Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-03 | Page 9 | Maier Demands Pep from Tiges

m DEMOS PEP FHOM TIEE5 Vernon Owner Says Raw Meat Will Be Sole Diet in 1920. Special to The Tribune. LOS ANGELES, Calif;, K6v. 2. Here is' the first utterance regarding plans and intentions lor Mio 1920 Pacific Coast league season, as announced by a magnate mag-nate in the league. It's by Edwin R. jVIaier, the Vernon club's all-the-while owner, who says that, notwithstanding the Tigers' glorious achievement in copping cop-ping the season's pennant, they are not going to rest upon their laurels: but, instead, in-stead, are going to fight next year, and raw meet will continue to be the steady menu. The brewery business, in which Maier made his millions, may bo upon a marble slab, with not so much as -.75 to do it reverence, but that doesn't count for anything in the Vernon owner's estimates esti-mates for next year; no, indeed. Thus early he has issued tho order to Essick to obtain and secure two irrfielders, two pitchers and a backstop. Said Maier today: "I'm going to seo that the Vernon players are of the hustifng type, talkative talka-tive and peppery from start to finish. I do not want mechanical players. I do not want those who play for the first and fifteenth. I want players who play because they love baseball. I want them to show Hfe. just as they did when Hap Hogan ran the club. "All over the circuit I want Vernon to be known as a fighting club. I will not tolerate umpire-baiting, and I will not stand for a listless club, regardless of the fact that it may be a winner. Give me the raw-meat player every time. The cream-puff athlete can play for someone else. Ve must have hustlers and .that's not all we're going to have hustlers."