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Show What Coasters Are Gossiping About in Olf-Season. ! Now that the Coast league magnates i have passed (heir ruling on the "four-1 "four-1 busher" plan of Cal Ewing, let's rise to inqtiire, "What are they going to do with it?" Ewing's scheme as originally planned called for a number of youngsters to be carried by each Coast league club. Cal had in mind the development of young ball players and insisted that the membership mem-bership in his "four" be restricted to players who had never at any time been higher up in baseball than the class B-society. B-society. Had Ewing been equally insistent upon having his four "bushers" added in addition ad-dition to the present eighteen-man limit, thus making twenty-two in all, he would have been doing something for Coast league baseball, as well as giving ihe lowly "busher" a splendid chance for development. de-velopment. But Cal's scheme missed fire. Instead of the tour "bushers" being added to the eighteen, they are included in the present limit, so that now the Coast league patrons are up against the necessity neces-sity of anticipating a hodge-podge of class ABCXYZ baseball as their portion for next year. The Coast league magnates announced after the second day's session at Salt Lake that thf: present salary limit and player limit were not dwelt upon at all. But is that a fact? Are the four "bushers" who are to be a part of the eighteen players allowed each club next spring going to take their place as regulars right from opening dav? Is any manager who has the pennant winning at heart going to take a chance with his untried material in the heat of a pennant fight, as long a Ms veterans hold up under lire? Will the four bushers" who are to be carried next season get into the ball games anv more often 'than the untried "busher" 'has in the past? Summing ' up, is the new ruling lust passed by the magnates anything more or less than a lowering of the plaver limit from eighteen to fourteen placers0 San Francisco Bulletin PORTLAND. Ore.. Dec. 11. "Rip" Haserman, pitcher, was released today by McCredie To Spokane. Tiie Beaver manager man-ager has taken this action because of the new Coast league rule requiring eah rhib to carry four yotinc nlavers. This new rule is pleasing to McCredie. who added ; that ihe br.sn leagues of the northwest iil be wed combed this winter for material. ma-terial. The Oakland club has at the present eleven pitcheis on its reserve list. Some fans may be inclined to dispute tin's declaration dec-laration and assert t hat tiie finks have only Bill Burns and ten cellar dWors. Nevertheless, on the reserve list they are' all set riown as huriers and as such we j will consider them until thev prove other- wise. "Rowdy" Elliott blamed most of his trou o!es lust yea r to t lie j t i In t the pih'hers he moi-t relied ,-n failed 'u:ni (1 isnia! ly. Time after ; j t i v we-j k - ened in the p:n'h. The fnct that it was not the iault uf the club was demon- ' strated by tiie ease with which they won with "Speed" Martin wingina them over. Failuie of "Dutch" Klawitter. Charlcv Pruiett, ("T.abek Ed Klein, Kallio, Rny Bovd and Sammy Beer to show the form expected of them threw the club Into a slump from which it never recovered. Del Howard faces a complete reconstruction recon-struction of his hurling staff. He has lost Speed Martin, his one best bet, and must depend upon newcomers I form the nucleus of his 1917 artillery corps. Fred Good bred, a gigantic workhorse, and i Ira Cohvell, once a member of the Seals, have been turned over by Brooklyn. On the basis of their performances in the Internationa! In-ternationa! league last year, the newcomers new-comers should be winners here. Of last year's veterans. Howard win probably keep Bill Burns and Clinton Prough. The former was one of the wonders of the circuit last season, while Pn.ngh has al-i al-i ways been a winner with any kind of hitting behind him. Things look shaky for Sammy Beer and Ray Boyd, who were overworked in the early part of the season sea-son and had nothing left in the fag end. Thev will have io fight it out with votings I ers like Reppy. Kinney, Rojas. Hurll, Newkirk and a Hungarian named Eoeroli from Sonoma. "Canuck" White, who finished the season sea-son with the Oaks after being farmed out to Great Falls, will probably revert to the latter under the terms of the Kallio decision. Judging from present indications, Howard How-ard will "have to enlarge- the club quarters quar-ters at Boyes Springs if he wants to accommodate ac-commodate his candidates for pitching honors. Del has let it be known that he is not through yet in his search for pitching material and it after some more seasoned talent. Oak'nd Tribune. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 1 1. Baseball dopesters along the coast are wondering what will become of the Vernon Tigers next season. This does not mean that the Tigers will not be in the league next year, but the boys are trying to figure iiow Tom Darmody or Ed. Maier which ever one owns the club after January 15 will get a ball club together by the start of the training season. Both Darmony and Maier are not worrying, wor-rying, so why should the public? Tom says he can gather enough ball players together in twenty-four hours for a couple of bail clubs, while Maier says that Thomas J. hasn't got anything on him. "I'm not worrying about ball players." said Tom when asked if he had made any plans for the coming year in case he should purchase the' club. "Why, I can get all the players I want whenever I want them, so why should I worry?" Tom evidently has been doing some scouting for players while he has been contemplating the purchase of the Bengals. Ben-gals. For a lot of ball players, and good ones, too, are needed to make the Tigers a winner next season. In the first plaoe, a seeond-sacker and a third baseman, not counting a good utility util-ity man. are needed to complete the infield. in-field. Gus Gleichmann has the initial sack copped and Charley Callahan has a toe-hold on ihe short-held berth, but the rest of the infield is vacated as far as ball players are concerned. The catching department is O. K. and the pitching outlook isn't so bad, hut some outfielders probably will be added rn thp. clnh heforpi the training coaann 1 rolls around. What seems to be the main difficulty in securing players for the Tigers is the fact that the Vernonites are not affiliated affil-iated with any major league club. Last season the contract with the White Sox ended and neither Maier nor Darmody are over-anxious about signing up with any other major league club. "We failed to derive very much help from the White Sox during the time we were tied up with them," Maier once said, "and for that reason I believe that we can do better by purchasing the players play-ers we need outright." All the players sold by the Bengals this year were outright sales, the Bengals failing to get anyiayers in return. From what we can get from Darmodv's and Maier's statements all the men secured se-cured by the Tigers this season will be outright purchases. LOS ANGELES. Dec. 11. Manager Ham Patterson of the Tigers announced today that he had signed Elmer Olson, a 1 southpaw heaver of Franklin. Idaho, to a Bengal contract for next season. Olson, from all reports, is a great voting nitrher. He has been hurling winning ball for the Franklin team, an indepen- ' dent club in Tdaho, and is considered the ! best young pitcher in that section of the i country. I Olson had a short trial with the Saints last soring, but was too young and, on account of the small player limit, Blank-enship Blank-enship was forced to let the boy go. Patterson is on the lookout for several young hurlers, as he is strong for the recruits. |