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Show SKIPPER BILL HOIST!) COVER OFF HEWS POT i Indicates Composition of Squad That Will Make J Home Journey; Hints at Farming Youngsters. PORTERVIULE. Cal., March 21. Bill Bernhard has indicated to the newspaper J men that when the Saints break, camp for Salt Lake City there will be in the ; squad the following men : Hannah and i Sheely, catchers; Hoff, Leverenz, Hughes, J Evans, Schtnkle, Kirmayer, Dubuc, Blake, j Lydiatt. Jones, pitchers ; Crandall, Gis- : i lason, Brief. Orr, Rath and Carpenter, ln-fielders; ln-fielders; Ryan, Tobin and Shinn, outfielders. outfield-ers. Two out of. this bunch will hear sad words before the season opens. Who they are the boss has not divulged. Quinlan and Brief will join the club at Salt Lake. Manager Bernhard has arranged, it is hinted, for The disposal of several of the players of the squad on option, but what these arrangements are he is keeping strictly to himself. It is probable that Kearns and Annnson will be kept under observation for this season, at least, and this will also probably be the lot of some of the pitchers other than those named to make the trip- to Salt Lake City. The Saints defeated the Sanger Millwrights Mill-wrights at Sanger this afternoon by a score of 6 to 1. P. L. ASKS WAIVERS ON ! VAUGHN AND JACKSON j Special to The Tribune, j LOS ANGELES. March 21. Outfielder I Meusel and Pitcher Standridge made their ! first appearance in a Los Angeles uni-i uni-i form today when Manager Chance used them against a local eemt-pro team. These players were turned over to the Angels by the Chicago Cubs, and they were emphatic in expressing themselves delighted with the change. Meusel had a serious complaint against the food served by the Cubs, saying he was almost starved to death. The Angeis had a brief workout this morning and Manager Chance was pleased with the manner in which his men have rounded into shape. Chance today asked waivers on Vaughn and Jackson and will send them either to a Northwestern or a Texas league club- STOVALL PICKS HIS HURLERS FOR OPENER Special to The Tribune. LOS ANGELES. March 21. Qulnn, Arrella.nes or Johnson will pitch the first game of the Pacific Coast league IP 17 season for the Vernon club. Manager Stovall announces. The Tiger leader concentrated con-centrated his attention on the three pitchers today, and Eaid that he would devote considerable time for the next two , weeks preparing the men for the opening of the season. Practice was started late at Maier park this morning, and Stovall held only one workout. All of the players were in good shape with the exception of Second Baeeman McLarry, who has a sore arm. Galloway and Mitze have also been i troubled with twinges, but they were not j seriously lame. STRAY NEWS ITEMS FROM SAINTS' CAMP PORTERVILLE, March 21. Manager Bernhard must have a persuasive manner with him. Adolph Schlnkle, the latest to be signed up with the pitching department, depart-ment, had already told his team mates in Fresno that he intended to sign up with St. Paul for the coming season. That same night BUI hypnotized him into putting hia name on the bottom line. Spooks Carpenter has been the unlucky man of the club. At the start he developed de-veloped a lame leg, and tins was only getting in shape when Crandall spiked his ankle. His latest injury has been giving him considerable trouble. This has made his showing suffer in practice. He is still rated a fine prospect In spite of his handicaps and it will not be eurprislng if he lands. Nothing has happened in the past ten days to change the early opinion that the Saints have a strong out field. With Quinlan in the game the young and aspiring as-piring Mathewsons of the league will need all their craft. Tohin looks like a fixture for first up. He has been placed at the top of the batting list in all the important games and has shown that in this department, flji In a srood many others, Bernhnrd i? a good chooser. His hii ting has ben nothing noth-ing spectacular, but it Is consistent. He has that most important qualification ability to get to first in some fashion. Plans are already nndT way to induce Bernhard to recommenl PorfTVille as a training camp for n"xt yafion. He Is strong for the PortorvilV people and has ben a gra t booster for the city. He has had some criticism to offer of the field, but has been charitable even in this, as he realizes the park was practically built and the field laid out after his first i viiilt here. The local publicity bodies are j planning to carry out fill of his sugstH-Jm sugstH-Jm for Improvement of the park during c " the present summer and vevery pressure will be brought to bear to bring the Saints back here for the spring training work of next season. Bernhard, personally, has , won the respect of every one and the men of the club have become very popular. popu-lar. As an indication of the Interest which-has which-has been taken In the team here, comparative com-parative figures show that exhibition games played in this Immediate vicinity have drawn better crowds than those which turned out for the league teams in Stockton and Sacramento, the latter having much larger populations from which to draw. Crandall continues t.o nurse a oore shoulder. He will be given easy going this week, as his services mfiy be needed in the infield early in the oeason. Dubuc batted .800 per cent in the game with the Orange Pickers, choosing two each from Jones and Kereten. Manager Bernhard Is becoming seriously serious-ly interested in the possibilities of the orange game in this district, and when he learned that several Utah people had properties here he started an investigation. investiga-tion. He may decide to purchase an ; orange grove property in the PortervilJe I district. Spooks Carpenter has developed sore thigh muscles in addition to his injured ankle. He will be in no condition for play for several