Volume 17 , Issue 47

Walking With Sweet Silly Sadie Dawg

Woof! Woof! That's what this Sadie Dawg has to say about "Storm Goliath." A few days after SW Colorado got pounded with a couple of feet of snow, we see that Northwest Oklahoma received some freezing rain and snow around 27 December 2015. As seen in the digital photo from our weather cam in Alva, Oklahoma.

We've got some 1907 baseball legacies in this week's OkieLegacy Ezine/Tabloid.

1907 - St. Louis Gets Three Austin Men
In the San Antonio Gazette, San Antonio, Texas, dated 24 August 1907, Saturday, page 3, we find the following headlines that read: "St. Louis Gets Three Austin Men." One of those men was this NW Okie's grandpa Bill McGill.

Found on Newspapers.com

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch says: Two new pitchers and a second baseman - where he will play is not yet announced - will join the Browns as soon after September 5 (1907) as a train can get here from Austin, Texas. Now, trains from Texas are rather uncertain things, but there is hope that the three men will be here by the 10th of next month, and be able to assist the Hedges team in doing something a little better than they showed yesterday afternoon.

The men are pitchers McGill and Bailey and sEcond baseman Gardner, all of the Austin, team, which is leading the Texas league.

As a matter of fact, the three men are the Austin team, for until they joined it Austin ranked about fourth, with no chance of climbing higher.

Arrangements for the coming here of the players were completed yesterday afternoon by President Hedges and Del Walker - the latter being the owner of the Austin aggregation.

McGill is a big fellow, 6 feet 3 inches in height and a good man with the stick. He is a graduate of the university of Oklahoma, going from that institution to the southern team. He has won twelve straight games so far, several of them being double-headers, and there seems to be no one in Texas who can stop him. What he will be able to do when he faces the sluggers of the American league is another question, but he looks pretty good just now.

Bailey - no relation to another of the same name from the same state - is also a good man, and Gardner leads the league in batting, so that they should be of great value to the Browns.

president Walker has been in St. Louis for several days and the deal for the purchase of the men has hung fire. Yesterday afternoon, after the Browns had dropped the two games to the Bostons, Hedges hastened to wind the matter up.

Woof! Woof! Happy Winter Holidays!
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