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Show 1 1 K , i ! BUNNY BRIEF SIGNS 1917 CONTRACT I IUTB'S TRAINING CAMP, Porter-ville, Porter-ville, Mrch 12. The recruits took the I measure of the Ote regulars this utter-noon utter-noon in the first regular practice panie of the season by the score of 10 to 4. As was to have been expected for a first tryout. it was a chapter of boots and blngles. Kirmnver was on the fuine line for the regulars and with fine support kept the scoro to a lonesome tally and the bits scattered to five for the first six frames. Wild, the recruit slab-ster. slab-ster. took the hill in the seventh and in the eighth gave the game to the Vans. He issued three passes to first and the Vans chose five for sate swats. Gislason. Rath and Hannah took a scratch each in the error column and when ttie agony was over the recruits re-cruits had piled up eicht runs. The regulars scored three in the fourth on three hits, a base on balls and a wild pitch, and again, in the closing frame with two hits, a boot, and a double by Dubuc. The regulars were Sheeley, catcher; Wild and Kirmayer. pitchers; Hannah, first (lislason. second; Rath, third; Ryan, left field: Tobin, center field; Shinn. right field. On the Van team were AnOnson. catcher. Evans and Hoff. pitchers; Cress, first; Crandall. second. Kerns,1 third; Orr. shortstop: Dubuc. lofti field; Kersten, center field: Hughes, rigut field ! The squad has improved materially in battinc during the past week and showed league form in all departments in the work today. Orr figured in two stops of turf cutters through short and Tobln made several pretty running catches of lone: flies to centerfield. Cress spiked Rath on the ankle in the) sixth, but he continued work and at the close of the game Doc IJurke Raid the injury was not serious. Score: R H. E Yans 10 10 8 Regulars 4 8 3: Batteries Evans. Hoff and Anfin eon; Kirmayer, Wild and Sheeley I HOWARD'S MEN AGAIN TROUNCE KIRBY GIAN.j RO YES SPRINGS, March 12. The Oaks took to the road this morning and. after lunch, played a nine-inning game with the Kirby Giants Kirby'si men showed much improvement over! their last start, bringing in six runs' to the fourteen markers scored by Howard's men. Pitcher Meusel had tae local boys well in hand at all times The score: Giants,6-13 2. Oaks, 14-22-2. Batteries Giants. Howard and Marriott; Mar-riott; Oaks. Meusel and Murray. Manager Howard intends to carry: fourteen men to Oakland tomorrow. Howard expects to swing the ax left J i and right in a few days. The gang' left in camp will form a team and1 play the valley aggregation. A larce' crowd Is planning to make the trip.; First-sacker Norton caught the eye of; Del Howard by his stellar work In' Sunday's game. The Olympia club' player may be signed if the men now; trying for the bag fail. PITCHER HI JASPER DONS ANGELS' UNIE LOS AXGELES, March 12. The feature of the Angels' workout today was the appearance in uniform of HI I Jasper. His showing was the signal! for predictions that the Los Angeles club would have the greatest pitching' I staff in the league. When in condition Jasper is regarded regard-ed as the greatest of minor league! iwirlers. He proved that fact to the! satisfaction of all concerned the last' year. Dillon managea the Los Ange-' les club. Jasper was sold to the An-j gels by the White Sox, but became furiously angry and refused to report! I Jasper arrived Sunday a trifle heavy but willing to get in training. With Jasper, Chance has Ryan, lin and Hall for pitching prepared-I prepared-I nop?. Claiming that he cannot take Zabel and Standrldge from the Cubs because of the four-busher rule. Chance today asked Mitchell for Pitchers Stand- e and Reuther and Outfielder Mot sel. Jackson, utility outfielder for the 1 Angels last year, is to be sent to the Northwestern circuit chance said today that he was trying try-ing to make arrangements with the Tacoma club to send Jackson. La Taz, Sam is and a couple of youngsters to that, club Joe Tinker, manager and owner of the Columbus club, convinced that Killifer will not go back east to play ! ball, has offered him to Chance for I Art Butler and a sum of money : Chance today asked how much bonus Tinker wanted. MITZE CONSPICUOUS BY HIS ABSENCE LOS ANGELES, March 12 Before the game today Stovall put his Tigers I through an hour's workout which showed the players rapidly getting In- I to condition. A conspicuous absentee was Mitze, who was told Saturday by both Stovall and Darmody that he had , Until today to sign. If Jack Ryan Is allowed to use his mysterious deliveries in pitching for the Los Angeles club this year, three veteran Vernon pitchers will be ordered or-dered to follow his example. Such was the ultimatum issued today to-day by Stovall. "George Johnson. Frank Arrellanes and Jack Quinn are three men who can and will throw the same 'upside downer' that Ryan has been using, said Stovall. "If Ryan is allowed to get away with it this year they will be ordered to use it too " Fear that the pitching days of Ryan 'arc numbered was felt by some baseball base-ball men here today, when it was learned that Ryan had torn a shoulder muscle in pitching against the Cubs Sunday. Ryan suffered severe pain from the torn ligaments Sunday night and was forced to visit a local osteopath. osteo-path. As Ryan is considered a veteran in baseball, it is feared that an injury to his arm at this time may result seriously. seri-ously. Ryan has been the star right-hander of the league for three years. SEALS CINCH SERIES WITH EASY WIN MARYSVILLE, Cat, March 12. Rudy Ru-dy Kallio's pitching that was good save for one inning, the easy fashion in which the Seal stickers took to the offerings of hurler Dawson of the Cubs and a general don't care attitude on the part of the windy city Yanni-gans, Yanni-gans, gave the San Franciscans an easy 7 to 3 victory over the big league enemy this afternoon in Marysville and cinched the three-game series. Even Marysville fans were none too wen pleased at the performance of "the big leaguers." Young Mr. Dawson of Chicago was both wild and easy to hit when he did locate the rubber. Giving practically no sort of decent opposition he sent the Seals away to a three-run lead at the outlet and they kept out in front thereafter. San Francisco 7 11 2 Batteries Dawson and Benton; Kallio and Hall. BORDEN IS EXPECTED TO COME TO TERMS HONOLULU. March 12. Manager McCredie of the Beavers has announced announc-ed that every player at the Honolulu training camp, except Pitcher Higbee, is in good condition, and the Beavers are already in shape to start the season sea-son at Salt Lake April 3. On reaching Stockton March 22, the team will begin training with re cruits who will join there. The list includes Pitchers Lynn D. Brenton, New Orleans; Charley Schorr, San Francisco; Bill Fincher, Memphis, and Ernest W. Pruitt Merlin Ore . husher Infielder Paddy Seghn and Outfielder i Floyd Farmer. It is also expected that Outfielder Billy Southworth and First Baseman "Babe" Borton will sign before the team returns. With Penner, Higbee and Houek pitching air tight ball, the Beavers defeated de-feated the Twenty-fifth colored infantry in-fantry team yesterday, 3 to 0. |