BROWNS DEDICATE SPORTSMAN'S PARK ON WEST SIDE

OPEN AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTLE WITH CHICAGO

Game This Afternoon Is Double Celebration — Team Faces Task of Comeback to Get Into Race.

April 21, 1926 - East St. Louis Daily Journal 3PM Edition

By BRADY.

Sportsman's Park, the vastly improved baseball stadium on the West Side, will be formally dedicated this afternoon and the American League season officially started when the St. Louis Browns clash with the Chicago White Sox at 3 o'clock this afternoon.

It will be George Sisler's first campaign in a championship game before home town fans but the club is certainly not making its home coming in triumphal style as they have lost six of their seven games played to date and are now in the cellar of the American League standing.

This new baseball stadium, which now seats around 34,000 fans and is a picturesque ball field, now ranks among the best in the major leagues where it once was considered the poorest. Victor Miller, mayor of the Mound City, is to twirl the first ball and in fact all the usual opening-day and dedication festivities are to be enjoyed.

Browns to Rally.

Baseball fans are expecting the Browns to come out of their losing streak during their home stay and get into the thick of the pennant fight before they start on their long trip around the circuit. They lost three games in a row to the Chicago White Sox and dropped three of four to the Detroit Tigers.

When the season started the Browns were ranked along with Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics and Stanley Harris' Washington Senators as the outstanding challengers for the American League bunting this year and fans, especially those who are of the Brownie variety, are confident Sisler's crew will have something to say about the distribution of the titular honors for 1926.

Lose to Tigers.

Yesterday the Browns dropped a 5 to 4 game to the Tigers at Detroit. Jonnard started on the mound and got off to a 3 to 0 lead when the Mound City team scored a run in the first and two in the third but it failed to last and the Tigers scored two in the fourth, the Browns one in the fifth and then Detroit got two more in the seventh and in the ninth filled the bases and Bassler walked with two out to force in the winning run, this being off Vangilder who had replaced Jonnard in the seventh.

The Tigers were greatly benefited by the Brownies' four errors and also collected eleven hits while the Browns got but seven hits.

JohnRuskin Best and Biggest Cigar Ad - April 21, 1926

Source: (1926, April 21) East St. Louis daily journal. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/sn92053739/1926-04-21/ed-1/.

1926 newspaper photo of St. Louis Browns pitcher Chester Falk in a pitching pose during his first major league start against Cleveland.

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