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Show NIL UUKUVAH KEFIM ABOUT JOE GEDEON Former Saint Appears to Have Excellent Chance to Make Yankees. Trtbunt M ia! Si or : NKW YOliK l-Vt, S i r. suniotl. t.;o Nw orl, Mail 's ( lU , e--mlIoiu wa, it Ynke s n, m- tr:inins vamp nt M';"11; i;j " ,; 1 'l ' i I'aper the BrrmS " 1 l-v:. ill he !oumt at se.xnul tor the Yttnkeea uus sea.-vn. The vlub has only been , lla8i but the youngster ' ' ' lV ' - '- f' o : ,lear ; i' n is an unusual win h'1,1 11 ol'Moils 'hat lie wli; from V'mtV M ' position away was held FrMa aiti rnoon rhe i ! ' it thrl.'i 'T Ahl"lv to hit Into flnt l hi niiilvMe.l t ! a t there was fIriSnJ"irt 1''', 01 111 l;, Rimes bx w but admits that he is i hkeh n look-"C look-"C younger as he fvr saw. Which . t a rather fair criticism from Bill. Talks With Joe. -wS.!?1 iV1!). Ih, "ou,hful Joe tenia v ?k . v.-! if rl!4-vtn. ni the deal inat brought him to the Yankees. He Hifi2l Kunasll!tlirS c hap. and rather . J , j , talking baseball, but once a-er h "S ' and inte--. sting i"1 tK - "kk e said. when cor-JW1 cor-JW1 Jn tne Jobhy. 'My home is in S'av-ramento. S'av-ramento. Ca. I am very pleased to Ti ank'- T '"ink 1 can ? 5i " 1 would not have played j lur- Clark (.iriffuh under any eircum- j stances. I would have stayed on the coast. 1 hit we-Il over 300 in came? ' A ball player doesn't have a great year every year, yon know. Not even when he's' young. 1 believe:! that on my last season record 1 was read v for a return to the big leagues At Home on Second. '" In July Griffith sent me a contract. It called for s-ich a ridiculously low salary that I laughed at it. I refused to sign and wrote and told him why. He said it vailed for as mu:h mony as Bp ever paid man coining from the minors. I said it wasn't enough for me. There :V r.-.-rer res:d 'I went on playing good hall for Salt lake I el;- I found mv natural pofcrHon at second base. That is why I did so wi1. When I was on the roast ' -wC 'n 1 was Bnfted all over the btfleSd and outfield. In 1P13 I went to whether I was a shortstop, a third baseman, base-man, a second sacker or a pitcher. X " 'Lare last season Tom Peaton of the Vewark Federal league club was in alt Lake City. H1 talked abO'iT m tolng wjth the outlaws. I wouldn't see it at f i rs f . but T heard a rumor tha t Griff it"- "'as sore at my refusing to qign. and. as he held an option on my services, having farmed me to the Pacific Pa-cific Coast league in the middle of 114. he as goir.e: to bury me with Minneapolis In the American associa- Strong for Yanks. I wanted none of that old man's league. o 1 signed with the Newark Federals. Believe me. I'm mighty glad 1 did. although the league blew up. I was out hunting in the mountains in January when I reeeive.l a wire from Harry Sinclair asking m if I would like to play with New York. I answered that nothing would please me better, and in a few days he fnt me notice of my sal. I 'I don't know how pood Mullen and Boone are. But 1 will give them an awful battle for a regular position. I J know I can field with any of them and that long siegf of 130 games last year developed my battine. T may not threaten Ty Cobb for the batting suprmay of i Amri'-an league this year, if T play, bul I'd like to make a little bet I'm up near the .-100 H3e. " 'All I've ever done sinvp cominc out of school is play baseball. I was in the Amertran league when I was IX. I didn't take the game very' seriously then. I do now-. " 'I can hardlv wait for the season to begin. I've always had the ambition to show in New York." " two successive nights. The Olympic club team will ie met there tomorrow night. Vniversily students feel reasonably certain cer-tain of tonight's contest although tt Is expected t hat the visitor will put up a bard battle. The "l"' team appeared to have reaches! its stride on the revent trip to Logan, and there is a general belief that it can repeat tile trick it performed The "U" squad whs without the iu-st iu-st ruction of i.'oavh Norgrt n yesterday afternoon, aft-ernoon, owing to an Injury to one of Nor-gren'a Nor-gren'a ears, list year( at about a cor-resnpnding cor-resnpnding time an operation was performed per-formed on one of his cars for an abscess. A few nights ago he was again put out of commission by the breaking of a small blood vessel. lie is rapidly recovering from this, however, and will doubtless turn out for the game tonight. In his absence a hard practice was held under the direction of Captain Bunny Clank. The Utah five demonstrated all iti flash and satisfied the spectators that it was in .sliape, for the hard games - The chief worvy at present is that the Crimson learn will break down before the three important contests this week. The B. Y. C boys are hard players and may cripple the team for the big game with the Olympiv club, rhampions of the country, tomorrow night. The exhaustion which these two games will produce and the natural advantage which the B. Y. I", will have on Its own floor next Saturday Sat-urday in the game at Pnovo will increase in-crease the difficulties as the week advances. |