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Show Winter league players are likely to cut a big figure in the line-up of the Oakland Oak-land Coast leaguers next year. Mickey Shader and Al Drolette of the Marylands are alreadv signed up, as is Maas of Crockett. Chicken Hawks, who first showed his class when the Oakland Natives Na-tives were in the league, is mentioned as a possibility. Mulcahy of Fruitvalo may get a chance with the Oaks if he wants to leave his present work. And yesterday yester-day Scout McFarlin of the Oaks was out looking over Oakes O'Connor in the class B race. McFarlin wanted to get a look at Dutch Kogler, but Jensen did the pitching and Kogler did not have a chance to show what he could do. There are plenty of other likely-looking players play-ers in the winter league that the Oaks can pick up if the veterans stick to the hold -out talk that they have been whispering whis-pering around in the last few weeks. Oakland Tribune. Wade Killeer, who managed the Los Angeles club in the Pacific Coast league the latter part of the 1017 season, will be signed to a contract to handle the club this coming season within a feu-days. feu-days. ' Los Angeles is the only club without a manager at the present time. Killefer is on the reserve list of the club as a player and Powers also feels that there will be no trouble when they meet to discuss terms. Killefer, who has been taking postgraduate post-graduate work at the Los Angeles College Col-lege of Osteopathy, is going through his final examinations now. He expects to have all the degrees by February 1. Ed Mitchell received a letter from Jack Ryan, the pitcher who is on the suspended suspend-ed lst of the Los Angeles club. Ryan won a trap-shooting tournament by-breaking by-breaking 24 out of 25 blue rocks. Mitchell Mitch-ell believes Ryan would like to pitch for the Angels this coming season. Bill Essick received a letter today from Miller Husgins of the New York Americans. Huggins said he was not letting let-ting go of any of his athletes at the present time, but that he would watch out' for Essick. Los Angeles Herald. dp i Red Held and Billy Phyle, Coast league umpires, are wintering in Los Angeles and anxiously awaiting the opening of the season. Oscar Horstman. the young twirler developed de-veloped by the Angels, has signed a two years' contract with the St. Louis Cardinals. Cardi-nals. He looked good last season and may develop into a star during 191S. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 24. Al Baum, I president of the Pacific Coast league, received re-ceived a decision yesterday from the National Na-tional Minor Leagues' association relative to the ownership of players in case some of the organizations are unable to last through the full season owing to war conditions. Secretary Farrell rules that if a league finishes half of its scheduled season of games it will retain title to its players and will receive any money from the sale or draft of them. CHICAGO. .Tan. 24. James F. Breton, former third baseman with the Chicago Americans and later with the Kansas City club of the American association, was accepted here today as a pilot in the aviation corps. He will be sent to the aviation field at Champaign, 111. Breton was with Salt Lake for a part of the 1915 season. 1 Del Baker, gingery catcher of the Seals last season, is getting fat in the navy. He is stationed at the Bremerton navy yard and writes that he has gained fifteen fif-teen pounds and never felt better In his life. A younger brother is in the service ser-vice with him. The only player on the Milwaukee American association team subject to draft is said to bo Sam Bohne. the second baseman. Bohne is not married and has no dependents. Al! other players, according accord-ing to President Timme, nave wives and children dependent upon them. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 24. Bert Whaling, Wha-ling, former Boston National and Vernon catcher, yesterday was sworn in for duty at the submarine base. Carl Flick, Johnny Bender and Nick de Maggio applied ap-plied for enlistment yesterday. |