The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-15
WILL KNOW
1874 TEAM
SHORTLY
Seal Squad to Be Announced
as Soon as Howard Gets
Cub Players
By JOE MURPHY

Within a few days several impor-
tant baseball deals are to be an
nounced in which the local team is
vitally concerned. One OF them will
be the news of the players Charley
Murphy of the Chicago Cubs is going
TO turn over to the Seals. Another
announcement will come from Los An
geles. where Manager Del Howard of
the Seals is headed in an effort 10 get
Pitcher OWE Overall back into har-
ness.
The fans of the community would
be better satisfied II OWE would come
out fat footed and declare himself.
They feel sure that Howard will man
a ge TO coerce him back into the Seals
ranks, but at the same time there Is
always a chance that he might slip
UP on the deal
Howard left yesterday for his ranch
at Paso Robles, where he will spend
some time and then continue on his
journey TO Los Angeles for a personal
interview with overall in regard to
his returning to the ranks of the local
club.
Howard left here extremely conf
dent that he would be successful on
ably knows Overall better than any
body on the San Francisco club. as
JEFF and Del worked together for sew
eral years on the Chicago club, and
there Is a strong friendly feeling ex-
listing between the pair.
When overall announced his retire
ment from baseball some months ago
he probably did so with all serious
intentions. 1t is the belief that he
was pressed for finances. and that he
decided to go into a vocation that
would afford him steady employment
It is known that Overall is interested
in some mining property at Angels
Camp, which he has been developing
for some time Some mines will eat
up money as fast as good ones Will
produce 1t, so this probably explaisn
why OWE was anxious to go to work
for the Maier Brewing company.
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If Howard succeeds IN bringing
Overall back into the fold and he gets
the players from the Chicago Cubs he
expects the Seals will be fixed for
next season. All Howard will have
to look forward to is getting them
into shape and selecting the players
for the different positions on the San
Francisco club.
Before Howard left for the south
yesterday he announced that Boss
Charley Murphy of the Chicago Cubs
had promised TO let him know what
players he could have when he (Mur-
phy) returned from his trip to Eu
rope.
One of them is a pitcher and the
other Is an outfielder. 1t is known
that Howard has been dickering for
Earl Moore, who played last season
with the Cubs, but experienced one of
the worst seasons of his major league
career.
Moore came to the Cubs from the
Philadelphia National league club.
where he was a star finger for sew
eral seasons. He is a big right hand
er. who has plenty Of speed and can
be worked a couple Of games a week.
Howard viii not state who the play
ers are. He does not want to allow
anything to interfere with his plans
until he has landed his men.
The Chicago club has a raft of
outfelders. Howard declares that he
VIII get Jimmy Johnston back il he
is sent back to the minors. There is
but little chance of the feet footed
outfelder getting out of the big brush
for many seasons. 1t would be guess
work to try to name the outfielder
Murphy is likely to turn over to How
ard. He has an abundance of out
felders.
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Harry Wolverton is planning to
strengthen up his outheld. He has
traded Infielder Dolly Stark for Out
fielder Al Schweitzer of the Memphis
club of the Southern league.
He is said to be a very fast man on
the bases and an excellent fielder. He
hit 263 and stole 40 bases during the
season. Schweitzer was given a trial
by the ST. Louis Cardinals a couple Of
seasons ago.
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Howard Mundorff and Louis Sepul-
veda returned from Oregon yesterday
to spend the holidays here. The other
members of the party, Willie Hogan,
Jerry Downs. Harry Hughes and Mig
Clarke, remained at their hunting
camp on the border line.
Mundorff and Sepuveda came to
town to spend the holidays with
friends here, after which they plan to
go back to camp and spend several
more weeks in the wilds of southern
Oregon.