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Show DONT BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU Another possible inquisition to the Salt Lake Club is Occie Evans clever second and third base star who recently came up from the California State League where he hit 402 and lead the league in scoring sco-ring runs batted in and stolen bases. ba-ses. Evan, was secured by Magna but tent being used for some reason. rea-son. "Occie" was made. . to look bad on a few plays out there because be-cause he fielded the ball and threw it to the base without tardiness or delay instead of waiting for some plodding baseman to cover. Another Anoth-er seining objection to'Evans as a second baseman. . is that he is rather small which, makes his a short target for a catcher to throw at. Outthere it seems the catchers throw at the man instead of the bag.Therefore young Evans will either have to slow down or grow up in order to get along in the Copper circuit. The former extraction is part of an article which appeared in The Thursday addition Vf thelites eret! News. Just why this article appeared on Thursday is a mystery myst-ery to us.For under no cii'cumsta-noes cii'cumsta-noes is this article justified in any sense of the word at any time . . We have no quarrel to pick with the Deseret News. We. adbnire a1 great deal the player mentioned, in the article Occie.. Evans. We very mush resent. . however, the unpardonable , "slur" on the Copper Leagueand it may be well to mention right now that the Deseret News should not bite the hand that is feeding Salt Lake baseball at the cheapest rate for the class of ball played, that the city ever had.. Certainly types of "This Is The Place" advertising in full page display does not in anyway harmonize harm-onize with such an outburst! of total "ignorance" carried in the above concoction of type. The ariticle as it appeared in the Deseret News was unsigned, so that we are unable to fix any responsibility. re-sponsibility. However to conclusively conclus-ively prove that our expression "ignorance" is justified we hereby here-by submit the following averages for second basemen for the season to date. These figures will prove with ouf any shadow of a doubt the reason that Occie Evans is on the bench and will most likely stay there for the rest of the season unless un-less someone breaks a leg. Bush, Copper 411, Ward Arthur, 344, Archibald Magna 353 and Evans, Magna313, and we might add that these figures do not lie and that from these averages Evans Ev-ans is playing just where he should be. We would like to offer the sugg estion than the brilliant sporting authority responsible for the insertion in-sertion of the article in the Deseret Deser-et News proceed to resign his job at once and get himself a position as manager of some other ball club , that he has never seen. He certann ly is wasting his talent as a mere sport scribe. |