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Show FDUH BMIES IN FOB THESAIMJS Battles With Bakersfield, Fresno, Taft and Porter- ville Announced for Saturday and Sunday. 1 Spotf-ial to The Tribune. PORTE RVLrT.-K. Cal., March 1 1. Brisk iihrm-ors last night made a heavy diamond dia-mond today and the Sabits were given a vacation. Light work is scheduled for Thursday and Friday in preparation for two hard games Saturday and two more Sunday for both the first and second squads. Rill Rem hard will take the pu-k of his rrew to Fresno Saturday to play tlie Sun-maids, Sun-maids, who ,-ire still furnishing' alibis for their defeat of last Sunday, and Btlly Orr will guide the bunch that goes lo Bakers-field Bakers-field the same day. Orr's crowd will return re-turn to Port crvt lie to play the Orange Pickers and the skipper and his hunch will .go to Taft for a Sunday game. Badger Blake. Caveman Lydiait, Rube ! Evans and Tom Tin plies will be the I moundmen for the first squad. ' FIREBRAND SUSPENDS MITZE AND M ATTIC K Special to The Tribune. ! T.OS AXGKLES, March 14.Gcor.cre Stowill. manager of the Tlpers, called off ; practice this morning and devoted himself him-self to bonkkppping. He discovered that, ! lv nan put clglitecn hall pkvyers on the'' : field and still keep within tlie Coast league i salai y limit. St oval! will spnd his club 1 a ainst tlic Pasadena team Sunday. The j Elrehi and will double the work of his men tomorrow, providing- the weather : does not interfere with his plans. Stovall ,ivs tiiat the rain will not hurt, his players, play-ers, nil J adds that a day's rest will do them good. , Out fiekW ChitT'k IVTat link and Catcher llonus Mitze were placed on the sus-! sus-! pendecl list of the Vernon club today be-! be-! cause they had refused to sign contracts for the coining season. Stnvntl took this 1 drastic stop after givlner the men a week j in which to deliberate over the terms offered of-fered them by Vernon. 1 Mlfze is troubled with a desire for more ' money. Mattick wants tn ;?pt awaV from f the A'ernun clnh. 1-Ie lias Invested a large ! sum in the Dallas club and wants to play i there. ; Negotiations hPtwen Parmody and the ; two players ended with a bang today when stnvnll suspended both, i "And I'm not going to waft for them to f sign contracts," declared Stovall. "t'm lookinp for another catcher and an out-i out-i fielder, and these two men will he out of j luck if I can get them." : CHANCE PUTS VAUGHN ON SUSPENDED LIST ! Special to The Tribune. T.OS ANGKT.KS. Cal.. March 'M. Man aser Chance nf the Ancels today called off the scheduled game with the Unl-' Unl-' versity of Southern California nine on account ac-count of the rain, which soakeri the field I a t Wash (net on park. The A ngel leader also postponed the workout of the Angel team, pivincr the boys a day's rest. "Tt's no use to take any chances on the players being hurt by playing on the soft field." said Chance. "We have plenty of time to get in condition." Friday niirht President Powers will go north ti see Weeghman. owner of the Cubs, about players. Chance wants Meu-sel. Meu-sel. standridge and Reuther. Chance feels sure he will get Standridge and Meusel. Chance has carrier out his oft-reiterated threat of suspending Vaughn. He will ask waivers on him and plans to ship him to the Northwestern. The decision of the l.os Angeles club to place Vaughn on the suspended list 'makes It Imperative to ct another ' infielder. Powers says he "will be protected hv the Cubs. SEALS PREPARE TO GIVE CUBS BATTLE Special to The Tribune. SACRAMENTO. March 14 Last night's rain curtailed the morning workout -todav, and Wolverton had sawdust sprinkled on the diamond for the afternoon practice. Following batting practice. Wolverton called for an infield wnrkout that sent the bovs to the clubhouse wringing wet. The tenm leaves for San Francisco earlv tomorrow morning, practicing in the afternoon aft-ernoon for the games with the Chicago Cub?. THIS AND THAT IN COAST LEAGUE TALK ROVES SPT1T "GS, March 11. The gate was opf-ned wide this morn inc. and five members of the Oakland su'-'ad departed" In search of other woilds to compier. It had been arranged to hand out this manv ifle;is'-s on Saturday, but Pel Howard extended ex-tended the privileges of the dining tabic to ih'j boys for a few add It ional days. Those wiio drew blanks were 'atchers Marriott arid Priest, pitclur Ix-ftv Kinney, First fiasma n Thompson ;nid Tnfielder Piehl. Kiniie was s.