The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-21
Owner Dick Cooley Returns
Well Pleased With Saints
Road Showing.
SAYS BOYS WILL RETURN
STILL LEADING LEAGUE
Has Strengthened Slab Staff,
and May Send Aid to Back
stop Department.

Well satisfied with the showing thus
far OF the Saints on their first road trip.
Dick Cooley. owner. returned to Salt
Lake Yesterday after remaining with the
team for the first three weeks away from
home. Cooley was accompanied by Mrs.
Cooley. He saw his youngsters perform
at Butte. Mssoula and Great Falls. and
predicts that they not only will come
back in first place. but Will win the pen
nant.
are crippled or In poor condition. Cooley
reports. but the Saints are going well
despite this. The crpples are Perkins.
The regular catcher. and RlankenShip'
right gardener. and Hummel, star slab
man. are In poor shape.
Hummel is in such poor condition that
he is taking care of the gate for Cooley.
IT Is not likely that Hunmel Will do box
duty again until the Saints begin their
second home engagement July 4. Hum
have been that he could not stand the
strict training.
Van Goes to Bench.
Van is great little ball player"
said Cooley. but he has not been feeling
well and this caused him TO lose some of
his nerve away from home; The longer
10 going bad Blankenship put him on the
bench and sent Schlmpff to the right
garden. Unless Van Improves soon II is
likely that he will remain on the bench
until the team returns home. Once Van
gets to feeling right and recovers his
nerve: which he soon VIII do. look out
for him.
Il am not kicking on our road show
ing. for it has been satisfactory. but
the injuries 10 our backstop department
have cost MS few games. Little Per
kins got hurt soon after we took 10 the
n throw
ing hand that reopened an old hurt. and,
although he was stopping them magnih-
Gently he could no, peg accurately and
bases stolen on him contributed to de-
fests we suffered in four or FIVE close
games.
ITO stop this we sent Blankenship be-
hind the bat. but Blankenship had caught
only two or three games before he was
hit while at bat by a pitched ball on
the first finger Of HIS throwing hand and
this interfered with his whipping to such
over Perkins, so we kept Perkins behind
the bat. However. both are improving
rapidly and with no more. injuries will
be In fine shape by the time the boys
get home.
Vets Do Grand Work.
"Of course. some OF our youngsters
we're nervous in the first games away
from home, and their work was off color
but the old timers. Spencer, Blankenship
and DevereauX, were right there. and
soon steadied the yannlgans. These vet
Grams were working all the time. I tell
YOU. this vet Spencer was doing some tall
hustling. and he Is keeping up the good
work. He is everywhere, SO Is Blanken-
ship. You know up north the fans de-
clare that Blankenshp could get good
baseball out OF lot OF wooden In
dams,
This Pendleton fellow is going great
guns. He is some second sacker and
he has been stIngine the ball. too, Be
ing away from home did not affect his
nlaving. either. He kept his nerve and
went right ahead. He and some others
OF my bows are going up. Already I've
baseball organizations about four or five
OF the Saints
We're pretty well pleased over the
trade OF Jachs for CARRIER. CARRIER was
while he had everything. was too slow
in acquiring control l think CARRIER is
as good A pitcher as there is in the
league. This new pitcher. Butler. from
the Northwestern league. looks mighty
good to me in practice. I have not seen
him work in a game yet.
IF Perkins's and Blankenship's injuries
do not heal quickly. I'll get another
catcher and send him to Boise 10 work
IN the series TO begin there next Tues
day. have a mighty good man In mind
this week reeef will be hurried to the
Saints backstop department beginning
with next. week. You know, we've got
TO have this pennant and to help grab
the glad rag the boys should return
home stil III first position.
Attendance Satisfactory.
Despite the fact that the weather has
been abominable up north. the attendance
has been good. Poor old Honest John
hardly has had a decent day
at Butte. Mssoua. with cellar cham
plon team. is crazy over the national pas
time. All the fans demand there is a
close game. They're not asking for |
pennant winner now. but they do want |
good. close games, even II their team |
loses"
Cooley viii devote part OF his time |
before his team returns TO completing |
the Improvement OF his park Dick |
Brown has worked wonders with the out |
field. but the diamond is not In the best |
yet. although II has been bet |
tered by the addition OF several loads of |
dirt The nncld will be made as rnod |