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Show STRAY BITS FROM THE SAINTS' CAMP 4 Special to The Tribune. PORTERVILLE, March 4. Chet Hoff's experience at carrying grocery samples through the wilds of Hoboken, by which he is said to have kept the wolf from the door during the winter season, stood htm in stead tiie first day the Saints engaged in real work. Hern hard sent Hoff to right held and there early developed a conspiracy to send him to the bench for a rest. Hoff upet all calculations, for despite the activity of tlte regulars in lamming the pill to the remote corners of Hofr s temporary domain, he jogged about after the long hits with the utmost ut-most unconcern for nearly two hours, Tiie conspirator? quit first and Hoff came in the freshest of the bunch. Jimmy Shinn lias bought, a prune ore ha rd in the SI ockton, Cal., country, and can talk as learnedly of scale pesrs, sprays and pruning methods as tlte best of the rn. Billy Burke, who now rejoices in the title of "Doc," and who has finally had his clubhouse fitted up to suit him, has quit keeping the hours of an eye specialist. special-ist. Billy moved in the last, of the week, bringing with him one ditty bag, one typical western "war bag," h, pack saddle, tied with a diamond hitch which someone some-one else tied for him; two suit cases and a hand bag. These, were tilled to the brim with everything from a drug store, including corrosive sublima to and soothing sooth-ing syrup. Bill has a new liniment which lie claims Is of his own compounding, and after a seam-e a l a local apof he-cary's he-cary's shop, lasting all of one morning, he arrived with a three-gallon olive oil can full of it. It's not much to look at and its smell promises to make Pill about as popular with the sore-muscled squad as the lcaiser with the allies. Shinn -promises to become ; the Paints' official balk-line billiard player, Shinn lias nulled off a. few impromptu matches for short strings with local ia.tonl. some of whom a re Tint so bad bu I to da to as far as recorded, lie lias tilled out his string first. Rath bas 'only been out for n limited practice, during'the past week, hut even t!i is Rtn;i II amount of work shown him be fast asv a bullet. I f is iieldincr is M-ftfision Itse'f- and his throwing perfection. perfec-tion. Tobin. fresh fi'.in his mn jor. l"n srue affiliations af-filiations in St. Lnnis, shows a ureat form at the plate. Tu the batting practice, porn po-rn ids of 1 ho v eli he stepped Into t he ball promptly, even when the recruits were doing their best on the delivery end. a nd swung w it h a. body mot ion vCii'-h will carry IitHo eivnnragement to opposition oppo-sition heaverf. Tobin carries no pup' r-ttnous r-ttnous wejcht and i: in evident fine physical physi-cal condition. . i Heroin rd is on t he Ke;rch for a first ; b;i r-cma n. one who en n lie used for a tvncral utihtv man. Tims' far the finest. n;ti not been crowned with an very k'rral Miccf-f. so far as Re rnhard 'n public pub-lic jinnouri'-pmenls are concerned. The rest of Ids infield Is entirelv m t isfio't ory. Im s:t vs. a nd those who ha vr wale I led workonts. acrrce with him. ' r.ernhn rd Intends Mr pitchers tn get in cuiidillon e;n-p.. f.nn of hij llr:d or-d or-d ra niter i'ii had completed pryoii'il v.o-1-; in laying nnt th diamond :nd surveying sur-veying the infield, u.rs to h.n-c r"'ind oy,.-n hfftne pi;,lrR "d pl I dierA tn. kcs (Continued on Following racA) SAINTS TAKE OPENING Wild MS TEAM' (Continued From Preceding Page.) laid out in various parts of the field, and those who are aspiring to the delivery division of the Saints for this season will be given a chance to earn their pay from the outset. In fact, for the first few days the squad was on the ground pitchers were pretty nearly the entire team. There were eight of them on hand for the first day's work as against, three others, one catcher and two infielders, and until almost the last of the week, it was eight to five. Hannah remarked It was bad enoutrh to have to work with any one of them for a first da.y out, and that working for eight of them would make him quit his job. Outside of the pitching staff Interest during the first day's work centered in Anhnson, Golden Gale recruit, who is a candidate for a place behind the bat, and Kearny, also a San Francisco recruit, who hopes to prove good enough for an Infield job. Just what Bern hard has in mind for K earns does not appear certain, but almost the whole time thus far he has worked out at the third corner. Kearns is rated high by the veterans, who have no hesitancy in saying he will be good enough for fast company If able to hit. Kearns fields tl corner bag well and his throwing to first is simply perfect. Somebody remarked at the conclusion of the second workout of the men that Bernhard appeared to bo carrying a little too much weight for fast work. "We all are," quoth the skipper. And thereupon a large portion of the crew were ordered i for a run of half a mile around the park. Unprejudiced judges say Bernhard won pulled up, while some of the squad figured fig-ured as also rans only tinder the whip. Monday night the Saints will make their debut in society. Under direction of committees of the chamber of commerce com-merce and the Business Men's association associa-tion a reception dance ha,s been arranged, ar-ranged, and the Saints will be expected to attend, whether they dance or not More than a, score of the socially prominent promi-nent debutantes and younger matrons of Port ervi lie have been enlisted as patronesses pa-tronesses and arrangements have been completed on a rather elaborate scale. The mn rried men of the squad were served with notice early, and therefore have been given time to write homo for instructions. |