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Show Bees Get Classy Slugger m m m m m m m m Oliver Joins S. L. Squad Special to Tht Telegram. WITH THK BKftH. HOY EH SPRfNOH, March 3 "tinny" rravath. the frenial new aktp.ter of the Beea. believes that he has captured the prte plum of the ifiion tn raw recruit. The latent rtaeh from the buehea In one Henry Oliver an outfielder.' Her In the lory of Henry's rise to fame around her: yhen Char lea Comlk i team went all to smaah la At aprina; because of Abe Attell, t'lrotte and other graftera, LMft Ixmg. former preeldent of the foaat Inairua and official mout for the Chicago Whit o, - w- told to begin earning hl salary. Since he left the P. . I.. lnn has been doing nothing but recommending; recom-mending; a lew count players to the Hox nd then writing in and telling them to hve hi check on lime. LONG GETS BUSY. The blowup of the Sox caused him to g-o to work. A whole new Infield win needed, so he Juwt wired to Cominkey lo buy the Hall Itka team and call It a dnv which Charles did. However, there was one more roust player b recommended. recom-mended. It was Henry Oliver. Oliver has never played in professional i baseball vet lan claims he Is one of the bent outfielders on the coast and Tan I auk'hX- Lu know, Of i:ouraeolvcr feda, a lot of ball education and conaidcraiile coaching, hut that's easy. TURNED OVER. . Comlskey was unwilling, consider In the newness of his team, to plug the holes with green men. mo he turned Oliver over tn the BefS. Cravath Is under no obll-gatione. obll-gatione. Oliver In not one of the players owed to Knit Iake. If the Beea want him they can have him, ue him, work him, or fire, him. Oliver played last year In Al Joy " Joaquin Valley league. He Is a fair rar-dener rar-dener md a remarkable hitler. The youngster Inst year equaled Heals Becker's Beck-er's famous battling record. He hit the old apple for a total of during the entire season. In addition to his hatting eye, be has youth, intelligence and Ambition. Am-bition. The profewrii sny that that ' combination will carry a person any place. The new phenom will arrive. In. camp next Tuesday, whn 'ravath will give him the once over. If Oliver looks a good In the Connt league as he did In Al Joy's country, why, the Bees are Just about set for the outfield with Cravath, Art Hauger and this loy Oliver. In addition ad-dition ('ravath has a line on a big league veteran and a good one. He muy announce an-nounce him In a few days. WORKING HARD. Cravath repeated today hla work formula for-mula of yeaterday. He put the boys through a couple of stiff practices and kept them hard at work. Already the kinks are legini.tng to appear, and Young I'cter Jnrkson. will be In for a siege of h:rd work Ironing them out. "I'etah" bus a hard time of It. The smoke lost his baggage checks and ua-d up three or four leKjtraph wires telling John ;ook his troubles. "Javvy" received a telegram from Karl iirinley. OiieJJiabaa- Imhiin hem'ss. Bniile.v will be in camp tomorrow morning. morn-ing. Catcher Ilillard Tyrell from Santa Ana arrived (n camp and is working out. m in outfielder Irvin Yanoadall, the i-oa Angdes nundlot boy. There are a few out alders In camp, including Hutch Hyler's grandfather and Mrs. Al Martin, wife of the I'etaluma tnfi elder, who la getting a tryout with the team. Hyler's granddad will remain until the end of the training season He will spend the summer in bait l-uk with bov. I |