Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-04-04 | Page 9 | Purple Sox Will Take on Only Good Players

PURPLE SOX WILL TAKE ON ONLY GOOD PLAYERS SAN FRANCISCO, Cal . April 4 The Purple Sox, the cognomen by which the Seattle team of the Pacific Coast baseball league is to be known, is not going to take any chances with untried players according to the manager. man-ager. Bill Clymet. According to reports re-ports Clymer is backed by more avall- able money than an other inanagei j in the league and he has been given full discretion to spend it in acquiring acquir-ing men who will make up a pennant 1 winning combination. Seattle's list of players as at present pres-ent made up is composed almost entirely en-tirely of veterans of the game who have made their mark in one or more of the baseball leagues of the country. The roll contains such well known names as thoe of .Moose Marshall, a former Southern leaguer, Giovcr Land, veteran of several leagues; Falkenburg and Mains. ex-big leaguers; Bowman, an A A league player, Pat Bastley, Marty Kavanaugh and others According to one of the veteran coast sport writers indications are that with the present lineup of players the Seattle team is going to be lacking lack-ing in the hitting department notwithstanding not-withstanding Its array of tried talent. This critic goes so far as to say thai there are not more than two or tlm se of the men who will be able to land In the 300 class in which he includes Jimmy Walsh and Joe Wilhoit. Of the others he says; "It Is doubtful If there is another man in the whole squad who will wallop the ball for anything like that figure and, without taking away one hit from the forth of these splendid outfielders, the fact remains that there are men equal to them in every way in every other outfield In the league."