Show SHOWING SHOVING to D 4 PLEASING SING TO CLIF CLI BLANKENSHIP Hughes and Thompson port L Latter fter Looks Looks' Lik JK Promising Player Telegram Special l Service MODESTO Cal March 16 Blankenship's Bees tied into th f high school team for a yesterday afternoon and nd mercy on the scholastic for after it was all over they had up a score of 26 to 0 O. j M Mickey ickey Shader Lefty Owen Tom Averill put considerable o on ball during their turns on the me mi mc and as a result the high s did aid very little hitting and the Bee Bet fielders also had little chance to s The Salt take Hake boys did get lots of fj running practice however J Pitcher Tom Hughes and Earl Tu Thompson reported yesterday Y both say they are in good co cond d dright right now now Thompson worked Thi first base for Cor a time and self nicely both on on the bag and ancl andt 1 stick sUck so that hat he made q quite ite a impression with Manager Blanken He may lIe may be tried out at second M II Pitcher Ovid Mullins l Is due t to ac J today from Texas j The big game same of the week Is sc c for this afternoon The cent coni coniIng ing lug teams will be he the Blankenship aggregations OCon lin lineup up will be Vann cat catcher her jl I nah nahi first base Eldred second Tb b Orr sh shortstop Brief t third ird bas basel 1 Munsell and Fittery outfielders A Averill Olsen p and Jones rones pile t Blankenship's bunch will cont Brank Blankenship and Murray cat catch l Thompson first base Murphy Murphys se base Mohler shortstop Hall HalU third base Shinn Reuther and andl outfielders and Hughes Owen ani pitchers jf This game has stirred up consid ble local interest and the boys ex quite a crowd out to see them them Blankenship has not yet start cut down his squad but a few le lemay may be expected shortly now Some of the rail birds seem to I Ia J I Ja a hunch that the Bees may again the season with a Sacramento bo second base Brick Eldred hasT Continued on page re 4 i a SHOWING TO DATE i Continued from sport page creditable showing there tod to a avery r and Murphy are still its in inthe date d tc Mo the running for the Job but Eldred has bas been showing tip lip p Just a ittle a ittle better than th n either el her of the others Earl Thompson Thomp Thomp- son the big first baseman whom enship dug out of the Arizona bushes much of a last fall now that he hasn't chance to beat Bunny Brief out of the thc I initial sack has asked for tor a trial at second also His every action is that of ofa ofa ofa a good ball player Out of ot the four also trying out for second Blankenship expects to develop a utility infielder if possible Johnny Nutt and Dutch Reuther have shown a great deal of improvement improvement improve improve- ment in their outfield work and both are clicking the ball well Manager Blankenship Is Js in good sl spirits and is pleased with the showing t to date They didn't give me a look look-in last I year ear at the beginning of the season but you ou noticed we were at the top in the tile finish said Blankenship in lii an interview Interview inter inter- view this morning after he had been shown a survey of the relative strength of the six competing teams in the San Francisco Chronicle of recent date Newspaper dope last year could have bee ed and used this year for Its It's just the same They're saying now that Ill I'll have a hard time replacing Joe Gedeon at second but they made fun of me last spring when I put Gedeon on the second sack They needn't worry about m my may pitching staff I can also take care of it with fourteen heavers heavers heavers ers to pick from We finished second watch climb again Wedo We last year watch car us do dont don't need any sympathy |