| Show I j I JJ gi J UJ 00 7 I I I I If It you ou happen to walk in th the Bee I headquarters In iii tho all Walker er bank build build- tag InK you will nih find a n new man In charge charl Bill BUl Bern Bernhard hard Is the captain manager and first batter The skipper took over tho the business s managers manager duties duties- as well as his own yesterday Tho The business duties however are arc only temporary and until a successor to Bill Dill OConnor O'Connor can n be lie ap ap- ap- ap pointed President Frank Murphy and Manager Inna er Bernhard will wUl probably get Ket to together to toda today to- to da day to la lay plans for the training tr season Las Vegas egas appears TS to lo be tI the probable choice for tor a site Bernhard will take a arun arun arun run down Into that section of or Nevada Ne earl early next week B Bombard Bernhard stated this morning that ho he expects to have his pitchers report about February 25 5 and the others not later lator r than March I 1 j II Badly n as ng tho the Oaks fared Cared In 1916 Del DeJ J I Howard lion Is the most optimistic leader In the tho league He lie has announced that ho he I I will dispose of oC hi his first baseman Mal Mai I Barry and replace him hint with a big lea leaguer Ho Ito will ha hn hae halo to lo find n a new second b baseman haeman base hae- c- c man to take 11 Bill Kenworthy's place and I says sas he has a bl big leaguer coming for that job joll Joe Bel Berger r Is slated to make mako room roomI I for Bobby Co Coltrin purchased from I kane Howard Is also angling for tor a new third baseman to lo rella replace Rod Murph Murphy In I II the outfield ho he expects to lo keep only Billy Lane Rube Gardner and Roxy Middleton havo have b been en with the club so 80 long Jong I according to Del that thai the they will get a change of or scenery Oakland exp expects to toI get het several se players from Brooklyn and I St. St Louis and is also dickering for tor an outfielder out out- fielder out of or tho Southern league The Cubs have hav eighteen pitchers on their roster and out of oC this bunch hunch only eight are slated to stick so Frank Chance will probably have havo a fine tine list of ot c castoffs to lo select from Here Is the tho Cub pitching roster rosier as It stands today Victor Aldridge Paul Nick Carter Rex Dawson Phil Douglas Wellon Ehrhardt I Claude Hendrix Hen Hen- James Jame Lavender Scott Perry Mike lUke st Thomas Seaton Peter StandrIdge George McConnell cConnell George Zabel William P. P P P. Fu Eugene eno Packard George Pierce William VJ Ruether James Vaughn Although HarT Harry Wolverton will not admit ad ad- ad mit that the deal has been heen closed matlon mation out of or Detroit Is that Del Baker Tiger ex-Tiger will be San Francisco's first string catcher next season ason S S S Al Baum Is back in San Francisco l Unruffled un un- Un- Un ruffled after his meetings with the Hie big moguls In the tho East Baum corroborates full tull fully all that Cal Ewing has already report reported re re- re port ported J. J and adds his assurance that there was no chance of or an any war In baseball circles this year car anyhow Baum Raum nays taya he has been ml misquoted in the dispatches and has not thrown down his fellow V committeemen commit commit- when the matl matter maIler r of ot abolishing the tho draft has como come up The They asked me If It 1 I favored the abolition of Iho tue draft rule but I 1 did not volunteer my lI sentiments for Cor I was waR there to lo pre present nt a petition against the drafts draft's abolition and I 1 did so 10 Tho The sentiment was so overwhelmingly o against such an action that I I saw w a tight fight was useless I Connie Mack luk Is trying to buy Ducke Duckey Jones Joncs from Crom the tho Tigers S S S SCharley Charley Chech former I American a asso asso- o- o elation and Coast league I pitcher IP is being mentioned as aa the next manager of or the tho Topeka club S 5 S Frank Chance expects to 10 take thirty men to his huts training camp S S S c Coast clubs have c refused d to meet the Cub next spring the California agents for tor arc are booking games gams lit In the thc bushes for tot ond string aggregation the Iho second sec Eec It Is hinted there ilia may be a 11 possibility of or Detroit turning over o to San Francisco Infielder Dw DWYer er who halls hails from Denver and played third ba ta lasa 3 for Denver 16 10 Ii season With Oscar Vitt In tho the a a. at al' third Dwer ha hH has certainty a mighty might slim chanco chance I of or holding on WIt with l the he Tigers I I lh The following new players will wilt In J Los s Angeles appear season ac according ac- ac cording i to club officials today Infielder Infield Infield- er cr Charles Groeling who was farmed to the Peoria Three I league for a period last year ear Art it Butler Buller Infielder from from the Ht St Louis Cardinals In payment for or Horstman and a R. left hand pitcher from tho the semipro 1 ranks s The Angels els aleo also have three players coming from the Chicago go Cubs In payment for Cor Wolter olter but their names name have ha not nol been announced S S S I In By The Th lat N E gyi I PALO ALTO Jan 2 Johnny Johnny Couch member of ot the Seals' Seals staff of oC pitchers last season Keason It IB is going to quit professional baseball to go back to college formerly went to Stanford Td university but now expects to continue his studies at t the University lt of ot California Last Laut HUmmer sum HUm mer mci the Detroit club took an option on the young twirler but bul today Couch Inti mated that thal only a n. very tempting offer otter could chan change e his hIli plans pians Bobby Quinn of or Columbus in Cincinnati yesterday y that thal he announced i Is a bona tide fide bidder for tor the St St. Lou Louis la Cardinals that h he h has hajj acquired the needed backing and Is ready ad to make Mrs Britton tho the best lIest proposition she has yet been offered Miller i gln thereupon went Into exec exec- cecelon with Quinn |
