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Our reward,' was settled the time Wednesday but didn't become news until Thursday. This hasn't' been an easy convention for Salt Lake's delegation. The pressure has been on everyone.Nick Morgan turned in a tremendous Job. He gained the personal respect for himself and the prestige for Salt - Lake front everyone, with whom he did business by his forthright method of negotiation. It was that, contrasted with a certain amount of 'larceny" on the other side that - finally swung the PCL &rectors' sentiments toward. " Leishman, as always-,- - was great He handled- his end just right, despite the manysided pressures exerted upon him. Claude Engberg put the right oars in the sink at the right time. In fact, virtually everyone . in the Pioneer League group, did what they could to help resolve the thing in Salt Lake's favor. We can't help but feel a lot of pride-I-Or-people over here. - - 't , . was a general feeling here that Salt Lake's new affiliation would be returned to classification from the Open Classification status they have enjoyed, in recent years. The matter. Was expected to be resolved in a general legisli-live session of the National Association' of Minor Leagues. . Tentative April Opening , The PCL directors earlier in the week had drafted a ten. 011ie schedule that included Salt Lake--anspecified an April - If the PCL ever, considered Salt Lake a "patsy! in this thing, th'ey've had to change their minds. Perkins is something. We had the opporThis tunity, as mentioned; of dealing with him, of doing - i BEST WAY TO WELCOME BEESWhen the Salt Lake city Bees begin play again as members of the Pacific Coast League, the stands at Derks Field should be as crowded as they were last spring when the New York - opens in - -- err SI. . Salt Lake City's new baseball Hitting and fielding were entry in the Pailic Coast I about average, with no real League, the former Hollywood standouts in either department finished in 4;third place! The only 300 hitter on the last season, seven games be. club was third baseman Jim San Fran- Baumer, a former hind Chicago cisZo and three' and White Sox bonus 'baby, who games behirld . at a .301 """."'" Van- finished mark. The Stars were basically a It C. t,he- seasu. Bill CaUSIOn young ball club, with just togive- the supply enough veteransteam telance Pitching was the strong point of the club., Three hurlers ,fin- Snow Stops Races BALTIMORE, MD. (Up) ished the 1957 campaign among leaders Snow, which blanketed most of the top 10 earned-ruthe eastern seaboard and forced in the PM. , a postponement of Wednesplay's George Mr, with a 2.29 racing program at Pimlicoc also finished ERA. Chuck i Churn and Bennie was responsible for calling off Daniels posted.. 2.93, and 2.95 Thursday's program. The two respec6ely. And days will be made up at the end averaget there 'was. plenty of depthto of the current seasm, , runs to Dec. the staff,. f . Three other Stars,, Baittner-anpitchers Mitt named on, the roster. right-bander- former Tai7iii,d-'6114:',..Job..--.!--:::1- DEE CHIPMAN ---- - - -' Deseret News- Sports OPEN 1 , Writer- SPRING , - Eddie. Lelshman loOks like S, Lake general 2 Like goes Into the Coast League, at this hasn't taken a, back seat - --- convention. , .01, ,z U k ,;, i .k ,..;;...,-s-,$,;.,,L,,,,,7- t t ,.. - -- - '''ctt.N., ' , - 4,,,,Ft4i: ity Assuresz QUICk worK . : ' 1...:"N- ,,h k. le ' - -----, - t - , --,,,- :4 ............ ', ', c 14Al' ' 'olf-t- - ! : 1 Lund pool Safety WO , - --- to" OPEN " AN ACCOUNT 2 wIDI''Y ....,. 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He can have mem., at'1 and George Weiss of thoughfaced with the loss their largest city when sgt COLORADO-- - 9,.....1? But the:ran-- , ;411111Mft nu ACCOUTIT sV sWpINITIsR NERDS .... - - i ,.L.,:alubr:3U ubL ,Ngs ...F.MINIOIM ITI-OP- EZI Nilion17 0. - ottp.).1p.a.u.. wantait, lave leentalking . pretty strenuously to Eddie. Ilea ha& kees- rat , . it it ALINAWSIMENO1110, ON YOUR TO 1 Pirate-star- s. if he D-- 5 UP' .4," to be the:'newsatt dead-dne- h AEI ACCOULIT-co- StiUI6 - 1)146fi:Eiltr'POiti:.!H":'.-'- 161shliiiiii-Headét- - , , - pLica DallIvi.-v- ' ft4b.Oita:...-616-0..-7:Pigh...i- "- 0 CI this. the .Stais have a 'working agreement With Pittsburgh, which though It fin. 'shed last In the National , ... r Also with the club were Bev eral former major league stars. Including Spook Jacobs, former. Iy of the Pirates and Ass; Ben hurler, and Wade, Paul Pettit and Carps Bernier, n ''' ' League- d all-sta- , - - third-base- and-dep- th - , - all-sta- - - , - In 1957, Is following a stepped up building canitiElign. The Pirates have some outstand Ing young prospects in their farm The Salt Lake club the outstanding shouldsystem. Perhaps collect Its share of them gloveman On the squad Is for the 1958 ieason. Catcher Bill Ilallwho was hon. 