-nt on his wa v to the lx-nicou ch;b of the Wcslcui y.syucia- I lion, whence he sprang upon the recommendation recom-mendation of Harry Abies and Otis Cran-dall, Cran-dall, and the other four were sent into the Putie Huh. with which Oakland has a gentleman's agreement. Reri Killlfer may yet be an Angel. Frank-Chance Frank-Chance received a wire from Joe Tinker of the Columbus club r,f the American association as-sociation offering Killifer to the Angels for Art Bu tier, tlie Angel infielder, who refuses re-fuses to come to the coast, and a cash consideration. Chance says t hat he is willing to pay some money for Killifer providing t hat Tinker doesti't want loo much money. .Los Angeles Times. Jack Ness, who was recently turned over by Comiskey to Joe Tinker's Columbus Colum-bus America n associa tion club, yesterday was signed by Nate Kaplan of the Magnets, Mag-nets, and will perform on first for the semi-pro club in the new Chicago Base ball league, which completed its organization organiza-tion yesterday at the Hotel La Salle. Instead In-stead of passing the season in the minors the former Sox athlete will eke out an existence ex-istence here -while working for a husiness house and placing ball on Saturday. Chicago Chi-cago Herald. There Is small chance of the Angels get-ing get-ing Steve Yerkes. The Cub second saek-cr saek-cr has the last of the wartime contracts. It calls for either $5700 or $7200 a season, which is beyond the mark any Coast club can pay. The ubs intend to keep him as a pinch hitter if Larry Doyle gets better. Los Angeles Herald. Howard is through worrying over the pitching staff. He figures that, he is as well stocked in this department as any club in t he league, if not a little better off. The men who were an uncertain I quantity have shown up so well in camp 1 for this time of year that the Oakland boss is quite happy. Pro ugh, Pruieft, Krause and Sammy Beer all have more on the ball than anyone expected, and figure to have a good year. Ira Colwell's arm is still on the blink, but Fred Good-bred Good-bred looks like a dependable work horse, and there is always Bill Burns to fall back on for two victories out of every' three starts. "Pop" Arlett and Ray Kremer will undoubtedly start the season, sea-son, so that Howard will have a tough Job if he carries out his expressed intention in-tention of starting with only eight hurl-ers hurl-ers and cutting down to six. The catching staff still remains the hug-bear, hug-bear, and until Kiihullen shows what he can do, Howard is up a tree. Young Dan Murray has not even been signed to a contract and will probably revert to the Northwestern. There remains only Kiihullen Kii-hullen and Callan, the latter a weak sister sis-ter with the willow and still lacking in experience, and Kiihullen quite an unknown un-known quantity. There are rumors here That President lowing is in the throes of an important deal which will be a pleasant pleas-ant surprise to Oakland fans. The particulars par-ticulars would make Interesting reading, but we are pledged to secrecy. Oakland Tribune. George Stovall would like to find some small league that is willing to take four voungsters on optional agreement. Out of the horde of rookies that the Fire-brand Fire-brand had at the Vernon park he has i four who need a little more experience be- fore thev will be able to play in this league. They are Catchers Hammer and Sullivan and Pitchers Valencia and Del C re sol. Louie Litschi. former Tiger and Oak. has signed his Dallas contract and has left to join Ham Patterson's club. The former for-mer Coast leaguer was reported as a holdout, but the old fever was too much for him, so he decided that another year of baseball would not hurt him. STRAY NEWS ITEMS FROM SAINTS' CAMP S'peciaJ to The Tribune. PORTERVILLE, March J4. BTake, recently re-cently christened the Badger; has been showing up well in the two games in which he lias started. Heaving against the Cubs, he held them to a blank score for six frames, and in the game with Fresno he applied the whitewash for five rounds. You have to hand it to the Badger for one thing he is never lacking lack-ing fn confidence. Whether in a hole or not he chews philosophically on three or four sticks of gum and works with supreme faith that he is coming out all right. Tobin earned a run In the Fresno game which run does not appear in the summary. He started to beat a long flv ball caught in left Held. Rollaud, at the plate for the Sunmaids, set himself for the throw and caught a perfect peg right at the rubber. Tobin was beat a mile. It seemed like half a minute after j Jthe umpire