Show I I I I Ra in hiis ia rs in n noI Good oI Sh pe to Open Season Manager l Wares ares Commences Thinning Out Process I IS S Herald Special Hanford Cal Cat March 2 22 Base Base Baseball Baseball ball bail refuses to be entirely outdone by In- Inthe the weather man Two Inches of rain which fell tell Sunday on the Seattle ScatHe training camp diamond put a quietus on the three game series the had set with tho the Chicago Cubs Cuba but hut later In n the da day after a long long- distance conversation with Secretary John O. O Says of the tho Chicago team at the Cubs' Cubs camp in Pasadena Cal Secretary Rivers ers of oC the Seattle team announced that a single Ins game had been arranged for or Sunday March 28 8 The Cubs were saved three a awful beatings Rivers HI aid said t as s smilingly I surveyed tho the clou clouds s which still hovered over O tho hotel Now thc they will only have to lose loe one he a added but ut we e will beat them three times as bad he went wenton on Then In the serious vein yein I Rivers continued Until the regular regular regular regu regu- lar season opens ever every drop of or rain that falls on the Pacific coast means dollars to baseball We Ve Ve arc are glad to see it come It will make us a little busier on the gates but wo we will like that Manager CI Clyde llo Wares string Is Isnow Isnow now completed In the pink of or condition he says Herb Brenton strolled into the hotel lobby today toda and Rivers immediately got his John Hancock on a a. contract Brenton one of or the right right-handers on last years year's Seattle team has haM been working out with the Vernon team In Los Angeles Ang hence Is down to weight and read ready to go lie He adds the tue final linal touch to tho the pitching staff starr of or the roda Today definite loans were negotiated negotiated negotiated ne ne- ne- ne for Sand Sandy Leyva and Guevara Guc second sacker Backer and outfielder outfielder outfielder out out- fielder of Santa Barbara These two young oung fellows will remain In Hanford still HUll the tho property of tho the Seattle team however hoWo was prospect tonight that I Larry arry Wert Vert the fast young youn c first baseman baseman baseman base base- man from Wash ash would rem remain in here to play with the haford Hanford Han Han- ford Cord team of ot San Joaquin Valley league Other releases or loans were on he the taps bu hut but Manager Mana er Wares ares who is flooded with Proposals proposals pro Pro- teams In the Northwest Northwest North North- west league for Cor men would go so no further I Speaking Speaking- of or the thinning out process that is sure to conic como within S S the next week or 01 ten days clays Wares area m may take the majority of thirty men on the team out but under the league must trim to eighteen elg b by May Ia 1 and run on that strength tren th to September embel The Rainier Will play ball tho the remainder of or tho the week after atter the grounds rounds get back In condition con con- after the present storm The Hanford team lu It shaping up for Cor the season and will cross oss bats with Wares Wares' team a n couple of oC times soon Hanford first l string balter battery consists of oC Howard Gregor Gregory Greg Greg- or ory formerly of of Oakland but now nowa a member Wichita team teats of oC the thc Western Vestern l league a ue and Red fled Baldwin of ot the thc Seals unless Baldwin Baldwin Baldwin Bald Bald- win withdraws his hitS promise to re report report report re- re port here The Seattle team meets tho DInuba team In iii next Sunday and a i game gamo amo will be he arranged arranged arranged ar ar- ar- ar ranged for the first team t to meet some valley valleT club here on that day S 'S I |