Show I STOVE I AGUE h 1 ILL LAN LANc says he lie never saw and heard so much base B BILL of his past experience combined as at the four da lion tion of the Pacific Coast league from froni which he has just just According to the tile Bee they the tile directors ate and slept baseball Bill says hes he's glad gia its it's over an 1 last about everything has been settled and adjusted so so tl thing tiling is in readiness for the tile beginning of another season The bi big topic of discussion with Bill of course is manager Eddie Eadie HerrI Herr I signed Herr for the tile simple simple simpie sim sim- pie reason that he lie has had business business business busi busi- ness playing managerial and scouting experience said Lane this morning Herr is a regular regular regular regu regu- lar encyclopedia on good ballplayers ball ballplayers ballplayers players and knows better than anyone we have ever had what players could or could not make good in ill this league That's I what this club needs at th s h s late a date date a man who can get us a areal areal I real ball club It would be easy enough to put in a playing manager manager man man- ager if we had llad the club but we II haven't the tile club and Herr has I unmistakable instructions that he lie must get a ball club club that's that's what we hired him for V We e mu f I I have the best catcher second baseman three outfielders and two pitchers that are obtainable or that money tan an buy if the latter is necessary I That should be strong enough for forthe forthe the fans Therell There'll be no way half business I i about It this year Salt Lake is going to have a ball club that will look Just Justas r as good as any bunch of ot Angels or Seals I that set foot on the Bonneville Infield Yes you fans and that should hold you until the start of ot the tho training season at least According to Lane Eddie Herr is ui- ui ready on the still hunt for ball players He has promised to mal make e good on the he specific portion of his contract which sets out that he must assemble a real ball clUb and is already very much on the Job S S S Pittsburg Is the tho 1919 training site for forthe forthe the Bees Lane tells us I was duc- duc I founded when I saw what Jack Cook Coole and Bill Hill Steen had to show me in the little city said Lane Of Ot course we dislike very much to forsake but I there are so BO many reasons why we should go to Pittsburg Instead that It did not take me long to decide Pittsburg is about two hours' hours run out of ot It has about people a better ball baU ballpark ballpark park than most of ot the coast cities have training quarters with twelve rooms and andall andall andall all the necessary things that go with It two rattling good ball clubs a d. hustling manager in Bill Steen who Is already I booking games for us and local surroundIngs surroundings surround surround- ings lags that are ideal The city Is dry and the Bees can have a regular ball game every day if they want it something I we if fl never had at e It Is also easily s accessible from San Francisco Oakland and Los Angeles so that we should also be able to switch In every game the Cub first and second teams can spare for us C S S When asked about the rumor that he lIe and Cook had been bidding for the services services services ser ser- ser ser- vices of Second Baseman Jerry Downs Lane replied replied- No Xo Jerry used to be a a. good ball player but we must have a a. better second baseman than Jerry Downs Ouch Doesn't want much does he S S S SLane I Lane declares that there is really rahly every hope that the league will be given some consideration by the There will bo boo a a. bl big railroad rate conclave conclave con con- clave dave at Chicago February 18 and at that time the entire coast oa will make a strong n plea for lower e rates westward r I g generally T U ns The of ec California league IiI like is pulling the civic every or organizations organizations or- or I string it knows In an effort to induce Uncle Sam and the railroads to restore the excursion rates which existed before the war There was lots of of trading and many offers of ot trades at the meeting but the only thing Lane put over was a deal whereby McCredie took Ken Penner In exchange for Harry Daubert and Lyman Smith I Lane states that Penner would o i inot esi si tS' tS not have ve come e to Salt Lake k keg eg because of I the high altitude as it was so he considered con co- It a R. good idea to get rid of or him I II I I doubt douht if we WI hair rt r enner t j anyway says Lane as h lIe he j about a weakness i iso so I was glad to let It McCredie Lane sas sa's he dl did 1 not see supposed 2000 which the 1 I 1 were said to 11 for either cither the Sacramento o 01 franchises but he states tha were really made r Eddie Herr Ih new ma lOa move to Salt Lake hag bug alMarch ni ci March 1 according to 10 Ken Penner has hen been n physician that he ho should not I ake City Since hi autor dent of last spring at ribs were broken broen Penner hi ht able to work In a high Ing that Penner cannot stanI stan star at Salt Lal Lake e City there is I that he may mav be traded to ar ant Los Angeles Her Herald ld I Between een Dell and Houck expects more than forty vie turned In this season Kacl capable of ot working often ottEn Del De of strength being a slant giant In Houck has a free and that enables enable him to work w tort Lort t J S S S i iThe i The r refusal of the league allow I the Tacoma c players t to to dr rY around their hi sandlot may y r n baseball war b hing ing staged San I Francisco Examiner II li prevent this a R committee lis his pointed to u range details of or league embracing the of the north The se sc posed pOKed by tho hi Pacific Internal r proposes fg the formation o of- of league embracing m Tacoma a gi 5 couver Victoria m f it We Ve want the till good will of coast In forming this league Egan but hut you can count tl 11 have a club in ill Seattle as Pacific Coast league a e. e We h it hout fl F l. l out of existence by any met do not want to be placed 01 ot outlaws But nut the holdings r Interested in baseball in thC are too valuable to be cast casta a a shattering of the Pacific In Ic ball in the Northwest oto o 0 to the maintenance of a class The committee with the northern officials of ot league is perfected and will a for the proposed series be he American association the Pa national and the Coast close of the Coast league sea October 5 |