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Show BALL GLUB DIRECTORS WILL .MET TODAY , Moguls to Talk Over Park Plans; Blankenship Talks With Players. The most important thing' to write ; about today In baseball is to make the announcement that the board of directors is scheduled to meet this afternoon. The meeting is expected to devote its attention atten-tion to the plans for the new hall park. In a general way the plans for our stadium stad-ium have already been drawn and approved, ap-proved, though there are still some details to be worked out. With Manager Blankenship in San ; Francisco talking termB and such like ' with bail "-p layers, the fans are eagerly awaiting news from the skipper as to the j progress he Is making in rounding up some of the recalcitrants. Blankenship does not fear that he will miss any of his near holdouts, at least those Yihora he really wants. One or two there are who seem to think the salary limit rule was adopted by the league for the mere purpose of using up ink and paper. When "Blank'' collides with these, it will not "be the pilot who will suffer from the imract. In regard to the other boys, It is likely that terms will be easily arranged. Most of them ask very little in addition to the figures set forth in the contracts, and some of them really have good grounds for their requests. Before the week is over Blankenship should have settled the player Question. The news published in yesterday's Tribune Trib-une to the effect that games were assured as-sured with the White Sox and the Indianapolis In-dianapolis club of the American association associa-tion good news to the fans, for those - games will give them the first line' on the club that is to fight the pennant battle bat-tle on behalf of Salt Lake. JOHNNY WILLIAMS IS MUCH PERPLEXED LOS ANGELES, Feb. 7. Honolulu. Johnny Williams is in a quandary. He is perplexed he doesn't know "where ' he's at." He came to Henry Berry for help, but didn't get it. Not that W. Helnrlch wouldn't help a ball player in distress if he could, but he couldn't. Briefly, the situation Is this: Honolulu Johnny went up to Detroit last spring. He was slow in recovering from his injured in-jured arm and Jennings sent him out to Sacramento a couple of months before the season closed. Here the plot thickens. Sacramento club became the Missions, and now Is the . Salt Lake club. That serves to befuddle . matters. Some say Sacramento was given an on-- on-- tion on Honolulu Johnny that Wolverton was promised he could buy the Hawaiian if he decided to spend the money by a certain time. Others tell him he was sent to Sacramento Sacra-mento and recalled by Detroit. Honolulu doesn't know whose version to believe. Naturally, Honolulu Johnny is fretting. SAY OAKLAND SALE RUMOR LACKS TRUTH OAKLAND, Feb. 7. So far as can be determined here, there is no foundation at all for the published rr;nor that the Oakland club is for sale ana may be disposed dis-posed of before tho present seaFon is lender len-der way. Frank LeavJtt and Jack Cook ott-n 3ti-50th3 of the entire stock, -and neither one has apparently anv intention of disposing of hl3 stock or of quitting the game. Each denlos having even received re-ceived an offer of purchase. The balance of the stock is distributed among so many holders that its purchase would not af- feet the control of the club in the slightest. slight-est. Like any business, the local club- can undoubtedly be bought by anyone who comes along with the proper price and Is willing to do business on a cash basis, but a purchaser is not being sought, and none has appeared on the horizon. UNION ASSOCIATION MEN THREATEN SUIT LOS ANGELES, Feb. 7. Secretary Bruce of the national commission has been asked for a decision by various local lo-cal ball players to whom salary money is due from clubs in the defunct Union association. asso-ciation. When the association broko up. these players appealed to the national commission commis-sion in an effort to get the money coming to them, i They were given claims against ti e territory in the Union association circuit. cir-cuit. When the Salt Lake club entered the Coast league these piayers declared thMr claim held good against that club, Inasmuch Inas-much as it is In the territory on which thfy have a claim. Salt La ke of JMnlfi and other Coast V-.u iiUR officials slated the cln ime would not nold good, inasmuch as Salt Jjftke now is in a different league. Brur'e lias bpfn askorj for a decision. If it - unfavorable the p'nyers declare they will carry their rase into court. CORHAN SAYS EMERY BALL IS UNHITTABLE SAN" FRANdSCO, Feb. 7. Roy for-hnn, for-hnn, Fhortstop of tho S!?, arrived from T, Angeles yesterday, whfre ho Ptonped off for a dny or two on hi3 way iium tl,A Imperial valley. The Ue'lrra lcayu h.'j beon dirkrlng i r. n Corn an. but Hoy pays he will t.----i-tivelv ploy with .San Franco. He h'is s!giu-l a contract with tla; Sr-nls and ln-tTds ln-tTds to jti y with it. . "T v'.-rr iverj a check from tl:e Federal? nnd ynt it hack," f-n Id Curb an. "Now th:V have sent it to rne but I doi'.'t want it and will return It cn"0 rnc"-'-. J hrjv.-; al'.v.r'-' 'Hlov.-(J ood Ivr.Mh in i-'n Fr:ii!'',!-'.n, whlk- I t-uT'.-r from bay f-v-r w!,en I am hi ic ca ,t tmd I do n-t rrc to zj thrntnh a i-U-P.f- of that n:! fu ra oh; crn 'n t t i'-i r u iiHtM-r. I urn lo-i'ih? f,r ;, ,o'i!!.. in I 'i.'i ti' I fir o and wii May here. I havp sit:n.-d a roiiira;t (( oiitiuticri on FoUovriiiK Pago.) BALL CLUB DIRECTORS WILL MEET TODAY (Continued from Preceding Page.) with Mr. Berry that is satisfactory to me and I am going to abide by it." Corhan is in good shape. He played winter ball in the Imperial valley, where they have games on Wednesdays and .Sundays, but lie does not give the ball games the credit for his good condition. He says lie got in shape tramping through the mud in pursuit of ducks. "I didn't kill many of them," laughed Roy, "but I had them badly scared. They were flying all over the valley before I got through with them." Corhar. had a lot to Fay about the "emery ball." which is causing so much discussion in the east. He says that when a pitcher knows how to use It no batter can possibly hit and no catcher can hold it unless he gets a signal from the pitcher pitch-er describing the action which he is going to give the ball. The scheme is to "fuzz" one place on the ball and the rough part makes tho ball take the most remarkable shoots, up, down, ia and out, according to th position, of the "fuzzy" part when the ball leaves the pitcher's hand. Funning is an adept with the emery ball, according to Corhan. and Roy says that if the powers would let him use the emery ball he could go in as a pitcher and lead the Ooa.st league. |