Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-06
SUBMITS AUCTION
LIST TO WESTERN
Harry sinclair Asks for Bids from
Western League Owners for His
Ex-Federal Athletes.
OTHER WESTERN LOOP GOSSIP

Henry Ford Sinclair. oil magnate.
banker. newspare publisher and owner of
some 20 per cent OF the talent and
defunct Federal league. last year. has
sent circulars to the club owners of
the Western league, asking bids for the
services Of the ex-Feds.
Mr.. Snclair's clist OF athletes is a long
one. indeed. The names of a whole flock
of athletes, who should be good timber
for the Western are included on the
list. Mr. Sinclair makes no stipulation
of price on any OF his flock. but merely
asks for bids. The supposltion is that
the highest bidder gets the favorites.
1t is not very probable that the West
ern moguls viii fall in each others
way bidding for the men. Western
league magnates are, not overly burdened
with coin Of the realm this year and they
aren't buying expenslvet ball players,
Yespecially as several major league clubs
are giving EN- away and II looks very
much as IL Mr. Sinclair will have to
follow suit, when he discovers nobody
has any money with which to make
purchases. Some club may buy one or
two OF sinclair's athletes, but not very
many. FfffH
sioux Train in Missouri.
From sioux City comes werd there
will be nothing doing with regard to
training at FafrtHlry. Rourke and Han
lon had intended tn train at Beatrice
and Fairbury. respectively. but the deal
is now off. Hanlon is thinking of send
ing his charges to .4oberly, Mo-, for
training.
int
the news that he has signed a couple
> OF swell performers. but is not at lib
erty to divulge their names at the pres
emit writing. Hanlon ventures the infor-
nation that they are both better than
Class A players and will be a great help
to the team. e.,
Hanlon has started to prepare his pro-
gram for the 1916 campaign and has sent
out his contracts. He has sent contracts
4 n Catchers Crosby and Donnelly. Pitch
pers Doyle, Gaspar, Kelly, Boothby, Clark
and Tadisco.4-I afieldeFs- Kane, Cooney,
Hensling, Callahan Naughton and Muel-
ler and outfielders Davis. Lejeune and
Watson.
OF the above number Naughton and
Mueller and Tadisco are new corners, all
elni-professionals. Tadisco comes her
aided as a phenom by Dave Williams,
former manager Of the Indians. He
pitched at Hibbing. Mimi. last year and
set things on fire up there.
Topeka Dcvva to Business.
Topeka Is another Western league city
which IS tearing things loose in rapid
fashion. Upon the appointment OF Latti-
more as manager John Savage began to
comb thel country for promising young
athletes and me has signed up half the
Rushers in Kansas. Those he hasn't
signed wichita has. ,,
Savage Alscf bS9 some men who have
been tried out in professionai company.
He has twenty lone such players.
OF last years team Pitchers Grover,
Dashner. Higgins. Hall. Sanders. Lakaff
and Carroll: Infielders Cochran. Bostick
and Fisher; outfielders Trsinor and Tyde-
man and Catcher Rapps return. The new
men include widell. outfielder from the
Nebraska State league; Snow. catcher
from Oshkosh: Finneean. third baseman
from South Atlantic league; WisiGg.
catcher from Kansas City. and Daniels
and Henson. outfielders from California.
Otis Lambeth, right handed hurler who
was with Fort Dodge last year and in the
Kansas brush year ago. has also been
signed.
\ Savage lost a good man in Pitcher
NSoodbred, purchased from Brooklyn.
G6odbred, who is not overly modest. de-
manded a salary corresponding to that
of the president OF the largest national
bank in Kansas. Savage couldn't see It..
Goodbred Wouldn't sign and Savage re-
turned the purchase agreement to Brook
Ign. NY
witches sign Athletes.
Mills Ebright, president of Wichita.
subpoenaed his crew. last week. Wichita
has quite a string of athletes on hand.
In the catching department Gray and
Buster will return while Clyde Geist. Bill
Powers, Joe Pate, Gin Davis, Charles
siever. Britton, zisk Tallion. Gus Hetling,
Louis Litschi and Bill Fox will be on
hand TO fill few other positions. Then
Wichita has Bill Abstein. Gus Helfrlch
IiV,Y,v Iarlxann sturdy yatarana u-ho