Show PORTING SECTION SALT IAKE CITY UTAH SUNDAY FEBRUARY 251917 -- BENCHERS TURN Bernhard Will Depart Today Four Players Go With Him -- ATTENTION TO ' x4 TRACK SEASON Training Will Begin Tuesday ' ‘ f University Coach Has Good Assortment of Track Athletes i - Thirty Regulars and Prospects on Ute Roster Nine Arc Buskers Mostly From Pacific Coast Bunny Brief Is Still Holdout - ONLY THREE YETS LOST Strength Shown in Sprint Departments T916 Relay Teams Remain Intact Here’s Ute’s Training Camp Roster: -- CATCHERS Hannah Robert Cress regular Earl Sheeley regular Harry bnsher E J Blake bnsher Ed Anfinson busher PITCHERS Walter Leverenz regular Alois Kinnayer' regular Jean ' Dubuc Rube Evans regular Tom regular “Dutch” Klawitter regular Hughes regular Sherman Jones busher E O Kersten busher Earl Wild busher Roy Bliss regular George Lydiatt busher Stanley Dcngan regular Chester Hoff regular INFIELDERS ' Bunny Brief regular Karl Crandall regular Morris Rath regular R E Carpenter busher Bill Orr regular Barney Kearns busher Gard Gislason regular OUTFIELDERS Capt Buddy Ryan regular John Tobin regular Tommy Quinlan regular Jimmy Shinn regular the university basketball NOW that has been eliminated as a con- f - spring training season for the with a semlpro aggregation at Cal He is a shortstop Lake ball club will be officialTraining Opens February 27 ly initiated at noon today when SkipBernhard asserted last night that he per Bill Bernhard with four members believes the' majority of the will of the ITte tribe will board the train be 27 (Tuesassembled by February at the Denver & Rio Grande depot for day) which Is the 'official day for Porterville The four players who will beginning training Five or six who are from the east he said will accompany the skipper from here are be acoming on account of the conlittle late Tom Hughes Rube Evans Sherm Jones dition of the roads The grind will beand E O Kersten ail prospective mem- gin immediately whether the whole BUI bers of the Salt Luke hurling staff this squada Is assembled om time or not Chihas scheduled the with game season The remainder of the players cago Cubs for March 5 and wants to team against vthe will meet Bernhard In Porterville put 'r While all of the youngsters who are easterners 5 March Cnba to be given a triaj4jwlpractipaUyall riay The Porterville folk have completed of the regulars have signed there are the of the ball park and several players who are still to be the remodelling Utes will have a first class- dla? and who are caus- mond for their exhibition games- - In classed as hold-outo supplying' a ball yard the ing the local pilot some little anxiety addition townfolk have made arrangements for Chief among these is Bunny Brief the making the comfortable during players guar- their sojourn and first-sac- k Utes fence-bustWhile hotel accommodian last season Another telegram dations are not of the best due to was sent yesterday to Travers City the prosperous condition of the town Mich by Business Manager Jack Cook and the consequent overcrowding the but as yet no response lias come from Utes will be given all the conveniences Bunny Tt was the opinion at ball which can be offered The team will return to Salt Lake that Brief will headquarters last night howin time due Porterville at April 1 and will open April 3 with the report ever and will no doubt bring his signed Portland aggregation contract with him Bunny gets as much salary as any player in the Coast league and it s not thought that he will choose to remain in his present job of clerk with presumably a much smaller salary when lie can cut a fat monthly hunk from the Half Lake payroll Leverena Hasn't Signed Walter Leverenz has not been heard from finally but both Cook and Bern-har- d are looking hourly for his acceptance It is not anticipated that he will Defeats Payson High School turn down the Salt Lake offer at the 43-1- 6 last minute Tommy Quinlan also apby Aggregation Is a since to be it pears debating but Score fact that Tompretty my is fairly well satisfied there does not seem to be much cause for concern from his quarter He may be obscessed Special to Tbe n ball players’ suwith the Provo Feb 24—The Payson perstition of being afraid to mall his school basketball team served as High good contract preferring to present it in permaterial for floor mops in the contest son when the training season opens between that team and the R T U Roster of Thirty The roster of Salt Lakers who will High school here tonight ' the latter 6 score The score or winning by a gather at Porterville 'on Tuesday indicates names the relative includes strength of the Wednesday thirty two aggregations The B Y men had There are twenty-eigplayers the it all over their opponents in every dethe Utes skipper and BillyBurke e twenty-ninOf the trainer players partment of the game and the outcome nine have been recruited from the sand of the fray was never In doubt after lots while the remainder