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Show BEES BREAK HP TODAY; IFFJSH.ll Regulars and Yannigans Will Play Practice Game as .Farewell Appearance in Porterville. Spei-iul to The Tribune. PORTERVILLE, March lit'.- The 1918 training season of the Salt Lake flub will come to a close tomorrow afternoon with a regular Yannigan Same. The Hub will leave tomorrow evening at S o'clock for Los Angeles, where they open with the Angels Tues-uay. Tues-uay. The training season has been highly successful in the way of conditioning ball players. Everyone is in prime condition, con-dition, "except I'on'kwright. who has a sore arm, and Ward Miller, who arrived ar-rived too late to get thoroughly into shape, but he has made an excellent start and will be in tiptop form within a week. The players are full of enthusiasm en-thusiasm and pep is epidemic. The club has strength in the infield and in the outfield, a remarkable quantity quan-tity of it, but admittedly it is in a bad way for pitchers. The catching department de-partment seems passable good. There is a hopeful feeling that the club will be able to break 'halfway even until Peuner and Public round to. If that can be done McCredie has no fear of final drive. Bill Fisher, manager of the Portland club, left today for Portland after having hav-ing spent ten clays in lining up McCredie Mc-Credie 's surplus and incidentally getting get-ting into condition himself . He w ill probablv take Joe Pepe at once and later will get Bill Feurboru, Lyman Smith and Heinie Sands, but McCredie will not turn the latter three loose until he becomes certain that he will not need them himself. Tomorrow's game here will be in the nature of a farewell reception on the part of the Porterville people. who have been so kind and hospitable during dur-ing the two training seasons the Salt Lake club have spent here. Paddy Siglin today went to Lindsay, headquarters of the draft board for this district, to take his physical examination. ex-amination. Skipper McCredie is walking with a cane this afternoon, the result of strenuous stren-uous treatment administered by Peter Jackson. Pete vigorously applied liberal lib-eral allowances of iodine, the consequence conse-quence of which was that the skipper has several skinless toes. |