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Show Cooley Tells Why Salt Lake Will Win Pennant with hie Fifteen yearn' eaperiehce tn major leagues, Dick Cooley" opinion on baseball matters ought to bo authoritative. authorita-tive. As a player and n i manager, lie ban l'nR traveled In fasl company. W the folfowlng, Oooley tolla wliy he expects His Salt Tjekc team i" win thi i nion league pennant. By Dick Cooley TRUE, othei Union ic.icijr- Loams have been Mrencthencl greatly, but after n month f careful observation of my boys, I firmly lielieve they 111 brin llio pennant, to Salt Lake. Our staff f pitchers Includes Morpan. Jensen? B" er, IVrrssan W almost a'l In L nitiLm whi-n I Tehran jA fatijjj&r bH came to ar- sSL ry part of gfl. ' AS the bunion, 'JwfeJffi. lU- his I ..Ml, liHiiBMilllllllslllMW la very classy. .1 onsen Is In fino form and 1 expect the host kind of work from him. Dessan showed lal year what he could rln and he is much better this year. Toothaker I: ;oog enough to be in demand by higher clai i leagues, and Land ft on of the most promising young twlriera In the west. Kiiiiia-. while siilith Indisposed, is on the road to recovery and can he depended upon to ! great work a little later. Thus ii soetns to me We have the elass of the league, so far as pitchers am concerned. No one will be over worked; nd whenever a twlrier goes into this h'.x he can display bla be.t lorn i. in the Infield, Vab la de eloping into what i consider one or the best flr.-t basemen on thf; circuit. Pendleton Pen-dleton la 100 per cent better than h-was h-was last, year, and Devereaui lifia ailrprised us all by got ting Into the boSl condition I have seen him in during nil tin- year.. 1 hav known lilm. tie la fifteen Rounda lighter than ia:;i year. t'ni'. J siHi maintain, is Pig league caliber, and before the year la over I nm confident others will realize tt. Spencer, Bauer and Fortier J consider the hesi outfield in the league. Bauer will atrengtlien US mightily, and FOrtler prod last year thai he can ii"i only play his position, but he ft a: good a batter as any of the opposing teams can show. Weaver and Kelly, aa backstops, T would not trade tor any tour catchers in our association. Buck is certainly the .lass of this league behind the bat. lie could !o In ;i higher class l'-ncue If he did tot have to live in this climate, l.'tah .suits him better than any place he hwf been lie la feeling fine and ready to do a b'g .iliaie (if the work". The way ' lift throWa and wsitchea every point in the game la bound to diake him a pieal faVOrlte with the i'ans Be- aldea his actual playing ability, he la a, real baseball leader. Without arousing resentment In anyone, he gets things dbne as he wants them, i consider him absolutely toe best. man for the place and believe that he will have a laige share In bringing bring-ing th flag to Salt. Lake Th best of pood feeling prevail between all tiie players. Everything Every-thing is harmonious and every one of the boys is eager to help bring the pennant here. With this spirit and the playing-ability playing-ability our boys have, I beliee WS can lead the league |