Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1921-03-31
Bogalusa Now On
the Sporting Map

With the departure of the Brown
Saturday, Bogalusa's publicity on tn
sporting pages of the country's news
papers came to an end for this sea
son, but now that the "fever" has hi
US, everyone is confident that mex
spring, and in the years to come, W
will obtain as much and more spac
and every season will find US wit
the top-notchers in training CAM
sites.
The fans of Bogalusa were excep
/ tionally fortunate in having in thei
midst team with such high ratins
as the Brownies. Starting very lat
last year in presenting our charms
to the gaze of the moguls of thu
major league clubs, an even breal
to secure a club to train here wa!
scarcely possibility, but when sucI
men as Mayor Sullivan, Jules Heine.
mann, G. L. Black and members OF
the Chamber of Commerce start in
to get thing for BogaIusa, it's gen.
orally "got.' So, after using enough
wires to keep the Western Union
in postage stamps for many moons
to come, finally dragged Bob Quinn,
business manager of the st. Louis
Browns, into the Magic City, and
had his signature affixed to a con-
tract before he had been in town four
hours.
To show the fans that they meant
business, the Browns came South
early, earlier in fact than any other
major league team, and started right
to work to get in shape, meanwhile
making friends wherever they went.
With the team came George Sisler,
greatest of all ball players, who can
be compared only to the great Tv
Cobb when he was in the heydey of
his success. Sisters presence alone
means more to baseball than that of
any other individual player. with the
possible exception Of . Babe Ruth.
Then, too, the Brown team as a whole
holds national rating as the great
est hitting aggregation Of either
league, with team batting average
Baby Doll jacobson, the most
feared pinch hitter in the johnson
circuit, was with, them, and better
still, Lee Foil, who the majority Of
sport writer's admit, was the real rea-
ION for the successful season Of the
Cleveland Indians, 1920 worlds
plotting them.
In the exhibitions games played
lere this spring the Brownies cleaned
10 with everything in the vicinity, in
'luding such teams as the Pelicans
m three occasions, the Brooklyn |
Dodgers, last years National League |
champions, twice; the Milwaukee |
3rewers, three times: Mobile Gulls
nee, and Louisville Once-nine !
James and not a single loss.
Bogalusa, as a training camp, |
bowed up no less brilliantly. Dur |
ng the entire six weeks of training |
iere the visiting athletes never !
missed a days practice. Jup Plu- |
nus and Old Sol evidently signed a |
ruce for that six weeks, for if Jun
ave US a shower it was at night, |
nd friend Sol came out bright and
arly 50 that, assisted by Lee Foil,
Bob Coleman, Lefty Leifield and /
rainier Bierhalter, who formed the
vrecking crew, the field was like new !
efore time to begin the days work
ut.
Newspaper writers and sportsmen
Thov sited Bogalusa during the So i,
burn of the Brownies were loud in !,
leir praise of the city and its re-
larkable resources, and each carried /,
ack with him a pleasant memory of
he hospitality shown in the South's
Iagic City.
Next spring the Browns return to
), and if Manager Quinn could SO :
range it, would return every spring !
y many years to come. However.
her big league teams have been
atching the progress of the Mound
ity boys and already rumors are
fe that the Dodgers would like to
me to Bogalusa in 1922, and that
lck Egan Of the brewers" is about
ady to take possession Of the Pleas
It Hill park by force.
Bogalusa is certainly on the sport
g map for good, and will no doubt
referred to after this seasons
nnant race as the Mecca of major
ague training camps in the South.