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Show What Coasters Are Gossiping About in Off-Season The Ancels are in good shape as far as ball players are concerned.. Chance i has a goodly number of youths coming j from the Chicago Cuba, while Leader j Jimmy Callahan of the Pirates is duty i bound to ship a few of his youngsters I to the Powers and Chance company. Very lew ball pluyers will be sipned i from now until the training season starts. A few iniFiirs may be signed lor the season, sea-son, but noil her Chance nor Powers will I scour the southern part of the state for I ihcm. It' they see one that looks Rood to j them th".v will prab him, but they are not fiiiiin. to sisn up a lot of youngsters, Another old timer Is threatening a nme-h;nk in baseball. He is no ulher jthan Due White. one-Lime star southpaw ; heaver of the Chicago White Sox, later : leader of the Tipers and still later asso-! asso-! ''i.Lieil with ex-lInss Kd. Mair of the j I'-'iiu.'ils. I oc is considering an offer from j t:;e Wichita club of the Western league. I liv.nl-; Ni"dl. owtn-r of the s Moines He". "I" the same le;ipue. has purvluis.-d I the Wichita team ana has ofi'L-rcd Uie i managerial berth to White. Tsbell plans I to sell Des Moines immediately. "There's nothlnp definite on the deal," said White last nipht over the telephone. "I've been offered tho management of the team: that was some time ago, but could not give Isbell an answer because I said that I would stay with Maier as lonp as he was iu baseball. Now that Maier is out of baseball I don't know what I'll do. "I haven't seen Isbell for some time, but expect to get in touch with him in a few days." Isbell and White are former teammates, team-mates, playing together on the old White Sox club that copped the world's championship cham-pionship from the Cubs in 1906. It Is believed that White will accept Isbell's offer If Jimmy McGlll, owner of the Denver team, doesn't interfere with White's plans, as, according to baseball law, White belongs to Denver, aa he signed with that team last winter and turned the Management down the day before be-fore he was scheduled to leave to accept a position with Maier. Los Angeles Tribune. Don Radev of the Venice Baseball club is once again a student at the Oregon university. He entered when the baseball season closed thjs fall and will be able to finish one semester before sprinfi training starts. Ho was a promising basketball bas-ketball man when in college six years a so and is now Keeping in condition In-working In-working out daily with the varsity squad. Athletic ability is not confined to the masculine bide of Lht ilaUer iamib'. Dnn' i sister is one of the gymnasium instructors for the university women, Oregon .Journal. - Frank (Dink) O'Brien, the diminutive catcher who made such a hit last fall :tftfr joining the Portland club, writes Walter McCredie that he has taken on a lot of weight, and now tips the scales at 15S pounds. Frank is a replica of Rowdy Elliott, "xcept that he isn't quite as tall or nearly as chiuiky. He doesn't tup more than i . feet 5 inches of space, and if he really j weighs 15S pounds he ought to look like a miniature edition of Jess WUlard. |