The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-03-05
MACK MAKES HEADWAY TOWARD
TEAM OF PENNANT CHASERS IN
WESTERN ASSOCIATION CIRCUIT

| considerable angling since sewing u,
the local franchise in the NVestcrr
association at Tulsa last sunday and
as demonstration tina. he know,
lust where they are biting and the
bait necessary to get numerous nib
bes, he already has on the dotted
line the players around which he
expects to build his aggregation OF
pennant chasers.
To start with. there is "Drap'
Hayes of Little Rock who has fixed
a specimen of his handwriting to a
scrap of Chickasha parchment which
assures local fandom that there will
be a good receiver and a cool head
performing in the Chickasha spang-
les when they get into the going on
April %.
This Hayes party has donned the
wind pad and shin,guards in many
ball yard His home is in Little
Rock and he performed for that
Southern league club for two sea-
sons. He is several decades young.
er than the Roman stadium, but he
talks about when he was with the
Chicago White Sox That sterling
club carried him for two years as
second string catcher, he having
started his Chicago assignment when
he was a youngster of Is. Last
year he was with the Oklahoma City
club in the Western league, taking
his turn behind the rubber.
Mack has also been successful in
signing RED" Reynolds, who last
year managed the Oilton lndepend-
ents. This bird is an in-fielder and
with him as a base Mack will build
his inner works defense. Unless
some phenom comes along and beats
Reynolds out, Red" will will be used
at second base, or at least will be
given the opportunity Of showing his
wares in that position. McGaha has
the notion that it will take a guy
who is able to burn up the league
to oust this veteran from a regular
job at second
Reynolds name is not strange tc
Western association circles. Fact
ic thoro ;c av{danna ,nf hic ooLitti
ties with oklahoma CITY, (when that
town was in the Western association
circuit) Tulsa, McAlester and other
like villages.
The manager has been giving
Mack considerable worry What he's
after is a real playing pilot who can
get in there, make hand himself
and tell his gang of youngsters how
it's done, then inject the pep into
them that will make them deliver.
For some days Mack has been
dickering with Dameron, but though
he feels sure that the Providence
man would tear down many park
fences around the circuit with his
heavy clubbing, Dameron's ante is
a little too stiff. He has a good
proposition from the eastern league
club, so good in fact that Mack can
hardly meet the price He has not
definitely eased Dameron out of
the running but if a somewhat cheap
err man can be secured who can de
liver the goods, Cameron will go on
to Providence.
Enler Ned Pettigrew, our old
friend and well-wisher of Comanche
who is the property Of the Rockford
H., club Of the Three I league and
who has passtimed with Moline and
other clubs in the north.
Ned was due to arrive in the city
last night to confer with Mack or
the proposition of taking the job o.
payer-manager. They have had their
heads together and it is probable
that the Comanche man will head
the local baseballers on the battle
field this year. 1t is known that he
would rather play close to home
than to trail away up north and
Mack intimated today that negotia
tions were progressing in a satisfac
tory manner.
Pettigrew is an outfielder who hits
'em far and wide and is considerable
of a robber when it comes to pulling
in the long drives in the outgarden
He covers lots of territory, has q
reputation of being a heady man or
/ the paths and has been in baseball
long enough to be able to Judge q
player and to direct his clan in the
hectic pickering.
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