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Show THIS AND THAT IN COAST LEAGUE TALK !u'iness Manager Jack Cook had a plea f.i nt session yesterday. The first real sprins weather brought out the fans in ;ir.:e numbers to pet box sats and all were sold long before the afternoon was over. Jack reports the park in fine condition as a result of the warm sun and a. few more days of ouch doings and the Held Will be in almost perfect shape for ihe opener. Tommy Qninlan, the Saints' star center fif'lj is going through his paces every jjffnoon and when the club comes home riday he will he ready to set the pace .Vfor them a'l. He is yet a few pounds al'ove I'lghLlng trim, but that isn't worry-iii-: him a particle. VtIic Stall & Dean baseball club, the 7SffSt semi-professional .club. In the city, t i .. ho7ts to play a practice game with the Sain is Sunday afternoon, although the matter will not be decided until Manager Man-ager Bernhard arrives home tomorrow. P'ldrerl was taken on the first White Sox squad in order to get a thorough trying out. os lie looked better than any of the rest at the start. However, when the pitchers began to hook them over, Runt fell down a notch in his batting, and he will have to show the manager that he is something else besides a fast ball hitter. Risherg has become a regular at short- . stop, and Terry, by the same token. Is now a u till ty man. but it is not likely that he will get the can, as he is too valuable to lot go. J "We acquired two scrappy and fast bfill players in Risberg and Gandll," said Manager Rowland, "and this should make all the difference In the. world with our dub. I do not want to make any positive predictions, but il doesn't hurt to tell what I have discovered among the individuals. Eddie Collins looks better thiH year than he ever did to me before. It might seem odd to say that, although he is a year older, he Is faster this year than last, but such Is the case. Weaver, of course, is as active as eer. and this gives us one of the most pepperv infields In the league. The trouble with us last year was that thre wasn't enough life on the team, but I think this has been corrected for good and all. "As to speed. Risberg is faster than Terry, and Gandil can step around the bases a trifle Letter than Ness." Chicago Herald. Harry Wolter. former Angel outfielder and star In the recent Cub games, in which he played the right garden for the Chicagoans, may not remain with that team. Wolter, according to friends, has not yet signed his contract. He confided to several members of the San Francisco club that he was not satisfied with the money offered him. San Francisco Examiner. Ex-aminer. Tack Ness, holder of the world's record for consecutive bitting, and who played first base for the White Sox last year, has quit professional baseball and gone into business in the manufactures end of tli e United States Ball-bearing Manufacturing Manufac-turing company. This does not mean, however, that Ness will not play baseball any more, for he will play first base and act as captain of the United States Ball-bearing team, winners of the Chicago Mercantile Mer-cantile lea sue pennant last year, which team has been entered in the Chicago Commercial league for the season of 1017. The balk rule will be rigidly enforced in the Coast league this season, accord-in accord-in to President Allan T. Baum. The result will be to increase base-running. While in Los Angeles Baum met Billy Phyle, t Kitty Brashear and Red Held, who are in the city, and gave them instructions. in-structions. The league boss always has a heart-to-heart talk with his umps just before the season. Baum predicts a good year in the Coast league. Interest is running high in every city of the circuit, cir-cuit, he says. Los Angeles Tribune. |