Yakima Has Veteran at Helm

Spencer Harris Named To Pilot Yakima Team
YAKIMA, Dec. 3 – Fred Mercy, Jr., Yakima club owner, has telegraphed from Chicago the news that Coast League veteran Spencer Harris has been appointed manager of the Yakima entry is the revived Western International League.
Mercy is en route to Cleveland with Harris to attend the minor leagues meeting.
Harris formerly played for Philadelphia and Chicago in the American League, Minneapolis of the American Association and with Seattle, Portland, San Diego and Hollywood in the coast loop. He is a Seattle product.

Yakima Wants in WIL

Fred Mercy Jr. Among Baseball Club Backers
YAKIMA, Sept. 29—Fred Mercy Jr., Yakima theatre man and sportsman, is leading a movement in that city for a franchise in the Western International Baseball League in 1946.
Yakima was in the loop prior to its wartime recessing and is understood to be viewed as a highly desirable spot in which to field a club again.
Holdover clubs from the previous circuit are Tacoma, Spokane, Vancouver, B.C., and Salem. Victoria was recently voted the fifth spot and now Wenatchee, Yakima and Bremerton are reported bidding for a sixth. A meeting in Seattle is scheduled today to complete the roster of the league, which played as a Class B organization previously.