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Show Another Waner Is Added to String of Pirates That Waner act in the National league may be staged by a trio next season. Travia Waner, a cousin of Paul and Llovd will sign a contract with Pitts burgh at the end of the basket ball season. He is a star forward on the East Central Teachers' college quintet, and the Oklahoma Collegiate conference confer-ence outlaws athletes who may have signed to play in any professional sport. O. A. Green, manager of the Ada Amateur Baseball club, believes Travia within two years will be able to step the pace set by his cousins. The third Waner batted .420 in more than 20 games last summer. Travia is eighteen years old. He Is six feet tall and weighs- ISO pounds. Paul and Lloyd Waner were also recruited re-cruited by the Pirates from the Ada sandlot. Their cousin will be the sixth Ada man to join the Corsair crew. Kellv Wilson, a pitcher, and Carl Johnson, an inlielder, have been farmed out to the Columbia club in the South Atlantic league, and Parker Brewer, pitcher and outfielder, recent-I recent-I ly signed a Pittsburgh contract. |