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Show TIGERS ARE SIGNING; POWERS WEARS SMILE Special to The Tribune. LOS AXGKLKS. Feb. 23. As yet. only six of the Vernon Tig'-rs have s:;med thMr contracts for the l'.'lS season, leaving leav-ing twenty to n ffix their si gnat urea. However, this evidently Is not worrying either President Darmody or Manuer 1-V.slrk. both of whom today are radiating bns-bal! optimism as a r.ult of K.-t'-k's tour de force in t he east, d urine: whi-h lie corraU'd four piayers rf major lea nie ciIIIlt, as r-rot t--i ptrday. Tho rea -son Essick will not diuUo the names of the quartette is. lie Pnys, that waivers first mt h askd. However, as waiers prart i rally have been assured him. he in not worryinc. He assert s it is all f ived that he be civen the first call for the s-Tvlrrs of flies players, Ki-si-k todav rei vel a telegram from Jack Quinn. In which the pitrher paid he would start for Los Anglos from Chlcatro e.irly nxt week to bf-etn working out. Qutnn is one of the lx signed. The others are Devormer, John Mitchell. Ch-st it Cha'l bourne. Philin Slatterj and on ,M:ir!o'i. who 5iirned to. lav. A 1 1 Th T"irfrs ha e iiren ordered to report re-port larch 1 1. F.M'dck would llko to cet a couple of youthful twirlem of decided prom le. Aiont the rmly cloii'l on Ownr John Fowers's A nt-'clic hor'zon Is one passei on to film by Secretary Weber of the Sra phs. who complains that the San Lleco hotel Icrp-rs are ovrrf harginir. An Investigation ts promised before the (squad starts fir the annv city for spring training. train-ing. .lack Ryan, one-time premier pitcher of tfie Coat lencue, arrived in toun todav. to-dav. after everiLl months In Arizona, Jn time to flnl that Power ia not going to us him this saon. Almnt at the same tin.e. Manager Ro-h-era of tiio Sacramento team made tho AriL-M owners a cash offer for Ryan. nodiTTfl has been in town several day lookinr for tiiient, enpechilly of the spit ball vuritv. He is having long owlish ffsslrns w I ; h the lor-al magnates. One remilt will be the tender of n contract con-tract ti Pitrher lelferi'-h. last season wit h Poitland. |