| Show STOVE E HAVE been roundly panned W WE Our old friend Tub Spencer Is the Read Head the following letter from his which came to hand this morning Have just finished reading one of your articles In which y you u say th the thereal thereal real reason for my not coming back to Salt Lake is that old bunk about too much visiting and too loo much handshaking Now you know the reason n why I dont don't want to come back with you all so O why give out outa a lot of stuff l like liko ko that Also that year one stuff I cant can't see sec sec how you figure It If you will look back over my record you will find that the only teams I was with for tor one year was was' when I was drinking and with three of r them I didn't last a year Tell me one thing Walter when Walter when I was plain drunk nobody ever accused me of that bunk but now since I have havo st st. straightened out they all take a shot h. h t at f me Believe from jt h. h AU YU me this U u ua Is on un when I J. start the spring training trainIng u ua Is on un when I J. start the spring training trainIng I am going to mind my ray own business altogether I guess the only thing in my favor now is that I never acCepted accepted accepted ac ac- ac- ac any bribes t to win win or lose Now Walter I want you to know that I am strong for everybody connected connected connected con con- with the Salt Lake ball club They sure treated me royally and so did the news newspapers apers I never saw a a. I better bunch than you fellows at the lake Even if you do pan me roe i I 1 wrote Mr Cook some time ago I telling him to to tomake make a deal for me In order to give him a chance to help his club because I did not intend to play I ball this year and at that I think I am i I pulling a boot by playing as the oil game Is treating me mighty fine right now They dont don't want me to play piar ball I am to meet th the big mogul Tuesday He lIe was wasa a a. great friend of m my fathers father's and is against my playing ball Then again I promised Cook that I would go through with any deal he might make for me provided I was satisfied although I have havea a a. swell offer from Idaho and look at the good trout fishing up there Walter This Idaho stuff sort aorta a appeals to me on that account Sure I will wUl miss the many i good trips riPs with i Mr and nd Joe JoeN I Smith N Now w Walter please lay off oct that stuff about visitor and one year man or I will have to give glye the real reason why I dont don't want to come back to Salt Lake and I dont don't want to do that Best left Just as it Is is Just let It go as a good deal for Salt Lake if it they trade me inc to somebody else Remember me to fo o any ny Inquiring friends and let me hear from you a at t your leisure Your friend ED R. R SPENCER Fullerton Cal While on the subject of ot the Bees Bees' catching problem problem there there is a good chance that Tub Spencer will again be Salt Lakes Lake's first catcher True the Bees would listen to a trade trad for the big fellow fellow tellow fel tel low but nothing has as yet been of offered offered offered of- of for him that sounds one bit at attractive at at- Vernon wants him but has nothing to offer and Lane Is not inclined to Jet et so valuable a catcher as Tub go for the mere asking One big league club would like to take him but It also has nothing that woud lure the local club Into a II trade Whether or not Tub could be Induced to change his mind about not wanting to return here is a question but our hunch is that such a athing athing athing thing Is possible Just what Tub Is hinting at when he speaks of the real reason why he does not want to come comeback comeback comeback back is only a a. matter of conjecture There might be several several all all mostly Im Imaginary Im Im- but but whatever little feeling might exist between Ernie Johnson and Tub could easily be bridged over for It ItIs ItIs itis Is probably no more than one of such little squabbles which come between ball ballplayers ballplayers ballplayers players during the heat of battle battIe The They are easily patched up by two players who have the right kind of ot a makeup Therefore If it the Be Bees BeCa s do not succeed in securing a good catcher somewhere Tub Spencer will have to return Tub surely cannot expect the Bees to have his re s lease to some rival club on a silver plat plat- ter I S I IThe The brief announcement ment In this mornings mornings morning's morn morn- logs ing's dispatches that the St. St Louis Browns have traded Pitcher Ernie Koob and Pitcher Wayne Wright to Louisville for Pitcher Dixie Davis means more to Salt Lake fans than might be supposed It means that the proposed deal through I which Ernie Johnson informed the Browns that they might have haye Bill Rumler Runs Rum ler if It they turned over to Salt Lake a certain pitcher a certain catcher and a certain outfielder is not going Ing to pan out because Ernie Koob I Is the southpaw southpaw southpaw south south- paw pitcher whom th the Salt Lake manager manager manager man man- ager named in his proposition Koob is III rated as one of the best southpaw possibilities pos pos- I in baseball b by Johnson His Ills biggest feat since Joining the Browns was his hlf run no-run no-hit no game against the White Sox In which Johnson also played S I S SWe We might as well divulge the rest of the secret et now The catcher whom Johnson asked for tor is Walter Mayer and the outfielder is Elmer Smith both big lea leaguers ers of class Johnson informed the Browns that mon money mony y would not take Rumler Rumler Rum- Rum ler let away from the Bees but that for Koob Smith and fayer Mayer he would part with tho the big clo clouter ter S SI Portland has four regulars signed to date They are Catcher Del Baker Baiter Pitcher Suds Sutherland Catcher Art Koehler and Outfielder lder Biff Birr Schaller |
