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Show What Coasters Are Gossiping About in Off-Season Several wagers having been made as to whether or not the Bait Lake club won the prettier portion of Us guinea on homfi . grounds, we will say that they did by . e kht, The club won fifty-one of its ninety-four games at home, losing forty-throe. forty-throe. There were no games scheduled for the Salt Lake park left unpiayed. At , the close of the season Salt Lake won twelve of eighteen from Oakland; seven out of nineteen from Los Angeles; thirteen thir-teen of twenty from Portland; twelve of eighteen from San Kranclsco, and seven of nineteen from Vernon. To the sporting editor of The Tribune: Is Bunny Brief's record of thirty-three home runs a world's record for u season? H is not. Tn the season of lS7i Perry Werden of Minneapolis made fortyrfive home runs. L A not her tragedy lias occurred in the baseball lire nf I. C. Hlgglnbotham. Next 'ar Higgy may find himself with the class li leagues. Des Moines of the class A Western league has just announced the release of the former Portland pitcher. , 1 It Is quite possible a working agree-1 ment will be iirranged for the coming season between the Oaks and the Seattle! club. Jack Cook approached BUI Leard i recently and Bill communicated with D-K. D-K. Dugdale, who replied that the proposition proposi-tion listened well to him. "After the New Orleans meeting," wrote Dugdale to Leard, "I will return home by way of California and that will give ub an opportunity to talk the matter over in person with the Oaktand owners." . Leard says, however, that he wants to be thoroughly satisfied as to just what the agreement will mean before he signs up, "I don't want to have Oakland in a position to disrupt our club when wo may be In the thick of the pennant race," he explained. "There are several men on the Oakland club who may not be retained and I could use them. But I can't give Oakland carte blanche to come in and pick up any of the youngsters they may choose before the season is closed. Miller Hugglna has written Sammy Bonne, requesting that Jhe infielder, if he participates in any games during the winter season, play second base. Hug-gins Hug-gins advises Sammy that he intends to make the San Franciscan his regular second sec-ond baseman if matters turn out well. Bonne is satisfied and, as the start of his training for the keystone sack, will play second base with the Swain and Sheehan ail-stara in their games at Honolulu, Hono-lulu, Jacinto Calvo. the San Francisco out 1 fielder, who promises to be one of the 1 popular members of the team next sea-, sea-, son as he was in the closing days of JS16, left -yesterday afternoon on the long 1 trip to his home in Havana, Cuba. Calvo was accompanied by a handsome suit case that was a present, from Owner W. Henry Berry. "Jack" will arrive In Cuba next Monday, and will spend the winter months acting as a bookkeeper for his father, one of the big sugar planters of the island. Next year. If things go well, Calvo will take a team nf Coasters for a series of games.- San Francisco Chronicle. w Not many moons will pass o'er southern south-ern California before the "Vernon ball club will pass from the hands of one Ed B. Maler to the combined hands of T. J. Darmody and H. Koch, or to the hands of T. J. alone. Such was the information informa-tion given put yesterday. Henry Koch, who at the preseftit time owns part interest in the Tigers, though it is very small, lias been approached by Darmody as a partner in the purchase of the Tigers. Koch has been sought out by Darmody aH a partner, but the former has not agreed to take up Darmody's proposition, though at the same time he didn't say that he would turn it down. All Koch wants is time to think the matter over. He says that it is a pretty big deal, and as he doesn't know Just what Ed Maier wants for the Vernon team he's not going to jump at' the chance to purchase a block of stock. The deal itself Is allup to Maier now, according to the statement made by Tom Darmody yesterday. The Tiger boss has been very busy the last few days attending attend-ing to some important business, and for this roason has not been able to give his attention to the sale of the Tigers. I Frorri'the way that Darmody talked yesterday he is very anxious to get the deal over with, which means that Thomas J. is ready for business. He said that the papers concerning the deal had been drawn up by Mr. Mater's attorney and were awaiting tne signature of the Tiger QOSI. It Is expected that Maier will sign the documents today, and then Darmody will have