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Show I Ogden Baseball Club Opens Season at Brigham City I Locals Will Present First Rate Club in ; Saturday's Contest Rollo Greenwell Will Perform On Slab For Ogden in Initial H Game of 1920 Season; Marshall Is Choice of Brigham City Manager. Yea Bo! Batteries for today's game, for Ogden Og-den Greenwell and French. For Brigham Brig-ham City Marshall and Stone. Let's go! Tomorrow afternoon at Brigham City tho ruler of the diamond, otherwise other-wise known as hi3 Majesty, the Ump, will bellow' forth a like repitition of the above and the 1020 baseball season of the Wasatch league will be on. The schedule for the opening game3 io as follows: Ogden at Brigham City;. Bountiful at Layton; Tremonton-Garland game at Honeyvllle. In every city the opening games will be celebrated by a half-holiday and the old-time pepper, the ginger and pep that ruled here In the days of old is sure to return, at least that is the way the tide will turn according to the league officials. Locally Ogden has been without a team for a number of years and the live wires are out to again put the city to the fore in the national pastime. pas-time. Ogden has had some rattling good ball clubs in the past and the club of 1920 will have to step to keep the pace set by the old-timers. However, How-ever, Manager Frank Scott says that it can be done and that the game will come back with more pepper than has ever been administered here in other years. This year the state of Utah will have more organized leagues than has ever represented the state and in every nook and corner of the state the game is being revived. In Ogden the bugs awoke one morning and before noon of the same day tho plans for a classy team were formulated. I The players on the Ogden team will H compare with those of any of the. other H clubs and unless the aims of Frank Scott go amiss Ogden will be the .pen J In Ogden the season will officially J open Saturday, May 22, with Tremon IH i ton-Garland. Plans for a great cele- bratlon are under way and it is ex- pected that the live wires of the olden IH times will be on deck to give the play- H ers of the 1920 team the glad hand. H In the opening game Saturday at jH Brigham City the two teams will lino H up as follows: , IH Ogden. Brigham City. IH French c Stone IH Greenwell p.: Marshall IH Miller '..lb.' Gunn M Wessler 2b Stone jH Butterfield 3b A. Gunn IH Schultz ss Olsen' IH Myers If Boskelly IH Reardon cf. ........ Morgan H J, Owen's rf Jensen H In the drive for funds the club has H thus far received $635 of $1600 and it H is reported that the money is being H received, thanks to the business men. IH The subscriptions are being solicited IH by R. H. Wells vho is one of the di- jl rectors of the local club. jH Old Dad Baseball will make his de- IJ but for the 1920 season here on May 22. Yep, and Bert Herrick, the indi- H cator man, otherwise known as the H king of the bottle dodgers, will be on IH deck to bellow forth, "Play ball!" Be IH on your toes, fans, 'cause the grand old' IH game is due for a great revival and in H order to make the gamo overflow wltK' pep you must give your support. Oh. Il boy, let's go! Il i . IH |