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Show What Coasters Are Gossiping About in Off-Season Displaying the same coolness and ability abil-ity to deliver in a. pinch which has characterized char-acterized his work on the baseball diamond dia-mond for the last several years, Earl Sheely, first packer and catcher of the pennant-winning Indians last season and now a member of the Salt Lake club of the Coast league, last night defeated W. G. (Al) Whisler in the first match of the final series of three to decide the city amateur pocket billiard championship, 150 to 133, says the Spokesman-Review. The crowd was impartial, the good shots of both players being warmly applauded. ap-plauded. The WhiPler fans were in the majority at the start of the contest, but toward the end Sheely had fully as many supporters as the 1016 champion. The defeat was the first that Whisler has suffered in a tournament match in two years, hut he took his defent gracefully, being the first to congratulate Sheely on his victory. In the play of the following evening Sheely was beaten, 150 to 143. Joseph I. Kilhullen, leading catcher of the Eastern association the past season, has been secured by Manager Del Howard How-ard of the Oaks for his backstopping department de-partment for the coming reason. Fort-land, Fort-land, as well as Oakland, was after this man, but Kilhullen preferred Oakland, especially after he heard that the Fort-land Fort-land team was to train at Honolulu. In his letter accepting terms and inclosing in-closing his' signed contract, Kilhullen says: "I hope that your training camp is in some part of America." Apparently after reading The war news j in the east, his home being in South ! Bethlehem, Pa., he decided that he would j (prefer not to go outside of the United I States to get into playing shape. Kilhullen has been rated as the leading backstop in the Eastern association for the last three or four years. He was I once taken by Manager Connie Mack of I the Philadelphia Athletics, but was uirned j back for more seasoning. While not a fence buster. Kilhullen has always hit I fairly well, his average in 1914 being .2SC I in 105 games. The past season he hit .269 in eighty-six games, and led alt the I catchers of the league with a fielding average of .9$o. Kilhullen has been ordered to report at Boyes Springs February 26. Manager Howard iias decided to have some of his battery men assemble at the training camp a few days before the rest of the bunch, who will gather to commence work on March 1. Oakland Tribune. Pitcher Prickson has been heard from. Th e t w i r ler writes from his ho m e i n Jamestown. N. Y., not to return his signed contract, but to say there are some points chiefly of a financial nature he would like straightened out. Ac- cording to Wolverton, the difference is so slight there is'' no danger that the player and club will not get together. Notwithstanding he announced himself several weeks ago as fully satisf-ied with the terms of his Salt Lake contract, Billy Orr is delaying in signing up. The in-fielder in-fielder didn't even see Bernhard or Murphy Mur-phy during their stay in San Francisco. "I'm just taking my time," explained Orr yesterday. "There is no occasion for any hurry and I want to give the matter a little more consideration, that's all." San Francisco Chronicle. -A: When the telegraph company at Tarry-town, Tarry-town, N. Y.. tried to deliver a message from Judge McCredie to Pitcher 1-1 elf rich yesterday, the Portland magnate was informed in-formed that He! f rich had left town a nd they couldn't deliver tiie yellow envelope. . Judge McCredie takes this to mean that Helfrich discovered t hat his ticket had been for two days at the Tarr-ytcwn depot and immediately tonk. it up and hit the train for Portland. That would put him into the Beavers' rendezvous by Monday, which is the time the judge wants all the players to be here. If Helfrich is really on the way, the j only remaining player unheard from is ' Pitcher Finch er, who is in Holly Grove, Ark., and who wants to make the Hono- i lulu trip. Fincher may be on his way and ; he may yet be in Arkansas, no report 1 having' been received from him up to this morning. The judge is anxious to have Fincher on the trip so that Nephew Walter can give him the up and down. Dennis Wilie, the fire-eating Texan, had a little preliminary training when he arrived ar-rived on the Northern Pacific from Los Angeles, the first outsider to report. Dennis says lie felt so good on the boat that he was son y he wasn't on his way to tlie Hawaiian islands instead of Portland. Port-land. Dermic looks to be in great shape, and he is anxious to craw into a uniform. Dennie brought a new shotgun along with him and wants to shoot some rabbits. Will anybody hold the rabbits, please? Don't all speak at once. Bill Rodpers's signed contract preceded him by a day or so. having arrived late yesterday. Bill is expected tomorrow or next day. No word has been heard from Manager Walter McCredie. If he doesn't come on the Shasta Limited this afternoon, it is likely that he will come in on the Northern North-ern Pacific Sunday, having expressed lately a decided preference for ocean travel over the rail route. Dink O'Brien, Pinelli and Schatzlein may accompany the big manager. Portland Port-land Telegram. OAKLAND, Feb. 12. Ja k Kiililay may be at Boyes Springs when the toll -call for II' 17 spring pitching candidates is called. Killiiav is here and will hold a conference confer-ence with Del Howard soon. The Oitks are making an effort to grab '"Hontis" Mitze. and with Kiililay also in harnehs the local fans may witness the L-hampiun t artery of 1012 in action. Oscar Harsrad. Flcaver pitcher, is attending at-tending the Pacific Dental college and will not break into his schooling to play base1';) !1. He signed yf-strrday on the provision that he be permitted to report in June, lie plans to pitch f,,r the Dental college team this taring, so will be in g"Od shape when June rolls j)''ng. llar-sra.i llar-sra.i t rained with the r.- avrs at Sacra -mento last March, l-eiu scr.t to Spokane after a month's ti ial. |