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Show What Coasters Are Gossiping About in Off-Season Honolulans having watched Chariey Swain's All -Americans mow down the stars of the Hawaiian islands with regu-laiity regu-laiity and ease, have at last come out openly to acknowledge that the visitors have too much class. Much had been expected ex-pected of the Twenty-fifth infantry team, the best of the island organizations. The soldiers were too much for t he Olympics and the Santa Claras, but they were shut out in their first two games with Swain's bunch, and lost the third by a score of 7 to 1. "Dutch" Reuther pitched this game, allowing al-lowing seven bits, while the All-Americans gathered in eleven. The Traveling Chinese gave the boys something of a tussle, but lost out, 5 to 4. Chief Johnson John-son did the heaving here, and allowed six hits. Home runs were plentiful, each side making two. Louis Guisto propelled one of them. Guisto's hitting has been a feature of nearly every contest. Tn a letter to Tommy Sheehan. Charley Swain says that the boys have decided to remain a week longer than was originally intended. They are enjoying themselves Immenselv. having been royally entertained enter-tained from the first aay of their arrival. Cha rlev says he has a t tended so manV banquets that his clothes are too smail for him now, and he expects to come horn" in a barrel. Harold Jan vrin, the "Boston Red Pox second sacker, spoke on baseball and the world's series at a jinks at the Y. M. C. A., where the visiting players were the guests of honor. San Francisco Examiner. Ex-aminer. SAN JOSTT, December 8. Tom Stephens, Ste-phens, associated with Hen Berry in the management of the Seals, promised Jay McCa'oe, representing thp San Jose chamber cham-ber of commerce, today that the Seals would spend their spring training season in San Jose. The citizens of San Jose will offer a bonus to the Sea!s to do their soring training in this city. Past vear the San Francisco team cleaned up SHOO of their training camp expenses by exhibition games here. Tub Spencer in the house? Sure h is. What is more, the former Vernon backstop back-stop itiI the present eat'-her with the Detroit De-troit Tigers is a San Franciscan just at present, bv adoption, for hp's landed a berth as salesman in a well-known o-t.1 establishment in the department that caters to men and their furnishings. Tub arrived from the southland three days ago and went to work yesterdav. He has been coached and prepned bv Fouie L.owenbPvg. and is prepared to sell you a bathrobe, something nobbv in neckwear neck-wear or anything your muscaline heart mav desire. It dope sound strangf to think of Tub's being behind a counter or close to a showcase, but if he can deliver as well as he dee? in baseball, there will be nothing noth-ing to tho new job. San Francisco Chronicle. Chron-icle. Del Howard, the Oakland mnnacr. sa'-s that he is going to make a wholesale houseeieanlr.g before spi ing. He is going go-ing to get rid of Mai Parrv. his first saeker. and says the onlv holdovers certain cer-tain of their jobs are Proutrh and Burns of the pitchers. Int'ieMer Murphv. Outfielders Out-fielders Une and Mlddieton and Catcher CnPan. Since Del has formed that alliance with p.-nokyn, he expects tn be able to import ouite a litlt" talent vhh-h he wouldn't be able to set in any other manner, and. present a team as strong as any of the others in 1917. It looks to an outsider as if Del had a considerable task on his hands. In discussing his catching situation for 1917. Waiter McCredie said: "Fisher's leg wdll be O. K. next spring and we will not need Billings, although I would like to have secured him. The only trouble with Fisher is that he is getting to that stage where he does not care. Many veterans get that spirit. "They have the goods, but don't care to display it. Gus hits more than most catchers," and if I can get him to take interest in-terest in his work next year we will be 1 well fortified in the backstopping depart-! depart-! ment with a good youngster who can hop j In and catch a couple of games a week." |