Show STOVE I LEAGUE LEAE CHATTER I II I President Frank Murphy of tho the flees Bees Is In receipt of or a a. letter from Morris Rath th which has taken considerable of a load I off hl his mind It is not a secret that the little third sacker I has been lIeen getting more salary than the club could pay him In Its efforts to remain under the tho sa salary Ian limit and still maintain the tho required class Morrie was wall picked up when he had a two- two year rear contract calling for a major malor league salary Baan and Salt Lake Lako h has been in mn n a position position post post- tion where it H could do nothing but pay It it much to th the dissatisfaction of or Manager Manager Man Inn ager r Bernhard Bernhar to say nothing of the tho bad feeling Leeling that it 11 caused c. among some of tho the players I Some time ago ngo Murphy and Bernhard conceived the scheme that Morrie might be he Induced to waive his present contract I If gI gi en en something orth while In re- re re 1 re-I re turn He lie was J given Riven a n proposition to I sign a n contract calling for a considerable j i reduction In salary saL but good goot for two years ears Instead of one It appears to suit tho the little fellow according to the tho letter I and th the new contract will undoubtedly undoubted be beBI I BI signed signel nc 1 in a few da days a s. s I I I I I I I Bernhard considers Bath Rath Just tho the smart little fellow ho needs but he has hall been reluctant to pa pay him the the- mone money tho the old contract called for 01 Clubs In the tho other AA leagues Including the Coast wanted Morrie ae ne bad badly 1 as does Salt SaIl Lake but none hone of them would A Assume ume lii hie contract so there was no apparent way a out of It Il for Salt Lake declaration that he will sign slEn tho the new on oge proposed ed by Murphy Morphy will wili probably fix up matters to the satisfaction of oC all concerned Roy Bliss the joung oung southpaw w heaver who finished the thc season with Bernhard last fall tall ha has returned his signed contract contract contract con con- tract and nd Is therefore tho the first and only Bee to come through Manager Mann Bernhard Is In receipt of a aletter aletter letter leUer from Pitcher Ed Eel Lafitte a big fellow who has had lots Iota of or experience and nd was with Atlanta last year Lafitte La Ln- flUe fitte Ir fr a n free agent n-ent and Bernhard Is halfIn half In tho the notion of or giving him a chance in inthe inthe the thc spring He lie won eleven and lost twelve last year ear C S Jack Jock Coffey the Seal shortstop has h written Boss that ho he would like o o o accept accent a position in tho the Western league s-nd s nd also that ho ma may decide to retire retiro the game I Walter Vatter McCredie dlo IB lIS due ue to mako o an another another an- an I an-I other bid for a n. Portland pennant ennant Bill BIU Bernhard Bernhart must keep Salt Lake running one two three to hold his new Job joh and Del Howard Is II out to rut put nut the Oaks back backon on the thc map All In al all Its It's a scrappy lot lotof lotof of or mana managers rR who will take to tho the lines in 1917 And nd none of them Is Iii more deserving deserving de do- serving of or support and encouragement ement than G G. Sto Stovall tho the man with the tho shadow lineup Los Los Angeles Examiner Duckey Jones Joncs late of the tho Seals has han signed his Detroit contract He lie will therefore become an understudy to Oscar vitt another San Francisco product I Eddie Maiers Maier's declaration that the tho Angels Angels Angels An An- gels threw tho the final series of or 1912 to Oakland to keep Vernon from winning I the nag lag has brought ht an indignant retort re retort retort re re- I tort from rom Frank Franl Dillon the tho former An Angel manager Dillon Is out of or baseball now devoting his time limo to his hla southern California Call Cali fornia farm When told toM that Maler Maier had I Isaid said that an Angel pitcher had been Instructed b by his manager to loso 1080 the I final In 1912 game Dillon said I wa was manager of the Los LOB Angeles club dub then and any statement that I gave such an order Is rank falsehood I never nover gave a a. pitcher such an order in all my years In baseball No owner has s ever suggested to mo me that I J should lose games sames purposely Oakland won tho the 1912 1012 pennant hones 1 and It Is shameful for anybody to seek Icek the champions of that year ear of their due duc or to Intimate that other men In the league were dishonest San San t.-San San Francisco Examiner Zeb Terry White Sox Box shortstop and former Angel el wilt will marry Margaret Ce- Ce due Jones of or Los Angeles In Los Angeles An An- geles February 1 14 No Bunn Bunny Brief has not yet sent In his signed contract S Fawcett of the Portland Oregonian Ore- Ore gonian picks the tho Bees Been to be much year He Ho opines that t If it Bill mu Bernhard Bernhar adds a a. pitching staff to such a bunch of clout as ho he has reserved the Bees will cause causo trouble I If It Jack Tobin becomes a r regular Gular In tho the Salt Lake ake outfield tho the entire outer outer- garden will l bo be made up iii of left hand handed ell ellI The present Infield on theother tho the other hand will wilt hit right handed So will I Ithe the catchers |