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Show GEORGE HEED LEADS GREftTFALLS TEAM Manager of Pennant-Winning Club Sighs Contract for 1912 Season. George Reed, manager of the Great Falls pennanl-wlnnliisr team laFt season, signed a contract at Great Falls yesterday lo direct the destinies of that club during 1!U2. Red accepted terms om weeks aco. but bis signature to a contract was not secured until yesterday. His failure to slsn earlier gave riso to a report that Charles McCaffcri. last season with Missoula, Mis-soula, would succeed him In the man-aperlsl man-aperlsl position, but the matter is "now closed and Reed will attempt toirepcat next year his 1011 success. . ' The Great Falls leader will buve a harder task in 1012 than in tho Initial senson of the I'nlon association. It is an open secret that Great Falls disregarded tho salary limit last year, but the directors direc-tors of that club have promised lo remain re-main within bounds ncoct season and Reed will have to depend on class- C material to win a second pennant. But the former Southern league manager man-ager has fne faculty of getting the best results from his plavors and rival managers man-agers will have to do their bast to beat out last year's champions even though Reed's salary list will show a marked decrease. |