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Show lifl SIGNS; . ANDJNFIELDER Salts' Catching Department Complete; Pitcher Is a North Carolina Boy; Murphy on Trial. Skipp.r- Cliff E:an';cn-hip cut loo;e ith a h:tle mid-winter cevrsi veterdav. ChS't rakrg, like- ihe Gaul Mr. Caesar Tirote about, -was divided into three piirts. They were: 1. Catcher Harry Hannah has signed a 1916 contr iet. 2. Sait Lake has acquired Jack May, a yoiicg left-handed pitcher, from Oak Vii'-ge, X. C. PiesideirTTi'-' of the Spokane ei-.ib '"iT-i turn over to ?ait Lake for trial lierh furj'liyJ art infii ltler. The Bicnmi ot Truck Hannah just a'nout closes the doors of the backs'toj-pin? backs'toj-pin? department. Truck and Jack Vann of Terro Haute vi:l be the rcceivinsr o-jd of the 1016 Salts. Vann comes to ffzlt Lake with an excellent record as a throwing catcher, and one who can also paste the pill. May was recommended to Blank by an old college chum of the Salt Lake pilot, in who;e judgment the chief has much confidence. May is only a youngster young-ster and has not played professional la'l before, but he is said to he a wi.. nil he Eet a lot of fires in. the high school games do-.m hi old Carolina. The acquisition of Murphv is a precautionary pre-cautionary step. Blank figures that he has lust about all the infielders he needs if all of them turn out according to expectations, bnt he is taking no chances on somel'ody fTivverinj. Consequently, Con-sequently, when Farr offered Murphv at f:(Tures that were acceptable. 'Blank n'reed to take him on trial. Of course, if Murphy does not pan out, no harm will be done. Blank says the matter of a training amp has not yet been settled, but it is likely that the present week will see a decision. HAM SAYS M'CREDIE IS FOXY IN OLD AGE J-Yy ;s ;t tbar V,'a!t M'-Cr-ii? I? ;,.- v fi-vlnt? !o cut -If.un : plaver ani i rr limiLy in t'nii, I.-a'-TM"?'' nzim Ham f'fir.trr-on. "'AI1. I'll icll vou. Mac f -a.n aoout fifteen wmes less In a b-&- HilKl SIGNS 191B If PiMpiHES'l (Continued from Preceding Page.) son thiin any of the otUer clubs except Salt Lake. Every club bt the league figures fig-ures to carry at least 'ie pi toner woo won't work in more thi fifteen ranter in a season, and Mac cJr. cany one les heaver and sH away v x ii it. "Tout is why he is taHiin a'cout carrying carry-ing sixteen if the other iluha cany seventeen, sev-enteen, or seventeen If W.ie others carry eighteen. His team Is ''iu t.c rad only ai.-jut haif as long as h - of the oihcia, barring tli Salts ag, ! i' . ; and, what is more, when a ' sou rr i-lu'o visiis t'ortland the men tpt-.l t''U days 011 Lhe train, while the M - s vei s ure taUinK it ea',- and rt-sting re;Yi citrtinup. "Kif;erii gained in a -..-hed.iie makes qtiiiu a. dirTei in tlie pei - ctnuye i-oiumn. With ;.e ?:nalUr number num-ber of eaies, each one counts for just (bat ifui' u mure in t: f. i-rer-entaee col-1 col-1 in tn. As a mailer of fact, il -Auuld Klve the ehi'u rayins 7ne .-.'nallr-r number a . ;u n--e to win a penru m a' t i.ougn it iind won a'jout three u m.-s itss or Iok ;l;re i!anis more than the a'-tttal dif-f.Tenue dif-f.Tenue in game p-nyed would in-ii-1 a- e. , AVhv nol arriny to p. ay Oouoie-Af'CHicr Oouoie-Af'CHicr in Hoitlaud and ,-71t UikeV" says Pel "U would fc.'tn tiling.- 'ip with ihe other e'uhs, white the w.iv hia;s STp.nd, Portland and Salt 1 have tin? best A it, and it is hardiy fair." |