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Show HOLDOUTS HON. Joe Tohin. outfielder, and Harry Changnon, third baseman, the only holdouts on OUff Blackensklp's Missoula team, have anally signed their contracts and returned them to "tko peerless leader," aa Mto-aoullsns Mto-aoullsns refer to Blankanahlp. Blankanahtp has also told the Mia souls scribes definitely that ha baa signed Freddie Oordti, the little outfielder ha brought from Oallfor nit with him whan ha developed a team of youngsters for Bait Lake IK the spring of 1911. Cordta ryed In 131 games for Bait Lake 1911 and finished with a batting average of .372 and a fielding sver age of .997. President E. C Mulroney of the t'nlon aoaeelaUon has returned to Missoula from a trip to Butts, Helena end Oreat Fella. Regarding conditions ss he saw them. President Mulroney esld: "I found the Ores! Fella people a-orklng hard for a good team. The ettuatlon le encouraging and the fans ere lined up behind the teem. They went to turn half of ths rs-.ponalbinty rs-.ponalbinty ( ths club slid half of the saines over to Lewlatown, and I don't aee anything wrong with ths scheme, lewlatown Ta a rood he aa ball cltv and will aupport a flub well. The Oreat Falle people were to have heerd from their sls-ter sls-ter city early In the week, but no definite action' had been taken when I left." Pitcher Wllllama. hailing from Heber. la reported to be negotiating with Manager Man-ager Frank ilianee of the Yankee for a 101 tryout. and according to tha be evallable "dope." he Is going to get It. a e A. B. Conley. southpaw first baseman, who played In twenty-eight games for Helens In 1111. ha algned with Manager lianny Shay for till. a With thtrt v-even ball playar still left on th list after twelve or thirteen have bn disposed of by the straightaway release within th last few day. Pre aidant ai-dant Cohen Is anxiou to establish lines of exchang with some club of a lower (iaaaltlcatlon than the Northweatem, and leavea Sunday for Butt, where he will ronfer whh Manager Cliff Blankenahlp of the Missoula U. A. champtona Last year the flpokeine mogul pulld In a platonlc sort of way with August Bade of Walla Walla. With players turned over to him from Spokane, Bade grabbed the Western Trt-fHate pennant with several gamea to apara- But other Walla Walla partlea butted in, said and did things that rmieed th tr or ttoe Spokane owner, and Cohen Is now figuring on a new minor leauru "farm." H had some dealing with Cliff Blankeruihlp laat auntmer. Bending Cochrane Coch-rane over to help Blank'a Mlasntila team win the Union association pnnnt at a critical moment In the 17. A league race, when alt l.ak was leading Mlaaoula. Cohen now figure that Mlaaoula la Jut About th city' that can. do him a lot of good, taking cars of such players aa he1 do not wih to release outright, and at th sum time assisting htm with plsyers 1 of not ne class that may help iepokane at : a critical moment -Spokane Exchange, a Baaeball Club at It annual meeting In Milwaukee laat fall It Is optional with club presidents whether auch plsyers shall be suspended or not, but clubs have th power to hand out auapenslons to plsvere who have not algned one month after they received their contract. Another An-other provision is that no players who have not signed shall be ordered to report at training cempa or b permitted to do so. except at their own expense. Boston, Vb. 34. "Cy" Symour, outfielder out-fielder of the New York and tnclnnatl National teams for many years, has been signed by the local National leagus club. Thla announcement was made ytsrdy. ' That th Western Trt-Btat league 1 not finding It ruoh easy "sledding" as was predicted can be gleaned from tha following clipping, taken from th !. Grand Observer: Professional baseball will not die eaetly thi year. On Wednesday Wednes-day Baker crowd of ball fans, augmented aug-mented by represent tlvea of North Yakima. Yaki-ma. Pendleton and Walla Walla, -will he J In La Grand to make a final effort to indue this ofty to join th profssslonal league Arrangements are being made for a big fd at th Foley hotel, rvd entertain enter-tain mont for the out of town guesta, but local be so be U an thi is teat a claim that Is all that can b done, for La Grand cannot can-not take part In th professional league hall this season Already there Is talk of a brush league composed of th smaller cities up the branch line and le. Grande, and It Is believed that this Idea will go through. a a Cincinnati. Feb. M - The national bas. ball commlsslonf haa reversed a decision of ths national board and declared Percy L. Morritt of th Victoria club of the Northweatem league a free agent unices th club eat ties Ms salary claims of SI 2ft a a o Ohlrco. Butt County. Chi., Feb M. Young Carman, brothr of Fred Carman, first baseman for th fast Mlaaoula pennant pen-nant winners of th Union aaaoclatlon of laat veer, will andoubtedly hold down first base. Callahan of last year's Colts teem will have charge of the second station : "Ginger" Greenwood, who played In the field for Chico last year, will go to third, hla old position. Mslvln French will catch and captain th team end with Johnson make up the battery. "8pooks" Carpenter, th hard hitter of Chlco'e last year olub, has written to Peck that ha doe not like Mlssouls either, and wanta to return. He ha been offered hi old station at abort. This complct strong Infield a a s Rochester. Fsb. 21 Players of all clubs In minor league baaeball who have not signed their contracts by Mm. ii 1 will be liable to indefinite luapenston. This Is In accordance with a rule passed by th National Association of all nor Laagu Only four mmors or in world a champion cham-pion Red Box hav failed to com to terms with the management. Cariigan. th flrat string catcher. slgnd his contract con-tract yesterday. Carrtgan la to rscetv a higher salary than last year. a Manager, captain and candidates for teams in the Manhattan Baseball league are aakad to attend the mvetlng of the leagus Thursday evsnlng, at 7:90, at the Bait Lake Hardware store. a a o Chicago, psb, 14. Th 1913 season of th American aaaoclatlon will begin April 10, It was announced yestsrday at the completion of mall vote. Schedule of opening games follows: Columbus at flt. Paul; Toledo at Milwaukee; Indianapolis at Minneapolis; Louisville at Kansas City see It Is apparent from the generous sub-aciiptlona sub-aciiptlona that are being made for stock In th local olub, that th amount desired de-sired for supporting a team this year win be readily forthcoming. More than one-half la already aubcrlbd, and vary few who hava been approac.hd have failed to do their share In keeping Helena In the Union association. Helena was stways ons of the best bail towns of its slse In th country. and with an experienced experi-enced man at th head of 'the team thla season, which practically assuree a prominent prom-inent place In th rac. ther is every reason to anticipate a prosperous season. Helena Independent. see Philadelphia. Fab. 94. Nearly all of the Player of th Philadelphia National league baseball team left here yeaterday for Southern Pine. N. C. where their apting training will b don. Several pleyera who were unable to leav with th club ystrday will join thlr com-radea com-radea in the south later o o Ban Francisco. Feb. 20. The baseball team of the Chine university of Hawaii whi h toured the United 8tats a year ago. wilt again visit thla country. In letter received her yasterday Captain Akana says fifteen players will leave Honolulu March U |