Show i iI I c Cook oo LOk Arrives to fo C Care are for o of Local Baseball u MANAGER I BIZ I is EXPECTING N G GREAT SEASON I Await fait Skipper Herr to Start Star t f-ame f aine Humming Headquarters Head Head- quarters Probably Will Wil TiJI I Open Here Next Saturday r I milE lIE coming season should be one oneL T L 1 of oC the best in the existence of ol L the Pacific Coast league according tc Jack lack Cook business manager r of the thc Salt Lake Liko club who ho returned last night after spending two vo months on the le coast full of enthusiasm over ocr prospects of baseball this Thc changing from ron a a. single to a double umpire system the n addition of Seattle to the league and the interest that is being shown in baseball on the coast all tend to show that this year 1 will be much better than a fair year car Although the season is not yet ct under underway way ly y there is more than the thc usual talk of prospects for the year Seattle Is undoubtedly a 1 class AA 1 baseball city declared Mr r. Ir Cook Cool and and t it it will wU unquestionably bo a a. great great help to to Portland this year rear In creating a amore more Intense Interest in b baseball there i this year On the coast it is s said that there Is Ia more ta talk II of oC base baseball ball teams than ever e Skipper Eddie Herr is expected here I today or at the tho late latest t on Saturday Until Un- Un n til Ill til then neither Pre President dent H. H W W. Line Lane I I nor Mr Cook knows lovs 10 S definitely what the Itlie up line of oC the teams will be bc As usual usual there are still a number of ot holdout players but It Is expected that t thy they 1 y will vm show how up on the tho condition- condition j in- in grounds when training starts Wo Yo were quite fortunate In the election of or training quarters quarter said Mr tr Cook last night Pitts Pittsburg bur is 18 a manufacturing town about na midway beI be- be I tween Oakland and Sacramento It ItI I has ihas one ofle of oC the best bush ball parks In west It Is practically as large as our own park parle and has hns an excellent diamond Besides that there is a good climate and fine hotel There arc are a large arge number of ad- ad towns where semipro baseball ils Us is played so that there will be no trouble In getting games The TheL book book- ring ing of or games ames has been left lert m n tho the hands bands of ot Bill Bm Steen manager of or the Pittsburg club Tho The place is more convenient con than what we had last year ear Everything Is practically ready there for our te team m. m Tko Tho team will probably report at about March farch 6 or 7 and will nay there for Tor or about four weeks The schedule has haR not been dot natel decided dec upon but it H will My l be accepted as ori originally outlined c of Portland submitted a t schedule of or his own which proposed t that tennis teams would pIa play two weeks In Salt Take Lake This was as done as a means of or cutting down the railroad fares As AK Asyet Asyet yet et wo we have been unable to secure an any reduction in this As In the tho past It is Js probable that the schedule will be the same as In Informer InS S former years ears a a. team playing a week weel at a place Under the tho tentative schedule that was vas prepared by Dr Straub Charley Chancy Graham and m myself each ch club will visit Salt Lake o twice during the season With a tv enl t twenty six weeks week's schedule there will be thirteen weeks of or playing at home and thirteen weeks 1 on the road This schedule will probably be adopted as soon as tho the otIn votIng voting ot vot vot- In ing Is complete Wo have hare the promise of ot a goodyear good c goodyear year for tor baseball f if what I have ha heard on tho the coast is an any Indication I hardly dt know no w how how tl the e feeling is Is In can caLL aH j LaKO aKo aC as i L na nave nac c just ed arri It is probable that we wo will cill have havethe the matter of or headquarters headquarters' for tle the ball team here settled by Saturday an and will be bc oP n for business The matter maller of or the personnel of or the team Is en entirely en- en in the hands hantIs of or Mr tr Herr As he will wm bo ho here in a n tIa day or two it is probable that tho the baseball season will willS I S bc begin ln to take shape The scare care of losing Its franchise I Is declared to have been one of or the best things that could have happened to Sacramento There ha has been an unusual unusual unusual un un- un- un usual revival hal o of spirit l there and the iame game will bo ho well supported there this season ItIs probable that Carl Crandall may not report to Salt SaIl Lake Lal this year ear and although there has been a report of ot Los Angeles wanting the player there thero has been no negotiations nes opened up with the Salt Lake club for him Carl Is la now a driller for the Standard Oil on company compan and has a good position His friends sa say he do doth not feel like sh king It up for tor baseball 1 i a Portland Ore Feb eb 27 PItcher i. Pitcher Red ned Oldham who wa was with San Y Francisco and Detroit before beCore he hc joined the arm array army will be a member of the Pacific Coast league team this Is year according to word ord re received I today toda by Manager Walt alt of ot l Portland Oldham has been mustered out out of ot the arm army I He lip would be sold to Portland Ortland tho the message messac sa said Raid S New cw York Feb 27 A A A movement In faVor a or of extending the HO- HO game gamo ame schedule In the National and antI American leagues to lo the old od length of or games ames was as started hero today by Col Cot T 11 F J. J L. L Huston owner half-owner of or the New New NewYork York Americans Harry Frazee owner of ot the tho Boston Americans and Charles Stoneham president of oC the New NeP York Nationals are said to have indorsed plan j Huston said Was vas with him and d of ot Chicago also favored the Ion lone lone- schedule |