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Show Billy Orr, who Is at Porterville with the Salt Lake club, dropped into Fresno tor awhile. In chatting with Casey Smith, a funny coincidence developed. It Seems as though Orr and Indian Smith were both trying for the shortstop's job with the Cubs in 1912. Neither one of them landed, for the simple reason that Joe Tinker was a real-he shortstop himself him-self in those days. Cut all last season both Orr and Smith away down in their hearts had a hunch they had met each other before. Orr never dreamed that Smith was trying out with a bis league club for shortstop's short-stop's berth. In commenting on how he turned to pitching, Indian Smith said: "The Cubs dumped me off at Mobile, so I naturally started to play in the bushes. You can't make a living in bush baseball unless you are a pitcher or a catcher. I had a strong arm and started pitching." Fresno Correspondence. Phil Slatterv, the new southpaw for the Tigers, who worked out yesterday, started start-ed his baseball career with Kenneth Pen-ncr Pen-ncr of the Bees in 1915 at Marshalltown in the Central association. Slattery won 21 and lost 14 games that season- Last year he won 15 and lost 9 for Essick's Grand Rapids club. He is built along the lines of Poll Perritt. Pete Daley believes the Coast league managers made a big mistake when they let Mike Kelley sign up Lester Cook, the local catcher. Los Angeles Herald. Cal Ewing is out to make baseball popular in Oakland next summer, and he has hit upon a plan that should win many new boosts for the club. Also it will serve to help wipe out some of the local Coast league club's indebtedness. A popular stock-selling campaign has been authorized by the state corporation commission, com-mission, and Ewing will now press the sale, which he has been starting informally infor-mally for the last few weeks. The etate commission has authorized the sale of $25,000 of stock in two-dollar shares. But with the stock Ewing is making the fans a proposition which would appear to be hard to overlook. For every block of $250 shares taken, the . Oakland club will give a season box seat, and with all sales of stock the buyer will be given 6 per cent in value in nontransferable non-transferable tickets for admission to the local park. OaklandTribune. Claire Goodwin, infielder -and at present pres-ent University of California baseball coach, and "Handsome" Jack Killilay, well known to Pacific Coast fans, are the latest ball players to join forces with Uncle Sam. These two signed up yesterday yes-terday as members of the Letterman general gen-eral hospital service at the Presidio, and have been ordered to report some time this week. Captain Dufficy of the Letterman Let-terman hospital plans to recruit a baseball base-ball team, and will use these fellows as the nucleus around which to build up a winning team. It is possible that Goodwin Good-win will be able, to devote some of his spare time to the blue and gold lads. San" Francisco Chronicle. No Beer in the Coast league this season. sea-son. Oakland baseball headquarters gave out the news yesterday of the spread of the prohibition movement. In other words, Beer you know, Sammy, the pitcher, is what we mean is holding out. He has written that he has a swell job in Mendocino county paying him $250 a month, and word has been sent him that he had better stick to that attractive berth. San Francisco Bulletin. Pitcher Oscar Harstad, who was with the Portland Coasters last year, has practically prac-tically accepted terms offered by Manager Man-ager Hall of the Tacoma Tigers for the 1918 season. Although Hen Berry said he would hike out into the hills and take a long rest after he got out of baseball, the chances are that he will take a run up north to look over the situation in the Pacific Coast International league. He will talk things over with Judge McCredie, and if things look good he may buy into one of the clubs up there. He was glad to be relieved of his holdings in San Francisco, Fran-cisco, for he was carrying , a big load, but he likes to fuss around baseball, and he may be able to get into a town up north at the right kind of a figure. He has heard glowing accounts of the prosperity pros-perity of that section, and, like other baseball men from down here, he thinks conditions are right for a revival of Interest In-terest in baseball. He might get away to a better start than he had laere. San Francisco Chronicle. |
