Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1919-02-09 | Page 31 | Local Boosters Are Happy on Selection of Herr as Skipper

I ri r y LOCAL BOOSTERS ARE i 1 i HAPPY ON SELECTION I 1 t. t OF HERR AS SKIPPER I L' L I. I I Ees Already Cast o on n Opening Date Set Jo for April 8 I President Bill Lane Lalle Says Locals Will Have Team That 1 Will ili Win Tin More Games Than It Will Lose Bill Lane Lano back baak from the meeting of Coast league managers in t WITH W San Ban Francisco and his bis plans announced to the public Salt Lake Lake fans fansT are an bapp T They're ro Tight right sure that that th they're cy re gom going g g to see a rattling good n brand of national nations 1 pastime and their ey eyes eves s are re already cast cat upon the e opening g date the te p pa 9 8 although ugh it is two months away in the tue t fl e c calendar April In fact ins runnY many a fan yesterday ny hunted up a a. red pencil and crossed the them W April Amil Page pae of the calendar with a n big big- cross April 8 is 8 m t the e sureh 8 square a re S Coin an Ol to 10 ebe be n a red eS fitter letter day in In I Salt Lake baseball circles circle 4 come back r- r I seb Ts is Is expected to after the the- thel holler and a with a whoop war an and draft put putI l' l Quietus quietus which the tho I on It thinks Lane All the tho baseball mana managers ers who were said that this Is go- go o- o conference it H tho the baseball has to be tho the biggest year lag Ing ho he said All o of them are known notches to put good a few straining field and all Coast l league tho the t hams faros in good quality of ot assured of or a fans are arc exhibitions national pastime the exact didn't have an t Lane yesterday Ibe whereabouts of or all the tho plays play- play the thc line on still under contract with I lers t s who arc are In coop only tho the thet Bees But as the In organized organ organ- find shelter sheller hl h the they can hed baseball Is the hive from which it la is likely they swarmed armed last year car that most moat of or them v ii vitI ill como come home to tG toK K roost lost Players For pitcher Is in France word from but Lane recently received hI his sister that ho wa was Intending to return re re- according to reports reports re re- turn soon ports ports has as good a a. batting atUn ora 3 average averageS e with ith a Lee Enfield as he has hal with tho the S- S Sith willow mow lie He la is a a. sharpshooter with a record circles He re reported rePorted re- re Pacific coast tit l gun bun po ported ted to Camp Lewis Lewia last November Jb On November o 15 Hi he ho sent word here that he ho was on his hisa way a to France andon and on on n December 1 sent word that ho he had arrived safely This is one of ot the quickest records s made by an any of or the khaki clad boys bOs In getting across theIS' theIS the tiff big IS' IS pond So It is quite quilo likely that will 11 turn up u some soma time lime in the course of tho the training seaSon seaRon The Thc other members members mem mem- bers ers of r the tho old pitching staff start upon whom Lano Lane is counting arc are Walter alter Leverenz Lt Allen Conkwright Salt Lal Lake boy toy Edgar Ed-ar recruited from Crom tho the Texas league and Jean Dubuc In the infield Sheely Gislason Bill Billy PIT Orr Sands lolls and Cr Crandall arc sch scheduled to return So Outfielders Budd Buddy R Ryan an an and 1 Ward limiter and nd Catchers Catcher Konnick and Byler will also abo be on deck lI Herr rr to 0 G Jet Get t Six Sir MoreIn More MoreIn In addition to those these men Ed Eddie Herr uio U the 10 new c In manager maber has been een instructed 1 iio i n J look ook up six new players including b three no outfielders a 3 pitcher a a. second Baseman b seman and a 3 catcher catchier I Herrs Herr's crr's long experience in tho the world of or baseball r U tr Elves ives him hint a good line on ever every player ii 2 of note oto in the game Ho lie can bo be dol do- do l upon to pick out soma somo goo good d ones nes lIe nc is quoted quote as aH saying ng that h ho hol e III l try to balance limo tho staff start with al a 3 stew l I promising I r youngsters o n r r from the thc Ic bush b Ih h 1 f t h bU 1 and a cw n o VL t L o near UlI Herr as aa manager of ot the Winnipeg team learn for Cor three years brought ht thai tha t team learn in as pennant winners twice which i Is to a a. good augury of or what ho he I 1 If s likely to do in Salt Lake Besides there are arc no tricks of or the ho game gama thai that are iro new to him He Ito comes to Salt Lak Lah o Direct from tho the St Louis Browns Drowns foi fo whom ho he ha has has' been lIcen tho tine fc r Herr err Is due to como come to Salt Lake about March 1 lIe HC will meet tho the loca local l tans fans size up things an and 1 then fien hie llie himIn him him- In pelf to where the team wilKO will wil I KO go o Into training at Pittsburg Pills Pitta- burg or M WS ivas as the tho training place the Bees this year ear ln In Preference e t tc o lile m because In the ur opinion o oi 01 Lane It U offers fa tar far r Better fro WIth local for i s Homo omo good P practice dlce game s talent Time The flee limited Halted In n this direction at last cre e fou found t d a drawback i I. I Like J The e practice nf Hess game schedule or of th c at iM r f I alley Ilive live rg g will wit I be in the hand one Who the gam am e t pit her Steen wino has Served na ns a Americans on the lino state staff of the thc Clev clan d S San n Bran iSi and d o on n the tho 1 Portland il nun ant Cisco teams ot or tho Coas leg eague 5 u e lie t. t has b a bah Interest n. n built up lip c n e phere o L he i Is around l ron foreman of ot the thc Columba s works bur age not o only my has this but l It egg t Is nt a n. pretty t town lown wi with t hex exoa ex ex- o oa It II Is la tho o Oakland Oakl locate locale d d' d Antioch Easter ie lin n Ei line Une ab about ut ha way half l way n Stages CI and Sacramento l teams t ea s i man many 1 or of the tho other C Coast ast lea league u train a pe nearby there will I b o opportunity for time tho h players t 1 o other antI m ll 1001 0 1 each othel d will ivill bt ten at Crockett Js CI o. o r sa miles hales i aWay ay toward San Fran Soul i fifty Sacramento mile will Wl 1 train at home from the tho Dee Bees n 1 Francisco camp rl ct Is to lu t ta train all at Sant a tt e l t re an and iriles off ocr Los Art n attle tle Ill m will train nt at t ho homo home me train at raft lart 1 and amid BUI train Oakland I il at Hoyce Boyce oce Springs 3 r