Show SAMMY IY STRANG HAS COLORFUL CAREER NASHVILLE Tenn July By 12 12 By ByThe The Associated Press When When last Friday Strang Nicklin of ot Chattanooga sold the Chattanooga franchise in inthe Inthe inthe the Southern Baseball league base base- baseball baseball baseball ball lost possibly the most interesting Incongruous figure the kingdom of ot diamonds has ever er known kno For Nicklin was Sammy Strang big league player opera singer art student and former coach of ot West WestPoint WestPoint WestPoint Point teams He came of ot a family of poets and writers who ho objected to his liking for tor baseball Therefore he changed he-changed his name c L As Sammy Strang he played for tor forJohn forJohn John McGraw in his lets younger days das Later he went to Paris to study voice oice oice and afterwards sang in concert and achieved some reputation He returned to his home homo In Chat Chat- Chattanooga Chattanooga and there received the gift of ot a ball club Chattanooga's fran Iran franchise franchise chise was wu going begging and its own own- owner owner owner er turned it over to Nicklin with the proviso that if 11 he handled it for five live years it was his park franchise and all He sold the franchise for tor The perk park Is still his |