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Show KENNETH WILLIAMS MUSTERED OUT - OFSERVJCE Former Coast Cloutcr Say Hc' in No Hurry to Sign Baseball Contract. PORTLAND, FW. Ken Wii Hams, one of the mmt spertacu- i Ur HluKKers who ever drew pa , from the Portland hall cluh, ha arrived In the Rose 'tty looking fit U start the season riirht now. Ken vi attired In uniform, having lust rVceived hi honorable dlscharefl from Jefferson barracks, near Ht Ixmls, where he ha been quartered since enlisting In the hitov last May. William says the army life is not ajfaflba d Jl m it ia tju-tm ed bv sv mt r the aolTTicrs! ami thTt i? he bar nothing but a common lob to look forward for-ward to after peace is declared h' . nvrht b inclined to remain In th' I service. t'ontrnry to general opinion, the bis outfielder enllNted In the army Inst ear I of being drafted. He tried out wilr i the St. Louis American during sprinc 1 practice nnd had inched the regulai t-reiilr Tlel.lcr berth. Ho started th j season, hut found that he was golna I to be called In the draft ahortly, anc j started for his home In Oranl'a Pasr only to turn around and enlit at Jef -! ferson barracks, beat hi g the draf ! board to it. ! William played on the baseball tearr 1 there anil bo may-a (hut It w ret ball club at that. Among its mem hen were aueh men a Al Omild, wh pitched for Cleveland and later went to Toronto; Orover Iand. form-i i i'leveland catcher: 0ne IaJe. Cincin-; Cincin-; nnti pitcher: Eddie Mulligan, wh played second for the uhs for awhile; j Jantzen. a former St. Ixuit Hrowna I outfielder; Kagg. an outfielder fmir the New York Htate league, arid Mickey Heltxer, who had ithm had pro feaaional experience. The J fferaon b.irracks team defeated the Oreat Iakes naval training station team in four out of five games, but the lattei didn't liave Red r'aber woiklng for them in any of thee contests. They also managed to clean up in the ma-j ma-j Jority of the other ramr they pliyed Williams' baseball rtattm if n Tittle ; peunlli . He IH reilllV toft rrnpeHy 0' ; the Portland club at prc-aent. although on an option to St. Louis last spring i The Browns were to have had "until (May 15 to have paid for him. but he i entered the army before that time, eo j they will be given the same chance I net spring. 1 Ken says he will be wilting to sign I again for any fair salary, but won't be a in any hure-when offered a contract- I If the salary offered htm isn't up to what he expects, he w ill ask to be I traded or sent back to Portland. ! He has left for h!s home In (frant's i Pass, and will remain there taking It , easy until the playing season rolls around again, after his strenuous life as a soldier. Williams was a member of the Eighteenth recruit company. renerar service Infsntrv. |