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Show VERNON TO MEET BEES THIS WEEK SAX.T LAKE, April 30. The Vernon Tigers will make their initial 1918 ap pearance at Bonneville park this af ternoon when they open a six game series with Walter Mct'redio's gallop ing Bees It will be the first time this season that the two clubs havel met. The Jungle bovs will serve as a dou- ble attraction this season, for at the head of the club is a former Salt Lake player whose face w ill be vve remem- I bored by some of the older fans whoj used to attend the games of tne Pa- I clfic National league days William Essick. "Bill" or ' Vinegar Bill." as he was known in those days. Essick ! came here as a pitcher for Charley Griffin and "Dad" Giralln in 1901. Silt Lake fans always knew Bill as 1 1 . i pitcher, although at that time i ho was not yet the rhucker he became be-came later on. He lert Salt Lake in the fall of 1904 and the next two seasons sea-sons found him with Walter McCre-di McCre-di '.- Port land clubs. Quite a Career. He was with St. Paul and Cincinnati Cincin-nati in 1907; with St. Paul and Kansas Kan-sas City in 1908; Boston Nationals and Kansas City in 1909; Kansas City and Toledo in 1910. and Toledo. Minneapolis Minneap-olis and Grand Rapids in 1911 During tho years 1913-14-15-1617 he was owner, president and manager of the Grand Rapids club of the Central league. The Yernon club signed him to manage the Tigers last December. As "captain manager - and - first - bat -tor" of the Grand Rapids club. Bill made quite a record and he soon became be-came one of the big baseball men of the country. That he is a manager who knows his business is very evident evi-dent from the fact that he has taken Vernon 's joke club of 1917 and put It to the very top of the league race. Rambling Right Along. Essick's club has been rambling right along and, with the best pitching staff in the league, is apt to be up there all season Essick has proved his worth as a leader, even in this league, and the battle this week between be-tween the two league leaders should be all to the merry. The Vernon club will bring Fromme, Chadbourne. Moore, R. Mitchell, Daley. Chech, Borton, Quinn and Reiger. wno I were members of the dub last season, I and it w ill have the follow ing men whose faces will be new to Salt Lake fans Dell. De Vormer, Westerzill, Long, J. Mitchell, Mathes, Slattery and Snyder. Among the new men on the Tiger pay roll will be several faces that are not entirely strange to Salt Lake fans at that. Joe Mathes Is the same chap who played about everywhere on John McCloskey's Butte club of the Union association in 1911. Dell is the big hurler who was too much of a "bush-er" "bush-er" for Johnny Barnes" Butie club of the 1909 Intermountain league. Got Start Here. Barnes let the big fellow go while bis club was playing here and Dad Gimlin picked him up then and there. From Glmlln'a club Dell kept on going go-ing until he had several big league tryouts and finally landed with the Brooklyn Dodgers, whom he assisted materially in winning a pennant in the National league just a few years ago Dell got his real experience under Bert Whaling and Eddie Hamilton in Montana. He started his career at Weiser, Idaho, the same town that gave us Walter Johnson, and he was therefore nicknamed "Weiser' not "Wheezer" as some of the big league scribes have chosen to call him. |