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Show MAO SIGNS THOMPSON Manager John McCloakey y ester day added the name of Hairy Thompson to his list of oatfleld ere. Thompson Is the big left handed hitter with Missoula sad Helena la 1911, snd with tha latter club throughout the season last year. Thompson wired McCloakey several days ago that he la a free agent aad Mac Immediately made aim a proposition, which has been accepted. McCloakey, therefore, baa two dependable outfielders Murphy and Thompson to date. Thompson la also s good change catcher. With Missoula and Helena In 1911 Thompson hit .297, and last season be clouted st st .299 dip. He fields well above the average la this league snd whan he doea bit, hits hard. MeC.uskey has been entertaining a hope that perhaps Hilly Fortler might be turned hark by Portland, but hs Is now i lezinnlng to frer that even If Billy doee not make good with the Ooaet learus club, Nick Wllllame will want hlra (or hie Northwestern Isague aggrsa-atlon. with Thompson end Murphy to bank on, al. i-loekey Is not worrying, at any rale. Jake Hauer may be Induced to return, end with him to take oars of the sun Held. Mac's outnsld should look like the cIsbb of the league hfcCloskey has hopes of Inducing Bauer to join the team during the middle of May. Klght now Jaks savs hs doee not expert to play hall scam, but ha may change his mind when the umps yells "Play bsMV sea Ben O Hue. secretary and treasurer of tbe lecal elub. yesterday wired 1501 (heir of Salt Laks'e forfeit) to President Mulroney. Pooatello. Feb. IS. Denirv ffhea'e de-parture de-parture for Helene doee not mean that thle city wilt net become a member of the t'nion association tf the circuit le to be enlarged to elxbt clubs. As a matter of fart. It makes things look all the brighter. Shay, when be came here, staled that ha would Invest some ef bts own monsy. but later It wss learned that eueb an Intention wee fartheet frem bts mind. Since his departure local buetnees men. beaded by Ttt11v" Trapp. have held a meeting and deelded to Seance a club with Dr W. H Keetner of Blsckfoot as manager At least IJOCO le already In slxht snd tlOOO can be raised within two or three davs. Dr Keetner. the probable manaaer of the Pooatello elub. le well known In thle seetlon. He has hsd considerable bassball experience snd Is exceedingly popular throughout the state. Helena. Mont., Feb. !. Denny Shav. for three vears manager of the Kaneas city elub In the Amerlean aeeoclatlon. hae accepted the terme of the Helens club mnenatee and win pilot Ifelena'e rmion lesrus teem this season. A month arc Sbsv wms Induced to ro to Poeateilo In the hope that a elub mtrht be orsrsnlsed there, end with Betae make an eleht-elub 'eaoe The inability of Boise however to ret out of the Trl-Btate leasru made Pooatello dnthtfol. and Shay concluded to rome to Helene. aaa Walla Walla Waab.. Fab. II. Secretary Secre-tary L. M. Brown of the Western Trt-State Trt-State league etatee that ths salaries of managers must not be over ttOd s month. This, with the 1125 limit for the teem, makea a total of 11400, and an the manager man-ager may be a player, the teem Is limited lim-ited to fourteen members. "There will be no dodging the salary limit thle year." said Mr. Ttrowu. The clube agreed to stand by it and will Quit when they Snd any team goina over' Last year It Is claimed all the teams went over the limit The Butte scribes have fallen victims to a "bum hunch" when thsy predicted thai Chick Freeer would be the manager mana-ger uf the team there thle summer. If the yo ing man who penned the following dtaiwtch from 1eoatur. III., knows whers-of whers-of he speaks: "The signing of Chick Fruser by the Ftttsflsld, Maes., club cams ss a surnrlav. as recent letters had given no hint of his plans for the oomlng season sea-son beyond Indlcetlng that he wss a man-aavr man-aavr without a Job. PtttsSsld's gain la rV atur's loss. Fraser built a third piece club out of a hit an rales troupe here lest ssseoh snd carries with him the well wishes of evsry fan In town." see "Pet" piannuran. in 1911 with Boise, Is sea In slated for en outfleld Job with Decatur De-catur "Pat" attended Marquette col-ler- at Milwaukee (the football department depart-ment et leaet) during the winter e a Pearl Caaey. former Ogden and Fort-land Fort-land second eseker. who umpired In the Coust league last season, lias bean released re-leased by President Al Baum to the Northwestern lesauc. Charley Sullivan, the pitcher who was traded last season by Mlseoula to Helens under the name of Keenen. has signed his Waanjngtosjjj oontraot. Fays a Frisco dispatch: 'The Detroit i club has treats Carl item lech princely, j lie is the recipient of e etgned oontrsot i from tha Detroit management giving blm 10 more a uionth than he eaked for " s'!rl"'',,,0 has release Catcher Krelts srlth Perk City In 1 Buiie old Pitcher Klein to euoux s e etookane still trying to gel Catcher Harit-.i! from Chattanooga. Great ('s is' scheme to divide games with ix-w a'on i, , "hush ' srmngement thai hi, - a l, ays failed Donv.i Fch IS. Jimmy MoOfll wires '5.'v ht " Purchased Pitcher Remnaaa of the Detroit