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Show BLANK SOME BOOSTER Good old Cliff Blankenship is quite some press agent himself as evidenced by the following interview in-terview he recently gavo a newspaper man on the coast. Blank is quote as saying: "Itelativo as to how the Mormons will line up, Blankenship announces that the team will be placed in the running with only the addition of a couple of pitchers and another infielder. He has lines out for these players, and after a few days' stay here will return to Salt Lake and then skip east to put through, the deals. Three or four Union Association players will be given a chance to make the Salt Lake team. Fred Carman, who was with the Seals several years ago; Billy Davis and Al Hester are described by Blankenship as promising youngsters. The first two are outfit-lders and will have to compete with such classy gardeners as Zacher, Buddy Ryan, Jimmy Shinn and Deacon Van Buren . The infield will have Hester and Ten-nant Ten-nant working for first, Billy Orr at short and Eddie Hallinan and Gay for third base, with a second baseman to be secured. The catching staff shapes up well, with Rohrer, Hannah, Lynn and Blankenship to help out, and a lot of strength will be added in the box, where the real weakness appears. "Coast League fans can rest assured that Salt Lake will have a winning team in the field," declares de-clares Blankenship. "Furthermore," Salt Lake is coming to surprise a lot of people in the manner man-ner in which the games will be supported. If fair weather is experienced for the opening game on March 30th, I am willing to wager that the receipts will run close to $10,000. It is one of the best minor league baseball cities in the country. coun-try. Our only fear is that we may run into bad weather in the spring, and there is no question that we can play clear up to October, when we have our best climate. It might snow for the opening games, but I have played there for the past two seasons without interference. "One warning that I want to Issue is to the Coast League pitchers," continued Cliff as he glanced at Spider Baum, who entored the room at that moment. "They will find that the ball travels about twice as far In Salt Lake as it does on the coast. It is difficult to break a curve ball, too, because of the high altitude. There will certainly be more hitting in the Coast League this season than in seasons past. When I purchased pur-chased Zacher from the Oaks and secured Buddy Ryan from Portland in exchange for Herb Mor-an, Mor-an, I had this in mind. They are both sluggers and should clear up in our city." |