'ored for his fine defensive work 41Miliad,,emi..000111610.. by being unanimously named to 1 r club. the PCL, Pa.5 . E. ,: pennant-winnin- - ' 011LRCL Twinks. Stevens hit 20 home runs and Causion 19, before both joined the Pittsburgh Pi rates late in the season. I one-hal- - 7- - . ,, - , , , Ririe DidWell - - - .;. Young Club Features Strong Hurling dtteeof-th-NationaL--Ass- oia ', L.,.,, -- information on.the schedule was available Thursday. Van- The Pacific Coast League nowAnducies-,Portland- , eouver, Seattle, Spokane, Sacramento, San Diego Phoenix, , and Salt Lake City. Perkins and Morgan negotiated the deal Wednesday after- noon and broke a stalemate which earlier had almost killed Salt Lake's chances for the coveted baseball promotion, The stalemate arose over misunderstandings between Morgan and Bob Cobb, owner of the Hollywood club. Their deal. consummated Tuesday for approximately the same price.' fell apart when the responsibility for buying out the Pioneer League franchise in Salt Lake City wu- not spelled out. , S.L. To ray Eddie tinder the new deal, Salt Lake pays $105,000 for the Holly. wood franchise and must buy out Eddie Leishman and his asso." la- the city's Pioneer League operation. The figure for in the that latter operation is expected to be somewhere ' to $85,000. of $75,000 neighborhood Perkins, a dynamic baseball addict, who has ;een credited See BASEBALL on Page - : - - . '. April - . Giants and Cleveland Indians played an exhibition game in Salt Lake City. City Parks Commissioner L 9. Rom. ney already has assured the pa, that seating capacity will ,be expanded to approximately 10.000 before play - - , ' C.' tiOnar sealltie.:-wilbe, about Parks Commissioner whi1e offaireet.. Claude President EngLeague Romney 'Thursday announced SZAPPO trig will run about $150,000e, berg was elected Wednesday to a . ' - plain- talking. speedukprogakm,for improv, BILL SOIAEBTA ' executive the ' ,, ing Derkaffieldafter it was t . ,, ...- ir , . gone far tion.,one of the really top positio- learned thatzSalt Lake City hadI) Quick . cnough.-Wwant to come into Salt Lake as friends ns-lif.'all of baseball.-become ; a'mernber of 294 'Pa; Srnllad MITourney P12,' ! and partners, not as someone who has tried to take 1 ,,;,0001 Baseball League. cific,Coast would be not That for , :baseball, The Pioneers had another good lero4 advantage. 16::$$:::995S k !We will start Immediately on ..C.ALIF . boost Wednesday when Engberg for Salt Lake, or for our league. dp. r9i A estiv 0W $5,000' Pulley lb 114 I i settled for the idemnification of iplans for improvement," mr. 1 $27.3Jib) In with Quick 67s -ConHess' the one man who took the bull by the horns, thé league for the loss of Salt Romney 'said. "We have no de. e $21.95 T ,,, 0, the second going 4 Lake with the Pacific 'Coast tails as to what itTequitedbut vinced the PCL directors that some things in their thinkwund ! . kdOS3000 outheru was-a League,--Hl- t veryaltisfac: the board of commisisoners has California - tournament ing needed changes. ThPytook i $23.95 openat -" it to Perkins. It didn't take him long. tory arrangement, we fée4"1, En' to:- Int.et the flee& Its Indian Wells ' Et agreed Country Club. ' -, gle tated. ammoliummon 'N. ., specified by the Pcific Stirr .!au:crisellS IL E D S The thinking among the di- . League' KEG. $3495 out -Mr. that pointed Romney DOUBLE s FEATURE rectori berUls that thleague , Season-TRIcet1571BOB SCOTT SAYS'i J10. 1 will probably revert to six teams, The lob of enlarging the seating ' 2 be to would the prove ,,,, ;4011111dEWAIIIIII Ity though there'vel been on defi- capacity "YOU GO . ,.. Cas- biggest problem. nite in moves direction. that : IN THE' The confident field "We are NO.J561 NOW Girls -. 1 per, Wyoming, has come in for Ute SNOW OR will prove adequate,"he - $825 , fee $10.2S-3- T1 discussion. , Itself BARBARA BAKER '' said. "We are also well along WE'LL PAY N Is 7f;1, If the league reverts to six on the offstreet Season tickets for Univert,r--" eit.00---44TOW! prob., THE parking , ( becomes a- quest- lem. then it teams, P M ' games, ion- as to which of the .t,(p,,-sity of Utah basketball present 414101 ' BALLARD SIS"":55 H "I Wel issil say are still available:- aCcording members will drop out. Informal "The job of adding to the seatWEEK $1 DOWN$1 ' ',assemble chorale to be the tOpm Match 95 ' to' Bud Jack, assistant ath conjecture has settled on Twin. ing capacity appears by 'say approved PLUS FREE CANDY The $3. suggested - i majorrproblem, service .tr letic director and ticket maw Falls, Pocatello or Idaho Falls. capacity is 10,000. The park now WàrCloud &Urban from date of !no-dose can itecomrnodate low 'spout 7,000. '41-4,.., s Goorof ..i:tt km dISSOI - le ' ts V Wi also hope to have perma110- but!bRW, ' nent .2:. LINE FULL geating." tliey are pretty good seats," 4' ol The commis-slonWE NAVE said no Sports VOTHER CONTESTS SNOW TIRES Jack said., ' -Financial 45 beer; have made the for plans GC .61301bill7' 'and high scoots 4 Radio-TIlighlights-----5 construction of a roof over the VIIIEELER-GENtRA160 lb. so ' , 14q4,. . 