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Show SACRAMENTO MEN MM M SEALS SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 20. While Bill Rodgers, manager of the Sacramento Sacra-mento club, said he was here to get the dope on ball players who had been offered to him, and that he was looking look-ing for a shortstop and an outfielder, it is a matter of fact that he slipped over to St. Mary's college and tried to sign Ted Brandon and Medlin of 'that team. Ted is touted as a pitcher, but his long suit is slamming the sphere, and Joe Osschiger, pitcher of tho Phillies, has been trying to snare him for his club. Medlin is an outfielder who can hit. lhe boys did not come to terras with Manager Bill today. The Seals were not sold today. The dope now is that Charley Graham will have a couple of fellows here Satur-. day with iplenty of "Jack" who will buy the Seals and the announcement will be made Sunday morning. If the deal goes through, Charley Graham will be the manager. Maybe this deal will blow up like a lot of others have. But those who are interested inter-ested seem to have a lot of faith in it. The popular guess tonight is that the Sacramento man, who is coming to bid for the Seal franchise, is none other than Jack Atkin, former Sacramento Sac-ramento clubowner and well-known horseman. In this connection it is also hinted that if Atkin buys he will probably prob-ably re-engage his former Sacramento manager, Harry Wolverton. But Jack Atkin and Harry Wolverton Wolver-ton always managed to get along well ,. 'I'M n -i vj fii-.i i. ii u tEsumfaaan together, and Atkin has always been a great admirer of Wolvprlon as a baseball manager. This much is a cinch if Atkin steps in to buy the Seals, and the prospects are bright that he will, he will have a manager who will not bo inferior to any manager in the league. Without any reflections on Jerry Downs. Atkin will step out 80inowhe.ro and pick up a manager. Wolverton has said that he would not return to baseball, but if there Is one man who can pcrsuado him to change his mind, that man is Atkin. Jerry Downs is not Itching ior the job as manager. Jorry likes his second base job and would be probably proba-bly a lot happier before the end of the year if ho could devote his attention wholly to second base and lot somebody some-body else worry about tho manager's Job. Of course, Atkin has not yet stepped in to buy out Hen Berry's Intorest, which is represented by notes hold by Cal. Ewing. Mike Fisher has been mentioned as a possiblo buyer, -but when Ewing and Fisher met last night in what was supposed to be a decisive conferenco, nothing more came of the meeting than before. In fact, when Ewing and Fisher bogan to talk In terms of coin, they found they wore frther apart than beforo the proposition proposi-tion was first mentioned. |