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Show THIS AND THAT IN COAST LEAGUE TALK Del's problem is not so much that of winning a pennant as it is of giving Oakland Oak-land a club that will lie up in the race. Last year the miserable race made bv the Oaks slowed up the league. Any time another club was billed to meet the Oaks it was a foregone conclusion that the series would be a cinch for the Oaks' opponents. The element of chance entered en-tered into the calculations of the fans only when they concerned themselves with figuring whether the Oaks would drop five games or the entire series. Howard has worked with and tried out forty thousand players in order to give him the nucleus of a ball club that will make some trouble for the other five teams. 1 1 is dependence on the youth and enthusiasm en-thusiasm of Ins players may solve t lie puzzle that has been connected with the Oak hi nd ball club since "Foghorn" Murphy Mur-phy wore his first li.it. Every tiling else has be.-en tried and found wanting, and Howard may hit upon the solution. If Howard began his work this spring with a view to presenting a better " club than that which was turned over to him by "Rowdy" Elliott last summer, then Del hps apparently succeeded. Oakland Tribune. ' Bert Whaling received a wire- from Manager Herb Hester of the Great Fails Northwestern league club asking for his terms to play in that league. Whaling has been given permission bv George Stovall to make a deal for himself. If Whaiing doesn't hook up with Great Falls he will accept a berth in Arizona. Los Angeles Tribune. 4 It is apparent that Maisel has definitely definite-ly displaced Gedeon at second, at least for the time being. He has been outhit-ting outhit-ting Gedeon so much that the decision has been easy to make. He struck two blowfc in the game todav. Gedeon's chance depends on a decided improvement improve-ment in hitting or a decided slump on the part of Maisel. New York American. Don't be surprised to hear the Beavers Beav-ers in describing directions say, "Ewa, Mauka, Waikiki or Makai." instead of east, north, south and west, when they return to Portland. In Honolulu there is no such thing. Mauka means toward the mountain; Makai is toward the sea; Ewa is in the direction of a settlement of that name, and ditto Waikiki. All the Americans Ameri-cans use the same terms. Portland Ore-gonlan. Ore-gonlan. SMITH VTLLE , Tex., March 27. The real phenom of the White Sox rookie aggregation this season is "Brick" Eldred, coast find. 'With Jack Fournier, Eddie Murphy and John Collins Col-lins as competitors for the right-field garden, the coaster is finding it tough sledding. However, Rowland has had Eldred In a "White" uniform ever since the season started and the manager expects ex-pects him to stick. The Yannigans wear blue uniforms. |