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Show PLAYERS FOR LEAGUE TEAMS Salt Lake, Jan 24. If the weather man is good to us, Salt Lake will have 1 he very large pleasure of seeing a genuine basehall game on the first day of April, r0r on that day the Chicago White Sox are to play the Murray loam of the Union association. associa-tion. Dr. C. P rlarveille, Murray magna mag-na le, yesterday received the " following follow-ing telegram from Cliff Blanken-hlp, Murray's manager, who is in Cali-fornla Cali-fornla finding ball players for his ten m : I you can secure grounds. White Sox will play Murray at Salt Lake April 1." Dr rlarveille Immediately set about getting ih grounds and last evening he ired Rlankonship that the show lot would be ready for the White Sox on April 1 The Chicago Americans arc training at Pa60 del Robles Springs, In California Cali-fornia that is, the White Sox who arc not on the world tour. The tourists wii! go to California in March They Intend to head eastward i-"!) alilornia . houi Man h and ill play games en route. The first exhibition will be at Sa ranu-nfo. The situation in regard to the Boise club Is not yet definitely set 'led. It Is probable that Maury B ESvans of this city, who has first call en the Boise Franchise by virtue of i his action on behalf of Boise at the Butte league meeting, will make a trip to Boise within a day or two. A letter or two from the Idaho capi tal Indicates that the folks there are almost ready to do something Meanwhile the Boise matter Is no clearer in Boise than It is in Salt Lake, in testimony whereof the follow fol-low ing from the Boise Capital News Is printed: "Directors of the Boise Baseball association as-sociation and a few fans, Including several business men, are said to have held a meeting at the local Commercial club rooms early this week, at which they decided to put through a plan to rnls. (4000 and form a stock company to lake over and handle the Boise franchise and fu lure baseball in this city. Of this amount $1000 is said to have been subscribed and an effort is beinn made to secure the balance Fans as a whole are as yet unfamiliar with the actual financial status 01 the local club and although an effort has been made to ascertain this 11 has proven unsuccessful Ln view j ol the fact there arc some hundreds if not thousands of fans who are n terested in Boise's future baseball and might be only too willing to lend j a helping hand, it is belieed that some light should be thrown on the ! subject " Crittenden Signs Helena has already begun the con (traction of its team Dick Crittenden is the first to sign a Yigilants contract con-tract The Independent says 'Di k Crittenden, Helena's reliable I backstop, yesterday affixed his signs lure to a constract to catch for the club at the coming season In the Fnion association. He is the first ol 1 he men to sign up for the sea son. "Dick was in demand While the fate of Helena, with reference to the league, was In the balance, Dick went to Spokane to visit and while there received an offer from Manager Bob Brown of the Vancouver club of the Northwestern league. Brown made the offer, basing it on the belief that Helena was out of the league Dick, as soon as he heard of the result ol the meeting at Butte, returned here to sign up or get his release lb signed." |