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Show Bees' New Manager Promises Us Real Ball Club Magnates Convinced Heir's Right Man for Job .-.-4- v ismi4& . -i$:.m&y . V7; - f - ":: - -ttU'rC t i ' k Y s ' 1 N a , - ' . lit ,11 , S v f--, t ' V3 , t 4 M N -d A -!r-' 'ill :; -?-:;f-i;H!i'i'.Kis PS ' f 1 fr J 1 IJ. Left to right H.W.Lane, president Salt Lake club; Ed Heir, manager; John P. Cook, bu siness manager. Skipper Says He Has Heaps of High-class Talent in Sight. MANAGER ED HERR of the Salt Lake baseball club came, saw and conquered. When all the threads of the story had been gathered up last week there was one srand, unanimous opinion, and it read like this; "Herr will do." Eddie talked with the directors yesterday yester-day afternoon and last niglft -he talked with President Billy Lane and Business j Manager Jack Cook, and both the afternoon after-noon session and the night session went far to strengthen the belief that Salt i Lake has picked a live wire to run its ! ball club this year. j What Eddie told the directors led them , to enthusiastic hopes of a pennant. , What lie told newspaper men led those sometimes skeptical auditors to the belief be-lief that Eddie is in a- situation to get ball players of the right kind and in sufficient numbers to put the Bees up in the race early and to keep them there. From the prospects, as outlined by the new skipper, we feel a confidence of considerable con-siderable proportions that the club, barring bar-ring misfortune, cannot fail to finish one, two, three. Important Deals Pending. Ilerr is at this moment in no position to uncork a lot of news. He said he would like to tell about his hopes and his plans, but that for a few days publicity pub-licity might endanger those hopes and those plans, and , for that reason he begged off from talking details. "1 can say this much," he announced, "that there Is every reason to believe that we are going to get a good ball club : together. In addition to the players you have, and about whom you already know, I I am fairly certain of being able to get j three pitchers and at last one high- i 1 class infielrler. Also, I think we can get j another outfielder and another infiekler, j if it develops that we need them. '"The reason I cannot go into details! on those players is that waivers must j be obtained by the clubs now holding! them, and if we were to Identify them Dy 1 name there is no telling how much damage dam-age we might do ourselves. I feel unite confident, however, that within three days we can tell the public who these players aro. I have the prices on all of them and the negotiations for their purchase pur-chase are so far advanced that we ran be reasonably certain of getting them." Two Departments 0. K. Herr said positively that he was satisfied satis-fied with his catching department and his outfield. He is figuring on Buddy Ryan and his big -wallop for one section of the outfield, on Emmet Mulvev for another and on BUI Rumler for the third. That combination gives hitting strength, with the speed to be delivered by Mul-vey. Mul-vey. Naturally, Herr is satisfied with Sheely at first and On at short. The second basing place is to be filled by the. in-fieM.-r referred to. The third base Job is likely to fall to Hefnie Sands, if Karl Crandall persists in his determination to retire from the game. As to the third base place the new manager was noncommittal. non-committal. In fact, he was noncommittal on several points, saying that he could make no decision until ho had seen Jiis men in action. The pitching staff requires some regular regu-lar pitchers, and Herr proposes to get them. He is a thorough believer In strength on the slab. The new pilot produced authenticated documents to prove that his understanding understand-ing with the St. Louis Browns, Now York Yankees and Cincinnati Reds is as well grounded o we have been led to believe it was. With these three big league clubs willing and, indeed, eager, to help Herr by selling him players when needed, there seems little left to be desired. Today Manager Herr will attend to the final details for opening the training season sea-son at Pittsburg and Incidentally expects ex-pects to receive several telegrams bearing bear-ing on the pending deals. Tomorrow Herr will streak it for Pittsburg. He will be accompanied by Cook, who will attend to fiscal matters in Connection with the camp. Cook's- presence , at Pittsburg will relieve Herr of many little details which require the expenditure of time which might more profitably be devoted to the actual work of t raining. Cook expects to remain at Pittsburg about a week. At a luncheon at the Hotel Utah following fol-lowing closely upon Herr's arrival yesterday, yes-terday, the new pilot was introduced to the directors. Those present were: H. W. Lane, president; the Rev. E. I. Goshen, vice president; Lawrence Greene, secretary; secre-tary; VV. L. Evans, Frank S. Murphy and George O. Rclf, directors, and John P. Cook, business manager. |
