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Show What Coasters Are Gossiping About in Off -Season By Intern-ilional News Service. CHICAGO, . Dec. 4. Whether it is Frank Chance or Joe Tinker as manager of the Cubs in 1917, it was pretty well settled today by the club directors that Fred Mitchell, handy man for George Stallings, would act In the capacity of coach and handy man for the North Side team. Mitchell has been in conference with the powers that be several times and it is said that he will be named aide to the manager. That there is a possibility possi-bility of Frank Chance returning to read the Cubs was learned when J. Ogden Armour, one of the stockholders, announced an-nounced that if the "P. L." wants to come "the question of money won't stand in the way." Armour believes Chance would put the team on a financial winning basis. Three of the interior cities In this section sec-tion of the state Sacramento. San Jose and Fresno are in the running as the spring hosts to the San Francisco Baseball Base-ball dub. Such is the assertion coming from Henry Perry, who declares that he has not made up his mind just where th-J club will he located for Its training; that he has not entered into negotiations with nny of the chambers of commerce or the like, but that he is sure to go to one of the three places he has mentioned. "Sacramento strikes me as one good place for a training camp," said Berry in discussing this phase of his baseball business. "They have a good park there, the weather Is fine, and we ought to be able to arrange games with teams from the Trolley league. If we don't go to Sacramento, it will be either Fresno or San Jose. That much I am sure of." Sacramento has been used as a training train-ing camp by the Sacramento club when in the Coast league, although as a general gen-eral thing Charlie Graham preferred to take his men away from the immediate vicinity of their own park. Hap Hogan had his Vernon Tigers at Fresno one spring and other of the Coast league dubs have worked out in that same section, although not at Fresno. San Jose, of course. Is known as the headquarters of the Seals last season and the Saints the year before. If the clubs of the league are not permitted to use their own parks for exhibition ex-hibition games, say with the Cubs, the matter of spring matches at their training train-ing camps will be an Important financial Item. I'nder such circumstances and no one believes the ruling will be changed at tire Coast league meeting this coming wePk Berrv would naturally prefer to have his men in some large center, where thpv can pav for their keep. From a standpoint of the local fans it makes but little difference. Comparatively Compara-tively few of them see the club before the pennant season rolls around, although naturallv when the men are situated as oonvenientlv as at San Jose, the Sunday "ames attracted many of the dyed-in-the-wool fans. San Francisco Chronicle. " LOS ANGELES. Dec. 4. Jack Ttyan savs that he is going to give his famous arm a deserved rest this season, and cut out the winter ball completely. 7n harmony har-mony with this plan he has decided to place his automobile In the rent business and in that way derive an income tnat will offset what he loses by abstaining from off-season pitching. Again, mav ainiplv have become jealous or RPd lldd who Is driving a jitney on Main strect TTam Patterson of Vernon doesn't know whether he will lead the Tigers on the field next vear or not. Ham's contract is iust as ironclad as it can be, but experience ex-perience has taught him that there are several sorts of methods for puncturing ironclad contracts. With this uncertaintv in the air, one might suppose that Pat would be inclined in-clined to loaf on the job of lining up a dub for next year. But such is not the case. . , After losing to the Angels in the closing clos-ing weeks of the lust season. Pat has been at work scouting around for new out fielding material for the next race. The Tiger boss, better than anyone else, knows what the weakness of his club was last year. He realizes full well what the lack of base-hitting in the outer gardens meant to the club, and he intends to have a trio of bludgeoneers next season who will be able to deliver something besides be-sides strikeouts or pop flies when there are runners clogging the paths. Daley, Mattick and Doane were Pat s regular outfielders last season. Of these three Mattick alone has an outside chance of sticking for the next campaign. Dalev wns a bitter disappointment, and his style of plav In the cloning months of the season caused more than one fan to susnect that he was not giving his best efforts to the club. Doane had a had year and Griggs, the utility outfielder, failed to hit until the last few weeks. The Tig?r infield will be shot to pieces with Risberg, McGaffigan and Bates all departed for the upper circles. Around Gus Gleichmann Pat will have to build another inner guard. That he can as-sf as-sf mhle one of the same caliber as that of the IMG Ticers is too much to expect. ex-pect. Onlv one infield of that nature comes to a club, or even to a league, in a lifetime. Charley Callahan will be tiie regular short stop of the Tigers, most hkelv. nnd Bert Whaling will be one of the catchers, with Mitze as a possi-biliiv. possi-biliiv. The Tiger pitching department will undergo few changes besides the transfer of Ellis Johnson. PJsht now Patterson is up in the air regarding his lineup for the ronvng year. His one "idea is to land as much hitting strength as possible, and no other style of ball players need apply for a job. Los Angeles is to get three players from the 'Chicago Cubs, two of whom are pitchers. The Cubs will bring forty-dx players to Pasadena with them there does not sf-em to be a doubt that they will train ilif.reaiKl from the surplus Los Anceh-s will pick thre-3. Either Zabel or Standridge will revert to the Angels, and possibly buih of them, as the Cubs are well stotked with right-handers. In a Idl'i-jn to thr. e or more men to be received fioni the. Cubs, the Los An- geles team is to get players from Pittsburg Pitts-burg and the St. Louis Cardinals. Butler, But-ler, who piays either short or second, has already been offered bv the Cards. He is a. corkir.gly good player, but was forced out of the game by an Injury last season. He is said to have recovered from this. Los Angeles Times. Through the baseball rialto runs a whisper that Harry Wolverton is hopeful of getting Tub Spencer as chief of his 1917 catch'ng department. When Tub. dissatisfied with his berth at Vernon, demanded de-manded his release, threatening otherwise to o u 1 1 ba.se ball completed', there was a quick offer for his services from Detroit. And Detroit is doine all it can at all times to help Harry Wolverton. hence the suspicion that the Detroit dub was merely Boss Harry working under cover. But if this were the original plan. It may not turn out as was hoped for. Spencer broke into the Detroit club like a cha mpion. a nd prompt iv pushed t he regulars of the Tiger staff out of the gamel Not onlv did he catch in magnificent mag-nificent style, hut he stepped right into the ranks of the .300 hitters. So Dctroh might -wnnt the chunky backstop a:- a permanent fixture, and even if it did no1, there are fifteen other big lea cue hall clubs that wruli have to w,n!i. on line. It is a bafe prediction that .--cvfiai of them will refuse to wa h if t l"-y u.-t the chance. However ti-rrr me t" ot her go :ul ca t chers on the Pet mi r dub Planting that Oscar Signage Is certain to keep his job. One is Baker nnd the other is McKee, either of whom won 1 ju-; about fill the bill for San Francisco. ' San Francisco Examiner. |