Show 1 LANE CONFIDENT OF i k l WINNING VINNING BEE BEE TEAM TEA TEAM I i vr f nfl v iv BILLY LY LANE tho the new I manager o of the Salt LaKe Lalo Bees i returned home yesterday afternoon aft- aft I moon and Bill acted like te a it t youngster who had I his first firsti t i f message to Santa Claus Claua and had got the thet t 1 right light answer One a of the tho things that f r. tickled Lane Iane so much WAS the signing j of Walter McCredie to manage the 1918 5 t team at Salt LaKe and this trump card j was put over on Tom Darmody and lIen Hen J Berry before these two moguls knew just 5 I what hat had bad happened The fact is said Lane t today da McCredie l j f was offered five fi or six other positions but 1 I just had to beat them to it as asI asI asI I 1 realize what kind of a man McCredie is and just what he will do for the Salt I Lake fans t r Wo o 0 are not at all worried over the tho I coming prospects for the Zee nee team in InI I j c 1918 said Lane this morning as Walt Walt- i i frt fC has the entire Portland roster of last r. r Reason to draw from as well weIl as the s. s 1 other ther Salt Lake players ers who are leftover left J over cr and the board o of directors will not 4 3 put any blocks in Macs Mac's way to stop his t. t i l winning the 1918 gonfalon for the local fans I T realize that Salt J Lake alte is a good I baseball town especially If the fans have ha haea a winner and that is the very thing we will will try to put over next season t ro Young ng players and fighting blood IsI is isk I k what hat McCredie is after and what is alas always al- al ways as wanted on a baseball team That ts s what hat the 1915 Salt Lake Lako Bees ees will 1 have At present McCredie can lay his 1115 i panda hands on Siglin Lee LeJ FI Fisher her and Wili Wil- Wil 1 i Hams Dams of the Portland team and we still 4 ave n Ryan an Crandall Sh Sheely ely Orr Evans I and Kirmeyer left over from last lam years year's t team team here Those These players all have good jobs for tor the tho winter months but have plumed planned to r get into baseball condition at the first call all McCredie will be in Salt Lake a few days dan after the first of oC the year and will then go East to take up the work worl of oC a scout In getting a line on some o of the players who are not just fast enough for the big league clubs It may be that f he be will also get a couple of ot old heads' heads s' s 6 that that have llave not yet tet cashed In their heir baseball basel base- base f l ball arms and noodles and theca thes men ment F t should help greatly in giving the Bees r Athe much sought ought championship for which v they have always been contenders j f t t i g When asked about tile the one man umpire system this morning Lane said that this proved the only solution and saved the t league which is a lot of ot money especially ly when one does not know how ii baseball 8 Is s going to be supported for the I season With Walter McCredie to make the men fight ht and to develop some I r ral a stars th th financial affairs of the club will viii bo In well wen taken tal care of and the I I I fans ans will wal Sure Mire get et all that they want inI in inI I I the way of or some real leal baseball by good I I l player players I t I ILane I Lane said there was no mention of dropping Salt Lake at the meeting and I this tills was ani only a small rumor started by byone I one of the Los Angeles ac i ribes who could Isee Isee I l see nothing in his mind but a straight I California proposition He also said that I Spider Baum had officially been beert of offered offered of- of I I as manager of oC the tho Sacramento team President Lane a called the members mem- mem I bers bersot of the board o of directors together at ata ata a luncheon in the Commercial l club and told them lust what was as done in the I business end of oC the game at the meeting In Los Angeles Articles of incorporation for the the- Sacramento Sacramento Sac Sac- Coast League club will be rued flied in a few days days' Charles Hesseman saC saC-I willbe willbe will willbe be pre president ident and nd Charlie Graham secre secre- tar tary I 5 J j Preliminary meetings oC of the promoters promoters have indicated a strong sentiment In favor fa faor favor fa- fa vor or of Bill BUI Rogers of Portland as manager of the Sacramento dub club l b Instead oCI of oC Spider Baum Daum who was touted so stron strong for or the job Some of the promoters fear I Baum lacks sufficient aggressiveness S t Announcement comes from Los Angeles Ange- Ange Ica les that William Wllliam Essick former Salt Lake pitcher pilcher but who for five lve seasons has managed the Grand Rapids club of the Central league has ben been appointed manager manager manager man man- ager of the Vernon club Essick Is now in I Los os Angeles and will start stait to mold a team at once I Y S Twelve e minor leagues o out t of or twenty will not open their gates gales when hen the new I season o starts In the spring The eight l that will still tr b brave v the first line trenches e t are the Pacific Pacific- Coast American association association association tion Texas Eastern Blue Blu Ridge and Central association Western estern and South Southern ern leagues S t C Cy Morgan the old reliable o of the Flie e Union association days dats has enlisted Inthe in inthe inthe the aviation corps |