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Show SAYS BEES WILL j BERIME Business Manager Cook Returns Re-turns From Pittsburg, Full of High Hopes. Says Herr Can Be Depended Depend-ed On to Collect Able , ! Ball Players. ! Business Manager John P. Cook of the 8a! t Lake club returned last evening . from Camp Herr, Pittsburg, Cal. Jack is ; all afire with pep In spite of the fact that he has just put in' a week in a rainstorm. rain-storm. In spite of his ,dampnoss, Jack ; allows that he was so hot up watching PHI Rumler bust 'em that he almost sut himself ablaze. "That boy is going to run up a base-ball base-ball bill for us," reports Jack. "I watched him for a couple of afternoons and lie mangled half a dozen right there. Ho drives 'em through the infield with the speed of a rifle shot, and he swings easily and naturally; he puts one in mind of Art Griggs at bat. If Rumler doesn't mako a baiting average this year, I miss my guess." Jack says that the Bees will start the season with the strongest club the town has ever had at the opening of a cam-paign. cam-paign. ' ! "Enough players have already been signed up," he says, "to warrant us in Baying (hat the club will be a strong ' combination, and I think we cannot go far wrong in saying that It will be the best club Salt Lake has ever had to start ' ( a season. . "Herr has proved that he has resources i 8 ml from the way lie goes at things I , think thero can be no question that he will be able to get all the ball players j; we need. As the club stands now, we are '; ready to go, but there are still some deals I pending, which, if they go through as we j. hopo they do, will certainly put us on ' velvet." Cook says the week at Pittsburg, in spite of excessive moisture, has been profitable. Ten or a dozen players have been at work and one or two more are reporting every day. Butch Byler, the Bees' second-string catcher, will be dis-, dis-, charged from the submarine service Tuesday and will report at Pittsburg Wednesday. Pitchers Marklo and Moly- i ' neux are en route from the east, and ' Infieldor Krug should be on hand today or tomorrow. , j The business manager will set out briskly today in the club's new offices, ! 603 Walker Bank tuilding, to arrange for : j opening day. i One of the deals which the Bees hope ' I to put through is the acquisition of I Pitcher Walter Reuther from Cincinnati, I m part payment for Morrie Hath. Reuther , has improved so much through his army training that the Reds may decide to nold onto him. He would just about round out the Bee staff. |