Show Q m JI c o n n nn ENTIRELY DESERTED But for tor tho presence at baseball headquarters of It Bill Bill Lane ane local lo local lo- lo cal fans faIl ore are entirely this week Easiness Business s Manager Bill OConnor O'Connor L' L in is on his way to Los An- An poles goles President Prank Frank S S. S Murphy is 15 In S San n Francisco Manager Cliff Clift Blankenship is somewhere between San Jose Joso and San Francisco and even Billy Davis and Johnny Galena Galena Ga Ga- lena the tho only two Bee players leftIn leftIn left leftIn In town aro figuring on leaving for the coast Bill Bm Lane Lana that good sportsman who devotes a J. J whole lot of or his bis time and md money to because lUtC ho loves the tho sport is holding down tho the fort but Bill Bm couldn't Jar loose from anything ng that looked like liko a story today so 80 were we're out of luck President Frank S S. Murphy Murphy- according to San Can Francisco dispatches has had several meetings with Al AI Baum Blum Henry Berry Senator Leavitt and other Coast I league n luminaries 11 Incidentally Inc ho has I also spent con l considerable time on the golf solf links a favorite fa pastime of ot hl his Most Moat of the te teams m will lU be In training I before another week rolls around Hap Hop Hogan may mar take tAka over Deacon I Van Buren the veteran outfielder turn turned d dI I loose by Salt Lake Ernie Johnson the Seal Infielder who has Jumped lumped to the Feds is 19 said aid to have taken on a change dunge of heart and ma may Jump lump back to Frisco 1 Tho The White SO Sox SOT special carrying c. thirty and pla players players' ere wl e players wives tl passed eed through the elt city last nl night on In route to the coast Cap Dillon of or Los An Angeles le I. I is reported to have come to terms terras with Long Lon Tom Hughes and ani Clarence Brooks Brooke Hap Rap Hogan Ojan In Is searching searching for tor a a. first firs baseman Babe Bo Borton ton former Yankee has hu Jumped to the Fed Feda a. a J Jr r 1 Los Loi Angeles Feb 19 That That the tho double umpire system will he bo resumed In III the Coast league Io before the season la III a l month I old and possibly for tor tho the opening game on March h 30 10 appears to be th the general opInIon opinion opinion ion among local players magnates and fans All AU aro ro of tho the opinion that It will willbe willbe willbe be Impossible to get along llon with one ono umpire umpIre umpire um um- pire aft after r having ha had two to years 18 of ot the double system The fans tans want the tho double fl system lit m and the local loal magnates at least aPP appear Ar to bo be with them unofficially Portland Feb 19 Gus Gus Fisher called on Judge Judge- yesterday afternoon and aft after r a a. conference of five minutes at attached at- at Inched hl his hi name to a n contract for tor 1915 HilI Evidently E the big catcher received what ho he wanted In the wa way of salary as ho had a grin on his hit face lace when ho emere emerged mt pd d from the office Gus led the Paci Pa Po- Pacific II ci cIne Ic Coast league hitter last fI season son and was tho the bet best catcher In the While hit his walling so o long tong before signing wasn't regarded guarded a OJ an putting him In the tho holdout class chus the local loed fans fan will 11 breathe easier now that lh th they j know the tho hard hitting en catcher Is 18 safely r l J in n the fold Frank ln Kafora who deelo developed d from a 11 raw raw- young follow fellow Into n a catcher whilo backstop for th the Bulle Butte club In n 1912 and 1913 has han been ben sold wold by bv tho the National to the Omaha club of the Western West West- ern league Jc c and Pittsburg bun sport port writers writer are aro j regret at Rt departure to the minor minora Kafora warmed tho the bench 1 in a a. good deal of th the time while with tho the Continued on page pago 18 IS I |