had started to signal Tobin o the dugout when the pill was seen i rolling across the diamond. Tobin had picked It out of the catcher's hand. His umps failed to see the trick and when he called the runner safe there waa a small riot. Morrle Rath played in great form Pun- I day. That difficult corner of tte dla- j mond was surrounded by dohe slush, but , Rath is a mud horse. He sailed into a1 couple of short bunts and. with a per- ; feet underhand toss, speared the aspir- i ants at Sheely's corner. I Only a few hits were garnered In the Fresno contest and work with the willow is the task which the Saints will get in j large doses from this time on. None of I the veterans appear to be doing any wor- 1 rying as to their batting eyes, although several of them are having privately' conducted con-ducted batting practice in odd .corners of the field when there is a minute to spare. What will probably be one of the most Interesting, as well as one of the most orotitnble, trips tlie Pains will make during dur-ing their spring training period is doped out for the last of this week, provided weather conditions will permit. Saturday an automobile cavalcade will be started for Bakersfleld, where U is jjanned lo put on a contest In the afternoon wjth the Southern Pacific club, a fast amateur ama-teur team. Sunday morning the Saints will eo by train to Taft. which is in the cemer of the famous Midway oil district. dis-trict. At the same time a second snuad will go to Ercsno for a return game with (Continued, on Following Page.) FEUS GAMES 11 Hi ! PAYS FOB THE SUITS (Continued From Preceding Page.) the Sunmaids. There is considerable community jealousy in the valley. Taft, Bakersiield and Fresno being rivals for baseball honors. Morrle Rath's ankle, which was spiked by Cress in the Yaunigan game early in the week. Is improving rapidly. The injury in-jury wfl.B not sufficienty serious to keep him out of the game, but he narrowly escaped. fc Fear of snakes is still the horror of the life of Rube Evans. The other day during dur-ing a practice game one of She bleacher boys, who are kept on hand for chasing balls, killed a grass snake in the remote I outfield. Rube couldn't catch a ball or hit a thing until he wont to the outer , garden and made the las throw tiie snake out of the held. Dnbuo has become a begem for work. He is taking long t urns on the rubber every day. Ho declares his arm i? in fine "shape and that he will be in pitching condition by opening day. Oislason was under the care of a physi!an for two days of this w.-ek. He complained of a sore side and when Doc Burke tld him There way not hing the matter with his et prior anatomy he consulted con-sulted the club's doctor hs to his infernal infer-nal tvorkin"s. Vie was told he had indigestion indi-gestion and after he observed diet, rupps for a couple of days he was as good as new. One Saint fan has visited the squad this week. lan W. Owens, a druggist of Salt Lake, has been here hobnobbing with the various older men of the crew, with whom he t raveled for more than a month la.-n season. Owen is strong for Bill Rprnhard and he says the team under un-der his handling has shown great progress. j .Now that Bunny Brief has slurried his ticket, Sheely looks like a fixture behind tho platter. 'At that. Fat Anfinson is not lying down on the job anl if Sheely lands the second place in the backstop division he will have to beat out a good little contender for the position. Dubue showed up well in the hitting In the game with the Lemoore Cubs, soaking soak-ing out two long hits for three runs. Kearns also showed in the hit column with two xkes out of four times up. T?1 Traeger of the Orange Pickers, who covered the first sack, was the star performer: per-former: making a triple, two doubles and a single out of four tries. In the Lemoore game the Saints had a try at a genuine pitcher, no less than the once redoubtable Dusty Miller, well known in Coast baseball, who is now a real rancher. Dusty still has everything he had when in the game, and the way the youngsters went after him shows they are rapidly getting their batting eye. . Doc Burke came within an ace of being be-ing brained during a workout of pi tellers. tell-ers. He" came out of the clubhouse door just as a wide fast one sailed into the building, missing his head by inches. Doc was very calm about it. Some mysterious ailment of Bill Bern-hard's Bern-hard's left hip has given him a slight limp during the past few days. He thinks he wrenched it giving batting practice to the rookies. |