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Show big sim IN SALT LAKE TEAM Salt Lake... ruby 28.Mana.ger Mlko Donovan for tbe Salt lke team of the Utah State league has announced that by the biet of the week he expects ex-pects four strong recruits to be In Salt Lake uniforms. Arrangements have practically been completed whereby Salt Lake secures Williams, the star Hebor pitcher; Sebastian, tbe clever young catcher; Workman, the hard, hitting catcher of' the Twin Falls team; and Means, of Twin Falls, one of the best inflelders In the west. Williams already has been signed and Is In Salt Lake practicing with Lis teammates. Ho will twirl for tin-locals tin-locals against the Occidentals at Walker's field next Sunday. Hummel! will pitch for Salt Lake on Saturday Satur-day at Murray. If his other players arrive In time Donovan expects Salt Lake to win both games. Carl Sehastlan. formerly the star catcher of the University of Utah bcscball team, has b-en signed by Manager Donovan and he may be behind be-hind the bat on Saturday and Sunday. He has been working out with the team and looks to be the roods Donovan Wednesday night wired to Workman and Means to com? at once and he expects them to arrive either today or Friday, if they reach here In time hp will use both of them In the games Saturday and Sunday. The arrival of the new players will mean a big shake-up In the local line, up. Castro will be taken from third and placed iu the outfield. He has been hitting strong, but Is weak In fielding. Donovan will bo shifted from short to third and Means will go in at short. Donovan also Is after Tom Collins,' a fast Idaho pitcher . Colins has an excellent pitching record, and is ra strong batter. With Collins. Hurti-nieii Hurti-nieii and Williams as a pitching staff and Sebastian and Workman alternating alter-nating behind the hat the battery vork of the locals should be strong. The advent of Means should strengthen strength-en the Infield, which has been weal; all season. The readjustment and additions to the team should make 11 possible for Salt Lake to win a big r.ajorlty of the remaining games. As the result of his recently acquired acquir-ed material Donovan han an extra pitcher on his hands and he will piobably farm him out to some out-of out-of town aggregation Donovan said that ho had not yet decided which pitcher he would release, nor to what, club he would release him. He said that the first team that applied would probably be given the man. |