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Show MO CHANCE POSt EIGHT CLUBS. All hope oS artttidtng tk Ualoa aaaocuuon to aa attkVclnb ctrcult tklg season kavw gets glim martng. aad an) ass something mighty uuxpctd bobs aa, tk little league will open up the sea sob la daaa S, ag It ha la tk other two rean af It exlsvsnce. Tk men who hs ve been trying to boom th gam aa Pocatello htvs nvsn up the gkaat, for IBIS, at sat. aad Lewlaton. Mon., has not bam tkowlag tka nptclta ratdlnssg to coats arUar. It la mora than likaly now that tka league directors will dacld to 1 '1st well enough alone" by gotag through the season with the tlx towns that have shown their ami ity to make good, and guar ante a season of good baseball. e The "dope" from Missoula, what riesldrnt E r Mulronsy hsugs forth. Is thst Ureal rails. Helena. Missoula and Salt Lake hav deposited their MOO guar, ant,- fueds. This means that Owdap. and Butte are UelliKiucnt. Otdan will be In lln though, unlet- all eigne fall, and Butls officers liava Informed Mulroney that their tusrantae "Is on Its way." s s .Manatee John J. MoCktekey taat morning morn-ing received the long awaited nontract from Johnny Pendleton and Jawn la therefor perfectly satisfied that hta keystone key-stone sack Is taken car of for th season of Itlt. Among other things. Johnny begs pei-don for having held out for a raise and says hs wtll be on deek to do hie level best hen the bell ring. T am In great shsps." continues Johnny, "and I am tickled to aee that the old town's club affairs are in aush good shep. I waa tickled when 1 learned That Dr. Hanlelle bad been appointed eluh Phvslctan. We surely needed him laat year."' as Leo Orssssn liu been ordered to re -port at eacramento February 14 and will ttnu off lor a few huiira' visit en route to I tie coast Heoretarv -Trssursr Ben Hits and Manster MeCloskey spent moat of the da. yesterday, at the old nark. If It ta found advisable to use the old tile for another year It ts very probable that additional ad-ditional ground wtll hs secured run outside out-side of th northwest corner of the park so mat tne stanos can be moved out of the pcessnt ln Insure, sjloavtng more room for the placing field, and. nf course, shifting shift-ing the diamond so that the men will bat southeast. ass "Kitty " Knight, pitcher for Cajdtn lest teseon, who 1 mentioned as manager for this tear, now playing ball on tha Paciflc coast, figured as the hero of a game at fenirryvlTle last Tuesday. Knight waa plaMng with Emeryville against Berkeley, and the day before he defeated Berkeley by his good pitching In the gam tn question the eeore was 4 ts I In Barks ley's favor end two were out tn the ninth when Knight wat aent to hat In place of Pourray. He landed on th first ball pitched for a home run. aa he knocked the ball over a barn near the fence, leave-naugh leave-naugh followed Knight to tbe plate-reached plate-reached first on an error, stole second snd third and cams homt on a single by Hsyas. who was pitching for Eraeryviiis and great Joy followed ess North Taklma. Feb. IT. Csterge M Kngtt manager of the North Taklma team In the Western Trt-Stete lasuvue tnnnunres tn a letter received bar that he has signed Matt Stanley, th veteran catcher, and that he It sure of Bert Dunn pitcher and utility men who was with the Spokane team in lt snd batted tt with Bed Deer ltst year. He alio sign id a Seattle boy named Caae whom he daa-tgnstas daa-tgnstas ss s husky youngster With fEngle himself, this gives North Taklma three pitchers ami an old heed catehrng. Managers for ths Butts baseball club are getting to be a habit. And the sphinx still spblnxee. Nobody seems to he will. Ing or sbie to tsll who win he who this season and if something Is not don pretty pret-ty sudden nobody will ear much. Th latest candidate for the management of the Butte team la our old time contra trlot. reve Zearfoae. It will be remembered remem-bered tltlt nave received for hicfloakey when he snatched the calico for Butte from Seattle In the days of ths old Northwest North-west league bark In IBUt snd also stayed with the honest one when the season of IBM brought th disastrous Invasion of th Coast league territory'. McCloakey being be-ing the chief Invader, handling the San Francisco team. Dave ha been managing manag-ing back In an Independent league, which also goes by th name of the I'nlon league, and write to lxu Rachels from Wilmington Dal., where seme of tbe grenes come from, or that vicinity Butte Mine. see The Great Falla people art trying hard to get Lewlstown to go In with them thla season. Manager Heater waa m CtWaB-town CtWaB-town vestsrdsy promising