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Show SI FilCISCO BASEBALL GLUB SEEM BUYER Hen Berry Says He's Willing Will-ing to Sell, but Wants to Sec Some Real Coin. SipeciHl to The Tribune. SAX FRANCISCO, Jan. 51. Hen Borry , &ays ho is willing: to soil the Seals if Lin cji n find a buyer. Th ere are several men who would be glad to have the San I'Vanclsco club if they had the money. That just about represents the baseball situation hero. There have been many rumors that the Seals would be sold. One of them had the name of Walter Mc-Credie Mc-Credie connected with It, but Berry says no one has yet shown him any caah. He hap about $cr0,000 invested In baseball h're a nd does not propose to give the club to any one for nothing. Berry said today that San Francisco n ould have a good team this year, as nood as thej one that won the pennant last yvar. If he dooH not sell out he will handle the team himself, as he. did last year, and he pays he is prepared to do so. Berry owes money for the stock he holds in the club, but says he has met all pay menu as they became due, and that there in no talk of forcing him out. He would be glad to sell, however, if the rifirht kind of an offer were made, for his health is not very good, and he would like, to take a year off in the , inountfthie. j Miyhe a deal will be put through be- i tween now and the opening of the sea- I son, but. go far none of the prospective lu ye cs h a s m a d o a s--b o w of coin, and HUch a allowing will have to be made, j tys Berry, before he will get out. An undercurrent has been running underneath un-derneath the coast league terrain for some time that the Seals were in a bad way financially and that Berry's creditors credi-tors were pressing him. One of the coast papers, by implication, has suggested that a receiver might be asked for. It semis safe to predict that there will be wmc sort of a blow-off at the Golden Ciate within a brief space. |