Show I STOVE LEAGUE AGUE I GOSSI The absence of or Catcher Mike ia is not rot making a I hit with Walter rater McCredie McCredie Mc- Mc Credie Credie A regular catcher Is bad badly needed at this lila time of or the year ar In the building up UI of or team work and the players player's rs abSenCe absenCe absence ab ab- ab- ab sence Is therefore putting the club under undera unde a n. handicap He was supposed ed to have left lef Now New York rork ten days S SWord ago ago Word or from rom Porterville that some pome of ot the scheduled practice games gaines ame have havo been culp culled Called off or ma may mike make It necessary for to hold on to all aU of his men considerable longer than expected In order to have two clubs available for practice Harr Harry Evans l the young Colorado Colordo Colo Cob made rado rdo busher will wl J likely el be he released before before be be- I fore the wc week k Is at an end i iS S S S 1 Every lvery er letter better leter from that I the local offices contains loal some 1 sort of a favorable mention menton regarding re he abit ability of or Allen Alien the young oUn Salt Lake pitcher picher Mac says as a's the thebo bo boy has the goods and accepts accept advice ill n I willingly If It Rube nub l Evans Evane vana is wi wise lift he ht will 1 catch an early earl train for or Porter le look up Walter r and Inform the skipper that he ho Is lI rend ready to give II c him bin tho heRthe best heRt he has hag Mao Mae has haa nothing personal against g Evans n but Rube will wi hav have to attend strictly to his knitting if f he does report letters Indicate that he thinks sufficiently well vell wel of or the abilities of or and Arkenberg to feel In Inclined In- In dined to carr carry them on his regular staff The lIce Bee lee m manager nal r appears to think mor morn more of young oung Hinkles Hinkle's ability as the workouts progress A O. O little time and work may make a n catcher out of him sal said McCredie in his latt last letter leler to Jack Cook S S Gould Penner Le Dubuc McCabe Mo- Mo Cabe Arkenberg and Is 11 not nota n n. bad bd looking pitching II staff to start on There are no Chester Hoffs Hofs or Chief Laro on It i at an any rate I Karl Crandall evidently figures that tha ho hoIs hois hois is In such good shape as a result re ul of or having played winter inter ball Lal that h h. lie can hold out until the last lal minute and jump right Into the game Jarc Its It's a 10 to 1 bet bE that Karl will vili wi be playing the third cushion wh when n the says play pIa ball bail ballat bailat bal balat at Los Io Angeles on 01 tho the afternoon of April 2 Tho The local club has h heard nary a word nar from Ivan Howard Several Se of the Northwestern league leage clubs would like Iko an out to to fire re President President Pres Pres- ident blent Bobby but Lt thc they haven't a chance as 8 Bob Dob has a year three contract contract con con- tract with two more years ears to to togo go Tho The vo J Montana towns are aro said to be es especially s set net against him hUn Curle Curley Brown Is still an Angel holdout holdout holdout hold hold- out and President POV has hns threatened to soil sell 81 him outside or ot tho the league leage If I ho he hodo do dos dos s not hot sign sig Billie Burke Durco who trained the Bees for forthe forthe forthe the past three years ears quit baseball to help rivet rhet ships In San Francisco bo- bo causo he was getting 1140 10 a n 11 day a for that work ork according according to Harl M Maggert gert Secretary Weber r b says Rays that Burke wanted to got get the lie training raining berth for the lie Angels this year Los year Los Angeles des Herald Somebody put pulled d A toot loot In the Speas family when Billys Billy's letter leter containing his terms to manage manao th the Portland team were sent ent to Judge McCredie says ys tho the Portland Portland Port Port- Por- Por land Oregonian According to a a letter leter received ed yesterday esterday from Speas b by the Portland magnate Bi Billy said sid h lie he was out I of or town when Jud Judge e McCredie's telegram arrived In which the Portland magnate asked Speas for his terms Speas wrote that some members member of his hie family ramly with lofty I Ideas s About frenzied finance took i I It I upon their th lr shoulders to answer the Portland nd magnates magnate's telegram asking Bm Billy I for or his hs terms and as us a result resul Speas was sent nf In on skates and skidded himself out of or a n Job SAN FRANCISCO March 14 Oscar H.-Oscar Oscar Horstman St. St St Louis hurler formerly with wih th the Angels will wi be the tho next time big I to cast Ct his lot with the marine corps at Mare Marc leland Island In a letter leter to Ray flay RayFord Ry Ford southpaw ch chUcker recently enrolled enrolled en en- rolled at Itt the lie Island Horstman announces his Intention of or making tracks for the recruiting station Ford was a former teammate of or and anti has eon scon service serice In the tho th Southern league S S TACOMA Wash ash March 14 Walter Walter Malta Malls lal l t big erratic who went to the big bl leagues from tho Seattle Giants Giant If Is out working his old side side- tide tide- wheeler and hurling tho the pill pi a again In Mall Mails I II will wi be bo In the tho biggest game of the world probably this year Cr heaving caving aing perfectly god good American bullets s bule at tho the Huns Ho Is I at nt Camp Lewis and ha has attached himself to tho the machine gun Jun un company team of the tho 33 SOld Infantry regiment This team te has somo of the fastest ball bail bal players In the camp and Is ready redy to give battle batte to nf any other nine there theme therl S SAllan Allan Alan Sutton Sothoron form toner r Portland Portland Port Port- land t hurler humler and now with the We St St. St Louts Louis Browns has recommended an an Infielder named Iro Martin to Judge McCredie According to Sothoron's letter leter Martin I played with the Dayton club In the I Central leau league but the record book bok I shows hows that no Martin cavorted d In that circuit last lat season Jeason d Portland Tele Telegram rm The Tho Loa Lea Ll Angeles club Is Ie far from complete corn com Cm- Cm Tho The third ba base problem still Is bothering Killifer and unless e the Cubs are able ble to do something for tho An Angels els they will wi bo be we wea weak l around o that tha corner corn r. r Bill BUI wears swears that he hc will wi not Join Bi the ng Angels IR this year but Knitter says Bays that Kenney Kenne would rather pIa play ball ban than tun cat and md h h expects him to report |