may be the first five minutes of play So many personal fouls were called classed as regulars With two exceptions all of the bush-er- a on the local players that it was neceswhom Bill Bernhard has assembled sary to use every available substitute for trial hail from the Pacific coast before the end of the game Six minSherm Jones and E O Kersten are utes before the final whistle with the the only youngsters who may be classed supply of subs exhausted and another as anything like native products man ruled out on the personal foul rule from the B Y U team was forced to meet Kersten Is a semlpro right-handSherm Jones was an emergency which might have proved Sunnyside Utah discovered late last season and was disastrous Brown the final sub was with the Utes during the last few ruled out of the game and the local team was compelled to play out the weeks of play contest with only four men Wild la Promising of the local players was Earl Wild another prospect for the oneTheof passing brilliant the features of the in Cal lives staff Plymouth hurling no were There stars on the visgame right-handa Is to Is and said He Loveless' did but iting aggregation have been burning them up last season among the California semlpro some good work at center The score: teams George Lydiatt la a aemlpro B Y H (43) heavlst from Oakland Cal On his last saw Bernhard California to A Pts the FB F7 12 trip 8 23 him a young Pyne youngster o 0 3 Cluff 6 feet 2 or 3 inches In his moc- Edward giant — 8and 5 2 0 10 casins weighing more than 200 Swenson 1 0 6 4 THE tender for the state basketball championship and the trip to Chicago to defend the national hoop title la as hopeful as an- early spring seems to be Coach Norgren will turn his attention to his 'track athletes Norg has an Idea that by getting hs yeomen out now he can get the jump on the other coaches who are still engrossed in basketbalL The Aggies while they can yet tie the B Y U in the hoop race are the only ones who have as yet paid any attention to track Coach Watson has already held a preliminary Interclass track meet at the Lagan Institution and from all appearances will not be handicapped by any dearth of material This fact does not bother the Crimson coach however as ho has a regiment of tracksters in all stages ' of development Plymouth -- - Only Three Above are shown some of the youngsters who have been signed by the Giants for the coming season No 1 is Kildnff a clever infielder who 1916 and whose good work was largely instrumental in asplayed with Omaha last season No 2 is Middleton who pitched for the Louisville dub in No--No 5 is is Vinal a young pitcher "from New York sisting that dub to win the pennant No 3 is Causey a star pitcher from Waco Tex last summer Jaynes a young college ’man of North Carolina and No 6 is Sterling S Stryker a tall youngster who pitched for the Atlantic Highlands H Special N and who has never had any' league experience -- ANGELS AND TIGERS ‘ well-groom- ed HSH00R RACE - B Y HIGH HOOP TEAM VICTORIOUS well-establish- ed Henlfl-RepnMIca- n well-know- 43-1- - ht - er er - and-describe- s 1 0 0 Keeler 0 1 c 0 2 Holman Will 0 Hot Report Dongas 0 0 0 0 Ig Stan Dougan who was with the Utes Harris 0 0 0 Brown rg season of not last the first part will be able to report until May Dougan ? 19 i 18 Totals 43 is teaching and coaching at Santa Anna PAYSON (16) university In California and is under F A Pts contract until the end of the school Wilson 1L toeoeaeaq-FB 1 2 6 4 He will probably be the Douglas semester 0 s 10 15 1 5 Y 5 Loveless c only member 'of the team who will not Macbeth 0 0 2 I0 take part In the Porterville grind man 0 ‘ 0 Wight Lo to of Catchers 0 o 0 Bill Bernhard should have plenty of Smith rg 21 material to select- his catchers from Totals '4 16 this season In addition to Hannah Referee— Thurman and Sheely Bill la going to try out three bushera They are Robert Cress MIDDIES TAKE TWO of Opportunity Wash E J Blake of Portland Ore and Ed Anfinson from OUT OF THREE San Francisco Cal Two buskers are aspiring to infield Annapolis Md Feb 24— The meet They are Barney Kearns positions between Yale and the Navy 'today reand R E Carpenter Kearns hails sulted as follows: t from San Francisco where he has been 17 Navy 14 Yale Wrestling— He ball Is a third Gymnastics — Navy' 34 Yale 21 playing semlpro baseman Carpenter has been playing Fencing — Navy 8 bouts Yale 4 bouts pounds - PI2 : - - - - ' YREADYjESB- ” i 'S' 'V ' J c' i ' - i : 4 & Hl1' HARD PROGRAM i - ' v '?' i “ 4 V ’ A C HOOPSTERS Northerners Will Meet Both Utah and B Y U Aggregations’ begin ' training in southern i LOS ANGELES Frank Chance manager pitchers Ryan Crandall Hogg Harrington Brown McMorran McIntyre catchers Bassler Boles Easterly the drawing by representatives INfrom 'the East' West and Tooele ' High school hoop 'teams 'last night In which the Deseret gym to determine totwo of the three: teams shall-mee- t morrow night' to play off :the