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Show Dreadful News, Girls, Mac Got His Big Toe Friz 3 JS - 3 & Also He Got Some Ball Players for Salt Lake Manager McCredie and Prexy Lane, Cookin' up sump'n'. I ' ' : K ! j J 1 frA x: . j few if i , Jack Farmer to Be in Outfield; Out-field; Young Phenom From Browns. OH, dear me, Walter Henry McCredie Mc-Credie done went and got his big toe friz. Walter Henry got back to town yesterday all stirrod up about his ball club and his toe. He is enthusiastic about the ball club, but less so about the toe. While proceeding from, place to place in the snowbound reaches of the effete middle west. Walter Henry failed to wear Ins fiprm.'in socks 'witli the result that the calamity outlined above befell him. It is natural, of course, that Walter Henry should fail to doa his German socks, for Walter Henry is a patriot through and through, and anything German is foreign to his nature, ft is said that he has even removed the German silver mounting from his manicure sc. At any rate Walter Henry got his big toe friz. He was telling Prexy Billy Lane all about the misfortune that was visited upon his great diait when Billy suggested that, perhaps, he ought to use digitalis for it. Jim Peters Horns In. "Digit Alice!" snorted old Jim Peters, Pe-ters, who had horned into the conversation. conversa-tion. '"Whaddye mean? Mean to say Mac's got a foot's big's a elephant's?'"' This remark beint somewhat obscure led to the explanation on the part of Mr. Peters that he had reference to the elephant of Liberty park, it being shown, in the course or Mr. Peter's elucidation that the elephant's name was Alice. ' ' Bum joke, ' ' briefly commented Lane. "Mebbe you might say as how Mac's got cold fee " persisted Mr. Peters. "Worse than ever," retorted Lane. "I think you'd better go home now and carry in the coal, Jim." Anny way, as Bobby Gaylor used to say, Mac came back with a frozen big toe, although it is not frozen so severely se-verely that he is likely to become plantigrade plan-tigrade instead of digitigrade. It would be a terrible affliction for a ball player to be compelled to move about on his heels when everybody in the grandstand is exhorting him to get up on his toes. More Players for Bees. In addition to the frozen toe Mac brought back the news that Salt Lake was going to have a good hall club. Two fresh items which make it appear thaj. there is something in what Mac snvs are found in the announcement that Jack Farmer, last year Beaver left fielder, is to be a Bee, and that Bill Feuerborn is to be one, too. Farmer Far-mer was to have oeen the basis of a trade with Detroit by which Mac hoped to get a couple of infielders and a pitcher. "Detroit wanted Fanner all. right," said Mac, "but the men they wanted to trade me for him were already in the military service or about to get in, so there was nothing doing." McCredie yesterday had a letter from Farmer, who is in Tennessee, in which he expressed a desire to play yith Salt Lake. Feuerborn, whose entire name is William Wil-liam Edward, is only a youngster, but he is a whole lot of that. He is a little better than six feet tall, weighs 1S3 pounds, is fleet as a deer and is only 19 years old. Last year he played with the Hannibal, Mo., club of the Central league and was accounted a so eet 'em kid. He is a first base man bv preference, but McCredie says there is every reason to believe that he will be a star in the outfield on account of his speed. He is said to be a good hitter, too, and McCredie has the word of Bobby Quinn, business manager of the Browns, for it that Feuerborn is a comer. Pledges of Help. With Outfielder Ward Miller, Pitcher Tim McCabe and Feuerborn acquired from the Browns and Pitchers Kenny Penner and Al Gould acquired from the Cleveland Indians, McCredie 's trip east has born quite a basket of fruit already. The end is not yet, however indeed, the acquisition 6f these players play-ers is but a fairly good beginning for both the Browns and the Indians pledged their faith and credit as baseball base-ball clubs that they would exert every ounce of power to supply Salt Lake with needed ball players. "Quinn told me," said Mac. "that as soon as the Browns came north after their training trip he would have a whole raft of young ball players and that we could have what we wanted. Mr. Barnhard of Cleveland told me the some thing, and I have also the promise prom-ise of Owner Dunn to the same effect. "Of course, the eastern clubs are very uncertain about how badly the military demands are going to affect them. ' The draft has hit the Cleve-lauders Cleve-lauders very hard, that club having lost ten men or more already. Where they had four good catchers a few j months ago, it begins to look as though ' they won't have any when the season; opens; even Steve O'Neil is likely to be drafted. j Interested in Sheely. "While I did not close a deal for! catchers, I don't think we need worry J about that. With St. Louis getting Nunamaker from New York iu the Pratt-Plank deal, the Browns will have four catchers, and there is one among them I think we can set. If we get ' right up against it, we could use Sheely behind the plate for a while, but I don't think anything like that will be uecessary. "With Penner, McCabe and Gould added to Kirmeyer and Loverenz and the other holdovers of the Salt Lake club, we are in pretty good shape for pitchers. Our infield lacks onlv , a third baseman, and I have lines out f or some infielders from among whom 1 can pick one or two. Sheely, Orr, Gis-lason Gis-lason and Crandall give us a great foundation foun-dation for the infield. "And by the way, speaking of Sheely there's a man that's going to be in the big leagues next year sure. Quinn saw Sheely play iu several games last year in Salt Lake and he subscribed to everything I said about Earl being the greatest fielding first baseman in existence. Other clubs have heard about him and I was asked plenty questions. "With Farmer, Miller and Bvan in the outfield we will have great hittin" strength and good fly chasing. Be sides these we have Quinlan to use if we want to, and this Feuerborn. "Sizing things up generally, I should say we are in a pretty fair way to build up a -regular baseball club for Salt Lake this season." McCredie will devote the next few-days few-days to cleaning up accumulated correspondence, cor-respondence, to lining up the plavers already al-ready available and to getting his fish hooks into others. |