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Show f ' S i d CIIE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, SUNDAY MORNING, .MARCH 28, 1920, Some of the Salt Lake Bees in Training for 1920 Coast League Season 'ihArlfT EDDIE MULOGXrC TW?Q BASE BILL y ;? MAGGERT V V, fc center held: s. U: V'Sx, !'7 0 l'l PITCHING PROBLEM OF BEES APPEARS NEAR TO SOLUTION With Signing of Cullop and Reiger Only Gould Remains to Be Heard From Definitely; Rainy Weather at Boyes Springs Training Camp Is Cause of Epidemic of Colds. By J. C. D. JOHNSON. Boyes 27. There Cal.. March CAMP great rejoicing In our camp when it wae announced that Nick Cullop, thw celebrated left liand fllnger, would join the Beta at Salt take upon their arrival there. A telegram waa received from Nick, dated Chllhowle, Va eaying that he would leave "Ole Vaginy" next Monday. Cullop haa been suffering from a attack of Influenia and It may require a month or six weeks of time to s condition. The put him into elub, however, is not hard pressed for pitchers to start the season, and Nick will get into the fray just about the time the race begins to shape Itself. The newa from Virginia was cheerful tidings for ths boys here, es well as for Skipper Johnson, ss It relieved the sltua-tio- a In regard to Cullop. If Al Could will now please send us a telegram, everything will be lovely, so far aa the pitching department Is concerned. ERNIE se-ve- re first-clas- Reiger Valuable Heaver. The addition of Elmer Reiger puts the heaving corps In excellent condition to pen the season. Reiger Is a Coast league fllnger of long service, snd last year pitched some great baseball for Seattle. Johnson thinks Reiger will give the - Bees some excellent slab service. Reiger wae to have taken a whirl at tha Santa Rosa club tomorrow, but he jumped up a stiff neck this forenoon nnd will probably use the neck during the next few day exclusively for swallowing purposes. Duks Reilly enjoyed a day In bed .today. The duke apparently had gone at his training with an excess of seal and Is suffering the consequences of too much pep. Hie ailment is not serious and hs will probably be right side up tomorrow. The weather here during the laet eev eral days has been more fit for training huskies for participation in a sweepstakes than for training ball players. The whole squad, almost without exception, has Individual and eolleottvs colds that make handkerchiefs popular Ths coughing in barracks at night sounds like a dog show. This afternoon the weather was somewhat Improved, but a him make Increasingly probable that chill wind cut across the diamond and Hemle Sand Itwill be the Bees' second made standing still a painful pastime. man at the start of the season. Hepee. has The afternoon work, however, wee been showing greet speed, a whiplike Snappy. The bos have managed to get arm and a fine determination to master In shape to offer stubborn resistance to the intricacies of the position. The sudden weather changes, but they are all skipper Is much impressed with Heinle'a glad that the training season Is drawing work at second, and it would surprise noto a close and that they are going to a body in this camp to see the little hustler country where folks do not attempt te capture the berth for keeps. Salt iAke delude themselves Into believing that It's fans, at any rate, have the consolation warm when they are shivering and blue of knowing that Helnie will play a mighty around the gills, and make preparations eight better second baae than played accordingly. for the first six weeks of theKrug 1912 seaThe continued absence of Marty Krug son. , aryl, similarly ths. absence of- - word from Ths game at Santa Rosa 'tomorrow Is expected to be a stiffly contested battle. Walter Nagle, former Coast league fllnger, has built up a strong club there and the Bees will have to extend themselves, waiter Leveren and Eddie Matteson are Manager Johnsons selections for mound duty on the Balt Lake side. About players will make the trip in autos. The remainder of the will stay here and have a workout Insquad the afternoon. flf-te- the Club? YIPPERS WIN FkOM St. Youd Better Hurry, Boys! these If you expect to get one of leading? wheels at $2 a week, act have to boys, youll quickly. in our Memberships Bicycle Chib are roinr fast. Only 100 members are admitted for the reason that hikes are scarce it's almost impossible to get them. And a 7c car fare will put wheels in great demand. GET IN NOW. 100 Pair $5 Tires at $3 Hsre's a gpecial offer that ought to appeal to very bike owner la the city. These tires are the very beet makes never sold for less than IS. want them at fa, action will count, ilust. I00 pair to go at If y this price. marts college hpeeiel te The Trlfcsee. SACRAMENTO, Cal.. March 77,-St. Marys college ball toesers were verely trounced In a game with the n here today. The final score waa 11 to t. The Rodger hopefuls had their