Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-25 | Page 20 | This and that in Coast League Talk

THIS AND THAT IN COAST LEAGUE TALK Frank Chance is not strong for the four-busher rule. He claims that a manager man-ager carries as many youngsters as he possibly can, but that forcing him to carry four of them at once may work an injustice in-justice on his home fans. Los Angeles HeraJd. MARYSVTLLE, March 23. "Let my outfield bat .'l&o, my infield .275 and my catchers .270, and then let my pitchers perform their share of the good work and the Portland club will give them all a race for the pennant," was a statement state-ment made by Manager Walur McCredie of the Beavers. It begins to look as if McCredfe's men will shoot up to the mark set for them by tho big Bess. He has a better hitting club, a btter base running club and a better fielding clup. If the pitchers hold up their end the Beavers will be 75 per ceni stronger than they were last year, which will put them in the fight to the last week for the pennant. McCredle is the one busy little house-cleaner house-cleaner of the Coast league and this season sea-son is no exception. He has gradually worked over the club until he has a well-balanced well-balanced aggregation. When the bell rinqs April 3 McCredie will have a re.il center fielder in Ken Williams, whom lie deS'Tiljes as the host renter fielder h has ownd s:n-e C'net Child bourne helped htm win a couple of pennants. Floyd Parmer, the new man from Pittsburg, is a natural left fielder and the only right-hand hitter in the gardens. If Southworth does not succeed in selling himself to Pittsburg, he and Willie will be stationed In right field or playing the -utility role. Willie should hit .300, while McCredie figures on .315 from Farmer and about .2S5 from Williams, which would give him his .2S5 hitting outfield, with points to spare for general average. Nick Williams, the big chief of the Spokane Spo-kane Indians, had his curly head close to that of Del Howard at the St. Mary's game yesterday, and the rumor was spread that Nicholas was trying to separate sep-arate Howard from Bobby Meusel. Williams Wil-liams is a keen judge of young talent and thinks there is a lot of latent ability in me tan young personage wnom tne Oaks discovered in the Tri-Copper league. As Zamloch Is under contract to remain at California until after the conclusion of the Stanford series, Meusel may have to cover first for the Oaks during the first series against Frank Chance's Angels An-gels in the south. After that Howard may be willing to let Williams have the use of Meusel until next season. The Butte club of the Northwestern league is patiently waiting for Howard to turo some players in that direction. Pitchers and a young catcher will be particularly par-ticularly welcome. Howard is sweet on Al Drolette, a young Oakland catcher, who about this time of year is always picked up and then somehow mislaid. That's been the custom for three seasons, but It seems now as though the kid will have a string fastened to him and he will not be permitted to stray out of calling distance. Oakland Tribune. The Seals have a good scoring machine one that is fast and can hit; the club has baseball brains and will fight all the way; In three posftlons that were woefully woe-fully weak last year the club has strengthened; the fielding will be better than the average, though far from flaw- less. Consequently, if the pitching staff1 rounds out as it should the club will be 1 a hard one to beat. For one thing, greater than all else, sticks out the Seals have balance. Last year they had about as much balance as a "horrible example" ex-ample" about 2 a. m. Unquestionably the Steals will be a contender, for the i very reason that Wolverton has enough material on the bench at all times to fill in. come what may in the line of accidents. San Francisco Bulletin. Bobby Davis and Joe Berger should make a fast fielding combination around second base. Ever since the Evers-Tinker Evers-Tinker days Chance likes a fast keystone bunch. That ia one reason he is bo friendly friend-ly with Charley Murray. With Killifer, Meusel and Maggert in the outfield. ISchultz at third and three hard-hitting catchers. Chance believes he can sacrifice sacri-fice hitting to clever fielding around sec-. sec-. ond. Los Angeles Herald.