OCR Text |
Show BEAVERS HAVE LOST FINCHER'S SERVICES Special to The Tribune. PORTLAND. Ore., Aug. 25. When Manager McCredie leaves Sunday night for California, Ralph Pinelli will accompany accom-pany the team, which means that Herb Hunter, the rangy infieider. will be released, re-leased, because McCredie will have to get down to sixteen men. Pinelli has been on the suspended list owing to his wounded knee. Hunter shows prospects, but McCredie feels be can't carry him any longer. Six pitchers will be "taken along .which mean? that Bill Fincher will be left behind until he hears word from the war department, he having passed his examinations and asserted himself ready to report upon a moment's notice- i Daily, the young pitcher from Seattle, I will be taken along. I Judge McCredie wired the St. Louis I Americans, which own Fincher. stating ! that Portland would pay his salary up ! to September 1. and he would be turned back to St. Louis at that time. Bill, therefore, may go home to Clarendon and visit relatives until he is ordered out to liis command. Only twelve men will be taken to Montague, Cal., for an exhibition exhibi-tion game Monday, owing to the railroad demanding an extra ciiarge for the stop between Portland and Oakland. The others oth-ers wil go on to Los Angeles. Before Judge MrCredie leaves for the McCredie Hot Springs Monday he would like to sign Pennie Williams, a local semi -pro outfielder, who may get a chance to play til is year with the Beavers if the draft takes any more Portland players. |