March 10, 1938 - Ogdensburg Journal, NY - Ray L. Doan Baseball School
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Rapt attention is the expression on this sea of youthful faces as the future diamond luminaries listen to a lecture by Cy Young, immortal. pitcher.
Eager hopefuls lug their own equipment to Ray L. Doan's baseball school at Hot Springs. Ray himself supervises registration.
Kid Elberfeld, doing the tagging, and Rogers Hornsby, standing behind him show a class of as infielders how to apply the ball to a base-runner.
Rapt attention is the expression on this sea of youthful faces as the future diamond luminaries listen to a lecture by Cy Young, immortal. pitcher.
Eager hopefuls lug their own equipment to Ray L. Doan's baseball school at Hot Springs. Ray himself supervises registration.
Kid Elberfeld, doing the tagging, and Rogers Hornsby, standing behind him show a class of as infielders how to apply the ball to a base-runner.
Baseball Game to be Brought to Kids Here Tuesday Afternoon
Course Under Former Big League Stars Often Enough to Indicate Youth's Chances of Making Grade
Scenes such as these pictured above will be brought to the boys and girls of the county here next Tuesday afternoon at the Strand Theatre.Through the co-operation of A. G. Spaulding Company, Schine Strand Theatre, Joe Ward's Sporting Goods Store and the sports department of the Ogdensburg journal the motion picture "How To Bat Like A Big Leaguer", will be shown here free of charge to the children.
When 450 boys at Hot Springs pay a $40 tuition feet $45 for room and board and the cost of transportation to this resort from points far removed, tor a five-week course, you may rest assured that young America is still interested in baseball.
The students at Ray L. Doan's baseball and George Barr's umpire schools are lads from Cape Cod and the Puget Sound country and from the east coast of Florida and southern California. These schools serve fine purposes. They brighten and encourage genuine. prospects and knock the idea of professional baseball out of youngsters who are not cut out for it.
A kid who does not attend one of the schools may waste several years trying to pitch when he is meant to be an outfielder.
Then there is the boy who at an early age makes up his mind to be another Ty Cobb or Walter Johnson. He hasn't a Chinaman's chance to be either, but will do nothing but play ball. Father knows best., He realizes that his pride and joy hasn't got it, and tells him so. But the boy won't believe father, suspecting that the old gent is trying to talk him out of something good simply because he doesn't care to see him follow it.
Problem Easily Solved
Dad wonders how he can get his son's mind on business, a trade, or a seat of higher learning, and finally lands on the solution. He sends the kid. to a baseball school.
And what, father says sounds altogether different coming from Rogers Hornsby, Kid Elberfeld, Cy Young, Red Faber, Hank Severeid, Johnny Mostil, and other professors now putting the hopefuls through the paces on three fields.
The boy is positive that they know and that they aren't kidding him. So when they inform him that he will never be a professional baseball hero, and advise him to take the course and return home and play just for the fun of it while devoting his time to something for which he is better fitted, the boy is content to do that.
Many of this type return for a second course. They desire to improve the game they play for the sport of it, and like to be in a position to tell and show the fellows on the sandlot at home what Hornsby, Elberfeld, Young, and Faber taught them. A number return to the Doan school for their vacations.
Doan is a promoter out of Muscatine, Ia. This is his sixth annual school, and the previous five have placed 100 in organised baseball of all classifications, from the majors down, The Barr school placed 23 umpires last year, and could have placed a dozen more had there been that many more competent indicator handlers.
There are numerous other baseball schools, some with a tuition of $5 and some with no tuition at all, but the Doan schools to date have maintained the finest standard.
Have Own World Series
Tris Speaker went to Hot Springs as an instructor two years ago, intent on enjoying himself. Doan kept the old Gray Eagle working from early morning until late afternoon, and lecturing at night.
Doan uses three excellent fields, Fogel Field, Ban Johnson Field, and Doan Field, the latter sporting two diamonds. Fogel Field Is where the Pittsburgh Pirates, Boston Red Sox, and Brooklyn Dodgers trained in days gone by, or until the changing climatic conditions drove the big leaguers farther south.
Doan rents a large building on Central Avenue, where lectures and blackboard talks are held, and where the proprietor maintains his office.
The school opened Feb. 25 and will run until April 1.