to play half of the home schedule In Lewlstown If th latter cltv will hear their share of the expense. ex-pense. It la not likely that the deal will go through, ss Bill Stevens Is now work-ins work-ins on a Montana State league, which win Include Lewlstown. Billing, biierl-B dan. Miles City, or possibly I,tvingtton and Bound up aad If hla plana carry through, the Ureal Falls deal will be rejected re-jected Butte. Poet see There I lor In random over the glad newa that Helena hae signed a real for ture baseball manager, of near big league caliber, and a man. measured by past performances, who Is not to be out baae -balled by anything In thla neck of tha woods, in fact, the name of Dannv Shay 1s one to be conjured with In any old A, B, C D league and hta reputation seems to hav preceded him. for enthusiasm enthu-siasm reigns among ths fans and those who hav taken th initiative in maintaining main-taining a berth for this city tn the Union association are receiving conflratulattona on the signing of so notable a head for the "hone of IBIS. At shortstop, Danny Dan-ny 8hy burned up the Coast league a few years ago, snd those who have talked with him recently declare that hs looks fit for th diamond today and It ts hit Intention to get etlvly Into th game after sn sbeenoe of couple of seasons, and with ths bensflt of Ih spring training period there ts slight doubt as to hit Sbtlttv to come back, at least In eufftcitnt agree to hold his own In this section Helens Indspendent see A meeting of the Retell Clerks base ball team mil be heed tonight at tha home of Ferret tsalla. her. 441 South sixth Bast street, to elect a captain and manager man-ager to run the rlub this coming baseball base-ball seaaon The Clarke compoee one of Ule best known amateur cluba of the etate and have among the players some of the classiest diamond artist of the etate. The soheduls this seaaon will he more extensive exten-sive than ever before and several short trlpa will be taken through the towns of Utah and Idaho ndposaibly Wyoming. Lincoln. Neb., Feb. IT. The rlub owners of the Western league, after working for three day and a large shere of aa many nights, by a unanimous vote adopted a schedule for the ItU season early today. It provides fur lit games to be played In four trips around th circuit by each team. The principal dates anuounaed by President Nortie O'Neill are at foiluws-Opentng foiluws-Opentng day. April II Lincoln at Wichita, Wichi-ta, Denver at Topeaa, Issa Molnea at St. Joseph. Sioux City at Omaha. Opening day, April it Wichita at Lincoln, Top. Ha at Denver. St. Joseph at Dee Moines. Omaha at Hioux City. Decoration day Lincoln at lVenver. Wichita at st Joaeph Topeka at less Moines. Omaha at Sioux City. Fourth of July Topeka at Wichita. Wichi-ta. Lincoln at Denver, Sioux City at Oinaha. St Joseph at Des Molnee. lavhor day Wichita at Topeka. Denver at Ltn- ontn Sum, lit, at Omnha les Motnet at St Joseph. The season wtll clove October Oc-tober . see Uoaton. Feb. 17 Players oa the re- aerve Hat nf the Boa ion National leagu-baaeball leagu-baaeball team who have not signed con tracta for tbe mmtng aeeeon will not be aaked to go to the Athaua (Oa.) training camp by Manager Htalllnga A atate-menl atate-menl to thla effect waa teoued today by Secretary N1keramt of the club. e e e New Tork, Feb. IT. The vanguard of the New York National league team, beaded by Manager John J. Mt'Oraw. left yeaterday afternoon for the team's training train-ing camp at Merlin, Tex. A good etsed crowd waa at the Pennaylvanla terminal to aee the departing Otanta off and wish them luck. Christy Matheweon. the atar boxinau : Thompson, Hartley. Ooulait ami Bvere oompiifed the playing contingent with the inanaagei Along the route, at tlarrttxburg. Pa., tSt. boula and point In tbe mut h other meinbera of the team will join the part) . aaa "ifew York, Feb. 17. John McOraw. manager of the New York National league rlianipions. haa elgned a five-year five-year contract to manage the team for tha aeaaona of mi-mf. Inclusive. M. -Grew waa working under a flre-year contract which had two ysara to ran. Tha old contract, however, waa abrogated abro-gated and tha new one givea McCraw a eubatantlaJ increase In salary. It Is eald that M cO raw's old contract called for IH.Obft a aoasxm and thst hte stipend has been In -reatted to 120,000 a year. e e nevaland, 0, Feb. 17 J. F Kllfoyle. 1 . former preeldent of t he Cte veland American league baaeball club, died hare today, after two years' illness, of a com r llcatlon of dtaeaaaa. He waa tnteraatad n the club from the time of the formation, forma-tion, ot tha American league until Wio, |