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Show BOH MAY BE WITH BEAVERS AGAIN , N Only Fed Player McCredie Wants, Portland Wants Alliance With Jones Special to The Tribune. . X POBTLAUD Ore, Dee. 17 (Siamf M Chadbourne who jumped to the Kansas City Federals in 191i wiB be the ojg plater ot the three who hofped to "J Independents Manager Meredie wltTf claim if peave negotiations go itovgUK as per scnedule pitcher Krapp. Jult Oateher Berry are the other two jdayeip' jBt who jumped from Portland. , . ;S Information that Bay Bates tod. M signed his contract with Vernon tor iM a means that the sale has been eon-sommated. eon-sommated. It is said that deal mwyes cash amounting to $2000 l Pitcher Pat uailahan, who was a mesa jft ber ot the Portland team, has bee Jl traded to the Vancouver NortnwBKtern TM league club by Spokane. Callaham bad -SB a trial with Cincinnati last fall, butg failed to make good. V Pitcher Pat Mays of tbe Boston Bed 'S Sox who is wintering in Portland, to- HI day signed his 1916 contract with tbe) & champions. ifl Portland may know Fielder Jones as a 3g supplier of baseball material s well afr"3 an illustrious citizen. It all depeaaJ upon two things Whether Phil Ball fa V3 able to purchase tbe National or th ? American league club in Sk Louis and makes Fielder Jones manager or, wnear v Charley Somers retains control of At Cleveland club in tbe Amenram leagaBs The books are now favoring Ball to sjst organized baseball, elub owner aai Somers to retain his baseball interests, in view of the tact that be has been elected vice president of tbe American M league- Therefore what is m Walter- v McCredie e mind may not happen j If Somers loses control of the Cleve- land elnb McCredie will immediately seek an alliance with the St Louis clnb 1 that is managed by Fielder Jones. rall j has said that he will make Fielder man ager of h s clnb McCredie thinks that Ball tant do -less. He is the greatest baseball manager the. game has known asserted McCredie in telling of his future plans. J If Charley somers loses out at Ca-e j land I am going to enter into an agree 'nj ment with Jones if possible, he siid Jones knows what we need in the Pa , cifir Coast league and above all he j v.o Id be square with a fellow Too n an of the n ajor league managers and ; owners are alwavs trving to jip a minor league 1 b The squareness ol Charlev Nm er made our relations extremelv pleasant and profitable to both of us. |