Toward the tag end of the course, 16 clubs are made up composing National and American leagues. They play a regular schedule, with the finalists meeting in their own little world series.
The schools attract a surprisingly high type of boy, who trains for weeks in advance in order to obtain the jump on his classmates. A youngster of this kind is vastly better off than one hanging around poolrooms.
The boys are taught every angle of the game by past masters, who find about 50 percent of them totally unfitted for baseball.
But even the impossible ones have a lot of fun.
Course Under Former Big League Stars Often Enough to Indicate Youth's Chances of Making Grade
Scenes such as these pictured above will be brought to the boys and girls of the county here next Tuesday afternoon at the Strand Theatre.Through the co-operation of A. G. Spaulding Company, Schine Strand Theatre, Joe Ward's Sporting Goods Store and the sports department of the Ogdensburg journal the motion picture "How To Bat Like A Big Leaguer", will be shown here free of charge to the children.
When 450 boys at Hot Springs pay a $40 tuition feet $45 for room and board and the cost of transportation to this resort from points far removed, tor a five-week course, you may rest assured that young America is still interested in baseball.
The students at Ray L. Doan's baseball and George Barr's umpire schools are lads from Cape Cod and the Puget Sound country and from the east coast of Florida and southern California. These schools serve fine purposes. They brighten and encourage genuine. prospects and knock the idea of professional baseball out of youngsters who are not cut out for it.
A kid who does not attend one of the schools may waste several years trying to pitch when he is meant to be an outfielder.
Then there is the boy who at an early age makes up his mind to be another Ty Cobb or Walter Johnson. He hasn't a Chinaman's chance to be either, but will do nothing but play ball. Father knows best., He realizes that his pride and joy hasn't got it, and tells him so. But the boy won't believe father, suspecting that the old gent is trying to talk him out of something good simply because he doesn't care to see him follow it.
Problem Easily Solved
Dad wonders how he can get his son's mind on business, a trade, or a seat of higher learning, and finally lands on the solution. He sends the kid. to a baseball school.
And what, father says sounds altogether different coming from Rogers Hornsby, Kid Elberfeld, Cy Young, Red Faber, Hank Severeid, Johnny Mostil, and other professors now putting the hopefuls through the paces on three fields.
The boy is positive that they know and that they aren't kidding him. So when they inform him that he will never be a professional baseball hero, and advise him to take the course and return home and play just for the fun of it while devoting his time to something for which he is better fitted, the boy is content to do that.
Many of this type return for a second course. They desire to improve the game they play for the sport of it, and like to be in a position to tell and show the fellows on the sandlot at home what Hornsby, Elberfeld, Young, and Faber taught them. A number return to the Doan school for their vacations.
Doan is a promoter out of Muscatine, Ia. This is his sixth annual school, and the previous five have placed 100 in organised baseball of all classifications, from the majors down, The Barr school placed 23 umpires last year, and could have placed a dozen more had there been that many more competent indicator handlers.
There are numerous other baseball schools, some with a tuition of $5 and some with no tuition at all, but the Doan schools to date have maintained the finest standard.
Have Own World Series
Tris Speaker went to Hot Springs as an instructor two years ago, intent on enjoying himself. Doan kept the old Gray Eagle working from early morning until late afternoon, and lecturing at night.
Doan uses three excellent fields, Fogel Field, Ban Johnson Field, and Doan Field, the latter sporting two diamonds. Fogel Field Is where the Pittsburgh Pirates, Boston Red Sox, and Brooklyn Dodgers trained in days gone by, or until the changing climatic conditions drove the big leaguers farther south.
Doan rents a large building on Central Avenue, where lectures and blackboard talks are held, and where the proprietor maintains his office.
The school opened Feb. 25 and will run until April 1.
Toward the tag end of the course, 16 clubs are made up composing National and American leagues. They play a regular schedule, with the finalists meeting in their own little world series.
The schools attract a surprisingly high type of boy, who trains for weeks in advance in order to obtain the jump on his classmates. A youngster of this kind is vastly better off than one hanging around poolrooms.
The boys are taught every angle of the game by past masters, who find about 50 percent of them totally unfitted for baseball.
But even the impossible ones have a lot of fun.
1938 Ad for Doan Baseball School list Kid Elberfeld on the faculty- from an eBay listing
