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Show TRAINING CAMP NEWS FOR FANS , NEXT IN ORDER i Six Coast League Clubs Will Be Hard at It by j End of Present ' Week. SALT LAKE PLAYERS TO REPORT THURSDAY Assembling- Will Speedily Be Followed by Big Games; Signing of -"Lefty" Williams. ' The end of this week will sec the six clubs of the Pacific Coast league iu active ac-tive training. The 1915 season opens on March 30, so there -will be approxi-; approxi-; mately a month oi' work iu the training r: camps, allowing two or three, days for '' the clubs to reach the towns where they i are scheduled to open. ' Blankeuship has called his players to gether for next Thursday. On Friday : the Salt Lake camp at ban Jose will be in full swing and on the following Monday the first of the big training : games will be played. The Chicago White Sox will be" the club's first op-; op-; ponents. Thereafter there will be games . i on convenient dates with the ball clubs r of the two universities near Sau Jose. In March there will be two more games with the White Sox and two with the Indianapolis club of the American as-1 as-1 sociation. On March 26 the Salt Lake ' and Indianapolis clubs will play at I Reno. That contest will be the last for ' Blankenship 's men before the season starts. Where They Train. The training grounds of the various ii clubs are all in California, three of them being situated near San Francisco. Following Fol-lowing is a list of the training places: - Salt Lake at San Jose, torty-seven miles south of San Francisco. San Francisco at Boyes' Hot Springs, forty-seven miles northeast of San Francisco. V Oakland at Pleasanton, forty-one . miles east of San Francisco. I Portland at Fresno, 197 miles south of ;' ban Francisco. , ' Los Angeles at Los Angeles. Venice at San Diego, 126 miles south ' of Los Angeles. i The managers of tho different clubs .! are: I Salt Lake C. D. Blaukenship. '! San Francisco Harry Wolverton. Oakland Tvler Christian. . : Portland Walter McCredie. j Los Angeles Frank Dillon. :; Venice Wallace Bray (Happy Ho- t gn). :j "Lefty" Williams Signs. i The week brought into the Salt Lake fold Claudo Williams, the brilliant young leftrhand pitcher, regarding ' whom some of the fans felt anxiety. I( Williams and Blaukenship had a talk I at San Francisco Wednesday and Wil-I Wil-I Hams signed immediately after the I confab. It appears that Harry Wolver-tou, Wolver-tou, last vear manager of tho Sacramento Sacra-mento club, promised Williams an increase in-crease iu 1915. When the. situation was made clear to Blankenship, the increase ;'. was forthcoming uud William3 was t. ourn. Williams is said by everyone who has ;l fieeu him perform to be a heaver of great promise. He accompanied the Venice- ol'ub on its Hawaiian trip at the ' close of the 1914 season and fairly burned up the islands -with his speed and curves. Ho has been the sensation i: of the day in the Imperial valley winter win-ter league, where he won the league pennant for his club, El Centre Earl Yingling's Case. There is no definite news to report concerning Karl Tingling, tho left hander Whom Blankenship is to get :; from tho Cincinnati Nationals. There has been more or less scattering gossip to the effect that Yingling didn't want to play ball in the west because hia wife and family objected to having him -!' go so far from homo. However, that v luis been mostly talk and nothing more. ' The Salt Lake club has forwarded to ' .r. H. Farrell, secretary of tho National association, the price agreed upon bo- tweon Garry Herrmann of the Reds and ' Blankenship. If Herrmann accepts the money, Yingling will play with Salt ! Lake; if not, Salt Lake will get the 1 monoy back. Blankenship has an agreement agree-ment with the Keds under tho terms of which "Blank" has the call on any ; men he may need for his club, and if , Yingling doesn't come, there will bo f another sent in his place. The Hods have material to spare, as, indeed, have all the other National league clubs, ! more especially siuce tho twonty-one-! plavor limit rule has been adopted. fjl Blankenship released "Deacon" Van j Buron, ac veteran outfiolder, who camo l with the franchise. Blankenship gave f Van Buren an unconditional release in order that the "Deacon" might take . I advantage of anv opportunity that presented pre-sented itself. Blankenship said Van Baron's services to baseball were worth that much at least. Franchise Paid For. The second and final payment on nc- count of the franchise and players' was ';' made during the week. Business Man-:, Man-:, ager W. J. O'Connor authori-ed Presi-;i Presi-;i dent Bnum to draw for $5000. This : "im, together with tho first payment of . , $10,000 mado on January 4, completes tho purchase orice of $15,000. President Frank S. Murphv of the i Salt Lako club is on a.littlo trip to the f const. President Murphy has had loner 'il talks with President Bauin. Henry :, Berry, owner of the San Francisco club; ' . (Continued on Following Pago.) M 10 HAVE NEWS OF M6 CAMPS (Continued from preceding Page.) Senator . Frank Leuvitt, owner of the Oakland club, and other Teal and near-real near-real magnates. No doubt Mr. Murplry has absorbed much baseball by this time- Prepare for Opening. Business Manager W. J. O 'Connor is also on the coast. Bill is seeking firsthand first-hand information regarding the methods by which the other Coast league clubs conduct their bnsiuess. Ho will study the details and niay apply some of his acquired knowledge to his own system. O'Connor will malte exhaustive inquiry into the operations of the much-talked-of turnstiles and the big score boards. Both may be installed at Salt Lake's new ball' park. At Majestic park considerable progress prog-ress has been made toward getting the site in condition for baseball purposes. Practically all of the trees on the plot have been removed. Inasmuch as roots and all had to be grubbed out, the job was odo of no small magnitude. It is expected that the drainage system will be practically completed oy the end of this week, "The .steel should begin to arrive iu another fortnight. If weather conditions are favorable there seems small ground for uneasiness lest the park be not ready for the opening day. All of these minor items contributed to make a week full of baseball news. Training camp reports with a release now and then and maybe an acquisition acquisi-tion w7ill be next in order. |