batting eyes with them this afternoon and hammered the ofleringi of the hurlers to the four corners of thecollege lot. Orr and Middleton led tha Tlppen In hitting, ith three singles In five trips to the rubber. Mollwits hit safely twlee. McGaffigan le developing on the lines this eorlng and greet speed managed to pi fer four Backs this afternoon. The lube meet again tomorrow. The Tip-pe- OAKLAND WINS TWO PRACTICE CONTESTS kpeclal te Tke Trlboae. OAKLAND. Cal.. March 7 The d regulars made It seven straight t vine In as many games played by cop. ) Ing both games of a double-headthis In the first game Pet Regan iftemoon. vnd Lefty Winn made the team f tha Presidio look like a lot of school. oe. Regan pitched five Innings and 'or the firet time pet hooks on his hoots. Winn allowed one scratch hit la he last four Innings. The fielding and base running by Rol- Zekier featured. The score was 4 to . In the second game the Oaks did ' eavy kitting in the punches and won by Oak-lan- er GUTHRIE GO.:; 3E00ND WASATCH SOUTH 5 frer Johnson Serric. V BYLEI CATCH Nome-to-Cand- le Have You Joined SS8 CAST HITCH' the ver Johnson 1 all-ar- 1 , VkJ White Sox Twirler Appear Unhampered by New Pitching Rule. . ' 1r (Chloajo Tribune Special Service.) Texas, March 27. New rules'' to regulate the method of pitching In the,, major leagues apparently will not bother Eddie Clcotte, the star slabman of the . White Sox. He proved as much here to. day when he cut loose with an asaort-ment of stuff good to behold. When the rule tinkers went to work lot of re-- ,.; this winter they set don n s'trirtlons tending to do away with fte shlno ball, tha aplt ball, use of emery The. ponder, alum, licorice and such. Imme-r- c object was to Increase batting. dlately this became known, south id'"" fan began to Inquires. , How will this affect Eddie Clcotte? : He gave the answer today. For the-- .: first time this spring, he stepped to then slab In batting practice. Hitting ceased when he chose to pitch. Happy Felsih wae the first man to face Clcotte. The little fellow cut looee curves and speed, mixed up with whst h calls a "sinker," and had Felsch swinging wildly. McMulIln followed the center fielder. Now, Mac has been playing ball all winter in California and ie at the top of his game. Yet Clcotte whlxzed the ball past him a great many times. It was noted that Clcotte was extremely careful not to do anything which might lead an umpire to euspect he waa employing any of the outlawed forms of hurling. He just drew back his arm and pitched The reetille were startling, tven to Manager Gleason, who suspected his pitching ace to be in good form. Clcotte worked for about twenty minutes and spent the remainder of the practice period chasing fly balls. The new rules win not bother him a bit," Manager G'eason declared this evening. "He has all the etuff he needs, without the 'shine bail, or anything like that. Ae a matter of fact, of the time batters were squawking shout him rubbing the ball on hie trousers he was fooling them by good, pitching. The sains be).' so far as he was concerned, was mostly a mvth but he fooled a lot of thtm by fak- WACO, a score from the Oakland chamber of commerce nine. BHIy Lane clicked out three of the hits In pinches. Buxx Arlett pitched the first four Innings and showed eigne of being weak after an attack of the Influenza. Geartn finished the game. A tmaahlng single to left by Claude Mitchell tied the score for the Oaks when the commerce bovs were leading, 4 to 1, in the third. The Oaks will play another double-headtomorrow. Tha score: R.H.E First game tv 1 I 2 Oakland .... Batteries Shader and Ogden; Regan, Winn and Dorman. R.H.E. Second game Chamber of Commerce Oakland Batteries Dolan and Spellman; R. Arlett, Oearln and Mitze, -5 T er All-Ar- $41 Farther Advanced 77 Than Angels for Opening 81 DOOLEYf CATCHER, HURTS HIS HAND (peril te The Trlboae. STOCKTON, Cal.. March 7.The flnx on Seal catchers is still working Wlth Sam Agnew juat out of the hospital with in a bandage, swathed hl left hand young Joe Dooley, one of the kid catchers, wae sent to the hosp'tai this afternoon with the third finger on hie right hand broken. That leaves only Anftnenrt to catch the games with the Cubs this week. It is possible that Red Baldwin, who he'on-- e t the Rests, but who hss no signed, will be sent for to help out In Another effort Is being emergency. the made to ret Heck Spencer Into the fold The yannlgans again beat the regulars today, 2 to 1. , RAY BATES DECIDES TO QUIT BASEBALL Special te The Trtbea. HANFORD. Cal., March 77. One of baseball's most promising players laid aside bis tools and nult the game today when Ray Bates wa'ked tin to Vanaver Wares In the hotel lobby and said that hia belt playing days were over. It had been rumored for some time thst the inflelders arm has not been healing, and the report was verlfed when Bates himself stated that he had riven