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Show BYJCTORIA Northwestern League aub Is Looking for s Good Playing Manager. WILL TAKE IT IF COOLET RELEASES Had Offer From Vancosver Team Sefore He Signed With Salt LaKe. ITW.D. B.UTZ. Tb Brsntnc Taigrg'w- gf trti$ adi. tor. tTUng with Um au I" ball team. ' OBZAT rAXXS, Mont, Aof. TbM Cliff BUakouUp will not out of k nT"f"I position ta mlnatag when Dick Ooolty dsddss to carry eat kii pUa of lotttn ths Bolt Lako mao-aor mao-aor go, la trowlnf mors trident tmrj MlsaonU boostora who hare promised prom-ised tha necessary financial becking (or next rear win "do anything onoa," aa tha? fot It, to get Blanksnahip's aar-Tioaa aar-Tioaa for nxt ysar, and today Blank rooalrad a win from tha management of tha Victoria clobv la tha or lowest-an lowest-an ltagna, asking hint If ha would be ' frea to tako tha r4aa of that club aftar tha cloaa of thia season. v Tbo wlra is slgnad by Hon." T. W. Patterson, Pat-terson, lieutenant governor of British Columbia, and president of tha Victoria ehib. , HIaikaaship,' of course, is still the property, of ths Bait Lake club, and Patterson is, therefore, unable to make Hlankenship aa out and out proposition, but says that the position will be open to hire at a good salary providing ha is free at the cloee of thin season. Patterson wnntn a good playing manager man-ager snd adds that Klankenship ean have the first (bancs, if ho ia frea to 'rllsakensnip was offered tha mens cement ce-ment of tha Vancouver elub in tha as me league just a few daya after having signed with Belt Lake last spring, and ha hsa hem sorry ever sines that ha did not arcept It. so it is highly likely that be will accept the Victoria offer, if Cooley decides to let hint go this fall. Report, from Missoula sre that the days of Bill Joyce there are over. Joyce informed the Missoula elub baeg-. baeg-. ers early ia tha- week that if tha bene-nt bene-nt would not enable him to pay up ths hack salary indebtedness of 1300, he would step down and ant, aad it is stated tha beaetlt game did not even coma cloaa to triping out tha indebted act. If Joys turns ever tha club to tha people who are srilling to, Inancs the causa for the remaindsr of this season and next season as well, all will be velvet at Missoula for next year. - BAlTiBAT.T. BTOBIZB. : Scanning the percentage table of the KatkmaJ league given the ran with gUnt hope ans ssorsel of the real substance that tusrarfteth, says the Maw York Herald. Her-ald. When all toe heavr weights hava been nut oa toe scats It ssesna nscea aary to hand to Frank Chance, manager of the cubs, some of the baseball goodies that ars spread around lavishly, especially espe-cially whew a team la winning. It eras only reosntly that ths announce-mnt announce-mnt of the fact, or aliased to be at that time, was made of Joeeph Tinker's suspension sus-pension for the season. Tlnksr went out of only one league, toe night affair. Aa a result of this piece of managerial strategy the cube now hold first place In the National l.agus race. . The Inside story, which every bssrbsU fan bad rather possess thsn a rich grandfather, grand-father, la simply this: Tinker bad been making winter theatrical engagements and was hitting st ons of the highest paces that the night re.gus ever realised wss noselbls. until Chance came through with hie suspension for the season. Joseph Tinker Is not a small bov wedging wedg-ing hie way Into big league service. He knew thet a- formldohie foe under the name of the gianta was about to appear In Chicago. Joseph promptly went forward, for-ward, told Chance that he would be a good boy. gained hie job sgsln snd then ' drove tn three runs that won a game for the cube against the giants. Burns say four, but riving Joeeph all that Is In sight, ws will say that he won the game and put the gianta among the pennant chasers. A vsry commendable poeltlon It ie. - too. with a long eerles on ths home Emt. But the games are not ngainst ronferra or Boston. There have been many accounte In print of the failure of either of the Manhattan lemma In tne big HMuruee to obtain the service of "Eddie" Collins, ths present second baseman of the athletics. Critics railed and raved becauee tbey believed ' that the giants and yankees bad passed up a player of rich promise. Everyone who has had a baseball grouch for an) period worth putting Into montne haa said that Colllna of Columbia unlverelty , plaved great baeebeJI In tlila and other cities, but was snepped up by Connle" .Mack under the very noses of astute - Manhattan managers. Here's the deuuie: Collins was playing play-ing In the Hudson River league when one of "Connie" Mack's scouts saw him at work. Collins loinea the athletics and played ew a western trip under the name "Kullivan." He wanted to retain ute standing In Hit. root! .elate athletics, something similar to the movement of . Walter t'larkson of Harvard, who later Joined the yankees. and Cleveland. When .the athletlce returned to Philadelphia Tonai.'' Mack told the tnantrlng scribe, that "the young fellow who Ailed In aa an Innelder needs a bit of seaawnlng. I hsvs farmed him out to the Hudson Klver league for development." C"iiins was elected captain of tha Columbia Co-lumbia nnlverslty team the next spring snd plsved his string out ss a biimuu pure. Then this uncouth "Sulllvon" rs-ported rs-ported to the athletics under the name of t'nllina. and has since been one of the greatest of modern bed players. . The yankeea have some sympathisers but few hackers for their weetern trip. After a stop of two days In Washington, which Is punishment enough for anvone. Chase will take his athletics to Cleveland for three gsmes. Pnrd has been the onlv yankee pit Iter to win In Cleveland thia aeaaon. Other stops slong the route will be In petrolt. Chicago and St. Louis. I . |