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Show What Coasters Are Gossiping About in Off-Season An offer was received yesterday by President F. S. Murphy of the Salt Lake baseball club for Pitcher Bert Hall from the Bioorninglon club of the Three I league. Another offer was received from the San Antonio club of the Texas league for Pitcher Emmett Munsell. Munsell is on the suspended list, having been hoisted to that distinction by the Saints last year when he refused to report to Tacoma after having been turned over to that club on option. The Bloomington club a few days ago made an offer for Catcher Earl Sheely, but the offer was declined. Since then Bloomington has acquired a catcher from the Lincoln club of the Western league. Some time within the next week Manager Man-ager Bill Bernhard will pack his grip and hie himself to Las Vegas to look over the training site there. The baseball authorities authori-ties want to get the matter of the selection selec-tion of a training camp off their chest before the schedule meeting at San Francisco, Fran-cisco, about January 20. At the San Francisco meeting an innovation in-novation wfll be sprung when all the managers of the league the managers of ' the playing side will hold a little meeting meet-ing of their own and also a joint meet-: meet-: ing with the presidents of the various clubs. This step was agreed upon at the I league meeting in Salt Lake last month, j and has for its obje-'t a general get-to-i gether session, at which numerous details de-tails will be discussed for the promotion the game. ' It is also likely that a trade or two will develop at the managers' meeting. It is largely because of the necessity ne-cessity of getting preliminary details cleared up before the managerial session that the question of deciding on a training train-ing camp for the Saints will be taken up in the immediate future. The blank contracts for the 1917 season were received yesterday at local headquarters. head-quarters. In due course of time they will be filled in with the figures and terms Bernhard decides upon for the various prospective 1917 Saints and will then be mailed to the players. Special to The Tribune. PORTLAND. Jan. 10 Buddy Ryan, j Salt Lake captain, accompanied by Mrs. Ryan, left Portland this evening for his 1 home In Denver, Colo., where his father is very ill. Ryan has been hunting at Oak Ridge, and upon receipt of an urgent telegram started immediately for Denver. Pitcher Tom Helfrieh, purchased by Portland from Harrisburg, of the New York state league, has signed his 1917 contract, the document having arrived today. to-day. v After the results of last year. Manager Walter McCredle will extend his training season to a full month this year, and the Portland athletes will be asked to as-tifnihlft as-tifnihlft at the traininsr camo wherever it ' may be on March 1, according to his defi- 1 nite statement- today. i "We have a lot of new fellows coming," com-ing," said Manager Mac today, "and it will probably take a full month to see what they have to offer. It is a pretty hard job "to look at a player for two or three weeks and then place an estimate on his work. It is usually the last week that some players begin to show their best, and this is particularly true of the older fellows." No salaries will be cut so far as members mem-bers of the Oakland club are concerned this coming year, and in some instances where tlie men have earned an Increase there will be something -heavier in tiie envelope when pay day comes around. This announcement comes from Del Howard, who on Saturday sent out sixteen six-teen of the contracts, and will mail the remaining seven or eight some time to-dav. to-dav. a number of the boys signed their contracts for 1917 in the fall of 1916, and when the squad reports at Boyes Springs there will be in the neighborhood of thirty men under local bond to the Oakland club. "I figure on having the men report the last week in February," announced Howard. "That will give us none too much time in which to get into shape, particularly with games ahead against the Cubs. The bulk of our contracts have beep issued. There are about eight remaining, re-maining, and these will be sent to the boys on Monday. "There are no salary cuts, and In several sev-eral cases I am rewarding the boys for f:iirhfnl sprvif " Mann rer Bernhard and his wife have taken apartments at the Covey. PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 10. William Speas. Seal utility player, formerly of Portland, left today for his home at Toledo. Ohio, and told his friends who saw him off that he would not return to tlie Coast. Speay's people live In Toledo and his interests are there. He said he was in hopes of making some sort of a deal to join the Toledo baseball team. He has tried previously to catch on with Toledo. At any rate. Bill said, he could see nothing noth-ing further for him on the Pacific coast, and intimated broadly that he would not come back, regardless of how his nego-tions nego-tions with Toiedo might come out. "He'll be one of the greatest minor le.ortie managers in the business." This is the opinion of both Judge W. W. and Walter Henry McCredie of the Portland Pacific Coast league team in regard to Ivan Olson, prospective man-fiirpr man-fiirpr of the Vernon clu h. Most of the Ponland fans who remember Ivan Olson will agree with the McCredies. "Olson is one or the scrappiest individuals indi-viduals in baseball," remarked Walter McCredie. "He never hit much in the majors, but he has been Lhere since the season of 1911. tie Is an educated fellow, fel-low, a natural born leader and one of the grandest minor league shortstops in the game." The McCredies first drafted Olson in 1007 from the Western association. T-Tc v. fused to report, so was turned back to tlie club he was drnfted from under an optional agreement. He was recalled la'.e in 1&0S and reported to Portland in 1909. Af't.-r; hiting onlv .237 In 3910 with Pm-tlnnd, he was purchased by the Cleveland Cleve-land Americans, lie played in 210 games that season with the locals and showed that he was always dangerous In the pinches. Olson was not a success with Cleveland and finally drifted to Brooklyn, where he played shortstop most all of last year and took part in all of the games in the world's series. Olson hit .254 In 10S games with Brooklyn Brook-lyn last season. He was at bat 351 times and scored twenty-nine runs, made eighty-nine hits for 113 baes. He made thirteen two-baggers, four three-baggers, one home run and twenty sacrifice hits. He stole fourteen bases. He fielded .920, making 3o3 assists and 234 put-outs, with forty-seven errors. His total chances numbered 5S4. While in Los Angeles a few days recently re-cently Del Howard drifted to Fullerton on a scouting trip and looked' over the fast club of professionals and semi-pros engaged en-gaged there in Sunday baseball. Howard watched Buster Callan catch two games, and Is enthusiastic over his young backstop. "This youngster Is barely 21." declared . Howard, "and has only been playing ball j two seasons, but he shows all the ear- ' marks of the future star. I don't say that he is yet ripe to do the major portion por-tion of the catching for my club next season, but I am well satisfied to have him on the payroll. He uses his head well, has a splendid whip, and knows how to take a healthy cut at the ball. He looks to me about ten pounds lighter than when he joined us last fall." |