Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-04-02 | Page 10 | Mac's Bees are Set for the Opening Game

! 'S BEES it ! SET FOB TOE I 8PEKM1E 3 I Leverenz v Against Fittery Appears to Be Probable Pitching Staff; Threatening Threat-ening Weather, Special to The Tribune. LOS ANGELES, April 1. The battleship battle-ship Bee will set sail tomorrow on a seven months' cruise through hostile waters. During that time she will en-STige en-STige in two hundred battles. The first gun will be fired against the Angela tomorrow to-morrow afternoon. , It is settled now that Dick Cos will ; start at third base. The batting order follows: Farmer, center field. Siglin, second base. Chappelle. right field. j P.yan, left field. Sheeiy, first base. Orr, shortstop. Cox, third base. j Konniek, catch. i Leverenz. pitch. There will be a parade before the - game, in which a large number of dignitaries digni-taries will take part. The Bees arrived at 7 o'clock this morning. They picked up Fitcher Pen-ner Pen-ner at Bakersiield. This afternoon Mc-Credie's Mc-Credie's players, attired in their new patriotic uniforms, had a fast workout at Washington park. It was the first time the club has been on a grass diamond dia-mond this season. 1 he practice was watched ny about o'JO railbirds. Among other distinguished spL-ctn tors was Bill Bernhard, last year manager of the Salt Lake club, who is putting in his leisure time at Ontario, near here, where he has relatives. Former Umpire Red Held was also on . hand to give the boys an unofficial O. O. Things are getting hot on the lay of some ne"w pitchers and a high -class catcher, but the magnates are strong for censorship until the deals are closed. Joe Pepe worked out with the Angels - this forenoon and Killefer may give him a chance, since the Angels are in need of a third baseman. Either Paul Fittery or Ote Crandall is booked to start for Los Angeles. The game tomorrow is hilled to start at 2::lt, being 3:30 Salt Lake time. Evidently the Angela do not mean to conserve any extra ex-tra daylight. The skies are not promising for tomorrow. to-morrow. If we were in Salt Lake it would be our guess that there would be rain, hut the natives hereabouts profess lo read no sign of alarm in the cloudy heavens.