tie existing in the Salt 'Lake first subdivision 'Of the - state ' high school basketball schedule the West and drew the High ' came bye This means ’that theEast High will meet 'Tooele in the Deseret: gym tomorrow at 830 p m to eliminate one or the other from the race The winner of this contest will meet the West High Wednesday 'evening in: the Deseret gym to settle the championship of the firBt subdivision This completes the preliminaries to- - one :of the most 'basketball races 'ever hotly contestedstate The three teams in the played have proved to be so evenly matched never been dethat the contests have more than'' 2 or cided by a 'margin of 3 points" In the game 'between-thWest and East’ Highs Jast Friday It was necessary to play two extra periods after the regulation time had been played before the winner of the contest was ' known the East "team winning 40 to 89 I With these three teams now tied the team which will contend for the chance to meet the L D S for the championnot be ship of this division willwhen the known until Wednesday game East winner of theWest-'Hlgin the Deseret will meet the gym Milton Chi pm an has been 'selected to 'referee both games race is In the- northern division the between the Davis County High school and the Box Elder High: The Davis ag'the Box Elgregation' is billed' 2to inmeet a game which der bunch March will decide the division title- ' The latter team is now ahead In the division High competition but the Davis Countycan tie coming' contest by winning theteam for first place and the Box Elder the playing- of an thereby' necessitate additional game' to determine' the final standing of the two teams The” ‘game' be played at Brigham City will ' Summit 'division?-’- the In North Summit High 'school and t the are tied for the lead Park meet-thiThese two aggregations ' will vY''Y ' week to play off the tie The Snow academy with nine straight will meet- - the victories to its credit1 ' this week to team school Salina High! settle the title in ' ffthe Sanpete-Sevldivision The' play-ogame 'will be tn Mantl or played on a' neutral: floor Y7 Mount Pleasant In 'the ' Utah county ' division the up' on Springvllle High team cleaned clear title'' to the everything and: has a division In ten championship of the contests played this season the Spring-vill- e bunch did not ’meet with one defeat ' Their record is considered 'one of the most phenomenal: in the history of basketball in the state inasmuch as they have met some of the strongest- aggregations' on the high school ” Y schedule -determined where Iti has pot yet- been the state high school championship games will be held Several cities and towns are bidding for the tournament but a decision ' has- not- yet :been made The ? battle ground by the officials will be selected this ? week however when h number of representatives from Lapan infielders Gleichmann Davis Vaughn Schulz Groeling outfielders Maggert Schilz Jackson' Delaney VERNON' Stovall manager-aninfielder pitchers Quinn Johnson George Decanniere Fromme Olson Hollingsworth Valencia Arellanes' Hick- man catchers Whaling-Simo- n Raymond Hammer infielders Galloway McLarry - Callahan Cristi Brown' Griggs outfielders Daley MattickDoane Snyder Lamar three-cornered - : out-fortuna- - - -- ' - -- " High-Tooe- le h - - - the-Nort- ’ City-team- s s ’ -- : er " ' ’ : ‘ A - - - - - - - ' -- -- Y yV i 74 — The coming week LOGAN beFeb one of hard-worfor the Aggie quintent as it meets its two bitterest rivals within the next few days The first to be taken on' will be the Y” quint This will be a fierce battle from start to finish as the Crimson basket shooters were defeated on the Aggie floor a short time ago and Coach Knapp has been giving them hard and long practices' for the last two weeks The Farmers will be under the- disadvantage of playing on a be handicapped foreign floor and also have-jus- t that' returned the fact by they where from' their' Montanathey trip did not meet with-thgreatest success in the encounter with the Bennlon men The Crimson and Gold will be strongly backed by tbelr - supporters as tbe defeated the Aggie freshmen the other j night while the Aggie freshmen handed the main team a nasty bunch previous to their going away on their northern trip This :1s the reason for the “Y’s” lofty hopei The other team that will bump up against the Aggies this week will be the UniMarch 8 in the versity of Utah-oSmart gym' - This game has always been & source of worry to' the Farmers as no matter how close the game played on the state school floor Is the one on the Aggies ground always has proved the the unijinx Last ' year after holding score In the ' a to close versity very' Deseret gym-thUtah boys played the the Agriculturalists ? off their feet In over Smart gym running up a lead of minutes twelve points in the last five of play The same day that the basketball men meet the university the swimming team will meet a team from the