Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-02-06 | Page 9 | This and That in Coast League Talk

THIS AND THAT IN COAST LEAGUE TALK Negotiations for the purchase of First Baseman Fred Derrick from Portland by the St. Louis Americans are beginning to grow warm. Bill James has boosted Derrick so highly to Branch Rickey that the Brown leader has asked McCredie to place a price on tiie fleet-footed first sacker. McCredie has asked Rickey what he lias to offer, so there you are. "Sure 111 sell Derrick to the St. Louts Browns." chirps McCredie, "providing I : get a first baseman in return. James I nas vouched for Derrick's ability to Man- ager Branch Rickey and I am willing for a dicker. If I had knowrn of this sooner, I might have got Harry Heilman to play first base for the Beavers next year, but without Derrick I have no experienced experi-enced man. If Rickey can get me a serviceable first baseman, I'll let Derrick go to the big leaguers. At that, Fred is as good as a lot of the first basemen they have up there in tiie big show, and he might add strength to the Browns. Of course, there will be some boot in the trade." r LOS AXGELES, Feb. 5. RoJ Corhan, the Seal, shortstop, had a long conference with Manager Berry today and was told that the threat of the Federals to taJce him back east was all bluff. "Leave this to me,'' Berry told Corhan, Cor-han, "and If they bring suit against , you I will be behind you and stand all expenses. If anything happens and you cannot play ith the Seals next year, . you will get your salary Just the same, i The Feds are slipping and are using these threats to cover their weakness, if they sue you. it pimply means a case in which 1 the whole forces of organised baseball will be pitted against tne outlaws." Luke Glavenlch, former St. Mary's college hoy and more recently the property prop-erty of the Cleveland club, although farmed out to New Orleans, is to be given a trial by the Oaks. The Callfornian signed his contract Wednesday, after a talk with Tyler Christian, and whether he will be made a regular member of the team depends upon what happens at the Pleasanton camp. The overwhelming fault of the St. Mary's left-hander has been his inability inabil-ity to get control. That tault was quite evident during his college career. Cleveland Cleve-land found the same difficulty with him and turned him over to New Orleans, in the Southern association. While with that club he pitched in just three games. All told, he worked twelve innings, with fourteen hits registered and twelve runs. He struck out eight, but hero's the record rec-ord that makes his performance look eo bad: Bases on balls, 10; hit batsmen. 8" balks, 2. Some time after that he was handed his unconditional release: "Glavcnich admits that he suffered from lack of control." says Christian, "but he seems to think he has overcome over-come that fault. At al! events, we're going to give him a chance to ehow what he can do while we are at Pleasanton." One hundred and fifty-three pla vers are on The rosters of the various teams of the Pacific Coast league. There are fifty, two twtrlers. nineteen ca friers, forty-three ir.flelders and thirty-nine outfielders. out-fielders. It Is expected that mam- more players will piarn up with the various managers before the end of the- training season at the end of this month.