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Show EXPECTS TO SIGN CHANCE Farrell Hopeful, Paper Claims Player Will Go to Orange Grove Chicago. Jan. 7 Frank Farrell, owner of the New York American league club, and Frank Chance, former for-mer manager of the Chicago National league club, were expected to engage j In a conference here today which it i was thought would terminate in the "Peerless Leader" becoming the man-! acer of Karrell's team Farrell announced on leaving N York that he expected little- troubli in Inducing Chance to attach his name i to a contract. The salary for which Chance would go to the New York) club has been variously estimated at i from $10,000 to $20,000 a year, with a percentage of the gate receipts. Interview With Chance. An early edition of an afternoon paper pa-per prints an extended interview with Frank Chance, In which Chance states positively that be will not appear i'i baseball this season anil thai his pur- j pose in coming to Chicago was to ex- I plain fully his attitude to Frank Farrell, Far-rell, who wants the former leader of the Chicago Nationals to manage the New York club of the American league. The Interview, il Is claimed, took' place in Chance's compartment on the I train which is bringing him to Chicago. Chi-cago. The train was due here at 10:45 a. m, but was several hours' late, having been delayed by tho' storm and a trivial accident to a train ahead. According to tho stor printed here Chance wl-hes to stay out of baseball for a year to care for his California oranpe ranch, about which ho is very very eiil buslastic |