ur all hope of curing the ailing member. Ths passing ef the brilliant Inflelder is Bates baa been carefully pathetic. nuraing hla arm ever since the ailment deveioted more than a year ago. He lovee to p'ay baseball, and nothing but the weak throwing wing has kept him out Tigers of League Season. gptrial to The Trlboae. LOS ANGELES, Cal., March 27. Tha sun returned to southern California today, dissipating the rain cloud which ef late have so seriously disarranged the schedule of exhibition games batween the Cubs and the Angels and the Tigers. At Washington park the final game of the series between Vernon and the big leaguer waa played. Tomorrow afternoon the Cube meet the Seals in San Francisco. On the way, they will stop off at Hanford and play ons game with the Seattle training squad. In the game today, Chicago .ehut out Vernon, 2 to 0. Vernon got ten hits to Vernon made two seven by Chicago. errors. Vaughn, Bailey and Klllefer tha Chicago battery and From Dell and De Vorm- -r worked for Vernon, The exhibition games here have served ad ", of the majors. But ha haa come to the conclusion that tha arm is dead. Furthermore. Bate s wife is slowly going blind, he told the boys th.s morning, and he has decided to forsake baseball and settle on a ranch somewhere in this vicinity. He packed up today and leavas earpp Sunday morning While hoping that Batea would come around, Warca foresaw the possibility of whet haa happened and laid his pane acfceatt'e fana wera surprised cordingly. when Mares shifted Rod Moiph to lira! and put Bohns on third, as it was originally planned to piacs Bates on the Initial base. As things have turned out. Wares planned wisetv and well, ss the season le out nine davs away, and the infield will not be broken up by the lots of tne former Los Angeles boy. the double purpose of entertaining thousands of fans and at ths same time baring the weak spots of the Coast league Clubs here, ReveIat4ons of these weaknesses have automatically placed the Angels and Tigers In comparison, with the result that the latter club, tgn days before the opening of the league season, appear greatly the superior of the former In about all the qualities that go to make up a winping baseball machine. Aa thing stand today, the Tigers present A Club capable of fighting throughout the season a hard, winning battle, compelling all league rivals to be at tension constantly, and this desptta the fact Meusel, Beck, Dawson, Houck and Fin. neran ars gone. If the Tigers are in need of anything Easlck ha as especially, it Is pitchers. mainstays Fromm., Dell, Schneider and Wes Willie Mitchell. Ross Is out because of Injuries and probably will not be able to accompany the elub on its first road trip. Of Eselcks young pitchers. It Is prob-abl- e Hill and Mann will stick throughout the season. Heaving reinforcement, however, it Is most probable, will soon be forthcoming as a result of the present trip east of President Ed. Maier, who Is headed Yet straight for Yankee headquarters. such player as he may obtain hardly can get here and bectyne used to coast condition before a month of the season j spent, Of the old reliable upon the mound, Fchnelder appears in best condition. In Thursday's game with the Cubs he especially shone. On their way north to open the season with the Seale, the Tigers will play two exhibition games at Madera. The games, which will be with a Madera local organisation, are expected to be lively affairs as the mound opponent In one will be Dutch Leonard and in tha other Jack Gllligan. The revelation of Tiger superiority la causing Manager Wade Klllefer of the Angela to exert himself to gat the club In the best possible condition tor April As things stand right now, the Angels, side from pitchers, lack many things. The Infield In weak and ther is a noticeable lack of speed. Aa a result of his visit to I via Aneeles snd a stimulating talk with Scout Eddie Herr of the Detroit Tigers, Manager V,l!er MeCredle of Portland has emerged from the recesses of Ontario with a statement as to the hopes, condition ard prospects of the Beavera Despite his optimism, MeCredle, before he can figure himself in the game this season, must procure en outfielder, three lnfleldera and two or more pitchers. 1 . three-fourt- nf;ieason ays If the remainder of ths Infle'ders were present the White Sox would' be reedy to open the championThe veterans ship season In a week. reported in much better shape than none of them being fat, whereas 5 eoms of the joungaters gave evidence ofxs having spent more time at the table than In training during the Idle time. , Gilbert Wgrd lea, . NEW YORK. March 27. Word of the death of Gilbert Ward, on of the four Ward brothers, whose rowing features earned them International fame a holf-t- e rentufy ago, wae. received here today. He died in l'aalc, N. J . at the age of 7. A'exander Ward of Ihlledelphla I MOW the sae survivor of the crew. |