Show I BIll SPEAS Will ILL 1 lEAD TACOMA TEAM Former Coast League Sta Is Well I ell Liked in hi 1 New Circuit I Special Dispatch H TACOMA Wash Vash March 25 2 Mar Russ Hall bo boy of the Tacoma club clu made his announcement of a manage Just as he said saia he lie would though hi li didn't exactly pick the man expected Outfielder Billy Speas once of Portland is the choice and though it was som some thing of ot a surprise it is entirely satis factory to the fans Hall closed with Speas after weeks o o. dickering with several former Centra league players The final choice lay be between between between tween James Hamilton third and manager last year of the Muskego team In the Central and Speas of th tim same team Hamilton wanted too man concessions so Hall decided on the former former for for- former mer His rival for the po position Hamilton who by y the way wayVa wa Va Speas Speas' manager last Jast year ear did tho the n nea thing when he learned he could not com corn to terms with Hall himself Hamilto put in a nice boost for Speas and him all the luck In the world as manage of the Tacoma team Speas has spent the greater part of th twelve years jears he ha been in the gain ganv here on the Pacific coast He Is ovel ove the draft age having just turned 32 Fo RO years he Ila played ed with Portland in th the Coast league an and batted around i 1 that circuit Later he went with the tho S Sa Francisco Seals SJ His batting average with Muskegon las year was He is now in Toledo 1 0 Hall urged Speas in to pick U ul u live ball bali pla players back East and send then their out Mo Most t of Halls Hall's crew cre are rookies s far but he believes he will get Stevens I catcher back from San Francisco |