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Show 1 mtWPi N Sacramento is in mighty cheap so far, for not one cent was put. up for Portland's Port-land's franchise. When it conies to get-tint; get-tint; some ot" Portland's players, how-'.ever, how-'.ever, ii will be different, and there will havA to be a show of coin. The ioh as manager at Sacramento will he 'no snap. Both Faum and Rod?-c-rs. as practical baseball men, know I that new team will have to be assembled- a lot of directors and stockholders stockhold-ers will want a finger in the pie, and il will be quite a scramble for whoever will be at the helm. Haum is not worrying a bit about the matter We is In no sense an applicant for the place. Ho never even thought !;ibout it until Charley Graham asked him if he -would take it" Baum has a lot of friends in Sacramento and likes the town, so he said he would take a chance if conditions were right. That s as far as he has cone. If tho Sacramento directors want to make other arrangements there will he never a peep of protest from Banna. ' Some of the minor stockholders in the i San Francisco club think Ken Berry should not have agreed to let Baum go, ' for he is still a winning pitcher; ho is I above the draft age, and players of tb- kind are valuable, when players are he- ing grabbed right and left for the armyV I and navy. Most of the teams next sea- I on will " be t omposed of men above the I draft age and boys who are too young to he called. If puim is not chosen tt will be Sacramento's Sac-ramento's loss and San Francisco's gain, for the Spider , can step out there again next year and fool 'em. just as he has heen doing for the last fifteen years San Francisco Chronicle. Billv Tane and "Hack" Miller, who were the bulwarks of Oakland's outfield last season, have announced that they have finished with professional baseball. It mav be that they are resorting to the usual midwinter bluff for Its possihlc effect ef-fect upon the contracts J. Cal Ewing will submit to them next month. But vou never can tell. Their argument sounds good. Lane and Miller are married mar-ried men and just at present each has a good job and isn't up against the ne-cessitv ne-cessitv of playing ball. Moreover, each has it figured out that by holding his present job and playing Independent baseball base-ball on Saturdays and Sundays next summer sum-mer he can make just as much money as if he signed up with the Oaks, and he'll still have' his job when the baseball base-ball season closes. San Francisco Examiner. Exam-iner. Bill Leard. veteran Coast and Northwestern North-western leaguer, with memories of a trip back to Brooklyn and a lot of other baseball experience during his lifetime, is the latest managerial possibility being mentioned for the Vernon Tigers. A few davs ago Tom Parmody. the Tiger boss, announced that Bill Kssick, veteran Central Cen-tral league manager, had been signed tor the Tigers for next year. But now it seems that there is a hitch somewhere and that Essick will probably not be on hand. The split-up is satisfactory to Dar-modv, Dar-modv, according to reports frem tht south. Essick would have been, a bench manager and Darmody is said to have been a recent convert to the playing manager idea that seems to be the prevailing pre-vailing style for the Coast league next year Of course there is still the chance that' the Essick deal will not blow up. but if it does, do not be surprised if A Bill Leard hooks up with Darmody anfl is the leader of the Vernon club nextl year. t J Leard would make a good leader for w I Coast league club; he is of the aggressiveJ type that always has the fans on edge T and the chances are that his players would be of the same kind. The slow-moving, slow-moving, slow-thinking ball player would have no place on Bill's club, and he looks like the logical man to get in there and put the old "pep" back in the Tigers that has not been there since the days of "Happy" Hogan. Oakland Tribune. Bill Rodgers yesterday received a wire from Charlie Graham, the power behind the throne in the Sacramento club, inquiring in-quiring what his terms would be to manage man-age the Senators next year. One of Bill's many accomplishments is the ability to pound a typewriter with the best of them, and he typed an answer an-swer which will probably make Charlie's breath fail him for a moment. The Portland captain named an ; amount which he himself admits is rather ! high, but explains that he is meeting with great success in selling automobiles, automo-biles, and can't afford to quit this game for baseball unless he gets enough out of it to make it worth while. Rodgers well realizes that he will have, to assemble an entire new team at Sacramento, Sac-ramento, will have little money to do !t with, and that as the town is small he will be forced to get by with smaller attendance at-tendance than the other cities in the circuit, which means less money to spend on the purchase and development of players. He doesn't caret much whether his demand de-mand is met or not. Last week Bill sold two cars, and isn't devotipg all his time to it, either. He has been going to an ! auto school and selling machines on the j side. Bill will have graduated within the j next three weeks, and he figures that by i giving his entire time to the selling end j of the game be can make more money I than by accepting a. fair salary aa a baseball manager. Portland Telegram. |