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Show Bob U-.,ra. who anived here StmcUv savs that Walter McCreule has picked up the most sensational yotmg Irtfielcter at Los Angeles, in young Cox, who plays with the Pa-sadena team. According to I .- fl.lnlr. tbA bOV 18 PrOm- ising enough to carry a couple of years for 'development and will take him next spring. . m.e Cox made four home runs in a recently and is said to be one of ti e fastest youngsters on the bases mat Jiae has seen. Lau-a is also a good judge of ball players and ho seconds what McCredio says. Cox Is an amat boxer around Los Angeles in add'"0" to plaving baseball. He is 13 years old. Portland Telegram. 7-anc made some valiant efforts to put across some trades, but made no hean-wav. hean-wav. He has decided to get nil ol Tommv Quinlan. and offered him to every magnate In the league. It seems that Tominv has been dissatisfied in halt Lulie mid wants to make a change, l-ane suggested a Quinlan-for-Quinn trade to T ' J Darmodv, but tlie. Vernon owner liould' not see" it. Then Lane offered Quinlan to Dol Howard for Speed Jlar-lin Jlar-lin Del only laughed; maybe Lane was laughing, too.-Los Angeles Tribune. "Dad" Meek was slated -to get an umpiring um-piring berth in the Coast league this coming season. But with the lopping oft of three umpires, it looks as it Meek s chances to open the season in a blue serge suit are dubious. But the one measure of retrenchment the fans will howl against most strenuously strenu-ously will be the adoption of the single umpire svstcm. Retrenchment can well be made 'in anv direction that is not a visible part of the game itself, coming di-rectlv di-rectlv beneath the eyes of the fans. As a matver 01 uici, iiufiiico ,va.. concern the average fan. He doesn t ask how" much a player is getting, but how much does he hit. Coast league fans have been educated to the double 11 in pi rt: system, and it is going to he ft diftlciilt matter to change them. Two years ago the single umpire svsteu"! was t'riexl out in the spring practice prac-tice games. The fans would not stand for it, and two umpires were on the job when the regular season began. It nwv be landotn will recognize that even baseball has a right to conserve in these days. Hooverizing on umpires may he accepted as a proper war-time move. But it is a pretty good bet that the first day of the season will hear the sanio old vciu from the bleachers: "Get another umpire!" 5an Francisco Examiner. J. Cal Ewing is In favor of young players. L-:wii says that the youngster? are the ones wito put the iil'e in a league. He says that there lire so many good youngsters young-sters around the bay that there should be no trouble in getting a sufficient number. The Oakland owner attended a game a week ngo and he says there was so much enthusiasm over the bush league game that there were four rights. "I would like to see ono-knlf or eight of tlie members of the Coast league clubs this year lads who have not had a. year's experience In class AA or 'he major leagues," declared F.wing. "The four-busiier four-busiier rule of last year was a good one. but the owners did not stick to it." Ijjs Angeles Herald. LOS ANTIKT.KS, Dec. :i i.lemge Sto-vall, Sto-vall, who bandied tlie Tigers last year, Jwul a talk with Jim Mc-C-iil at-out liau- lln the Tndians next year in case Hea-drlokw Hea-drlokw is sent to tiip CarrMnalp. McGill informed Slova.ll that he would have a playing w. ngor next year in easa 1 1 endricks was sold. Stovall stated tha t he would be able to play one-half the gurnes and that he could break in a voung fellow to play the remainder. SAX FRANCISCO. Dec. 21. "Tohey" Johnson, fomn'.r r;' t:her with the Han Francis'.-o r'o.iPt leug'in? club, is to be dis-i-hrirged from the military service at Ca nip Kc: rny because of wthlet tc heart, 3ronll!!i; to IVter .Martin and Melvln W'oinganen. Olympic club members, who i are home on a l.ive. is jc ; Nfd Kin ii. who i writinr: jibnut ti:' i iron i 'i--k u:' t he biii-hc-rs for The Tribune. Is h"in ; n-"--!!ti.n-. for l he- l'"si I mn of jrn-ni;.or r Ik; ! ndiitnu P"lis c-lnh hi i.aui. |