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Show SN UllANPISf'O. De.-. 13.. -Dvp:te ail rumors to routra ry. Bo.I Murphy does nut figure in any dc;il to go to tiic mnjor ieaui:es next ea r. Rod himself is ;i u:':iori ! r'or t h r : s:atr-ment. s:atr-ment. Rod is within the draft no and 'experts to he in the naw brfore another tuont It srot'S by. Tlie snanpy Oak third sucker spent 1 Miverr.t years in tin p-nymasipps dep.irt- 1 nient C tiie n;t ;ind is nn cperiPiicci , pen pusher in yr fjs;urs game. TiK-re- 1 lore, he will gradnste into the maiors In (Mtite another way from the o;a- pal lowing is i-ontempi;itini a deal for. It is quite possible that Murphv will co to Marc island. 4 The butcher has the Ans-dr-' uoai. Las: season ir nsd lo blest at the end of a striiiK held hy olaf IhdcUson. but it will Meat no more. During the playing season the Angel pout whs h mere kid. 1'Vutv of milk and the grass from the outfield nt Washington Washing-ton park made it a full-Hedged cohl thN wini er. When the goat was small the plavers and at ta-les o' t lie park used to t f;ise it. A few days a so. possessed nf" an eighty-horsepower hutting h-id, the goal started to clean out the park. It chased beeretary Weber into his inner offu-p where be locked tho door. Wal'.er .la. It-son It-son beat the 2o;it to the eit bv a fori while p;d Seliaiimo. with tim aid of a rake .successfully defended rdms-Mf. Tim next d-iy a dcM whs made with th butcher. Los Angeles HerHld. ; PASADENA, De". 13. Levi Arkenhnrc. the pitching n-.ainsiay of 1 ho Pasatlcuii .Merchants for seeral year:'. (s beiim sought hy Walter M Pre. lie. manaser 0? the Portland eluh of the Poas: league. On Sunday McCivdio sigm-d up hick Pox, the hard-hitting outfielder of tho Merchants, Mer-chants, and now he Is aTter A rkpiiluirtr. I'on Rader of tiie Vestern league, who Is playimr winter ball in Pasadena, is also a ft er A rkenburc and hopes I o ta k him a nd severn 1 oi her southern California send -professional players ba ck east in t lie spring. Arkenhur.q- lias bad two short tryouts with the Angels and failed to deliver de-liver to the satisfaction of Frank Chance, manager of the Bos Angeles team, on both occasions. McCredie watched Arken-burg Arken-burg in not ion yesterday aga hist the Standard-Murphy club and admired his work. Charley O'Lcary, remembered by Pan Francisco fans as "Patsy," third sacker for the Seals in 191). Is being talked of as a possible major lea gue "come -by ck'' for 191S. O'Leary managed the San Antonio An-tonio club of the Texas league last season sea-son and played a great game at his old station. Players with major lca.gue ex- frPeuce are co'ng to be in demand nvt ; erin; bv the big clubs, and tilat is why I O l.fMi- iniiihi have another chance in ! bii: show. Incidentally', ho has been offered tv.o managerial jobs in tiie i minors. j O'l.o-iry is one plaver who Insists th.w i' has 1.0 superstitions. He recovered from them ;.II yrrs ago, he said in a re- j '-cut mie: view, during which he talked . of 'boning the bat." ! "Same of the pin vers. oven big j leasuers." sirl Charley, "sit In 1 he nlub-, nlub-, houses for hours nd nib a bat with x ! hi- beef b"!ie until it glision?. Some-1 Some-1 Pines they'll take their favorite ?tirk to , t he h.ot-.d n t night and 'bone' it for h j counle ut limns, And if any of them 1 should get two or three hits the next j da y. the devil himself couldn't get the 1 hone awac from them. In the, minds of tiie superstitious plavers 'boning the hat' I fills up 1 lie pores of tiie wood, prevent -t iris i; from splintering, and ma kes the I bat ring when 1 comes in contact with tiie bal. producing longer drives. "Peti'n hii-4 is tho fole ambition of evorv hah nlayer. and a lot of them ptn-cet ptn-cet eh- belie ve that 'boning' their ha til will pet them more hits. H'.v the truth that some of the husrs of the game, after a particularly successful day, w ill tak their bats to bed with them, and .some will even go so far as to stick" them up in a seat opposit e them while riding on a 1 ram. "One lankv member of the San Antonio An-tonio team took a certain street car 10 t he ball park one day last pea son. A "luck would have it. he drove out four hits tha t afternoon. Do you think I co. ild pet that bird out to the park in an aMoinohile with me the next day? Not on your life. For four days he waited for 1 ha i same st reel car." San Fra misco Bulletin. sit 9 Johnny Bassler. catcher for the Angels. S pa ssed all the a run- tests and now is stationed at San Antonio, Texas, accord- 1 ing to Secretary Weber of the Los An- f pries club. Bassler will be in tho aviu-tion- shops. |