Show NORTHWESTERN IS ISI I ABOUT SET FOR SEASON I I I I TACOMA March 15 Owners 15 Owners in the Northwestern league are busy rounding their squads into shape sending out contracts and nd getting ready for the opening of the spring season that will start within the next two weeks With the exception off Tac Tacoma ma and Great Falls the magnates are about re ready dy to announce announce their lineups President J. J J J. J l of the Butte Miners has all of his men in the corral with the the exception of or Dick Kaufman Kaufman had a run with in-with McGinnity last fall and took down second sec eec ond money and he has taken the position position position tion of holding out for a contract that will permit his transfer to another club at a salary equal to the one he received before the cut made nade in mid season last year Kaufman has written to a num num- ber her of friends in Tacoma that he may stay out of baseball l entirely this year The other members of the club have sent In their signed contracts and have assured McGinnity l that they are eager for the opening of the season As the greater part of ot the boys live In the Northwest McGInnity will have little trouble in assembling his team at Ruy- Ruy allup where a training camp will be established Nick Williams well known throughout through through- out the Northwestern league will be seen In a players player's uniform again this season This year he will be at the head of the Spokane Indians President Farr having already signed a contract with the most handsome blonde manager manager manager man man- ager in the history of his circuit Williams Wil Wll- llama liams has been scouting around In the sticks in California and is ex expected to bring a fine collection of recruits north with him when he reports for duty Bob Brown president of ot the Van- Van Beavers will do his own cap cap- taming and managing this season Brown has haq a a. wealth of ot material on ori hand according to reports r sent out fram tram British Columbia In fact Brown has so much that he is trying to sell such players as to Russ Hall forthe for forthe forthe the trifling sum of At the present present present pres pres- ent condition of the baseball market Hall could get an entire club for that amount I am not in the market marJet to buy players players play play- ers era of that kind for tor fancy prices says Russ Hall Han The disorganization of the Federal league has turned too man many fast ball ballplayers ballplayers ballplayers players loose to necessitate paying war prices for men of only aVerage ability Tealy Raymond will again be the diminutive manager of ot the Seattle Giants There was some stove league talk to the effect that Raymond would be traded to o Sp Spokane kane this spring but when Farr Parr and Dugdale came to talk over the matter it was found that Dugdale Dugdale Dugdale Dug- Dug dale wanted everything but the franchise franchise franchise fran fran- chise and the bat bag so the negotiations negotiations did not amount to a flivver Raymond has been hard bard at work durIng during dur dur- ing the past three or four tour weeks and is assembling a team that will make itself Usel known in the league Most of the regulars regulars regu regu- lars are b back ck In the game and the crop of youngsters is said to be especially promising this year Just what Great Falls Falla is going to do remains to be seen The league directors directors tors Have been Informed that the club will wili be ready to enter the circuit when Ta Tacoma's omas oma's answer Is received but the plans plans' of ot the club Itself are as indefinite indefinite nite nUe as those in this city Bill Hurley will manage the the club club In that city In In- In are bright for a good race bet between be be- be t tween een six fast clubs according to the statement of President Blewitt |