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Show j ULANKENSHIP HAS ; SIGNED SOUTHPAW J Increase in Salary Is Granted and "Lefty" Williams Be-comes Be-comes Member of Salt Lake Team. San FranciHCO, Feb. 17. After a short conference with Manager Cliff Rlankeushlp today, "Lefty Williams slgr.ed his contract to pitch for the Utah r-'ub. The only possible chance of a hitch appeared to he due to the fact that Wolverton. as manager of the Sacramento club, had agreed that v llliams nap entitled to an Increase in salary. Blankenshlp readily agreed to this and Williams signed up immediately. im-mediately. , Blankenshlp has not heard a word yet as to whether he will have the ECrirlces of Pitcher Ylnjrllng. formerly of the Cincinnati Nationals. "Not a line has come from either Yingling or August Herrmann,"' said Blank "Yingling evidently is still dickering for a share of the purchase price, for he said that was what he wanted. However, I still am sure he will join tiie club. Of course if he does not it will be up to me to get a pitcher to replace him." With Williams In the fold the last (of the men on the Salt Lake roster are signed. Of course this does not include Yingling and LCI&y, but it is not up to Salt Lake to land these men. They were bought with the condition con-dition that unless Garry Herrmann could deliver Yingling and MeGill turn over Laroy that the deals were off So it is Herrmann and Laroy who must do the worrying and not Manager Man-ager Blankenship and the Salt Lake club. However, according to the 'un derground," both Yingling and Iaroy will be in Salt Lake uniforms when the gcng sends the teams on their way. AH of the 126 trees which stood on the lot where the Salt Lake club will play this season are out The Majestic Majes-tic Park company workmen removed thf ,labt yesterday, and now they are ready for grading and tilling. Work Will 5-tart soon on tiling the field. The s steal which will be installed with drain the entire lot in quick time, according ac-cording to officials of the company. It is alpo the plan, according to Secre-1 tary Bill O'Conner, to have the Infield In-field se en inches higher than the outfit Id and also above the ground outside of first and third base lines, so after a shower the water will drain off qu.ckly. rtrf lilirtrinT ajvnrsl f.iniunpi Secretary Bill O ' onner calmly an-nounct"! an-nounct"! that the Salt Lake club will travel 14,405 miles this season. This in exclusive of the jumps from l.os Angcies to Venice or from San Fran-cisco Fran-cisco to Oakland Figure how sore that must make the railroads Johnny Galena and Billy Dais. outfielders out-fielders of the Salt Lake club who are in town, have been handed their transportation to San Jose and instructed in-structed to report at the training ' at'P next Thursday. Almost all of the plajers are on the coast and the cost cl assembling the squad will not be heavy. The White Sox special carrying the Chicago American baseball players, which left Chicago Tuesday night i due here Friday night, according to I Denver Rio Grande officials. How ever, there seems to be some difference differ-ence in opinion among the official:-, on the time of arrival. Some say a' noon while others opine that the ball tossers will be here as early as 8 o clock in the morning. Frank Newhouse, once upon a time an umpire in the Union association, says he may not accept an umpire Job this year He has a good position posi-tion with the Orpheum theatre in Denver Den-ver and contemplates remaining there tlm summer. If he does he will organize or-ganize the best semi-pro team obtainable. obtain-able. Frank proposes to get together e team that will be able to cope with any, and travel extensively during the coming playing period Denver will be well represented on the Salt Lake team this season with Buddy Ran. "Red" Toner, Billy Davis, Da-vis, "Sid" Hester, Eddie Faye, Louie Barbour and Johnny Galena. |