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Show SAM BROWNING'S TEAM RECALLED Baseball Old Timer Tells of Experience With Famous "Colts" Bj .1 K GjfcteiuXWFIJi i was about 16 years old when w moved in from w real Weber where i I, ,.; been playing ba"eDa11 for n,n ten yearn: At this time there was a ball team In Mgden The ogden AlU-l AlU-l let Ics. they were called. Sam Brown-ins- Wallace noOo. ai HeetniarK. m roueln Ambrose nd others wore on th t im They h ulte p reP,.t- tin. Every once in a while the A n- iloti.s went to Pa't Lake or Salt Hike came up here. Kven In thOSS day, ogden had Salt lake's goat as the SOVt lng Is The Athletics beai Ban l.ak" 'about two out of every three times thej played. Thus ogden wn onltS en enthusiastic baseball town 1 When the Athletics disbanded, ham Browning organised s new team w were oiillod Brownings Colt. Sam P.iov.ning Is the same Sam we know today, ogden s former mayor aqfl commissioner Sam was Just as sarneni I env thing else he goes Into. 1-or his baseball team, he picked some or i s onngcr fellows and we made a pref.v fa-M team The first time we went to Salt 1-aKe to plav. some of the players carried nlonv a few bottles of beer Rut jus as we were leaving ogden, Sam found ihe beer lie opened th- window and ut ai wc crceSed the short Un bridge near the pocking house, he threw the beer out of tti" window Into the river He was a stickler for discipline dis-cipline in Salt Hike wc plaved antenna known ns tho Famous' '"Levy's Famous" Fa-mous" named after a cigar We P'V-ed P'V-ed two games with this team which h id 1 1 big reputation We lost one nnd won one game This put Rrownlng B i ol ! In a pretty high position in the baseball world We were declared to Im worthy successors ot the famous ogden Athletics. |