The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1921-01-31
HOOCH HOUNDS TO GET THE CAN
AND GAMBLERS THE GATE STATES
RAY WINDER, NEXT BASEBALL HEAD

fHha w, A, baseball club during IN,
1921 season and decided effort u
hake for clean. unadultorated sport
played by clcan.llying sportsmen
according 10 Ray wlndcr. chief ol
tho Chicks who arrived In the city
yesterday from Little Rock to give
Ne lay Of the land tho once over and
start things going toward the open
ing Of the training season.
"Thcrc will be no place on the
Ciickaaha ball club for the man
who drinks" said Mr. Wlndcr In
outlinclng HIS policies Of running a
ball club. "The days OF such bali
players have long since gone lie is
no longer wanted on any ball club
and 'he cannot play on my club. Re.
gardlcss OF how much OF star play.
er he may be. don't want him II
he fights the booze. His performance
on the field may be high class, but
his effect on the other men will
more than overbalance his work on
the diamond. The first thing you
know, he will have some OF the
other players staging a night out
with him and about the next thing
half the team will be putting on JOY
parties and you'll have a dead club
Want Clean Players.
Not only that. but the fans who
make possible the continuance o.
baseball are entitled to clean sport
by clean sportsmen and no player
can be clean and fight booze. He has
bad effect on the youth of the
country. a successful ball player Is
sort OF idol among the boys and If
he plays on the Chickasha bail club
while have anything to do with II
he must not only lay off the booze.
but he must be clean liver in
other respects"
Mr.. Winder is holding conferences
today with the baseball men Of the
city, preparatory TO the starting o.
actual work on the grandstand and
park, the way for which was paved
by the campaign of the Hot Stove
league, aided by fans OF the city. AT
this time there has nothing definitely
been settled with reference to start
ing work on the park, but II is ex
pected that in the sessions to be
held today and tomorrow, some def
mite action will be outlined.
Gambling to Be Barred.
Not only must the ball players be-
clean, but the fans must help keen
the sport above reproach, Mr.. Win
der points out.
"There will positively be no gamb
ling permitted at the park" said Mr.
"It is impossible to control
this matter outside of the ball park
but when fan enters that ball park
as far as we are concerned, he is
there to see ball game for the love
of the sport and he is not there to
place bets or wagers on the out
come of that game. We will keep q
close watch for the habitual gambler
and when we have spotted him, he
will be barred from the park j
understand that there are, fortu
natoly, very few of these in Chick
asha, but they must be fewer. Gamb
ling will ruin any sport, it. is against
the laws Of the state and there's NJ
place in ball park for such an in
dividual. We are going to play the
game cleanly, we are goins to try to
6lVc OHithdoud ~ WilHci anu We dSh
the support of the law-abiding sport
loving people in helping us stamp
out the gambler and the rowdy.
Baseball is the leading American
sport. 1t is the national game and
it must not be abused"
Macabees Buy PIanks.
Meanwhile, the support for the
Hot Stove leagues campaign is con-
tinuing and the funds with which
to build the park are still being re-
ceived at headquarters.
The latest purchasers of planks in
the "Buy-a-Plank" campaign as an
organization are the local Macabees.
At recent meeting of this order, it
was voted to purchase SIS worth OF
planks. DR.. A. B. Leeds was called
before the organization and was pre-
sented with the SIS to help swell the
fund.
The ladies Of the Macabees had
only one request to make and that
was that they, themselves, be al
lowed to nail the planks they had
purchased on the fence. This request
was granted and a committee will
be appointed by the Macabees to dc
said mailing.
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