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Show PORTERViLLE AGAIN to mm BEES Final Arrangements Completed; Com-pleted; Prexy Lane After War Tax Information. Special to The Tribune. PORTh-RYlLLlO, Jan. :3. The final details were completed today for the entertainment en-tertainment of l he Salt Lake baseball ciub for its training season of 131$. Tlie arrangements were put under way last week, when Porterville was visited hy Uusiuess Manager Jack Cook of the liees, who held acvcral conferences with the officials of the local chamber of commerce and other interested citizens. It was announced this afternoon that the plan proposed by Cook had heen adopted and that the terms tentatively agreed upon between the rurterville folks and Cook last week were accepted in fact today. It is understood that the arrangement which obtained last season will "he repeated re-peated this year. The I'orlerville chamber cham-ber of commerce will pay tlie Halt Lake club $1000 toward defraying its training expenses. In return, tlie, sate receipts of any games arranged between the Bees and other clubs hereabouts will go to the chamber of commerce. It is hoped that a game can he arranged with the Chicago Chi-cago Cubs, who train at Pasadena, as such a game would draw a big gate, it is assumed. Games with Fresno, Taft and other near-by towns will be arranged ar-ranged as soon as the Bees get their "sea legs." Tlie I'orlerville people were much pleased with the visit of tlie Salt I-ake players last season and the most cordial relations were in evidence during their entire stay. So enthusiastically did the ball players fall In witli social plans made for their entertainment that another an-other season of gayety is looked forward fo this year. The chamber of commerce peonle feel that the selection of Porterville as the training ground for a big baseball club redounds to the benefit of the town, and that Porterville last year received no little lit-tle profitable advertising from tiie constant con-stant appearance of ihe name of the plaee in newspaper dispatches and also through the boosting which the players and club officiaJs did by word of mouth after their work here was completed. The ball park will be put into first-class first-class condition for the Bees this year. Last season tlie ball park, being then newly constructed, was somewhat lacking lack-ing in some of the requisites of an ideal playing field, but the local committee reports that the ground is in tip-top condition con-dition now, since it has had a year In which to "settle" and also a year in which to produce some grass. Porterville residents generally expressed ex-pressed themselves today as well pleased that the Salt Lako'club was again to train here. |