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Show I Trying to Raise the 1 ! Percentage, Cy Vasbinder, Dode Brinker Ik and Dan Laliy Join the In Miners. VSevernl Old-Time Players Dropped I From the List by the Team's i8 Manager. MHKTGRD comes front the North that t irnnflBcr Waller Wllmot of the t f y Butto team has Inaugurated a num- ber of reform movements which ho tfceJIeves will materially improve tho percentage, per-centage, of the Miner's tciim. lie has se-cured se-cured the assistance of several now artists rand dispensed with that of others. : Among: the new acquisitions are Cy Vasbinder, Dodo Brinker and Dan Laliy. fHoffmelster has been given his release and :wlll no longer grace third hasc adorned In Lthe Miner's uniform, lie is an cx-Nntlon-al leaguer and Is reputed to be there, but ho has evidently failed to furnish tho fgoods. Drlnkwater. who joined the Miners while In Zlon, has also been given his rc-. rc-. lease, i Cy Vasbinder. one of tho now acquisitions, acquisi-tions, left Minneapolis yesterday and will reach Butte in time for the Spokano series. Vasbinder Is from Sallnevllle, O., and has played with the Cincinnati Nationals. For the list two years Vasbinder has been one of the leading slab artists on the. Mlnnc-n Mlnnc-n nnolls team. He Is six feet tall and a jm corking good pitcher. Ho ranks fifth among tho pitchers who participated In the lake region league. Last season ho Sf)L played In thirty-four games, had two er-I er-I rors chalked up against him and Came out with a pitching percenlago of .170. As at a pitcher ho In well nigh a top-notcher. O. but he evidently falls as a batter. Last 'JByenr ho batted 200 per cent, ft Dan Lnlly. an old teammato of Vas-K Vas-K hinder, Is another of "Wllmot's converts iKLast year ho played with Minneapolis, but M formerly he was a member of tho Pllts- burg team. Laliy Is evidently one of the best fielders In the country and the Elders K will have to take Care that thev don't dl- rcct any long flies over in his garden. Last year he participated In 134 games. Mfcmado 330 putouta and has only eleven er-Jwror er-Jwror chalked up against him. Ills Holding jfpercentnge totals way up to .963. ivith IMtho stick he Is not so expert, but a record ffiHof ,C7 isn t so bad. MB: E6d Brinker. the third convert. Is little ujKKnown in thesn regions, but Wllmot dc-TO dc-TO Clares that he is a great find. He haa liR'Scn Plch'ne the finest kind of ball in V Washington for tho university team and II leave for Butto about June 10. |