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Show SALT LAKE TEAI IS CLASSY AGGREGATION Players Thus Far Signed Are Assurance of Pennant-Winning Pennant-Winning Club. . With rhe addition of two or three men, the Salt Lako baseball squad will be complete. com-plete. Manager Hester expects to get one or two additional pitchers and an in-rlcldcr- The backstopplng talent ia still unsettled, but Hester has linos out that will, no doubt, hook the right men. Mc-Claln Mc-Claln will, in all probability, bo with the club again, although he nas not yet signed a contract. ,..,, Willis Morgan is expected in Salt Lake within a few days, when the old reliable is oxpected to affix his name. With Morgan, Hester's yonngstors s.iould constitute con-stitute a great pitching staff. Walter Knapp, Jim ("Lefty") Allen, iN. C. Pitt-man, Pitt-man, L. Martin and one or two more aro slated for training camp work, and, no doubt, will "stick." Hester will play first base. At 6econd Carl Brodshaw will be the station tender. Claude Potts will be scon at short, If the "dope" is good. Third will be in tho keeping of Galena. Davis or a new man. In the outJleld. Frank Hnclsman, Bert Spencer and Jlalph. Craig arc tho Present prospects. Galena and Davis are both fast outfielders, and, therefore, Hester need not worry. r,y,v Of the reserve players, Howard Murphy has been sold to Ogdcn and Jake Bauer and Artie Schlmpf have been sold to Boise, or, rather, traded to Boise for Plttman. Other deals are In prospect, and (here may he a surprise or two in store for tho fans before the season PAtS'anv rate, tho foregoing, "rough draft" of the situation respecting Salt Lake's team should crvc for the prcsont. Of course, it Is subject to change, but U Is a pretty clnssy lineup, one would ; say. J SEVEN OGDEN PLAYERS SEND SIGNED PAPERS Special to The Tribune. OGDEN. Feb. 21. According to tho number of contracts received up to thlH time Ogden Is not going to bo behind an "or the clubs in the Union socla tiin In the matter of getting a 1314 start. The signed contracts ot- seven members of " the 1913 reserve list have been re-reived re-reived by Secretary Angus Kennedy, another an-other member of tho club has accepted Srma and three recruits hayo affixed their signatures to Oplen contra. On the recommendation or jjuck Jones Manager "Dad" Glmllu lias signed , Jo" Dcvlnc, an outfielder who 1h said to have ample ability for this league. Ho r i t present with Jones in Oakland, OH. , n.ie or the members of the pitching ; i . Lri 1 ,"n Is W F. Abbott, who has jus " fonvS&l 'hiAlgned corUract : from Redondo Beach, Cal. According to the advance specifications. Abbott s a young man who has a front elevation of six r"et and four Inches, while his weight Solid Mndlcato that he is not quite all "C'ianagcr' Gimlln suffered a disappoint- Sr Olmlln If deriving some conso a-ilon a-ilon fro'" the fact that It took a Pacific -Soa,metmbSsSrifVt ' club vhoTmve sent In their contrac written that the 1914 terms aro satlatac-l0MftnaCermGlmlln satlatac-l0MftnaCermGlmlln announced today that h"roA?n Ogden. with practice games at Glenwood park. The Boise Situation. . .i ih. csnlt Lake owner of the "Continued on Following Pngo.) ' SILT LAKE .TERM IS Cfflf AGGREGflTIDH (Continued from Preceding Page.) teams In Its history, and Is already on the Job working with his manager, Jensen, to accomplish this, 1b evident from a letter received from him today by the sporting editor of tills paper, In which he says: "The good people ot Bolae, I trust, will bear with me for a few days In the matter of giving much in the way of news. A number of contracts aro out, and within a few days I hope to be able to give to them news that will be of Interest to fandom. "Tt is my Intention to give to Boise a good ball team one that will comparo favorably with any in the Union association. In Jensen, my manager. I believe I have one as good as any in the league. "Buck Weaver everybody knows to be a top-notcher top-notcher In our lcaguo and one who will he of great benefit to the club. He and Gard should bo Just a little the best of any at that end. Schimpf, and Bauer, with Salt Lake last season, sea-son, surely add much strength. Bauer, In condition, playing outfield, will be hard to beat, and Schimpf is a handy man anywhere 'ho may play. "I expect a couplo of youngsters from Colorado, who are said to have great class and may prove to bo most valuablo to us. Harry Kllpatrlck, one of the very best amatours, has been signed and I look for him to make good. Holstrum will report. I have a line on several o utside of Boise's reserve list, and am suro to sign several sev-eral good ones. "I hope to have tho best team for Bolso It has been her fortune to have. The other teams are going to be strong. Salary limits was talked of during Ed F. Murphy's visit here. I am led to bcliove Mr. Murphy will hold all the clubs close to the salary limit. "Boise will start training with a good bunch to cut down to fourteen, and, believe me, wo are going to be In the race. Much remains to be dono at this end to get our organization organiza-tion In shape, and T am planning carefully care-fully and to the end of having a suc-1 suc-1 cessful season." |