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Show Wild HXaves and Such f The day's bef.t bitters: AB. K. TB. Pi. Borton. Vernon 2 2 2 l.nf0 Com p ton. Seattle 3 2 2 .7 Niehol'f. Lor Aueeleg . . 3 2 2 -SK7 Maggert, Salt Lake 4 2 5 . Mulligan. Salt Lako 4 2 2 .5"0 Knight. Seattle 4 2 3 .o'Ti Lapan. Seattle 4 2 5 .r,ftft Cra wford. Los Angeles . . 4 2 2 .50ft Fl t r.Ererald, Shu Fra neieco 4 2 4. o'ft Mid re ton. Saeramento .4 2 2 .5 00 Schick. San Francisco ..2 1 1 .fiftft Home-run hitters Maggert. Salt Lake ; Lapan, Seattle. The series stand: Seattle won 1, Salt. Lake won 4. San Francisco won 1, Sacra men to won 4. Vernon won 1, Oakland won 4. Portland won 1. Los Angeles won 4. The Angels gained a whole game yesterday, yes-terday, strengthening their leadership to that extent. There will he a douhlc-hea de1" today. The first game will besrln at 2:3 o'clock. Ralph Stroud and Al Gould are the overnight over-night guesses on Bee pitchers and Hunky Schorr and Lynn RrenLon are the content con-tent uros for the TilHcums. The doings today will he the, last league baseball in Salt Lake for four weeks. This week the clubs will play as follows: fol-lows: Salt Lake at Sacramento. Oakland at Ios Angeles. Portland at Seattle. Vernon at San Franc'scO. The standing of the clubs at the end of tho seventeenth week of the 1917 season is given herewith. There was no seventeenth seven-teenth week in the 191S season: Won. Lost Pel. San Francisco 69 49 .55 1-joa Angeles 63 S3 . T4S Salt Lake , 56 M .59 Portland 52 a8 .473 Oakland 51 t3 .462 Vernon 49 67 .423 The Seal management is after Tom Hiekey, the Santa Clara university giant now pitching for the San Jose Bears. Yesterday Yes-terday the Seal management marie the big boy an offer, but It is very doubtful if be will accept. Major league clubs have been after Hiekey for some time, but he .would not listen to their blandishments. Connie Mack sent a representative to Santa Clara university to attempt to secure se-cure Hiekey when "Tiny Tom" was enrolled en-rolled at that famous Institution of learning. learn-ing. The Philadelphia owner delegated his representative to make Hickev a big salary offer and to also orfer him his tuition in a big Catholic college in the east of rating equal to that of Santa Clara, but Hiekey would not accept this magnificent magni-ficent offer, preferring to remain with Santa Clara, where the educational faeili-lies faeili-lies arc unexcelled anywhere, and to finish bis law course in that school, which is rated one of the best law schools anywhere any-where In America. Hiekey can get on-with the Seal management, man-agement, or he could secure a big league j berth, but it is doubtful if be will accept , cither, as he desires to devote his time and talents to law. Hiekey In a game last Sunday at San Joso struck out twenty-three of the Roston Ship team In a twelve-inning duel. San Francisco Bulletin. Bul-letin. SEATTLE. Aug. 2. Young George Gibson, Gib-son, the pitcher purchased from Devine by Seattle a couple of months ago, has been disposed of. He was loaned to Re-gina. Re-gina. and the folks back there thought enough, of him to make the local club an offer. He was sold, although the reason why Seattle 'should sell Its promising ' young players at this time cannot be seen ! with the naked ontie. I Just wart until Bill Clymer gets his paws on Clark Griffith. The fans have been wondering how it came about that Oakland could get Roy Grover, when Seattle Seat-tle could not. Clymer has the following to say about the incident: "Just wait until I see that biaek little Clark Griffith." ye'led BUI. when he heard that Griffith bad turned Roy Grover over to the Oaks. "After ail the favors I have done for that bird. Just wait: just wait. I had been after Grover for more than a month. He is a Seattle bo v. :1ik1 if be could make good he would mean a lot to my club. But that's the way it has been a;I season. "T never had such a time in mv life trv-Ing trv-Ing to put togethma real ball club. Seattle Seat-tle is supporting a tail-euder better than some towns support a pennant winner, and I would like to give the fans a tun for their money, but what can I do'.' T will buy any plaer who can heip me. and I will go as high as any nu i.or league manager in the country, but 1 can't get a n one worth while. Pear me; dear me; dear me: but 1 am disgusted. