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Show SOME MORE NEW FACES FOR COAST LEAGUE THIS YEAR . i y V- . -4." HARRINGTON t '-.', - rrM fe . A Yfl ILIA 7; - . ; c n - A , , - r ' ;CIeJ " ' :'-ir) v'-m b.v? c VV; J V.-V.a ,, h if. !y frb"') f 7 'y C5- fi ;i VA i.xA 4--vv r I "Busy Week in Baseball; Club to Return Friday; Saints Will Arrive Friday; Four Days in Which to Locate the Fences. THE n-oek which opens its infant eyes this morning bids fair to become speckled with considerable consider-able molecular motion. There aro so many items on the baseball programme pro-gramme that one's memory is sorcly Iried to contain thorn all. The week opens today with the final exhibition j.""l's of the Sviints. The day's work will close the stay at Por-tervillo, Por-tervillo, which has been a delightful period, according to testimony that, is relevant, material and competent. Naturally, training camp davs are no lonp, sweet son;;, nor yet a bed of thornless roses, nor any of tho things one finds in Harriett 's Familiar Quotations Quota-tions when hotfooting after a metaphor. meta-phor. Training days mean work and sore muscles and disappointments l)e-iny.i! l)e-iny.i! weight won't come otf, or come , as the case mav lie. Vet there are training -anip which amelieraf e the (Continued ou Following TageJ ID SLUGGING IS , EXPECTED OF CLUB (Continued From Preceding Page.) says he will figure stronger in hitting this year than he did last. In the infield the batting honors, outside of Bunny Brief, appear likely to go to Karl Crandall. ('ntndall hit like a fiend in the game with Bakers-field, Bakers-field, butting LO00. In tho exhibition gum es that have been played this far. Uislason lias been poling thorn a rout ft .400. Of course, exhibition games count for little thus early in the season, but his teammates f i gure li is batting form is superior to that of last year. Billy Orr and Morris Rath have also been getting their share of the blows. In the catching depnrtment Hannah has ben putting in a lot of time with tho idub. He has been practicing consistently con-sistently every da v. Last season Han-nan's Han-nan's batting took a siumn about the middle of the season and this year, ho s, he is out to make a change in tli at record. Shcely takes a good wallop wal-lop at the ball, and steps into them without hesitation. He should figure as a good hitter this year. There are two men in the pitching de-ia de-ia i t no'tit who can be relied in on to do t'n-ir shun of tho battintr. Dubu' promises prom-ises to be one of the leading hitters ofi the team. Hoff a No is showing his class with the but. Tom Hughes says he never did hit . but that, this year he think he will pole them out a 1 Ft tie stroller than Badger Blake. Kirrnayer has been pract ming on the plate for long periods nnd apparently has rj-e batting bat-ting form. "Whether or mt he will figure fig-ure in the hitting 'ohimu remains to be seen when ho im-N up against pitchers pitch-ers in mid-season form. During the training season there has not been the slightest hint of factions. The men have been all members of one happv family, and the most charO'-M;s- , tic thing about the squad as a whole haj been their undivided loyalty to Skipper Bill. Tf enthusiasm for the chief amounts to anything, the Saints should start the season with a clean-up squad. There are those sport experts who say that loyalty to 'the chief and to the team counts for lit tie, but one can not watch the Saints at their work and take a great deal of stock in this attitude. F,n-tlr.;iasm F,n-tlr.;iasm is spontaneous with the candidates, candi-dates, and it -Iocs not take any artificial artifi-cial stimulus to ma fa1 them show that old poprer which goes so far toward winning many a close game. Signs were worked up this week, and considerable timo was put in on tho hit-anil-nm. Several of the men are developing de-veloping very accurate slow bunts toward to-ward third base, which no doubt will become be-come valuable factors in winning games i tler in the season. |