Show Them.

Abundant in County But No
Place to Show Them.
That the Chickasha Baseball as
sociation buy 20 acres of groun,
located at the east end of the via
duct, from Ben f. Johnson and con
struct the necessary buildings ant
grounds to equip an athletic fielt
suitable for professional baseball, to
gether with amateur football, tract
and field meets and all branches
Of county athletics and that a suffi
cient block of stock to care for the
expenses thus incurred be placed or
the market at once, was the recon-
mendations made by the Greater
Chickasha committee of the Cham
ber OF Commerce in session Satur-
day night at the C. of C. rooms.
These recommendation followed
reports of committee appointed ?
week ago from the joint committee
composed of Chamber of Commerce
Lions and Rotarians clubs and Re
tail Merchants members. This com.
mittee, during the past week inves.
tigated several proposed sites for
an athletic field and the purchase
prices attached. The report of this
committee to the Greater Chickasha
committee was that the johnson
land east of the viaduct seemed to
be the most ideal from every stand
point 1t was pointed out that it is
nearer the business section of the
city than ~any other available site,
and considering location is withal
the cheapest block of ground to be
had.
johnson Quotes Price.
Alger Melton, chairman of the
Greater Chickasha committee, re-
ported a conference with Mr.. John
son, in which the price of $4,000 for
20 acres of this land with all lunr
Der in the grandstand, fence and
other equipment at University Park
the present Western association
playing field here, thrown in.
Mr.. Melton stated that Mr.. John
son would not put price on less
than 20 acres of the property, but
as discussion OF the subject in the
committee meeting progressed, il
was the opinion Of the committee
that the needs OF the baseball asso
citation would be 20 acres and posi-
bly, more. 1t was shown that there
is no more valuable land around
this city than the recommended site
Recommend County Fair.
Recommendation of the commit
tee were not confined to the pur
chase of the land and the construc
tion OF an athletic field. 1t was fur
ther recommended that the associa
tion which owns and controls the
athletic field also own and promote
a county fair The idea expressed
was that the association combine
athletic field and fair grounds. II
was pointed out that while the
two propositions should be kept dis
tinct, the athletic field and the fair
grounds could both be constructed
on the proposed 20 acres and han
died under the same management
Reference was made to the fact
that Caddo, Stephens, Comanche and
other counties in southwest Okla
homa staged county fairs this year
with a great, deal of success, and
that Grady county held no county
wide. fair for the simple reason that
there was no place provided to hold
it.
Good Prospects Here.
1t was also shown that this year
no county in the state was better
prepared to hold fair than Grady.
from the standpoint of products. 1t
was stated that all farm products
had turned out bumper crops this
year and that a better display Of
farm products as whole than
ever before could have been gather
cd here had there been some place
where these products could have
been shown.
Reference was made to the rapidly
growing fine stock industry in
Grady. 1t was shown that few, il
any, county in the state has made