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Show THIS AND THAT IN I COAST LEAGUE TALK PORTLAND. Feb. 4 Manager Mc-Credie Mc-Credie of the Portland Beavers has signed Catcher Widner, a Los Angeles recruit. Barth, the other young catcher the Portland boss has been dickering for, has signed Vith the Seattle team-After team-After some hard sledding on the part ! of the Philadelphia club. Shortstops Reed and Murphy finally have come into camp and are ready to come west to Portland. Walter McCredie has a telegram from Billy Neal of the Philadelphia club, telling tell-ing him that all is well with his two recruits. Xeal made a -special trip to Atlanta to get Reed's name to a contract. con-tract. Murphy Is wintering in Indianapolis. In-dianapolis. "It was up to the Philadelphia rlub, not me.'' said MeCredi "I gave Ban-croft Ban-croft to them a nd Red and Murnbv uere to be given to me as part pa-- -ment." t SAN FRANCISCO. Cal.. Feb. 4 "Dutch" KJawitter. one of the star twlrl-ers twlrl-ers of the Oakland Coast league diib formerly with Portland, is to b? traded to San Francisco for Outnlder Mundorff Mun-dorff and either Catcher Clark or Catcher Sepulveda, according to a wlriVly circ la ted report here today. Mana cer Wolverton Wol-verton of the Peals refused either to confirm con-firm or deny the report. Only a few minutes' conversation yq-trday yq-trday was enough for Manager Christian Chris-tian to con vi nee Rowdy FHioit that he would not look well in a Federal league uniform. After said conversation was over. Rowdy declari that everything would be fixed up" between himself and the Oakland club and that lie would not pay any attention to the numerous offers, that have been submitted by the Pittsburg Pitts-burg and a couple of other f-lub? tn the Federal league. San Francisco Chronicle. Some San Francisco fans and scribes were inclined to pan Del Hnws rd a nd Cal Ewing last year when Honus Me-Ardle Me-Ardle and Cack Henley, old stand-bvs. were traded to Venice for "Spider" Baum. Subsequent developments ' snow that the Seals got all the best of the deal. Baum, though injured in the training train-ing season, recuperated and pitched winning win-ning ball for the Seals. He is still rated as one of the main reliances in the pitching department of the San Francisco , club. j "Cack" Henley has faded into the dis- card, and now comes an announcement ; from Happy Hogan that if he .-an't gt S rid of Mc Ardle by any other nica ns he i will slip th veteran infiekW his outright . ! release before training camp time comes , 'round. 1 Jok like Flap's trading record has j ; been punctured. i |