days. Deafy Kersten has been limping some this week. Doc Burke says it Is rheumatism. rheu-matism. Ollle Kirmayer was too ambitious the first of the week in his pitching practice and has been taking it easy lately. The last public appearance of the Saints, if their present schedule Is followed, fol-lowed, wilt be the exhibition game which Is to be played here Sunday. This game is expected to yield a net profit of $400, and if this is the case it will mean that the chamber of commerce will pay all expenses incident to the training here this year of the Salt Lake club. Jean Dubic says that by the end of the week he wrlll be ready to pitch a nine-inning nine-inning game. ' Chet Hoff Is in first-class shape and will be available 4for service when the season opens. HARRY TAKES SEALS TO MEET CUB TEAM SACRAMENTO, Cal.. March 21. With the exception of Justin Fitzgerald, who remains here In charge of the second Seal squad, all the Seal regulars will make the trip to San Francisco for the final exhibition ex-hibition games with the Chicago Cubs. Fitz's absence from the regular lineup is caused by a painful bruise on his hip, brought about by slipping. It will be three or four days before he will be right again. Two bushers, Smith and O'Doul,. pitch-. pitch-. ers, also are making the trip. Harry I Wolverton expects to work th'.---.! against the Cubs. They probably will finish a game each. Ira Hall, who helped Del Baker behind the bat last week, remains here, Louis Sepulveda's arm having rounded Into shape. He will split the barkstopping with Baker. The players who leave here tomorrow morning follow: Koerner, Downs, Hollywood. Corhan. Baker, Sepul-veda Sepul-veda Maisei, Schaller, Calvo, Ellis, Oldham. Old-ham. O'Doul. Erickson, Steen, Baum, Kal-lio Kal-lio and Smith. THIS AND THAT IN COAST LEAGUE TALK Bert Whaling continues to work out with the Bengals, though he is not slated to be a member of the club this year. Stovall Sto-vall intends to carry only two veteran catchers this -season, he said last night, and these two apparently are to be Honus Mitze and Simons, though Stovall him-sell him-sell won't make that sort of announcement. announce-ment. , Whaling has been given permission to! i, ,, rr nf a triple fnr hlmsplf that he likes, providing the Vernon club gets something woth while in return. Great Falls has turned down the trade proposed bv the Tigers and submitted a counter proposition. Thifi last bid for Whaling would give the Bengals only one youngster young-ster they didn't think much of, so that proposal was rejected. Los Angeles Tribune. The "Miracle Club of- 1917." That's the brand we feel like stamping on Del Howard's "bunch of bushers" after watching watch-ing the club perform In the eight exhibition exhi-bition games at which we served as official of-ficial scorer and watched their performance perform-ance closclv. Hitherto we have refrained from either boosting or ' criticizing, for the team was such an unknown quantity that its form could not be guessed. That it had speed could be foreseen from the base-running records of the newcomers, but It did not seem possible that so many plavera could be brought together from class A and B ranks and converted into a winning combination in this circuit from the very start. But we have the word of Fred Mitchell, manager of the Chicago Cubs, that the Oaks look far and away the best club his team has faced on the coast, and Mitchell's men all say the same thing. The team has not only speed, but what it lacked so sorely the past three years hittine strength. Added to this, the fielding, field-ing, while not flashy, has been uniformly uniform-ly steady and the pitchers have shown up far beyond expectation. The Oaks may rra fk as they did last vear after that, wonderful start, but there is every reason to suppose otherwise, for this time the club is composed largely of players whose stars are in the asr end-enry end-enry and who figure to go better as the i season proKrewe-H: Last year there was , too much veteran timber on the club. Oakland Tribune. An agitation is being started In the east to have the winner of the International A mencan association series play the eha inplonshlp club of tho Pacific coast Seairno this winter. All throuKh the east tho American association as-sociation - International league series (Continued on Following Page.) SKIPPER BILL LIFTS 00e OFF MS PO! (Continued Prom Preceding Page,) scheduled for this fall have been adver- , Used for the minor league championship. ' In past years the eastern magnates could "kid" the fans along, but the scribes and fans there are claiming that the Coast league should be considered. Louis Fuhrmann, president of the Buffalo Buf-falo club in the International league, has been one of the first to recognize the 1 claim of the coast for a place in the series. se-ries. He believes his team not only will . win the International league pennant, but also the post-season series. He has put ; himself on record as saying that he will bring his club to the coast for a series of games with the champions of this clr- j cuit. The veterans are beginning to get into! shape and some of the phenoms of the ! early training period do not look so good. : Los Angeles Tribune. i i The two clubs of the Chicago White Sox appear to be largely composed of Coast leaguers, as shown by the following line- : ups: Here are the teams as they will line up: First team Eldred, right field; Rlsberg, shortstop; E. Collins, second base; Jackson Jack-son left field; Felsch, center field; Gan-dil, Gan-dil, first base; Schalk, Mayer, Jenkins, catchers; Scott, Russell, Lyons, Wolfgang, Wolf-gang, Hhellenbach, pi tellers, , Second team Lelbold. center field; Mc-Mullen, Mc-Mullen, third base; Haas or J. Collins, left field; Fournier, right field; Hartford, shortstop; Hasbrook. first base; Terry, second base; Lynn, Gray, catchers; Benz, Faber, Norman, Ainsworth, pitchers. |
