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Show THIS AND THAT IN COAST LEAGUE TALK TACOMA, Wash., March 5. Tacoma fans who look to see Karl Coon, fast i .elder, make good with the Beavers, w-re not surprised that Walit-r McCredie S'gned the wast youngs t er. Coen is the second Tacoma n to land in the Coast league. LtMcr I'af.orson, catcher, having hav-ing t:one to the Oaks. Goer, has had practicaTy no league experience. Toward the end of the pi 17 season lie played a few games wUh Tacoma Ta-coma and Butte in the old Northwest league. 1 ast year he played with the Mare Inland nrtrinec- and it was there he Pit rn c : o d lite a 1 1 e :: t i o n of C oa s t Jesgue managers. Kill Rodgers is dickering- with Pitcher M'-t-Jeury, ho has a :arge ranch near Fresno. McHenry once had a tr:a! with Cineini'.a::. but has not played professional profes-sional ball lately. He is still a young pnd htisky ioa.n, however. i?o could have had a job with the Seals last spring, but ;; t that time the draft law was starin1-; him in the facs and he did not cave much for baseba'l. Mac is a good pitcher at times, and he might do t'M Haw Meattrs some good. P.o tigers r ? e i s a b i tr . strong f e : i o w to h e : p o u t J a : k B : n -. i o y , G a r d no r . Leake and Prenton. Bill expects a lot v( Brom-U-y 'his year. In fact, he speaks right up and says th.a t J ack wiil be tiic beat left-hander in the league. That's taking tak-ing In quite a nit of territory now that the league has expanded to eight clubs. Joe Connolly rnd Steamboat Flanna-gan Flanna-gan e'gned with the Seals yesterday. The addition of these two meji gives Manager Graham two full teams, so that games can be played in the camp every day. Connolly ( is a local boy, who has played considerable baseball up north. He is just out of the army. He is a well-set-up young fellow, fast on his feet, and has a splendid throwing arm. He has been used in the outfield and also at third and first base. Flannagan is well known here, for he has been in the navy a long time and has played here. He is a whale of a fellow, who can hit the ball a mile when he lands. He looked so good as a kid, several years ago, that a St. Louis club paid real money for htm. But baseball was a joke to the Steamboat at that time. - He liked the easy life of the navy, and he was soon back there. Flannagan has played behind the bat and also in the infield, but it is as a hitter that lie is best known. San Francisco Chronicle. SAN FRANCISCO, March 5. Pete Ritchie, a local lad who trained with the Seals at Fresno a year ago, is going back to Seattie. Bill Clymer vil! likely sign a seasoned catcher back east, but he has Tom Cunningham and Pete to try out as helpers. Littie Pee has a lot of "pep" that managers like to see a youngster display, and lie undoubtedly learned something under Bill Heard at Seattle- last season. . He may grab off a steady job for himself. Ham Patterson, former Coast leaguer, has writ ten to Graham recommending a youngster named Bono, who, it seems, is a considerable fielder. According to Patterson. Pat-terson. Bono plays a wonderful game for Dallas in the Texas; league until the hot weat her sets in ; then he blows up and is practically useless. Ham thinks Bono would make good in the P. C. L. and accordingly ac-cordingly suggests that Manager Graham Gra-ham take Bono into the Seals' tra i Ming camp 1 his season for a tryout. Graham said yesterday that h Is st alf is pretty well filled tip and it isn't likeU" t hat he will send for Hum's prospect. San Francisco Fran-cisco Bulletin. |