| Show I ON THE DIAMOND I The Salt Lake Business College will I I play the City team of Logan at Logan tomorrow Manager Midgley of the college team has arranged an exrtir tlon trip for two days a 3SO for the round trip A ball will be given at night In honor of the visitors Will Smith the third baseman and pitcher In the High School team baa been secured se-cured to play on third base on the college col-lege team Jack Mclneckc the crack second I baseman of the Rio Grande team may not be able to play any more bal this year Melncckes left arm Is badly l I crippled and he Is compelled lo carry his wing In splints A new man will f have to be secured for the position d S 0 Umpire C H Griffin has resigned his postlon and in his letter of resignation resigna-tion to President Horn yesterday gives as a reason the small consideration allowed him Mr Griffin mys he believes be-lieves S3 per game Is not commensurate with the duties required of an umpire I In Salt Lake where tho attendance and l receipts are so much greater than dn other towns of the league and states that had he known In advance that 3 had been agreed upon he would never have consented to act In closing his letter Mr Griffin says In taking this step I desire to extend to the officers of the league as well aa to the players my lest wishes and assuring as-suring them that they shall have my hearty support for the future as In the past with Just a little less of unrequited I unre-quited labor Believe me yours very truly 1 The resignation of Mr Griffin Is regretted re-gretted alike by baseball men and patrons pa-trons of the game He understands baseball as perhaps few other men In the Weal do Mr Griffin played professional pro-fessional ball for years assisted In framing the rules and consequently knows what every rule In the book Is for He is never in doubt as to a decision de-cision 1 and his fairness Is admllled by all who have over seen him umpire a game I Is I hoped that arrangementH can be made so that he will continue to I act here No one man In Salt Luke haw done more to make the game a I success here than Mr Griffin who has done more than enough manual labor I I alone In preparing the diamond for games than his pay as umpire would warrant I I w 0 4 l Sam Browning the substitute umpire um-pire has declared his Intention of not acting any further and this makes It necessary to secure an umpire for tomorrows to-morrows games About the best available avail-able timber known here Is Hugh Smith who gave good satisfaction In several games last year His only weakness was in allowing the players to talk to him too much but this need not be tolerated this year with the lining system sys-tem in ore S 0 9 There will be a number of changes in the lineup of the Short Line team within the next week The changes will begin with tomorrows game at Ogden Harry Miller the little shortstop short-stop who played such creditable ball last season was released at his own request yesterday Harry has not been In good health this season and was I very reluctant to put on a uniform at all but was finally won over by other members of the team only to prove something of a disappointment as he had predicted To replace him Manager Mana-ger Clpplngel yesterday signed Fred I Cain who has been playing In the Denver Den-ver City league and will arrive today I Cain Is not a stranger here where he I played n good Infield last year He Is a I i I small man and very active and should prove a strong addition to the tcam Manager Cllpplnser has also wired for a new pitcher The man he is after Is John Redman of Lebanon Kan who Is said lo be very fast In the box A reply re-ply from him Is expected today Clip Is also after Second Baseman Dunn who wanted to come here earlier In the I season but could not be placed An effort ef-fort vIii now be made to get him away from Sioux Falls where Is playing I Lieut White will play on second In the game at Ogden tomorrow |
