Salt Lake Telegram | 1919-03-04 | Page 16 | Pilot of Bees Arrives and Converses

PILOT Of BEES I ARRIVES AND AD ANDI ADI I CONVERSES Edward J. J Herr Says He HeIs HeIs Is Out to Make Good Brimful ot of baseball gossip and except ex- ex eJ for his his' John McCloskey Mc waistline waist waist- i line looking looking almost ready to pitch a game himself Edward J J. J Herr new new I manager of oC the the Salt alt Lake club arrived at atthe the Hotel Utah shortly before noon noon 1 today todar President II H W. W Lane and Secretary Secretary Secre- Secre tary John P. P Cook or of the Bees were on hand to greet the n new w skipper and killed two two birds with one stone slone by combining a luncheon and a a. weekly directors directors' meeting m at one sitting sl tUng Herr therefore had an opportunity to tomed meet med all ot of his new directors and to outline to them just what he has to promise as defender of oC Salt Lakes Lake's Lakes P Coast league honors for the comIng coming com com- Ing season MR HERR SPEAKS Saying that I 1 am going to get a a pennant winner and going out and actually actually ac- ac getting such a ball club are two different rent things said Herr toa to toa a Telegram representative on his ar- ar rival I am not going to make alot a alot lot ot of promises therefore but 1 will say that I haven't any doubt in the world but what we will have a club that Is always in the running and one which the good fans will support I always liked Salt Lake and never missed an opportunity to spend a week or two here during the seasons in which I was scouting for big league clubs Salt Lal Lake e deserves a good team and it if it Is In me to bring it here and then to win with it we should have a a. great year ear I have as much at stake as have the more fans per per- haps I must make good as a manager here and that's what I have set outto out outto to do NUCLEUS IS GOOD Salt Lake has the nucleus ot of a good club to start with and although I am not yet ready to announce some ot of the deals that I have pending for additional talent you can assure the fans that we will have a real ban ball club I can get plenty of ball players right now If I want them but what I am after atter is men whom I know will willbe willbe be stars In this league I cannot announce announce an- an their names just now because others are after them and because they have not yet been turned over overto overto to us The clubs to which they belong belong be- be long have not yet shaped their own teams Salt Lake has the promise ot of any surplus material Cincinnati the New NewYork NewYork York Americans or St St. Louis Americans Americans Ameri- Ameri cans will have within the next two or three weeks and during the summer summer sum sum- mer also for that matter