'p''''''. V TIRE CO. dents, during the month of I 71 Comics v 631641 stadium. He said such a proj. 210 lb: sot- -. , December, will be admitted FRIDAY 'ff4:;;::7::.7 ,1:45 Theater -7 ect would cost in the neighbor1322 S. 2nd West , ,,, IN 64642 cents---hfor 75 price. Obit 2320 Nigh lend Dried NU 4;4321 t.I.1, ,191i , do.,,...., 'Coming: Wilbur 'Snyder Ihood of $125,000. Romney point. - - 7 - d our - - . e - I AA Could We, he wanted to know, get hold of Morgan. He was sick and tired of what was transpiring, and he had a deal he felt would be satisfactory. We played reasonably hard to getas has been the current Salt Lake policy. Leishman was uncovered and consulted. Morgan was contacted, areturn .phone call was scheduled for 4 p.m. with Sport Chips and Mr. Perkins hi attendance. ' v.4. , i ,tf Morgan Tired Of Arguments z ' , tA -- - . - - out,-ae- t, d Salt Lake No 'Patsy'r- - - t' a - Then it became Eddie Leishman, aftergiving several of the PCL direc-- ' tors a "message" in uneguivocable terms, made himself scarce. Morgan's whereabouts was a deep dark mystery. Leislunan's !,4message" got into the PCL.meeting, and some ot the directors began to think. Among the more thoughtful, so it seems, were ClydePerkins of Portland, Cedric Telles of Vancouver and Rosy Ryan, represent. big Phoenix for the Giants. was -a- roused.-taken the Perkins, brunt of Leishmari's "meSsage" earlier. We were standing watch with the rest of the news. hounds in the lobby of the Antlers Hotel around 2 pm. Wednesday when Mr. Perkins came out of the PCL,meet; ing buttonholed us, and hustled us over in a dark corner. - - . Game - ' League-Thulsday- .,,,, I 1 , We informed Nick of the misfire Wednesday morning, and it was decided Salt Lake would "wait tem out." "I've said all I want to say to them," Nick stated flatly. The Coast League still had problems to solve, it was figured- ,and they needed Salt Lake to help solve 'them. - Perkins- Grateful 0. alt . between Morgan - and Bob Cobb, who was selling his Hollywood franchise to the Bie town interests. -- - - -- - 1 - mated -- , - It's seldom that a sports scribe gets the opportunity to make his own news. But we were in on this one right up to the Sport Chips nOck. Ies an enviable position. Tuesday night, after Nick Morgan Jr.,whowasdoing the talking for Salt Lake, had létt Colorado Springs feeling satisfied he had a deal, which would bring PCL baseball - ; ,t " 1 morning. delivered. signed, Sealed and , ' -- t - COLORADO SPRINGS. COLO.---SLake was back in ' the Pacific Coast ' The announcement came out of a Pacific Coast ti meeting held- this Thursday morning to put the stamp, ofergutoe 'proval on a deal that transfers the Hollywood : Salt Lake City for a km of approximately $180,000. Several Insignificant details remain to be worked t to President Leslie O'Connor. He stated, however, that t cording were no difficulties; they anticipating - . Directors Call Leishman : ' ;':1. The directors reconvened early in the afternoon, and had ,,I 1 i. '";'...., requested, the presence of Eddie Leishman, owner and 'general . manager of the present Salt Lake City- - baseball elutx Leishti . in anticipating their discussions, could foresee no Co-bmem; , -1 stades in the way of Consunimating deal the . .,... The actual official transfer involved In the deal likely won't r 'come-loSeVeril weekii. Nick- Morgan4r., Salt Lake's repre- 1 sentative who negotiated the deal with Clyde perkins of 4 Portland, chairman of the PCL realignment committee, posted a $10,000 deposit with the league along with a letter of intent1 by telegram Thursday morning. Morgan was reportedly en route to a meeting with PCL interests to formalize further I s,0 I , on the - Ey DEE CHIPMAN' Deseret News Sports Writer , Wednesdo afternoon though notannounced untiLTImrsday -- 180,000. Packag- e. Deal .: I COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO.-.-It's quite a story behind the eventual solution of Salt Lakes entrance Into the Pacific Coast League, which was actually effected The call :,d6,sp a eica - . - He--ha- , - Pgit Pgit Pgit Pgit Sports Scribe Makes Own News. Perkins A Frincl:To Salt Lake Cat-And-Mo- I s. . 4 E CHIPM, , lorga-n,.PC- , PORLCHIOS by, - Le 4 AtTtAKFCTY " , , - t |