Show HAVE A NEW BUYER FO FOR R THE rHE SEALS Latest t Is That Sacramento Parties Will rill Close Deal Dealin in a Few Fen Days S I PREDICT GRAHAM WILL rILL LEAD CLUB Bill Bin Rodgers Tries to Sign Two to Santa Clara College I Boys for His Team S o Sped ill FRACISCO CISCO Feb 20 S SAN While Bill Rodgers manager maim mana ger gel of the Sacramento club chib said he lie was here to get the dope on ball players who had been offered off offered of of- f red to him and that he lie was looking for a shortstop and an outfielder it is a matter ma of fact that he lie slipped over to St. St Marys Mary's college and tried to sign Ted Brandon and Medlin l of that team Ted is touted as a pitcher hut but his long 1 suit is slamming 1 he the t sphere T and vue V CUI ur UI ot me ui J. J I Las has been trying to snare him for his club Medlin 1 is an nn outfielder er who can call bit The boys bos did not come to terms with ith Manager Mana r Bill today The Tho Seals were not sold to today ay The dope lope now flOW is that Charley Chancy Graham will have a couple of ot fellows here Saturday Sat with Ith plenty of or Jack who will bu buy the Seals cals and the announcement will be made Sunday morning If the tho d deal al goes through Charley Charle Graham will be tho the manaJ manager r. r Maybe larbe this thia deal will 1111 blow up like a lot of ot others have But those who are Interested interested interested inter Inter- ested seem to have a lot of ot faith in it The popular guess tonight Is that the Sacramento man who Is coming to bid for Zoi- tho the Seal franchise Is s none other than Jack Atkin former Sacramento and known well horseman la this connection it I is also hinted that it If Atkin buys he lie will probably reengage reengage en re gage his former Sacramento manager Harry Wolverton But Jack Atkin and Harry Harr Wolverton always managed to get along alonS' well to- to Ke Jether and Atkin has always alwa's been a great admirer of ot Wolverton as a baseball baseball base base- ball ban manager This much is a cinch cinch It If Atkin steps In to buy bup the Seals and the prospects are bright that he ho will he be will have havo a manager who will not b be Inferior toan to an any manager In the league Without any reflections on Jerr Jerry Downs Down Atkin will vIlI step out somewhere and pick up upa a n. manager Wolverton erton has haa said that ho he would not return to baseball but If It there Is one man who can persuade him to change his mind that man Is Atkin Jerry Downs is not Itching for or the tho job of ot manager Jerry likes his second base Job and would be bo probably a lot happier before the end of the thc year If It he could COUll devote ote hi his attention wholly to second ba base baic e and let somebody else worry about the managers manager's job O Of course courie AUtin Athin ha has not yet et stepped in to bu buy out lien Ben Berry's Berrys s interest t. t which Is represented by b notes held bv by Ca Cal Ewing Mike Fisher has been bee mentioned as a possible buyer buer but when l' l Ewing Kwing and Fisher met last last nl night ht in hi what wa was supposed to be bc a decisive conference nothing more came of ot the meeting than thai before In fact when Jawing vIng and Fisher Isher began bean to talk tall in terms term of ot coin they the found they thc were tarth farther larther r apart than before the thc proposition lion tion was first mentioned |