Tigers. Remneas was with the nutte team of the Union association n 1911. won twenty-two games and lost eighteen that season. His percentage SS '? Tl Ss'dlng average for nil was 0 and he batted .347. Since that time he showed Improved form, and It Is expected that he will make good with the Orlsrlles He la a right bander e e Leo Dressan hat been ordered to report re-port at Sacramento February te e Eddie Quick te In Denver. Eddie writes , ln.' fe has bad no end of hard luck. After leaving here he found eey-eral eey-eral good berths during the summer, but as forced to leave them to hurry to ths desthbed of his brother at Denver. He had barely gotten settled for the winter whan he was again called to Denver to attend the funeral of another relative He Is undecided about next summer, although al-though he says hs hae offers from Mem-phla. Mem-phla. Peoria. Danville an Saginaw President Mulroney expects to hold the schedule meeting about March IS. "French" Ferguson, former sporting editor of tha Mlssoultan. Is now getting out a Sunday "boiler plate" feature inagaslne for country weeklies with headquarters head-quarters at Portland. George P. Stone la doing eporle on the Mlafoullan. Director Fred Arkell has gone east and rill be away from the city more than a month. When he returne the Great Falls baseball team will be ready to report for the training season Great Falls Leader Manager Herbert Hester of Great Falls announces that he has a complete team for 1919 eigne up a f Bill Lusat last year's nrst baaesnaa of the Helena club and whose playing last season helped tbe Senator to many s victory. Is now owned by Wsshlngton snd farmed out to Montreal, but while be hae to report there by Merch 2S, rather dislikes going lo the Canadian city and would rather plev ball In the west and eepeclally with nutte. There Is hardly a ohance for Bill to remain here. It la feared, for he Is certain to make good back there and they will want to hana onto blm. The Wsshlngton dub has a strong string on him and it might be that ne wouM be used hy Griffith before the season Is over. Especially ahould anything happen to Qandll, would t.uesl s services be demanded by Griffith. It's too bad that I. use! cannot be secured by Butte. His work st first base last see -ton easily put him at tbe top among tha nrst ststlon men and his bitting, around lit, marks him as a valuable man. for hs was going up against soma excelltnl flinging msterte! In tbe Union association last year. He led the league In the number num-ber of bases stolen, hla record being fifty-one. which le going some for s first baseman, snd hie all around wnrk was of a high ordsr. Butte could have had l.ua last season, but McCafferty couldn't aee Mm. and be went to Helene. being told by thai club to Griffith. Now Bill wants to etay out here and play ball, and If there Is any way he can get aaay. he will do so. It Is doubtful, however If either Montreal or Washington vlll 'let him get fsr out of eight. Thev sre n .t offering BUI the money he should reretve, beck eest and he says that he csnnet .-, any advantage In gnlnr "up" I' he re. celvet no more for Tils work. In which he la perfeetly right Butte Miner tween the Poaton and New TorV National league c!uba probably will be cloeed be. (pre the Olanta leave for tho aouth Manyer Stmnn of Boston bat been !n ton ln.-e tha leacua meetlnge and bar had aeveial talka with McGraw. They had another conference laet night MGraw In aald to be after Tyler., tna Boeton left-hander, and Campbell, an outfielder. According- to a rumor the playera KoOcmw la willint to uaa 'in a trade are Wlitae, Amea and Crandall pltchera; Devore, Snodaraee and McCor-mlek, McCor-mlek, outftVldere, and Oroh and Stock. Infleldertv It la aaid ha would not aiv up tJI theae playera for the Boeton pair but thai Htallinga might have any thre. or maybe four, provided he did not ehooar more than one of the pltchera or moi r than ona of the outflldera. e New. York, Feb. U. The flrM move In preparation for the American league pennant rate waa made today by the New York club with tbe departure of He new marifager, Frank fiance, for Bermuda, Bermu-da, ac -ompanled by Arthur Irwin, the but In eaa manager to prepare for the training of the New Yorka there. Chance aleo took alonf the new chef who wtlt begin at once to aitdy the poealbllltlee of proper nourlehment on Monday morning and the reet of the men will follow in two equada, one a week from today and the other on March t. The entire party will arrive home April I, prepared for the fleet appearance of Chance In a New Trrk uniform tn an exhibition game with Brooklyn et nhbeta field on April S a New Torfc, Feb. IB Mane rer Mc Grew of the New Tork Nationala, who will atart tomorrow for the training camp at Marttn. Tex., hae received word frum Chief Meyera. his star oatcher and bate-man, bate-man, that he ta delighted at the signing of Thorpe, another Indian, with the Olants. Meyers adrtaed M-3raw that he waa ready to ahow his fellow Indian al) of the fine points about th art of hitting, hit-ting, but h tnalated that Tlinrpe would have to tea'h him alite about running Denver haa signed Cisey Hafrnuin. |