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Show BUSY WEEK !N PROSPECT FDR SAINHHIEFS Details of Preparation for Opening Game Demand Attention; Signed Contracts Con-tracts Coming In. This week no doubt will bring some interesting developments in local baseball. base-ball. With Jack Cook, Salt Lake's new business manager, on the job, preparations prepara-tions for the opening of the season will soon be under way. There is a deal of work to be done every year to get things' in shape for the opening day. Printing contracts must be arranged and let, box reservations must be attended at-tended to, transportation of players arranged ar-ranged for, work on the grounds outlined out-lined and started in fact, there is a multitude, of details to be looked after. Little or nothing has been done along these lines thus far, owing to the fact that the business manager's office has not been filled by a regular occupant since the resignation of Bill O'Connor in December. The club's manager, Bill Bernhard, handled the office work during dur-ing the winter months, but of course did not take up any arrangements for the opening day. Cook therefore will find plenty of work cut out for him when he settles himself at his desk in earnest Monday morning. Plenty of Work. President Murphy returned from the coast Friday, after an inspection of the training site at Poterville and attendance atten-dance at the league schedule meeting at San Francisco. He, too, will have a good many things to look after this week. Owing to the sad affliction which has fallen upon Manager Bernhard in the death of his wife, the playing side of the club's affairs will not" receive full attention until Bernhard returns in about ten days from Buffalo. N. Y where the funeral of Mrs. Bernhard will be held today. Meantime President Murphy and Business Manager Cook will attend to that part of Bernhard 's work which is urgent. Notices have been sent to all the Salt Lake players to renort at Porter-ville Porter-ville on February 2. It is expected that actual training will start in earnest two days later, so that things will be humming by March 1. Early training is necessary, since the Saints have a hie game with the Chicago cU;is on March o. That game will he followed in rapid succession by games with the Spokane club of the. Northwestern ' (Conttuued on Following Page.) BUSY WEEK IIISIGHH FOR SAINTS' CHIEFS (Continued from Preceding Pago.) league and with clubs representing towns in central California. Thus far signed contracts have been rather slow in making their appearance. Still, a few are dribbling in and indications indi-cations are that the holdout situation will be no worse than it has been in past years. The 'signed contracts of Catcher Harry Hannah, Catcher Earl Slieely, Infielder Card Gislason, Out-1 Out-1 fielder Dick Bavless, Captain and Outfielder Out-fielder Buddy Ryan, Pitchers Boy Bliss and Stanley Dougan and a crowd of youngsters have been received. No definite w-ord has yet come from Bunny Brief or Tommy Quinlan, or from Johnny Tobin, the new outfielder ac-' ac-' quired from St. Louis. Pitchers iOIHe j Kirmayer aud Walter Levercnz, ab.Vo of the Browns, have written to askj fnr I more money. No direct word has jconie from Pitcher Jean Dubtic of Detrn.it or i from Karl Crandall, prospective S''cond I baseman. Pitcher Albert Klawittcj r has written for more money. Reports) irm San Francisco are to the effect, .that Shortstop Billy Orr is satisfied i-a the terms of his contract and no doub. w-ill be on hand when the bell rings at Porterville. Morris Path has thus far remained silent respecting satisfaction with the proposition to give him a two-year two-year contract. Tommy Quinlan, although not yet signed, has written a letter filled" with enthusiastic optimism respecting re-specting the prospects of the Saints. Beruhard said last week that he was not worrying about his plavers. He said adjustments in some cases might be necessary, but let it be known emphatically em-phatically that he would not exceed the salary limit unless forced to do so by-other by-other managers. What the week holds in store is, of course, a matter of conjecture, but no doubt there will be important developments. |