Deseret gym This invasion of the aquatic team will be the first of : its kind in deal of Logan and Is causing a greata number have interest as the Aggies of good swimmers some of them havgood form and one at leastst ing showed has a state championship title is the Aggies’ strong man and - - - 1 ' -- Special to The' ' Uerald-Repablica- n Weeghman and Fred' Mitchell arrived in Pasadena late today and were met by a crowd of fans The teams visited Tournament park Manager Mitchell being very much pleafced with the traingTonnds' ing " Weeghman his Cubs and all his friends arrived at 8an Bernardino shortly after noon and set f oot on California' soil- there for the first time this year To many- - of them it was their first1 glimpse of the sunny southland There were eighty people in the party that stepped off the Cub special to be 'Whirled' through the southland in ANGELES' Feb j 24 —Managers : jphance and George Stovall will lead their charges out to' their respective ball parks Monday morning for the first preliminary work of the' 1917 season Both" leaders announced today that every detail and a good-size- d squad would work out at both parks The- full force of ‘both clubs will not be present for the first call Many of the players ' are on the road to the' coast and will not- arrive before Tuesday morning Word was received from Curley Brown former-sea- autos to Pasadena hurler who now 'belongs to the Reception for Party Angels that he would arrive Tuesday and have his r signed contract in A party of fifty of the reception com' mittee of Pasadena including Los pocket' Davis will get' in Tuesday as Angeles Bobby newspaper men" will Honus Mitze of the Tigers Joe Weeghman and Jiis party whengretted Schulz 'Angel third sacker is with the stepped off the special' - The big they boss Cubs: while Bob Vaughn is slated to get of the ’Cubs wore & broad smile and ' in tonight' seemed happy that the trip was over '' After a short drive" to the Mission AH' Contracts Not In inn at ' Riverside was ’ reached where Although all the players have: not everyone stopped for luncheon that had sigmed their ’contracts the moguls of been arranged for by William Wrig-le- y the two' clubs feel sure that the men' Pasadena millionaire who will' listen before the second first" of the idea of bringing thoughts season of over is the ' Many the Cubs to the day training coast of 'the players say the r terms of their After luncheon v (party was taken contracts they have for- a: trip to thethe summit of Mount failed to sign them Y t and given a chance ' to view Boss Tom Darmody of the Tigers held Rubidoux aers'conference with several of his play- some: of the beauties of today and it is expected that' many of them will sign 'their1 contracts as a tK--1' result of the meeting Phil Koerner coach of the University of Southern- California ball nine' said is closely seconded by Purcell Driven Would report late to the Seals Jones and Geddes Cannon today he team is composed of as?’ he r wanted--- ' to finish his contract As V" with the university some of the best swimmers In the state ' a good treat will be- offered the fans Y: rj Angela Revert Monday r attend who Chance announced today that the Angel players have been' ordered to re 11 o’clock SPOKANE A A WINS port Monday 'morning-aready for work 'There: will be no Boston American League ANNUAL TRACK MEET “stalling- with the peerless leader for ' ' ' he wants to get his men In shape-aClub Gets : soon as possible for spring 'games with ' Spokane Wash Feb’' 24 — The' anV the Cubs association nual Pacific Northwest field meet which was awardand Stovall will have all the Tigertrack play'Amateur Athletic ed to ers who have r signed - their ‘ contracts season will be' for the coming out at the Bengals’ Vernon' lnclosure at ' New York Feb 24—Joe Wood who club on June 16 achere held' Saturday eleven bells ‘for the first" official spring because : of announcement an to made todifferences refused cording salary workout' of the season: n to day play with the Boston American Cubs 'Arrive to the league club last year was-solThe Chicago Cubs headed by Charley Cleveland American league club today SOUTHERN BASEBALL for 915000 It was a straight sale and no other SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED the competing: schools will confer and determine on the place President J players were involved Robert McRoy business' manager of Birmingham Ala-FeE Moss of the State High School Ath1917 the Cleveland club came to New York schedule of the Southern Baseball asletic association"-announceyesterday and made the deal with Harry H sociation adopted here today provides that those towns bidding for the with the season opening games must forward their bids to Mr: Frazee the new Boston owner 12 on and Wood closing on September April 1915 has not Secretary-TreasurC since or Oren Moss v pitched 15 A series between the was withhe when' troubled sore Wilson ' before ' Wednesday