Show Salt Lake Figured as Weakest of Lot Says Lou Kennedy of ot the Portland Evening Telegram Portland Oakland and Vernon the second division teams of last year have made sweeping changes in their lineups and have purchased good players in place of the dead material turned loose In fact tact Portland and Vernon look so good on paper that most writers most writers pick them for the first division along with Los Angeles The Angels have also added many new faces and look to be the best team Inthe in inthe inthe the league The only apparent weakness of ot the Portland club is th the pitching staff Noyes Harstad Lush and Higginbotham Higginbotham Higgin- Higgin botham should win a a. majority of their games games- with a good team behind behind behind be be- hind them but the rest of the fling fling- ers have not shown anything Sothoron on may make a good man for th tho team in another weeks week's workout and Clark may come through Unless these two show form McCredie will have to get a couple of good men from Fielder Field Field- er Jones or he may make another poor start In all other departments the team looks good and with two more good pitchers should easily finIsh finish finish fin fin- ish in the first division The Seals pennant winners last SEason season season sea sea- son da do not look exceedingly good this season Wolverton seems to be weak around second base and on the mound Bohne at short is a youngster and cant can't be expected to take Corhan s place and and- Downs at second Is slowIng slowing slowing slow slow- ing up He is not a good fielder Steen Fanning and Baum are good o d pitchers but the rest of the staff looks weak The Angels are most feared by all players and fans Chance has strengthened every position on the team With Hogg Standridge Schorr and Zabel all from the Cubs added to the pitching staff it should be the strongest In the league Fisher should easily take Terrys Terry's place at short will hit better than Metzger and bids fair to beas beas be beas as good as McMullen on second Ham Patterson had added a lot of I strength to the but has had his players in secret practice making I it hard to get a line Une on the team He will have a better pitching staff and anda a better Infield but will be weak in inthe inthe inthe I the outfield The Oaks have many new faces but have about the same old pitchers Chabek has not been Continued d on sport page |