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Show N h ife Realm of Sportdom V PORTERVILLE, March 12 One of the heaviest rains of tho season today kept the Bees Indoors, buzzing about pennant chances. Now that Karl Crandall appears to be a real uncertainty, uncer-tainty, gossip centers on tho utility man for tho infield. Howard, Orr, Siglin and Sheely are looked upon as the likely infield in the absence of last year's veteran third baseman and this leaves McCredie with the task of picking a utility man. Fourborn, thus far, has shown up mighty promising for' such a possibility. One more candidate joined the squad today in the person of Morton, a pitcher touted as tho fastest of the pitchers of the San Francisco Bay league last season. He is said to be a youngster who has had quite a little experience plaS'ing with and against classy naii piuycr3. Prospects tonight were for more rain tomorrow and very little chance of a workout. Secretary Jack Cook yesterday Received Re-ceived a letter from Walter McCredie in which the skipper stated that ho is going ahead framing up his team as if Karl Crandall had never existed. At that he believes that the third sackcr will wait until the last minute, since he is in shape, and then when ho finds that his unreasonable demands are not going to bo met by the club, report re-port at the training camp. Between the lines, we gleaned the fact that McCredie Mc-Credie feels that if Howard reports, Karl will not bo missed. The Bee skipper is not lying awake nights at any rate. .McCre'die also stated that AlTen Conkm-right, the young Salt Lake pitcher "now with the club, has all tho ear marks of a comer. What is more, the letter was written before young Conkwright made his very creditable showing on the mound against tho Porterville Orange Pickers Sunday afternoon. Another bit of information gathered from Mac's letter is that the tinware will soon begin tj rattle in tho vicinity vi-cinity of Porterville. Unless we guess wrong, Chester SquireB and Harry Evans will Boon be on their way back. Both lack experience. Young Hinklc is showing up fairly well, but a young catcher, to break into AA in his first year out, is up against pretty tough game. A catcher in this league must have "exceptional ability, if a youngster, young-ster, or he must have had lots of experience. ex-perience. Squires and Hinkle lack experience ex-perience portion, judging from the dope In McCredie's letter. |