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Show Special to The Tribune. ! EOS ANGELES, Cal.. Jar. 4. --Man- ager Essick of the Y. rnon Tigers an- i uouti'-ed tonight in an cmineu-Jv .-aiisiied; tore ilia i he hrfd signed Cr ihc forth- j -ming season Irfielder Mathes, ewned by ! Indiana pel i.-. The new player was with . Grand Eani.is last season, becoming the w-onrly of the Boston Nationals al the . 'hose of i ho year. lb was once with J Butte. 1 lis name went back on the Jloosier roster as a result of a deal with I Boston. I L se--.us it's all off with the Idea of I Sam Craw f"t'd managing a Coast club this ear. He has received several offers iron th.- big It-agues and sa vs be has eliminated all hut two. one of which be will accept soon. That's all he will say. i Special to The Tribune. EOS ANGELES. Cal.. Jan. 4. Without the sporting editions of (he afternoon papers a nnouncing it in screamer type. Tom Parmrxl v was re-elected . president of the Vernon baseball club at the annual an-nual meeting of that corporation today. It was an a I most foregone eon elusion, but there w as an element of surprise when Waller Jackson, last year's secretary secre-tary and who is now an enlisted man in tlie navy, was apain chosen for that of-ti'P. of-ti'P. Arthur Fisk was elected vice president. presi-dent. The annual meeting of the Eos AngeFs club will be held January It. when officers offi-cers for the ensuing season will be named. The fans here ligure a big treat is in store for them when the Cubs arrive in Pasadena. Judging from the way Weeghman Weegh-man is signing stars. To think that for four bi Is such lumiuarieo as G rover Cleveland Alexander, George Tyler and Bill Killefe.r may be seen in action, is it any wonder the mid-March engagements wit h tlie Tigers are looked forward to? President Powers of the Angels will go lo San Diego from the schedule meeting to make arrangements for training tlie Seraphs there. Pitcher Pete Standridge is going 1o have his ear operated upon, so he can enlist in Ihe army, He was recently rejected re-jected for defect ive hearing. Waller MeCredie expressed the opinion during his visit here tha t Bill Steen would he a winning pitcher if given another an-other chance in the (.'oast league, and there is a strong probability of his giving giv-ing Steen the chnnen at Salt Lake. Steen pitched great ball when he played under McCredie's management at Portland. He is now pitching for Pittsburg in the Midwinter Mid-winter league, and is yet to be defeated. San Francisco Examiner. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 4. 11 has been learned that President A. T. Baum prae-tieallv prae-tieallv has decided upon Kd Flnnev, Bill Phyle and "Red" Held as the Pacific . Coast league umpires next season. The only doubtful one is Phyle, whose health is poor. If he is not named. Pearl Casey ; will be reappointed, it is said. sje ; SAN JOSE, Cal., Jan. 4. Eddie Halli-nan, Halli-nan, one time inrl elder with the St. Louis National league ball team and later with Sacramento and Salt Lake in the Pacific Coast league, is a full-fledged soldier. He was drafted at San Francisco and on account of his experience as a fireman was sent to Camp Fremont lo joint the newly organized fire-lighting brigade there. Now he has been drafted a second time Major Benjamin F. Pope, manager of the all -army baseball team, having requisitioned his services as a member of the all-star armv team. "Swede" Risberg, the White Sox star who graduated from the Vernon club to the majors, is pulling a "Duffy Lewis" stunt these days. Swede is in charge of the quartermaster corps team out at the Presidio as adviser extraordinary. Under Swede's tutelage are Pete Allison, Alli-son, formerly of the Cleveland American club; "Red" Torkelson of the same rlub; Crespl, an old teammate of Swede's on the Telegraphs; Sammy Bohne, who played short for the Seals a few years back and later went to the St. Louis Cardinals Car-dinals and more recently of the Milwaukee Milwau-kee club. Out of these players Swede expects to mold a team that will meet Duffy Lewis's Mare Island club. San Francisco Bulletin. Bul-letin. Fans, all over the Coast league circuit know "Wooden Shoes" Cravath, the slugger slug-ger who used to whale the ball for Los Angeles, and who makes a specialty of home runs in Philadelphia. But it remained re-mained for. a brother of the ball player to tip off the public to the real family name. Sergeant A. A. Gravatt is in the American army training at Camp Taylor, near Louisville, after having spent eighteen months in the trenches in France, as a member of a Canadian regiment. regi-ment. He told the newspaper boys he is a brother of the famous slugging fielder, and when his attention was called to the fact that the ball player goes under the name of Cravath. the soldier replied that the name Cravath was tacked onto his brother when he broke into baseball, but that the family name is really Gravatt. San Francisco Chronicle. |