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Show H Gunners Sign Two Crack Players To Bolster Teat I PERCY CHAVEZ TO HOLD DOWN SHORTFIELD; PEER! MATTHEWS IS ALSO SIGNED Two Performers Are Property of Salt Lake; Manager Man-ager Duffy Lewis of Bees Aids Ogden in Securing Men; New Men in Uniform Sunday Bv AL WARDEIf. TWO new faces Will he seen in the llne.ii of the Ogdcn " KSS?wSSS5 bffi ,h. Ogden dub, .l. oi -ccV- Insr nlarers who could bolster the clnD I These men have now been obtained through the personal efforts of Manager Man-ager George Duffy ' Lewis of th' Salt Lake baseball club of the Pa IflCj Coast league LEWIS AIDS OGDEN The Bee skipper aided materially In' selecting the two new players, one aj shortflelder and the other a hard hitting hit-ting outfielder. They answer to the names of Percy Chavez and Retry Matthews. Both of these men are the property of the Salt Lake club and have heen playing independent ball on the Pacific roast. During the spring training season Chavez was a sensation at the short-field short-field for the Bees His fielding was Of the first order, the youngster covering cov-ering ground like a "Rabbit" Maran-Bkipper Maran-Bkipper Lewis retained Chavez until the teams in the coast U igue were forced to cut down He Informed the writer today that Chavez would he a sensation in this league, both with the bat and in the. field. Ogden has been weak al Lh irt-field irt-field since the injury to Bobby Evans.! George French, local Beml-pro has held down the position and has per formed creditably. His sinking has been one of the surprises of the North- , ,n Utah league ni wmie i nave has been signed to play the regular shortstop position, French will be retained re-tained to act as the utility player of the club. . PINK SLIP 1U E Two and probably three of the pr S-ent S-ent members of the Gunners will draw the pink slip. ; Chavez will be needed by the Gunners Gun-ners when they meet tho Brigham. Peaches In a two-game series next, week. Peery Matthews, out fielder with the! Bees during the .spring training season, sea-son, and considereil a likely looking youngster, will be in a local unle Sum-. day; also Matthew-- Is a keen fly Chaser and hits the ball to all corners of the lot. Skipper Lewis says. Matthews throws right handed and bats from either side Young women of Ogden need not, Journey to the movies to see a hand-; some Man, Manager Lewis announce! as Chavez is "one of the handsomesi ball players that ever donned a suit ChaVei and Matthews were to leave their homos at San Leandro, Cal., today, to-day, and are scheduled to arrive in Ogden a: I :,'. p, m. Sal . n day, in time for a workout be! ore the game Sunday. |