The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-04-02
MIDDLE CLEARED
WHEN Three new
CLUBS ENTERED
Prospects For Year Are Bright
er Than Ever; All Members
Have Strong Line
Up.
win an eight club circuit, the strong.


With an eight club circuit, the strong.
est in the history Of its organization.
Doak Roberts r. O. circuit will begin
It's pennat drive on April 49, Such Is
The outcome Of affairs, as 4 result Of
The decision of the Cluburne Club 10
remain in the fight Of 1929, and as q
result Of the plan to reduce the organ
ization to n six club affair has been
dropped. Corsicana. Mexa, Bonham,
sherman, Paris, Greenyille and Gle
burne OF the I.onghorn state, and the
Ardmore Producers will take the field
at the first crack OF the starting gun.
Already plans are in the process of
development TO make the league one of
the strongest class ID circuits in or
ganized baseball. Especially have the
three newcomers, Mexa and Corsicana,
hoped into the spling process with a
zeal that bespeaks of the strength that
their squads will possess,
Mexia's First Year.
Mexa. entering into its first year of
organized baseball is busy In the erec-
ton of new park. one Of the finest
of the southwestern Of towns. Roy
Aiken. who broke into baseball with the
Paris team in 1902, and who has since
played In the Pacific Coast and Texas
leagues. has been intrusted with the
fortunes Of the Mexa entry fol the
coming yelr Aiken has some thirty
five hustling players under contract,
who took their first taste OF spring
baseball in the St Louis Cardinal.Mexia
tit on March %
Mixing Nationalities.
The newly formed Corsicana Colts
with their pilot Charley Miller, have
perhaps the jump on any other T. O..
sd,lad in that they have been condition.
ing with the Houston club at Houston
for the past three weeks The Corsi'
cana aggregation is in reality the farm
OF the Buff squad. where promising re
cruits will be worked out, The Colts
will take on cosmopolitan attitude
as the result of obtaining outfielder
Earl Sengotta. an Italian. and pitcher
Adolfo Arquijo. a Mexican, from the
st. Louis Cardinals via the release
route
BrOwulOw il High.
Ike Sabolsky's Greenville Toga. the
third OF the trio Of new members. dis
LAY as their able skipper, Benny
rir0wnlow. former Texas and Three-l
League lnfielder. Brownlow. while a
veteran. is as ective as they make EN-.
and win doubtless pastime in the Green
Vile infield alongside Of Ed Kizzair. for
mer Pep first sacker. The Togs are
sure to put powerful club into the
field from the start being the farm OF
the Dallas Marines.
Two Others Look Strong
Quiet along this front, is the report
from the Bonham and Cleburne camps
but It is safe bet that behinnd this
mask of Indifference are forming two
strong class - clubs Cleburne last
year seeded but little TO put its General
entry into the fight. and with it's newly
formed pitching staff this year IL looked
upon by every manager in the league as
dangerous contender Bonham' 100
is coming along first rate.
Perhaps the greatest enthusiasm OF
the year reigns In the sherman spring
training camp. Led by the able Grady
Higgenbotham. the Higgies as they vii
be known. have been whipping ~ rook
ies into shane fOrthe April campaign
IIlgh up In the fight at the close OF last
,.ars campaign. the sherman outnt
with such men az Flock, Cray ah'
seaman within its ranks, is to be con
slderod dangerous from the beginning,
Paris il Dangerous.
Finally comes Paris. SO long as th'
hard.working. fighting Red Snapp ling
ors WITHIN the city. so long VIII th'
Snaupers be dangerous pennat con
tender In almost any league. Besides
winning the flag last year, Snapp de
voloped a quarter OF sterling perform
ers for the Ft Worth Panthers. ant
as a result of this, some of Atz's mos
promising Youngsters will be found OF
the Paris farm. Already Lefty Phillips
who was one of the leading twirler'
of the league last year, and l.. \. Bel
on - who almost murdered the younI
Ar,imore twirlers on the recent visi
Of the Cats here, have found berths VIII
the Paris club. Others are to follow'
Three umps Named.
President Roberts has announced IN
appointment of three umpires DIT Spen
Ger, George Crabblo and George Fergu
son. with the fourth officatcr to becom
known later.
Altogether. sparkling with fresh
ness and zeal the Texas .oklahoma cir
cult faces perhaps the brightest yea
of It's career. and It is a safe prediction
that the league pennat will he concede'
10 no one until the final gun of tn
Septemher campaign.