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Show I1IE1 SIGNS WITH BEAVERS Herb Has Been West Three Months and Has Played on Three Different Teams. PORTLAND, Aug. 28. Herb Hun-tor Hun-tor can now claim to be the champion traveler of the Coast league as a re-1 re-1 suit of his signing a San Francinco 1 contract upon receiving his release from Portland last night. ' Although Hunter has been in the I western' country for less than three ' months, ho has' been with threo dlf-i dlf-i ferent Coast league- clubs. Hunter was released by Portland in order to keep down to the sixtcen-man limit. Pinolll Is in shape to play again, which gives tho Doavcrs an extra in-fieldcr. in-fieldcr. San Francisco has none except ex-cept Hollywood, who is still on the in-' in-' jured list, and Jerry Downs is begin-I begin-I nlng to worry, as Salt Lake is right at his heels. Maisel, the only other Seal who can play the Infield at a pinch, has a bad arm and it Is hard to tell how soon he will be able to play again. Hunter came to Vernon from Chi-1 Chi-1 cago, was picked up by Portland after the Tigers released him, when Mc-Credle's Mc-Credle's men were injured, and now gets another chance on account of ( Seal injuries. Bill Finchcr, who was left behind on account of his having to join the army soon, will either leave for the east tomorrow night or will become a member of Battery A, Oregon field artillery, ar-tillery, ' I Captain Clayton of tho latter organ ization, haB taken steps to try to secure se-cure the consent of the government ' to lot Fincher Join the battery, nnd I Fincher is willing. It is hardly likely 1 that this can be accomplished, but It will be attempted. This company has , a crack baseball team, which shows why it wants Fincher so badly. Judgo McCredio left today for Mc-- Mc-- I Credie's Springs. He is driving a new Ford, which he Is taking south to car-i car-i ry passengers from the railroad to the springs. This is the first time he has I tried to pilot one of these machines, and he took out some extra life insurance insur-ance before ho started. |