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Show : "BLANK" OFF TODAY : I FOR Si FNNCISCO I j Skipper Will Talk With Players Who Have Not , j Yet Signed. j j ! j Manager Blankenship will leave "bright j 1 and early this morning for San Francisco, j j He intends to do a pood many things ! ! while he is away. Among them will be the holding of divers and sundry conversations con-versations with ball players regarding the salary they want and the salary they are .going to get. A few, but a few only, . appear not to have read in the papers that the Coast league clubs this year are restricted to a salary limit of 5000 a , month. Ignorant of this fact, these few- will, no doubt, become amply enlightened when the Salt Lake skipper heaves to at the Market street wharf. "I don't think there will be much trouble trou-ble in getting the men to sign," said Blankenship yesterday. "There are a few ball players down on the coast who might j be said 'to be hold-outs, but the are , ' only one or two of these. The rest of j the boys who haven't sent In their signed contracts have expressed a desire j to talk over things with me before they J sign. That is perfectly agreeable to me. j In fact, I rather like the idea. I know I that most of those men are willing and i eaer to play with our club, and you can rest assured that there will be little or i no difficulty in coming to terms with ; r them. i "However. If anybody thinks he is go ing to hold up this club he ie gravely In error. I don't mind talking business with a ball player, and as long as he is fair ; I have never experienced any trouble in i getting him. But if a man sits up and ! tells me he is the best in the league and ; that he won't do this or that, why, then- why, then, there are ways of getting " ' around those things, too." i On his coast trip Blankenship will ar- j range for the opening of the ciub's train- i ing camp at fcfan Jos?. The players win i drift in about February 2'i and actual ; work, will begin February C'5. |