a' February shoulder! whichScaused histeam nine picked from apd-champion consid28 or their "bids' will 'not be differences the other seven clubs was for With the Boston management ered Y Y seven games to be played arranged f LOS : 4 1 -- was-complete- - - : - l ! - e - s n - ' ‘ ' - - ’ - - -- 1 - : - - Jr-th- to-reaso- - - - are0Kbut -- - - -- ' -- southern-California-- - - - - ’ - : - -- Dal-qul- WOOD IS SOLD - - Si ZTO 1ND1ADK the-Desere- t i - r-- t -- - ' - $15000 for Pitcher' s - - ’ - -- r - the-'-Spokan- - - ’ ’ - - ! ’ --- - - : : - 24--Th- - d tournament - for-15- er post-seas- - on a ! - V- ' - s ' 'T Loot - - First Practice WesiHighT)raivs Bye East to Meet Tooele Tomorrow ' f Coast league players who PACIFIC Monday iii Elimination Contest are as follows: ‘ Tetrnsa From the (Standpoint of veterans the Crimson is as fortunate as any of its neighbors having lost only three of Its last year’s veterans through graduation Brockmeyer Smith and Parry are the absentees from this year’s squad While these men were nearly always sure point winners for the Crimson It is not altogether impossible to fill- their places The loss of the first two mentioned will put a crimp In the weight division but Norg still has Goodwin and Douglass two letter men from last year left to do the heaving stunts There are also a number of peagreeners from whom Norg can choose his - bin nock slingers Relay Team Iatact In the sprints the coach has Captain Wilson Romney Kay Hopkins Sery and Robbins' Romney and Kay finished first and third respectively in the dash last year in the state meet Romney also took first place In the run and came within a foot of beating Vorhies the fast man in the final lap Aggie wind-u- p of the relay With ' the services of Romney Kay Robbins and Van Pelt Norgren has his last year relay team Intact for this year These men with the addition of Sevy a former high school star sprinter and a number of other fast scholastic speedsters Norgren will' not have to worry about his - - y Chance and Stovall VPill Trot Their Players to Their Respective Ball Parks Tomorrow Morning for the ts er ' e - -- 100-ya- rd 440-ya- rd short race department Van Pelt In Hurdles The hurdles will be taken care of chiefly by Van Pelt Van Is capable of taking all tbe first places in these events and with a mate or two to gather in the seconds and thirds the Crimson should garner practically all the bacon in tbe obstacle races Hopkins a former state scholastic record holder In the low hurdles is at tho university again this year but It ts probably that he will not be able to participate In athletics this spring "Hop Is at present in a local hospitalrecovering from an operation and ap- ' pears to be cut up to such an extent that he will not be In condition to do much running and jumping during tho coming track season Bargain Lot la Distances In the distances Norg has a bargain lot of materlaL Captain Brownie Wil- son who-inature a distance man a record by for the mile which cannot bo taken for naught It Is rumored however that Norg will attempt to to the quarter and 229 adapt Brownie also use him in tbe rethis year and however tho i Wilson from Aside lay a coach Kerr former high has Crimson school star "Froggy” Paul Theron Parmelee and Fred Black Paul has won some of the stiffest long distance' races about town during the last four at least years and should be good forhalf-mione first place in the mile or Kerr and Parmelee are also good in the grinds Kerr has covered the mile In close to 4:50 and should cut under that mark this year Four Good Jumpers The high jump will be In charge of Van Pelt Reid Dorton and Harmon In the state meet last year Van Pelt Reid and Parry al) tied for second place with inch It of six feet one-ha- lf a jump is likely that they will all be able to better that mark this year and garner at least five points for the Crimson Van Pelt' Goodwin and Reid will fig--uIn the pole vault event Pelt took second In this event last year and after his basketball and football work since that time will undoubtedly be to go a few inches highstrong enough er than 11 feet 8 inches the mark he set in last year’s meet Stars la Broad Jump In the broad "jump will be seen Bryan Johnson an athlete from the East Side High school Jack Murdock and Hap Van Pelt The discus department will see the greatest loss of any on this year’s squad Brockmeyer Parry Goodwin and Smith having been the sole occupants thereof last year Brockmeyer ended his discus slinging career last year by setting a new state record sailing the plate 1225 feet Goodwin the only one of the quartet left for Norg this year finished second to Brock and will be depended upon ' for the Crimson’s points In this event competition He will during the spring be assisted In the plate stunt however by Clark Young and Blsh Kay Javelin to Be Introduced : As a result of the recent Rocky - 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