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Show L03 ANGELES, 'n. 23. Paul FiHery. the strong-armed southpaw who pitched wonderful ball for the Salt Lake club in 1916, may be a member of the Los Angeles An-geles ball club this season. Wade Kille-fer, Kille-fer, manager of the Angels, has put in a call for Kittery and stands an excellent chance of landing him. Ftttery has been asked for in part payment for Bradley Hogg, who has been turned over to the Philadelphia Nationals. The Angels are to get several players from the Phillies in exchange for Hogg, and Flttery is one of the men Killeter asked for. In 1916 Fittery won twenty-nine twenty-nine games and lost nineteen with Salt Lake. He was the iron man of the circuit, cir-cuit, pitching 44S innings, practically fifty full games. He led the league in strikeouts, strike-outs, with 203. & :i: Two promising young players who have been stars in tlie Winter league games at Recreation park were signed up for the Seals following yesterday afternoon's contests. One is Peter Ritchie of the Keneally Seals and the other is William Lewellyn of the Granat Brothers team. Both are catchers. Cap'n Jerry Downs has been watching the Winter leaguers for many weeks and came to the conclusion con-clusion that these boys were the class of the league. Furthermore, Cap'n Jerry knows just how difficult it is these days to get hold of a young catcher of any ability. So Jerry gave Andy Ferguson the high sign and Andy coaxed the youngsters into his private office and got their names on contracts. San Francisco Examiner. Johnny Powers is after four more players. play-ers. Other managers figure the Angels are strong enough to start the season as the lineup stands, but Powers feels that it is not a. pennant winner as now constituted. Wade Kfllefer believes Bobby Davis cannot hit hard and often enough to hold up the Angels' end around third base. If Paddy Drlscoll cannot report because of an engagement with Uncle Sam. Killefer will try to make a deal for some other third sacker. Los Angeles Herald. If Jerry Downs gets Chief Johnson, his brother. John, and Casey Smith as pitchers pitch-ers and Chief Meyers as catcher, the Seals will be known around the circuit as the Indians. Not much has been heard , lately about getting Meyers, but it is known Jerry Downs would like to have him and Meyers would no doubt like to play here if he fails to catch on with a big league club. Ivan Olson of the Brooklyn club told Downs recently that Meyers could still throw well, and, as he always could lilt, he would be a valuable man. Jerry opines that experienced catchers will be more valuable than ever in the Coast league this year, for most of the clubs will have some young pitchers. pitch-ers. Meyers is slow on the hoof, but a catcher who can run like Del Baker is a rare bird in any league, so the chiefs lack of speed will not handicap him much. Me is surely as fast as Bert Whaling and Mike Simon. San Francisco Chronicle. Chron-icle. LOS ANGELES, Jan. Prexy John Powers of the Los Angeles baseball club said tonight that he is still dickering for Harry Wolter, former Chicago player, who is now with the Chicago Cubs. "They want too much for Harry," Powers said last night, "but I am resuming resum-ing negotiations and expect to arrive at some sort of an agreement in the near future. The Cubs seem to think that Wolter is worth his weight in gold. He is a very valuable man or I would not be trying fo buy him, but no gilt-edged prices will be met." -Jr. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 23. After all, the Seals may not do all their training at home. Hen Lerry is seriously considering con-sidering a trip to Fresno for the first two weeks of the training s-eason. L. R. Payne, one of Fresno's leading business men, was in San Francisco today and had a talk with Berry, in which it was intimated inti-mated that Fresno would make it worth Hen's while to train the club there. Two weeks of work in the sunny San Joaquin should put the players well on their way to condition. Then would come a week's workout on the grass of Recreation park, the exhibition games with the Cubs, and April which is the big day. Rumor has it tha t Joe Corhett may try out witll the Seals again this spring. Despite the fact that Joe didn't get very far in tlie spring of 1916, many followers of the game believe he could work his arm into shape and deliver a good brand of pitching. Fans saw him get knocked all over the lot in this city, but they lost sight of the fact that only a few days before he pitched a three-hit game in Los Angeles. Jerry Downs and Joe had a pow-wow today, and If Joe can be persuaded per-suaded to take another whirl at the came he will start at once to work the old arm into condition. |