The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-13
HOWARD HAS
NEW STARS
IN VIEW
All Seal Players Must Fight
1t Out for Positions on
the Team
By JOE MURPHY

'T have a couple of deals hanging
fire" said Del Howard yesterday aft
ernoon, and until I know where I
stand in these matters I will make
no further changes in my club.
IF I secure the players that I am
negotiating for, then there will be
some changes he continued Il have
several men in view who expect to
land. and, if successful, they should
prove to be winners with a minor
league club.
They are major league players, and
I expect to learn after the first OF
the year whether can have them.
At the present time I am just wait
ing for developments. Cack Henley.
Walter Cartwright and all the other
boys are still in line for jobs.
Il am going down to my ranch to-
morrow. where 1 will spend a few
days, and after q brief stay there
will continue on to Los Angeles to
see Overall l am satisfied l will
have no trouble bringing the big fell
low around
Il am not going to let Cartwright
go unless I find another man who
can hold down the third bag better
than Carly. I am going to allow
the players TO fight for the positions,
and it will be a case of the survival
Of the fittest. They will all get an
even break, and the preference will
be given the players who show the
class.
.Henley's case is before me, and
I am in a quandary what to do. II
Cack can get a job as q manager
of some team I would be glad to give
him his release, but 1 am not going
TO give II to him so that he can join
some other club in the league.
Suppose I should allow Henley to
go. and say, for instance. he joined
Venice or Sacramento. Naturally,
every time the Seals would face Hen
ley he would be pitching his head off
to beat US. If he was successful, he
would show me up in a peculiar light
and I would be the goat.
4 am willing to trade Henley to
one of the other clubs in the league
if 1 can get a good player in ex-
change Hogan has been the only
manager in the league who has talked
about getting Henley for his club.
If get the players that I am nego-
tiating for / will not need Cack next
year.
He realizes that he has been with
the Seals too long. There is such
a thing as playing too long in one
town and man needs change.
Cartwright is going to be taken
along with the squad TO Boyes
Springs when the training season
starts. and it is entirely up to him
to make good. If he shows more
class than the other players in the
fight for the third bag he will get
it.
Nike Lynch of the Spokane club of
the Northwestern league would like
TO get Cartwright, but Del is not dis
posed to part with Carly at this
time
added to the batting strength of his
club by getting Catcher Harry Meek
of the Victoria club of the North
western league. He was secured by
Berry through trade in which
Pitcher Babe Driscoll and Outfielder
Mike Wottell were given to Victoria
for the big catcher.
Meek is somewhat or q batting
phenon. He has batted more than
300 for IS years. but he has never
been able to break into the big
league. He is said to weigh in the
neighborhood of 800 pounds and is
slow. Lack of speed has kept him
out of the big brush.
Berry intends to use Meek in the
role of a pinch hitter. Players who
know Meek and have played with him
declare that he would bat at a 900
gait in any league. He is one Of those
natural hftters who takes a mighty
swipe at the ball.
X =
At the annual meeting of the Oak
land Baseball association held last
night Frank W. Leavitt was again
elected president of the club. John
p Cook was elected secretary. ].
B. Lanktree, Henry Meyer and Harry
Anderson were the other directors
elected