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Show ' BASEBALL FANS IRE BEGINNING TO ED SOS , With Training Season Only Month Away, Germ Gives Indications of Coim-fif Coim-fif ing to Life. ROSTER OF SAINTS ' IS PROMISING LIST Pitching Staff Appears to i Consist of Unusually Good Material; Battle ( Among Basemen. A -week of unusual activity in baseball base-ball circles nerved to give warning to i the fiuis til ut t ho season of .1917 approaches ap-proaches apace. Within a mouth or nil weeks Halt Luke base-bailors will be turning thoir eyes toward tho Saints' training camp, and soon t.horoaf tor will bo reading accounts of the wonderful tlih.gs tho hoys are doing. Indications" are that the Salt Lake i-Tu h will train nt Forterville, Cal. The chamber of commerce of that city has made n satisfactory financial offor for r tho enterprise, and 'if the local management manage-ment can cot assurances of adequate hotel accommodations Porterville, will be elected. l'orterville is a thriving little city of about liOdli inhabitants. It is situated t ''in the valley," as they say in California; Cali-fornia; that is. it is on the oast, side of the const range. It is about sixty miles from Fresno and a like distance from RaUersficld. Porterville is the center of a great fruit growing section, famous , for oranges and grape fruit. It is notable, no-table, too, for a system of parks and is said to be one of the most attractive towns in tho country. The baseball plant is said to bo modern in overy respect. re-spect. 1 .Weather Favorable. Since l'ortervillo is divided from the coast n v n high mountain range, the fogs which roll in from the Pacific ocean in early spring are unknown ' there. The warm season begins early and tho rainv period will have passed by the time tho club gets ready to start its work. 1'irst plans of the local management were for training at Las Vogas, Nev. Last week .Manager Bill Kornhard made a trip In Las Vegas for the, purpose of ascertaining the desirability of taking his club there. Bernhard found that the facilities for conditioning a big baseball club were inadequate, although the people of Las Vegas were enthusias-ic enthusias-ic about tho project. Bernhard thinks that the Saints will probably select Las Vegas for tho 1!1 S training season, if in the meantime the Las Vegas grounds are given attention and other necessary details attended to. Kv the selection of Porterville it is believed that the Saints can get at least one Sunday game with the Chicago Tubs, who are to train at. Pasadena. It is possible, too, that another gamo with , the Mitchellites may be arranged. Prospective Saints. Twentv-two contracts were sent out 1'ridav til Salt Lake players. It was announced an-nounced that, while there was a little rutting here and there, the salary rcduc- tions did not amount to much. Thus far the following are tho available avail-able awn lor tho IP 17 Saints: Catchers llarrv Hannah, Earl Sh.ec- Pitchers Albert Klawitter, Tom Hughes, Stanlev Dougan, Jean Dubuc, Beit Hall. Alois Kirmayer, Sherman .lones, right handersj Walter l,overenz, Chester 1 1 off, Evan "Evans, Koy Bliss, left hamlers. l'irst base Bunny Brief. L Secoud base1 Karl Crandall, Card Gislason, Tom Downey. Shortstop Bill Orr. Third base Morris Rath. Out fielders Buddy Ryan. Tommy Quinlau, .lohnnv Tobin. Jim my Shinn. ' Ibckv Ray-less. " In additiou to this list there are several sev-eral youngsters on the coast with whom former Manager Blankenship made arrangements, ar-rangements, in whole or in part, for try-onts. try-onts. Included in this group aj-e Catcher Cress, lufielders Pcnnolli. Blake, Kearns and Carpenter. Since Manager Bernhard is not familiar with the merits of these prospects he is making further biquirv concerning them. He has written writ-ten Blaukeuship for information regarding regard-ing their capabilities. Prank Giugni, it is understood, is still attached to tho Salt. Lake club, and it is possible that he may be taken to the camp. Giusmi played with Spokane during the latter part of last season and gave a good account ac-count of himself. Old Officers Re-elected. At a meeting of the hoard of diree-tois diree-tois on Thursday the incumbent officers were re-elected. They are: President, V. S. Murphy; vice president, the Rev. E. 1. Goshen; sevretarv, Lawrence , Greene: treasurer, R. T. Badger (appointed. (ap-pointed. The remaining directors are George O. Rolf, M. R. Evans, U. V. Lane and George P. Wnsson. The selection of a. business manager to succeed W. J. O'Connor, resigned, was put over. The report has gained wide circulation that John P. Cook, secretary of the Oakland club, would bo appointed to tho position. The report includes the rumors that Cook will invest in-vest $10,000 in Salt Lake club stock if I the directors appoint him to the office of business manager. Wed uesdn v brought I he news from Detroit of the acquisition by the Saints of Jean Lubuc. veteran right hand pitchpr of the Detroit Americans. Mana- . ger Bernhard is confident that Dubuc will pit'h winning ball in the Coast leag.ie. lie is to bo sent to Salt Lake (Continued on following Page.) LEHI BASKETEERS ARE AIMING AT STATE TITLE 8 36 5 COACH WARNICK THINKS TEAM'S CHANCES GOOD DAVIS - GUARD COX" -JIG&. AND FQRARD PSAfjNlCK - COAcZH - GAV-OI RT AHD FORWA&O -WVV- 5UA&t H?rOV-0?HD ( J. ; - R CH "l'''f VANS- FORWARD virir, -;'Uvv As $ u -',ilf w llL C".1?- GUARD eCNTEI& : ; :: ::::. -- " - J S'PiTVClTcr-?, BASEBALL FIS IE RETURNING TO LIEE (Continued From Preceding Page.) on thirty days' trial. If be makes good a large part of the Saints?' eternal pitching problem' will bo solved; if he fails, he will be returned to Detroit. Outlook Encouraging. A letter received from Dutch Klawit-ter, Klawit-ter, who is wintering in Milwaukee, says he is in excellent condition and sees no reason why he should not repeat his remarkable performance of the first half of 3 915. Tom Hughes, who is enjoying the winter time in Salt Lake, thinks his arm will be better than it has been sineo he suffered an injury some ten years ago. The result of that injury was relieved by an operation last fall when three fragments of bone of considerable con-siderable size were removed from his elbow, where they had been "floating" about in an unattached state for ten years or more. The fragments were broken from the bone by a line drive. Buddy Ryan has entirely recovered from two operations for mastoiditis and reports himself in great condition after a winter spent in hunting ami other outdoor diversions in Oregon. Battle for Second Base. The outlook ia for a merry battle for the second base position. Karl ('ran-dnll, ('ran-dnll, an experienced infielder of three years' service in the American association, associa-tion, comes from the Indianapolis club by purchase. Gard Gislason arid Tom Downey were the club's second basemen base-men tlie latter half of the lltlb' season. Among these three there will no doubt be keen rivalry for the position. The pitching stalT, providing that Da-buc Da-buc comes through, and Hughes. I!a-wittcr. I!a-wittcr. Iloff and Kvans deliver, appears to be in pretty fair shape. If Beruhard can get another big leaguer he will nail him. He has lines out for one. and also for at least one more young pitcher now attached to a. major league club who would come within the four-hnsher rule and whom Bernhard thinks would make a great pitcher in tiiis circuit. Viewing the situation from the sidelines, side-lines, one is led to the conclusion that the Saints are in promising shape to open the season on April o. With the decision of the Portland club to train at Honolulu tiie rlubs of the Coast league have all selected their framing sites. Los Angeles will again train at Llsinnre. Oakland at Boyes Springs, San Vraiu'isco at Sacramento anil Vernon at Los Angeles. |