until December 27 to decide whether j or not he wants to purchase the Bengals. The price which Darmody will pay for the club, if he buys it, Is worrying a whole lot of people. Neither Maier nor Darmody would state what the actual figures fig-ures would be, but Maler stated the day that he gave Darmody the option on the club that if he sold out it would be for ca?h, and cash only. Los Angeles Tribune. Ping Bodie affirms that he Js not worried wor-ried as to whether Connie Mack agrees to pay him the $4000 a year he demands for signing with the Athletics. "I have a contract that has another year to run with San Francisco," explains Ping, "In which the club has V pay me a salary. So I should worry. Mack will either come through or I stay in San Francisco." it-Oakland it-Oakland will train this coming season. as last year, at Boyes Hot Springs, the Sonoma county resort that was deserted by the Seals. San Francisco well. Hen Berry saj'E I he doesn't know what he will do with the Seals for their annual workout in the spring. Personally, Berry favors San Jose, but he adds that he understands the ball park has been torn up (as it was for the rodeo), and he doesn't know as yet whether the diamond will be put in shape for a baseball club. Further, so far as the' locals are concerned, con-cerned, much depends upou whether a major league club traine on the Pacific coast and whether the Pacific Coast league gives the majors the rifiiht to play exhibition games. If such games are arranged ar-ranged for San Francisco and Los Angeles, An-geles, the selection of a training camp I would be simplified. For, with a malor league aesrrceration In this territory, the Seals. - for instance, would be at home for Saturday and Sun-da Sun-da v irames. and wouldn't care much for outside matches. Indeed, exhibition irames at Fan Jose or any other city would hardly dra w unless staged on a Sunday. AI! of which, bnjied down. mRns that it is up to the Coast league, when t he magnates gather for their annual session at Salt Like, to decide whether thev will let thf hig fellows in. Until that time Berrv Is apt to keep under hi hat any p'anR he mav have for a training camp. San Francisco Chronicle. Next season we hoDe somebody proposes pro-poses a week during which no man-acer man-acer will he allowed to take a pitcher out of the box. no matter how hard he is humped. Nowadays, when a hurler goes on the h'11 hp has one eve on the n!ate and ano'her on the nMe line, won-dpring won-dpring who will be sent in to relieve him. Hp knows tVt If he allows three or four hits In a row. nut he Erne. He never has to pitch himslf out of two tight places, because he is never allowed to (ret Into the Fponnd one before the warmed-up hurler stalks out on th f'pld. TVhPn WR have that wek, some of the pitchers may learn to work out thfr own salvation. 1 and we have- a anen-Ving hunch that the pitchine would improve, and the games move nlnner a lot faster If some of the , worthv hiirlers knew thev had to depend ( on f bemse-e fn- a whole game. San Francisco Bullet 'n. The Trfhnne learns on good authority that a plan is on foot to strengthen the Oakland club nr-t season by the purchase pur-chase from "Brooklvn of Jimmy Johnston and Georse Crtshaw. if these two members mem-bers of the National league champions can be pried out of the majors. Del Howard How-ard will shortly open negotiations with Wllbert Robinson, and it is certain that if Johnston and Cutshaw can be spared by Brooklyn the Oaks will get first call. Eastern . scribes seem to think that Johnston does not measure up to major , league requirements, and that Hi Myers or one of several likely recruits will heat him out of a regular job with Brooklyn next year. Regarding Cutshaw, he is admittedly a, wonderful second sacker, but the critics 1 point out that he cracked badly in the pinch in the world's series. The Brooklyn Brook-lyn infield looked weak against the Red Sox. and Robinson is said to be Intent upon rebuilding it. Both Cutshaw and Johnston went to the majors from the Oakland club, so what ts more natural than that they should return here, especial! v now that the Oakland club management has perfected per-fected a definite working agreement with Brooklyn? With Johnston, Lane and Har-k Miller in the Oakland outfield, arid Cutshaw as a pivot of defense for the Infield. Del Howard's problem would look mighty different. dif-ferent. The question Is: Can waivers be secured on this pair? Oakland Tribune. Ray Bates, Vernon third baseman is spending a few days in Salt Lake on his way east. He has been purchased bv the Philadelphia Athletics. ' |