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Show SALT LAKE TO SELECTJ PARK Directors to Decide on Base-bail Base-bail Grounds for the Coming Season. CLUB SECURES GEDEON Bill James Places Portland, Venice and Zion as First Divisioners. Salt Lake, Jan 20. Within the next two days the baseball faqs of Salt I.nkc v.ii know where the national na-tional game will be played In this city durin;: the 1915 season At a session of thr board of directors yesterday a committee was appointed to Investigate Investi-gate the park situation and report within the next forty-eight hours. The committee js composed of Colonel Lawrence Greene, chairman; Rev. ESlmer 1. Goshen and M. R. Evans. in speaking of a park, Pranl S Murphy, president oi the club, Bald that there had been no decision whether the team would play on the pr Bent field at Eighth South and Main itreet or whether a new plant ' would he secured. A large part of 'this decision ill rest with the com-mitten, com-mitten, when, after its Investigation of the different sites, the three members will hp in a position to decide whether it would be better to stay at Lucas field or seek a new lot. Another committee made up Of George 0 Relf chairman, H.W.Lane and r.eorp;e F Wasson was appointed to take up the matter of business man iis'T or . luh secretary, as most of the major league and class AA magnates prefer to call the man who looks after the real work around the club when u is on the road or at home When either of the committees Is readv to report, and that may be today, to-day, Presldenl Murph) will call a session ses-sion of the board. The meeting which was held at the Hotel Utah and lasted for several hours afl attended by Manager Cllfi Blankenship who discussed players and team with the directors Blank will leave not later than Friday Fri-day for the east. His ojectlve has not been determined yet but he has several wires out to major league managers and when he receives replies re-plies from these he will be able to map out his itinerary Purchase of Gedeon. Manager Cliff Blankenship announced an-nounced last night that he has closed the deal whereby Salt Lake would secure se-cure by purchnse an outfielder, went up from the Pacific t'oast league in L912 and stuck with Washington until un-til late last season, when he was loaned to Los Angeles for several months. Washington, however, recalled re-called him and Salt Lake secured him by purchase. Cedeon hit .278 in the American league and a few points above that In the games he played in the Coast league last season. Blankenship Blank-enship will use him on the infield. Bill James' Dope. And here comes a gent, one Port-' land Bill lames, who backs up what Cliff Blankenship said about Ryan and Zacher hitting the pill here this coming season Bill also figures that Salt Lake will be a contender. Here's the dope: Walter McCredie traded Buddy Ryan into a .400 hatting average, believes be-lieves Portland Bill James, the big right-hand star of the St. Louis Browns' pitching corp3. Smiling Bill dropped off a rattler from San Francisco Fran-cisco and will make Portland his headquarters for a few weeks James is figuring on a bear hunt with Bill Rodgers. in the Rogue River country In southern Oregon Rodeers Lober and Evans are expected back from their upper California exploration explora-tion trip soon. "I think the Salt Lake club is go-inc go-inc to be a first divisioner," declared Bill "Salt Lake City is up in the air about 5000 feet, the ozone is ran fied and Ryan and Zacher will just about pound that pill for 400 apiece "There is going to be a lot heavier batting In the league this year, principally prin-cipally on the part of Salt Lake players, play-ers, who will be home fifteen weeks Of the thirty. Pitchers will find it extremely difficult to curse the ball in the lighter atmosphere and pity what Buddy Ryan. Zacher and some of those groove ball murderers will do to the poor outfielders. "I saw Cliff Blankenship In San1 Francisco the other dav and he said he had this in mind when he bough I Zacher from Oakland and traded Mo-ran Mo-ran to Portland for Ryan." "Smiling Bill" thinks Portland, Venice and Salt Lake will be the first divisioners this season. He doesn't figure Los Angeles at all now, If it is true that Frnie Johnson has gone to the Feds and with Jack Ryan on the verge of following suit. James was a member of the big league barn-storming aggregation that paid a visit to the Hawaiian islands last month. While at Honolulu he olayed a couple ol games against Akana, Chink outfielder, who may try out with the Portland Coasters this spring Bill says Akana is a fairly good fielder and might possibly develop de-velop into a good hitter, but is not as fast as some have proclaimed. |