| Show STOVE LEAGUE CHATTER Captain Buddy Hyan Itan blew In In from Denver Den last night and und expects to get Jet on 1 his wa way to tonight Buddy i is wearing c tho the same aimo big smile as of oC yore ore and says ho lu Is read ready for tho the best Leat year ear of oC his hili career Buddy is Nail really looking fine and fit E E. W. W Griftiths In his baseball playing days daa plain Bill Griffiths but now a financier financier finan finan- cier and mining man has Just Juat returned from a 1 busIne trip up ut the coast Bill tells toiL us that all Portland Is 18 talking baseball baseball baseball base base- ball nil anti that tho the fans tans In tho the Northwest arc picking the Beavers Deavers and Bees Hees this season leason a also bo that Portland figures S to draw better Letter than in 1916 due to the fact that business conditions generally are adjusting themselves to the new now order oNer of things following prohibition Always Alwa's on tho the Job to do somebody a a. good term Chester Grimmett Spaldings Spalding's hustling road man JUnn has Just returned from Butte Hutto where ho he recommended two of oC Utah's likely young to Manager Man Ian ager Joo Joe Chet combined business and good turns this time b by In Inducing In- In tho the Butte skipper to tako on Clarence Ciarence Johnson a n young catcher and Pat Vat Jacobs a oung young first sacker The Tho ormer J ormer caught for tor or Price List last season while Jacobs was Vas with tho the Portland Cements Lefty Dougherty Doughert a young New York I State league southpaw has lias signed with tho the Seals Wolverton has h also picked up upa a young oung California hurler named Walter I Davis ib The Tb Tel ai Senk tl Portland Ore Feb cb 27 The Tho Tho signed contracts of Infielder Padd Paddy Siglin and Pitcher L. L L. L D. D Brenton were received In inthe tho the office of oC tho the Portland baseball club yesterday lea ln leaving Pitcher Leake First Baseman Borton Dorton and Outfielder Southworth Southworth Southworth South- South worth as ag tho the only holdouts holdout Siglin was acquired by the Beavers Ba from tram Pittsburg along with Outfielder Farmer In exchange ex ox- ox change chang for Cor Chuck Ward Vard while Brenton was traded to Portland for Outfielder Nixon and Pitcher Herb Kell Kelly b by Now Orleans I I Baseball PH SP are aro to be bo a. a as high a aa as potatoes l this year jear rho the Coast league mo moguls 13 have ho placed an embargo on the sea season on which appear to have hwe swollen to prodigious Ious proportions during the last few fc years In some lome ai e tho the courtesies have hare been badly abul abused d dand and a n. bl big roar came from roni tho the owners of tho the southern clubs With Ith the Oakland club enjoying only two days at home out of or the week one of or them a ladles and d. thy day tho the magnates hate lists to toeo see hee eo a i a. long lonK string trinK of ot prosperous gents enl pa parading jia- jia rading through tho the dead head aile alloy alley vis visiting Is- Is lung clubs who put watchmen nt at the gates are arc tho the ones who are quick to note he Iho the escaping quarters quarters Oakland Tribune flavors Bliss and I K n Kurns reported to Trainer Billy Hilly Burke urke I 4 tir II is morning I |
