| Show Four Gunners Offered fl T Contracts Contra ff If s r e s For w r s 1927 1927 B rS r'S Season SOT 1 HOME HO E RUN KING KINGo KINGTO o 0 TO PE PERFORM IN OGDEN OUTFIELD Eddio Eddie A Expect Expect- Expected Expected e ed to Rank Bank With Lea Leading Lead Lead- ing for the 1927 MH sea- season JJ- JJ CU C son In the Utah Idaho ut h baseball I h iu u were forwarded to four of the 1926 O Ogden den base bUlO baseball ball bait club today by President nt c Leslie Other contracts will m follow ow j just st as soon a aa fI a a def def- wHo decision concerning the bal bal- nice bal of the men on the reserve list listIs listIs Is announced by the Oakland club ot th the Pacific Coast league eague Th mn mm who will receive con con con- conr conn rl r tJ n tJ within the next few days das r r Ralph Lampe infielder Mar Mar- rv Co Co- Co outfielder Eddie Awer- Awer Awerkamp Awerkamp kamp pitcher and alid Hack Hoek Wilson outfielder and catcher Lampe a 8 year old Los An- An An 3 High school star played lila Int s 5 son ison In organized ball last yar ar and should develop Into one of the best besl utility men of the cir ull cir clr- uiL A A few years In C company ts Is alt all Lampe L needs before be he Is I ready to advance ad Into faster competition competition tion Lion In one contest last season Lampo Lampe handled 13 IS chances chalices at third base to initiate a 8 worlds world's record for a aC aC C Ic Ie igue gue He also approached I the time theall-time time all record of 14 U made In 1888 1885 by a National league third sack Backer Lampo was as as shifted from third base to short and from short to second during the tho year ear Despite Ills us youth he played some good baseball IT Ogden undoubtedly will I ize a profit on this thia youth at atthe atthe the close of the 1927 race Harry Cox Coic outfielder was waa the th leading fence luster buster of the toe loop He poled out 23 homo home hom runs during the year and played his posItion Cox was as awkward In goIng golnback back beek on fly balls and offered two tw othir oth r minor weaknesses In the out outfield field which undoubtedly will he h b oft off this and correct correct- corrected polished year ear an correct ed ed cd Major league scouts who visited Ogden last ast season pronounced Cox Coone one of the most promising youths youth of t th league Eddie Eddia right handed banded twirler should rank with the tho top of the Eye U-Eye tion during the thc new campaign Ed- Ed Eddie Eddie Eddie die won only a small email portion of his hi games during the tho early part ot of 1926 due to the tha fact that Ogden offered an erratic team yet In the th i final Inal stages of the tho season he ha won Awerkamp Is a a cousin of the fhe veteran Art Fromme one time tilDe star s of the tile New York Giants and hall hafi studied new v m methods of twIrling under the he capable coaching o of Fromme He expects hI his b best st sea season son during the 1927 race Hack Wilson Is the other Og- Og denite that has been offered a contract con con- contract con tract for tor 1927 1827 Wilson lIson came camo to I Ogden from fons one OM of the tle clubs of ot the tho 1 Three Three-I league and played In the outfield and performed back hack of the bat during the final weeks of 1926 Wilson Is a 0 good sticker and ond un- un proper supervision slon would un undoubtedly rank ranI with the leading players of the league Tommy Randazzo Dutch enfeld and Bill nill Shield are other ath- ath athletes athletes letes that arc are still on the reserve list Wesley esley Erich first sacker was declared a tree fee ag agent nt at the close clos o of the 1926 1936 race and from all re- re reports reports re ports will not wear an Ogden unI- unI unIform uniform form Erich Is dickering 1 with the tho Po- Po club Ogden has until March Starch 1 to sIgn sigi the remaining players now on the thi reserve list After Alter that date the players become free agents and will willbe wll I be permitted to sign I n with any ony club clu In organized baseball |
