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Show WlH SALT LAKE Long Tom, Former Los Angeles Ang-eles Player Now on Blank's Team. Salt Lake, March 2 Pitcher Long Tom Hughes put all of his name toa Salt Lake contract yesterday and will go to Modesto on tho trip with tho Utes next week. Hughes will take tho place of Jack KUlilay, who was yesterday yes-terday given his unconditional release. re-lease. Skipper Blankonship is highly elated elat-ed over tho addition of Hughes to his squad. Ho said last night: "I look for Hughes to win at least over half of his games. He has a wonderful assortment and last summer ho was ono of tho main stumbling blocks to tho Salt Lake team." Hughes was released by Pop Dillon of Los Angeles after a slight affair which convinced both that relations were too strained for the most efficient effi-cient work. Hughes then thought ho would take life easy for a while and wait for a major league club to snap him up. With the baseball peace and the surplus of twirlers on the market, mar-ket, Long Tom was out of luck and was finally glad to got in with the Utes. Manager Blankonship will leave this morning for San. Francisco. He expects ex-pects to arrive in Modesto on Marchp 6, and will proceed to get everything ready for his pets, who will follow him about March 12, with Manager Bill O'Connor u chaperon. |