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Show I 'ROWDY' ELLIOn'S I OAKS, FIGHTERS H Says Club Is 70 Per Cent M Stronger Than Last Year 1 Will Not Be in Cellar HI This Year. Hj Salt Lko, April 3. Mr. Harold H ("Rowdy") Ellott. is now speaking in H -well selected language Mr. Elliott H is manager of the Oaklnnd bunch, as H he prefers to call it. Mr. Elliott Is H nlso a catcher of stability, ability and H endurance. He Is also a lot of other H things that make for interesting base- H ball. He Is a scrapper, a fighter M Jftom ho word go. But with It, Rowdy H Is keen Judge of human nature, of M ball playing ability, and best of all, he H is a genuine, sincere booster. And H so he may ramble through as much M space as he wishes. Ramble Rowdy. M "Well, to begin with, of course my m club has got a chance. I always got M a chance. And I got a swell chance M this year. The Oaks are 70 per cent H stronger than they were last year. M "O, I am going to make a fine Hl bunch of trouble for those other M teams In every town in the league H this summer, n whole lot of trouble. H "That's the kind of a team I have B out there scrappers, wranglers, fel- M lows that go after everything that be- M longs to them and get it. I wouldn't H have any other kind on my club. All M I ask them to do is what I would do m myself, and this bunch will. H Oaks Will Be Up There. H ''You'll not see the Oaks down In H the cellar this year. I am dead sure of that. Judging from what the Tie w players have shown me in training and judging from their records. Oakland Oak-land will hit as a team around .280. With tho pitchers we have, surely such an average should win for us. "I got an even balanced club. It is not merely a wrecking crew like that bunch of sluggers Frank Chance has at Los Angeles, but tho boys can field and run bases and field, and they use their heads. Wo will bat Barbeau, Middleton, Zimmerman or Lane. Kenworthy, Gardner, Bobby Davis and myself. "I have twenty-two men here including in-cluding myself. I Intend cutting to seventeen as soon as I get back to Oakland, where wo go from here. |