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Show " EIGHT GAMES Will QMS FGR SITS (Continued From Preceding Page.) It is said on good authority that Connie Mack ivants the local boy for the Athletics. Ath-letics. The deal is now pending and will probably be closed up within the next few days. Next Sunday wiil probably be Martin's last SHinitey in the Trolley league. With the Athletics down in the ruck, Martin would have a good chance to show his stuff and get plenty of work. But, on the other hand, it may be that some Coast league club is pulling' underground under-ground wires to get Martin without paying pay-ing Chicago the full price that it paid Oakland for the pitcher. Oakland Tribune. Trib-une. The deep mystery into which Herbert Hunter plunged himself has been solved.' President Darmody has received a wire from Fred Mitchell, manager of the Cubs, stating that Hunter had been located at his home on the Pepobscot river in New England. On being told that he had been ?old to Vernon, Hunter retired to the Penobscot to await instructions from Darmody. He will get them," now that , he has been located. Los Angeles Times. ' If the proposed war tax on all amusements amuse-ments passes, which would cause them to contribute 10 per cent of the gross earnings earn-ings to the support of the government, there is going to be a general activity among the owners and managers of the organizations affected, devising means and ways of meeting this tax without putting themselves out of business. Naturally, it is to be expected that the proprietors will saddle this burden on the public. In the majority of cases they 1 have no choice in the matter, if they wish to continue to do business without going broke. V; Although too early to form any definite defi-nite conclusion on the question, Judge McCredie has already made up his mind as to what should be done here when the tax operates on the baseball crowds. His idea is to charge 5 cents more for 1 each ticket sold, which would bring the hleacher price up to 30 cents and the grandstand charge to 55 cents. This 5 cents is more than 10 per cent of the gross receipts on 2;-cent tickets, but in this section the penny is a denomination de-nomination of money little used, and for which westerners have a. most profound contempt. In fact, the majority of them separate the coppers they get from the rest of their coin and either givft it to the children or dispose of it in some similar sim-ilar manner. Five cents is the least amount ft would pay to ha ndle, on this a count, figures the Portland magnate. Portland Telegram. Tele-gram. Roy Hitt is not the only player to turn to John D. Rockefeller in his declining years for employment and salary. Chick Au trey and Brick Devereaux are working work-ing for the Standard Oil company at Richmond, according to Henry Berry. Both are drawing good money. OBTAINS 2,000,000 . EGGS AT FISH LAKE A. L. Heaston, deputy state fish and grame commissioner, telephoned yesterday morning from Richfield that already 2.-Oi 2.-Oi 10.000 eggs have been obtained at Fish lake for the Richfield hatcheries, but that the weather hn s changed there and become be-come much colder, with the result that the run of fish is not as good as it was. Heaston asked R. H. Siddoway, state commissioner, to go down to discuss the question of changes of hatching fish at Fish lake this season. Ho reports that the temperature of the water there is about 32 degrees, and that the air is from 7 to 10 degrees colder. It will take a few days of warm weather to clear the Ice off the lake. Commissioner Siddoway will go to the . lake today to make temperature tests, to determine whether hatching may be suc cessfully carried out at the lake. He will return in time to care for registration in his district in Salt Lake on Registration day, lie having volunteered his services to the government. |