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Show LEAGUE NEWS AND SMALL TALK Utes Offered Thousand Dollars Dol-lars to Make Porterville Their Training Quarters JONES TO GO EAST Connie Mack Wants Crack Player "Ducky" Destined for Big League. Proxy Murphy of the Sail Lake base, ball club received a telegram yester- i day from the Porterville, Cal. Board of Trade, statlnp that at a meeting ! r,f ,V, K.-t.i V . ji i iidi uuniu f mump una ofen voieu to be offered to the Salt lake club if the Utea will make their training I quarters at Porterville The Die prex was lavish yesterday in his praise for the PortervilllBts. and suggested that I the gratuity may have some influence In the selection of the Utes spring I training camp. A meeting of club offi- i cials .will be held some time this week, however, at whic h the I 'e hant-' out will be chosen. Manager Bill Pernhard will make a trip to Las Vegas. Xev., the other proposed camp, before the meeting this week, and will hav the dope on the two places pre! ty well In mind before the final selee. tion is made. Prex Murphy said yesterday yes-terday that the advantages of one place just about balance with those of the other. Coast league officials are going to hold another meeting in San Franclsro this month. All of which means that the Hay city will be turned upside down for a couple of days. If this fellow Lefty Harrington comes through as Hughey Jones says I he will, the Coast league will see mm work about one game and then he'll I travel to the big show via the aero-1 plane route. No Intimation has been given how tht salary question will be solved. It was reported at the close of last season sea-son that Wolverlon was In confer ence with Corhan relative to the big salary he was drawing down. There are a couple other cases that may also nrove rathpr Hlff:-nn hnn.lla tk w v. j.iiii. , umii-Ull IM UHIH1IH 1 11( managers, so ii is said, are going to try and hew close to the $4500 limit, and it means figuring, although the four young player rule will help out a lot San Francisco Chronicle. Manager Harry Wolverton will get on the job this week. By the 17th at i ho latest, he has notified Berry, he will be at his desk to take up' the Easfe of whipping together an aggre-gation aggre-gation of players that will bring home the old pennant. The Seal skipper has a big task ahead of him. Not a contract has been sent out as yet, and it is a matter of record that not a single regular player has been signed A few bush-ers bush-ers are under contract to back. Boyd looked like a star in 191b until I he had the misfortune to break a bone in his wrist which put him out of the game. Last year he was overworked in the early stages and developed a sore arm. Howard will probably hand out a re- lease, so that Ray can catch on with some other club closer home. While Frank Chance has two men ! to try out for every place on the I,ns I Angeles infield next season, Tom Dar-mody Dar-mody hasn't enough inflelders to cover I the three saeks. He is busv dickering for s-veral high-class men and is not worrying about putting a ball club In the field. He says he is going to give the fans as good a team as Vernon 1 had last year, and that is going some Tub Spencer has hinted there might I be a possibility of Detroit turning ,over to San Francisco Infielder Dwyer who hails from Denver and played third br.s.- for n.-nver n the '16 sea on U iih Oscar Vltt a certainty at j third. Dwyer has a mighty slim :ehance of holding on with the Tigers Wolverton. however. is not sure be ' nt another third sacker for he has set his mind on trying Maisel out m the job vacated by Bobby Jones. Johnny Couch, after trip Into Montana, Mon-tana, has announced hi8 intention of quitting baseball for the coming year I and entering the Cnlverslty of California Cali-fornia He will write the Detroit Hub to that effect, and wants It thoroughly, understood there Is dissatisfaction! or salary disagreement. Ho mad un 1 his mind last summer that he wanted more education and would give base. ball the go-by. Johnny had one year j at Stanford, but ha8 decided to finish up ar the state institution. And it's i going to be tough that he will not be allowed to play baseball with the ama. teurs Baseball folks are pretty much agreed that Jones will not return to the Coast league Even though D-troit D-troit can t use him. Connie Mack of the Philadelphia Americans has an-nouneed an-nouneed that he wants Jones and will not waive on him. Bobby is certainly certain-ly entitled to a crack at big league baseball, and here's hoping he makes good. |