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. LOS ANGELES. Cal.. Aug. 2. Emerging Emerg-ing f-oni a worrie-i contemplation of the fact that as things stood last midnight, the Angels were only three points ahead of the Tigers. Manager Killefer of the ! league !e,i ie:- epre-cd hiinseif today as convinced that Sa.lt Lake was not to he overk-okei. "The Sal: Lake club was built with the Sait Lake nark in view." he said, "nut leaving as;de that consideration.. consid-eration.. I relieve the Bees will hit well on tho roa ). Sheciy. Kumler, Knit, and Johnson will kit the b-.n well any nacc." Startled by the siHon strong- mowing of (Mkland against Veron and the lat-ter lat-ter s drop into seco;irj putc?. Essick s?nt a ea'l sou th fur rein '"orcemcnts. A wire i w.t rece.ved cstcrn i ordering Rn.s to j .iuMi th" club at once and the left-hander Ict f Oa k'tind kiF-t rug in. WH uhc Anscls ahead one day and the Tigers the next. Pacific coast league baseball here this season is becoming frenzied with such crowds at Washington park that the hugs arc hanging to the fence. The closeness of the race seems to have made entirely superfluous Mor-ley's Mor-ley's kite home run. "Red" Hodges, recently signed by Killefer, Kil-lefer, will play as utility outfielder with a tryout shortly. A midget, he can field and is a fast base runner. A rumor at Washington park says that Johnny M itchell, star Vernon shortstop, may be soid to the Washington Americans. Amer-icans. He has been recommended highly to the Senators, and others of the majors ma-jors are said to be after him. The New York Americans have an option On Vernon Ver-non players, but it is presumed they will take Bobby Meusel. Whether players or cash are the medium of exchange in the impending deal is not divulged. Killefer, commenting, says: "-If Mitchell even hits t wenty points less for Washington than lie is hitting now he would be- the best shortstop the Senators ever possessed." A coord in er to a letter received here from Del Howard. "Hack" Miller of the broken leg will not be able to reappear in the Oakland lineup before September at the earliest. Tommy Long will report to Essiek at San Francisco next Tuesday. This emphasizes em-phasizes the fact that from now on the Vernon manager's big problem will be what to do wilh his extra talent. Clymer may grab off some, it Is said, MeCrcdie is marking bis present visit to Tyos Angeles by a press agent drive against the spitball. The story is that at the next meeting of the league directors direc-tors he formally will demand that the practice be outlawed up and down the coast and inland as far a.3 Salt Lake. "Death to all fre-ak deliveries." is his , battle cry and his slogan, '"Nothing but ! a mitt for the pitcher," and his shin- j Ing example the American association. Sutherland's feat of pitching a no-hit game, and away from home, was an espe-j espe-j dally praiseworthy performance. There have been numerous instances on the dia-! dia-! niond where a home pitcher, if he allows only one hit which is of a scratchy nature. , is given the benefit of the doubt by the 1 scorers, and is credited with a no -hit affair. Such an instance occurred here hack in 1911. The Saeramento club was playing and Ferd Henkle. a local boy who bad pitched good ball when attending the University Uni-versity of OreEron. was on ti e Portland staff. He worked against Vernon. Along about the fifth inning one of the Sacramento Sacra-mento batters hit a hard grounder, which Bill Rapps. playing first for Portland, managed to knock down but couldn't hold. It was scored as a hit by the official scorer. Not a semblance of a hit came before or after this during the nine innings, in-nings, and Rapps. before the game ended, came to the official scorer and asked that 1 he be given an error, if no other hits came in the ninth. The eh a n ge wi s ina d e and the game was credited in the official records as a no-hit affair, robbing the Seeramen'o hitter hit-ter of a legitimate, though scratch, blnglc. Had He nis! c been pi telling away from home he w ouluu't have received credit lor it. The only no-bit game of recent years pitched here was the one twirlcl hv Johnny Lush, which he lost, 1 to 0. Lush, twirling for Portland, stacked up ncainst Vernon. He went through the entire contest con-test without allowing a semblance of a "mt. but th-' run was scored on a nass. a steal, bad tin-ow by the catcher, which let the r-.miuT go on to third, ard u wild pitch by Lush. Portland Telegram. PORTLAND, Aug. 2. Gus Fisher, one of trie most nonular pi ayes who ever wore a Portland uniform arid recently with the Sacramento Yippers. am veu iii Portland Monday. He hi.is been signed up by the McPoug"'ii;-0 crmier citv league team, and, in ;. d probabili ' . v." ill ,f H bat tery ma'e of Hernia n PI lion nn the Vaughn street grounds next Sunday. |