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Show CLASSY PORTSIDER FOR SALT LAKE Cincinnati, AprilL'7. Ray Flittery young southpaw of the Cincinnati Reds, will report in San Francisco this week to Skipper Blankenship ot the Salt Lake Pacific Coast league team, Flittery will report instead of Earl Yingling, who recently waB released re-leased to the Utah club, but refused to go west. Flittery, according to players with him on the Reds' southern trainma c r. r. V, A -.-. n l c. i- u ill K'JC . . . ball. He is a southpaw and has lots of stuff This was his first chance ot the big league He was purchased by President Hermann from the class B Central league in 1913. At that time he was playing on the tall-end Evansville club, where his pitching average av-erage for the year was .576, 90 points ahead of the team average. Last year he played for the same team and won three-fourths of his games. He started start-ed thirty-all games, won twenty-two lost seven and finished with a percentage per-centage of .750. Hermann released him because of the necessity of cutting down the club personnel. Fittery is 6aid to need a year In class AA ball experience before be-fore he will be ripe for the big leagues. He is a youngster and batted 236 last year. . nn |