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Show STORMY WEATHER j PREVENTS WORKij Modesto, Cal., March 23 The Utes I got In less than an hour of practice " today, and Big Chief Blank was as I mad as a hornet. With only three ' days left In California and two of E these to bo given over to baseball, he I was in no approachable frame of mind when tho weather man handed him a P perfectly uncalled-for award in the I way of a high wind, a combination I storm of snow and hail, and personally a pair of rheumatic ankles 1 Altogether the Utes got In an hour's 1 practice, and in that hour Blank got B the toothache In his anklos. I "Doctor" Billy Burke managed to get the big chief off his feet, when I there was no chance of any more ac- 1 live out of door work, and listened I patiently to the description of the cli- I mate as voiced by the skipper as he II sat with his tootsies in hot water the M rest of tho day The only comforting word that came I to the camp was that Jack Williams H had agreed to take over Pitcher Mick-1 1 ey Shader and Catcher Dan Murray, IS and to keep a watchful eye over their destinies in the interest of Blanken-shlp Blanken-shlp Upon reading which telegram. j Blank grinned and said" -. "Hot water and Jack Williams are ''. my only friends today " . ' |