The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-04-21
P. c. |. LEAGUE
IS PREPARlN
Managers Getting Ready for
Opening Of Season, q
Week Hence,

Despite predictions to the effect that
the Pacific Coast International league,
| alias the Northwestern, would be az
| lively as a graveyard during the COM
Ing summer. II seems certain that the
fans Of the larger northwestern com.
munites will enjoy high. class baseball
again.
| The leagues season Will open on
| April 80, with Aberdeen. Portland, Sc
attic. Spokane Vancouver and Tacoma
| contending for the flag. Aberdeen and
Portland are the new entries In the
flag dash. though neither might DO
called n newcomer to the circuit az
both have been members during tho
past. The Aberdeen Black Cats were
once the most famed fighting aggrega-
tlon In the league while Portland used
t. enjoy Northwestern league ball
when the Portland Coast league team
| was on the road.
To Play 40 Games.
The season will close on September
| Is. after the six teams have played n
schedule Of lao games.
Last year the abbreviated North
| western league playing season ended
OF July 20. with Great Falls winning
| the pennant.
| Richard Dick" Egan. veteran Brook
Iyn and Cincinnati second base man.
| who played on the Pacific coast Is
years ago, has been selected to lead
the club during the coming season.
Egan will bring a number OF players
from the middle west with him and
hopes to have fast aggregation that
viii make Pants" Rowland's Black
Cats OF 1909 look like bunch of cellar
, champions.
RED Fisher. the well-known SOUTH
paw first soeker. who has played with
Louisville and Denver during the past
few years. will direct the destinles OF
Judge Mercedes Portland club. Fisher
has signed Il number OF real ball play
crs for his club and should make q
good race.
Seattle Has Former Majors.
Bin Lizard Is again at the head OF
the Seattle club. Leard has a number
OF veterans for his team. including
himself ut second base. Leroy and
Appleton. former major leaguefs, pitch
els. Fred Carman, the old time Mis-
souIa favorite, In loft field. and Herb
Murphy. the smuggling inficlder. at third
| base.
Nick Williams, after hanging back
| FOL months. has consented to lead the
/ Spokane club again and will stare his
, men working out this week. Williams
has Schorr and Bigbec. veteran pitch
crs Jackson, Il fast outfieldcr, and
Lafayette. the big first sacker who
was sold TO Cincinnati last fall but re-
turned because OF his failure to clout
the pill.
| Veteran at Vancouver.
! Jimmy Hamilton, a veteran third
baseman who has been leader OF minor
league teams in the middle west and
south for years. has been signed to
h;ndle Bob Browns Vancouver crew.
| Bin Speas will lead the Tacoma
| Tigers on the field and is reported to
be ready for the bell right now, having
haG his players lined up for several
weeks lie has most Of the Tigers OF
the 1917 team, in addition to himself.
| Icy Clarity ana Il few recruits, and
Is confident Of beating the rest Of the
teams in the league to the barrier
Butte and Great Falls have been
dropped from the league by mutual
consent, neither town desiring to risk
league baseball during the war, and
therefore Montana's interest in the
race will not be as acute as in former
years, when teams from the big camp
and the Electric city were contending
fol- honors.
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