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LOUIS Feb reb 24 If If all the stories told about Pitcher Mat Lathrop are true he lie is in for some trouble Ho He was in the tho mountain states last season seaBon signed with Salt Lake City during the winter then with Worcester Salt Lakes Lake's claim was upheld Later Brockton landed a pitcher named Nat Lorton About tho the san same time Worcester got one ono named Nat Norton It is isnow isnow isnow now alleged that all and tho the same are Mat Lathrop and if the reports reports reports re- re ports are arc true his case is going tobe tobe to tobe be laid before the authorities for Investigation It is 15 further said tho player dealt with wIlli other clubs under the name of Lawton Bill Hili Sweeney of or tho ho Boston Nationals Nation Nation- als ats says sas he hc will not sign unless President Word Ward gIves I es him a hi bh bis Increase Tho Tim lat tat ter tet tays however ho that Sweeney will not nothel I get hel It It I 4 Carl Cail Flick 1 second baseman on last eMr It rB team and bou bought ht during the tIle middle of oC the season acason on by Detroit has been hicen turned over O to Ch Chattanooga by the tl tigers tIera e S 4 Boise e mu must muM t tJ be Im expecting to have A R team In Iii some Home soi t of a 1 league for a Portland credits Manager J Kellackey with having signed n d another player player Jc Sto- Sto veil JeMo has been trying to get Into the Union ever eYer since Inee It was organized Salt Halt I Lake ikc has had several chances to land him 4 Information vu vIt the grapevine route Is that John McCloskey IB Is dickering with Billy Davit Da the tIme sensational sell lI little third CHARLES MCAFFERTY Former Ogden and an Missoula pitcher slated to manago manage the Butte Butto team iu in the Union association Il Information from roam Butto Butte is that the tho job lies between between be- be tween McCafferty and aud Bert Shills former Western league second base man who Is making his lija homo borne at Butte sacker of oC the D Denver n cl Lux its t team arn In Davis l played rJ about four J games am s with nn la lat t s samon apon I and I is Ia a great treat hall hail player hut but ho hA has Jumped so 10 m mD uy minor league conI contracts In th the past pat few years ars that he should consider himself fortunato for- for If he Is tree free to el sign n now no S Bert Shills who In Is mentioned as a a. possible manager er C for r Butte will bo re- re b by local fans fan as second baseman base base- man m-in for the Boise club In 1 1005 05 4 Bert Berl and his hunch bunch of ot Inde will hold hOli another meeting Mon Jon day for tor or the time purpose of ot perfecting an or or- or- or has hall assurances of It I games with fait taIt alL Lake Helena Great Falls Fall and Ogden during tho the spring trainIng train train- lug Ing season Mason and und after that will till nil dates I In this elt city when tho I skyscrapers arc are out of town 4 I S Th 1 D Denver r rr n Illo Rho Grando Granda baseball team was ot 1 at It a hold last tall lash night loa Ion U. wa man- man apr P V. 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C F Be Beers MH rH treasurer Tim Tho team il IK a com tom of lint lat y ara cl a an and n i 1 whop organizations and will III therefore be one of the strongest In the state tate Th The rh bO boys 8 have uniforms and all other paraphernalia I and will III bo read ready to open orien tho the season seon at atan atan atan an early date They are open for tor dates ate throughout the sLit tf 4 4 Spencer Abbott blew into town yester rIn day from Kan and Pa nays aas s 's ho lie will ill prepare for hl his hla best t year in tn baseball Until Unlit th the op opening of ot the tho season he lie will assist assiat Dick Cool Cooley Y In getting out a real baseball score card 4 S Da Dave Byrd ha hl has signed his Portland Northwest league contract S S S Pitcher r well veil known In this has haa been turned back to victoria by Toledo S S S i 1 iRed Red Toner r one on of oC Dad Gimlin's pitchers S in tn 1910 ha has b been bren n purchased cd by San Francisco from Sin San Antonio Secretary Fa Farrells Farrell's rr Il 11 latest t bulletin shows hot a I transfer by hy to Grf Great t Falls George and ad H Howard ward l h Murphy Martin 1 In infielder and utility man n. has signed his Helena con eon tract S S S St St. Louis TouLa certainly certainty gets the tho best befit of or tho Stovall Stovall George trade In pJ place of t a man n who Tho led the American 1 league ue first basemen basemen base bas men in fielding and batted whIm while bringing a club duh from seventh nth to third place a. a man who wh ranked next to Joe Jackson Jacklon among amono the naps In driving In runs CJ Cleveland v gets a pitcher who won on thre games anti and lost ten tn for or the browns In 1911 1011 True It Is III that th tha browns wr were th the s cellar champIons champion but hut at that the t team tam am as a a. whole finished d with a pre percent percent- nt- nt agi g ge of nf 26 ns as compared with a 8 mark of or for G George J Jess l' l Baker Raker of ot tho so s-ox s ox and find Dolly of Washington V were r tho the only Anh American Issuers rI to have hw poo poorer r rr r records and both hath of these thes southpaws have be been n rel relegated 1 lo to minor leagues B nua II I Is f ro 50 0 p per r r uit e-uit nt brains brain's 21 per percent percent I cen cent t pyo C au and 25 2 per cent In t H arm rm R end and nr i legs 4 according ac 1 ac- ac cording to Ty Colt Cobb the greatest player of them all alt S S S SJohn John Franklin Baker Bakr of the tho h athletics still thinks Snodgrass spiked him om on pur pur- POlIO peso last fall Ho lie It was HI not that fact fart that he spiked c him but what he lit- saId t-ald at st the thc time that convinced him of It It Manager r John I- I K Zeller r of tho the field Hub lilt h haS s announced tl the sale hale I 1 of Tempi tl to Or Temple Temple- was ono non o of the tho h hv heavy avy v men of oC ln J rr last year ear President Pre B. B B B. B Johnson of the American league ue announced lest last night that thal Umpire Bert Hart of or the Interns Interns- league tUt had been added adderl to his hiM staff of umpires In exchange for Hart Umpire Umpire Um Um- pire John Mullen will po hO to the tho International Inter n mia national S S S SHarry Harry Kane th the nv pitcher who started last season neanon with 1 CIOt key at Butte Dutte and finished cI nt at Great Falls will manage manago the Marshall club clot In tho HAW nev South C Central J league Just Jut organized by Doc Doe J and L. L J J. J Kane ane Is It on th the Great Groat Falls reserve o lint hIt but his bla health was so o bad last lust fall that hn Ito was compelled to ti til seek k n a milieu milder climate |