Show STOVE LEAGUE CHATTER The Tue Salt Lake L club directors held their theli much delayed annual meeting last nl night ht and elected re-elected all aU of he he tie old officers Frank S S. S Murphy who has served the club so 50 satisfactorily therefore succeeds himself as president and league loabe director The Tho other officers arc Tho The R Rev Elmer ElmerI I. I Goshen Ice president Lawrence I Gr Greene cn secretary and nd It H T. T Badger I treasurer The rhe latter attel is au nu appointive c office I IThe The Thc matter of or formally naming 1 cJ Cook Cool of or Oakland to succeed j Bill OConnor O'Connor OConnor O'Connor OCon Cc n. n nor as business manager n r fI was waa 11 not taken j j jup up lip as RI there were several everal absent I hers ber whose opinions will II be considered cOl before the appointment Is made As ks n a matter of ot record OConnor I lion which was filed with the tho board oArd some ome time ago abO was wal formally I Manager Bill Dill Bernhard returned from J Las Vegas Fas Nov c In time to report to tolila lila hie employers that that elt oily city will not do doas doas doas as a t training camp imp for l 1 club The skipper states that he was waa royally treated and that ho lie believes his hla boys bos would re receive receive re re- a a. similar welcome but that the accommodations are such uch that he he- would not A. A ask sic his men to train there The climatic conditions mere ere hl highly hl pral praised cd b by tho the Beo Rea bo bof but hut the fact tact that there is 18 no b ball park and that thai there Is 18 a lack of a accommodations cause caused the manager to make mako hl his decision I It therefore looks like ort C Cal I. I for the th Bees That city ha has guaranteed the club 1000 1000 cash and has hos made other Inducements that cannot IJ be ho turned down t Murphy and Tanager Manager ran Bernhard Bernhard Bern Bern- hard will visit Port Porterville r right after th the February I league meeting In San n Francisco Fran Fran- ci cisco co and if hotel arra arra can h be he made Porterville will get ct the Bees Becs next n g. g On paper pcr a pitching staff composed of Dubuc I Kirmayer Hoff J an Dougan an wItter Hughes Hushes halt Hall and Bliss looks like a pretty prett formidable ar array array ar- ar 1 ray to start the the- with Yes Yu Del Howard Hoard ha has disposed of all of ot his catching material and tho dope clope has it that ho hl has some soma assurance from Crom f the fhe e Cubs that h he lie will be 11 able to brIng about the thc return of ot Rowdy Rody Elliott 5 a S The Tho- final touches of the Ion long drawn drawn- out tran transfer fel of or stock from Maier Maler to Darmody will be made mode some omo time this w wecK cK The lawyers who ho were brought Into th the transaction at the thc last mom moment nt have ha about completed d their rN researches and the rap papers rs are arc read ready for or the sl signatures sig I natures 0 of both parties concern concerned d. d I I I I I We 0 are arc Informed that III San Francisco r co la is willing to give ho Vernon ernon CIR Clarence nce Brooks and Bill Steen for Gus Gua GI Cheich- Cheich 1110 man S I S Dan Danny Lon Long agent for the Cubs I Is one ono person person- who ho hopes hope that the Bees Ht-cs will train at Pc Porterville for he has hasI already made 11 partial l' l arrangement with the Comm Commercial club chub of or that ell city to have hac tho ho Cubs Cub play lilay l Salt It Lake there in ina a series of ot exhibition games gaines 4 S S S Time Tho Baseball Pla 8 frat ma may have a a. strong r representation on the time coast but the the fact remains that contracts are coming In with every r- r mall mail S S S SNIck NIck Williams of or Spokane expects to get bet all of San Fr s Kr u s surplus talent S e S S Stanley Dougan Dousan will not report to tim tho Bees ees until the tho first of May 1 a The Tho Bee Bc twirler Is II coaching a college collego team In Calif or n lit lit- litand and in Is under a contract to remain there until The last lat o of April S S S Walter Is In favor or cf of Issuing sn Is-sn- ing a Coast league order that all players players play play- ers eu who do not sign b by Ih time the I season op opens ns b be left on the tho outside for or good I S S Bm Billy Fil Fitz of the O Oakland kland Tribune gives us the reason h why Ham Patterson was I canned b by the Vernon club H He lie writes Fans who h have ha o been wondering why Ham Patterson WitS was run out of the Pacific Coast league can kno know tho truth now no I The former manager of or the Vernon clu club chub like ocr every other oilier member of or tho the had two to contract One of or these contracts contracts con con- tracts was cas that which was filed with President Allen Baum the other was a private ate document between Patterson and Owner Ed Maier Maler When Tom Darmody Arthur Fisk and Walter Salter Jackson took over tho the Vernon club they repudiated all the secret contracts between n Maice and the players Ham Pattersons Patterson's agreement was waa Ironclad and had another year ur to run There are other oIlier documents document also aillo which the thc Vernon brewer er must carry earn himself which I 13 is the reason he bought the Dallas club and put Doc White and Patterson In Jn charge Such players whose whoso contracts are refused b by the ne new nea owners O of ot the Vernon club chub club Mill ill be sold to Dallas S S Del Howard has given up hopes of or getting getting get get- et ting Cleveland to let him have havA his brother broth broth- er or Ivan for first ha base and the the- Oak boss bossIs Is Is already figuring on using Mal Mai Ial Barry on the thc No o. o 1 I cushion again |