DUCKS CAPTURE CLOSE CONTEST Supposedly Weak Hitter Breaks Up Tie Game Gaine With Oaks Hollies Hallies Triumph SAN FRANCISCO June 4 Tj P Mike Higgins Portland third baseman base man fann fanned d twice yesterday but bu coming up in the last of the ninth Inning inning In inning ning with the score Portland 3 Oakland Oakland Oak Oak- land 2 the bases full and two out he lined out a single that brought in the winning run Ed Walsh Oakland pitcher pur walked the man ahead of Higgins Hig gins thinking Higgins would be an easy third out The game was close most of or the way with Oakland getting get ting ten hits and Portland eight Things arc are still going against the Sacramento team in a big way Seattie Seattie Seat tie Ue beat the Solons 13 to 1 as Hal Haid Hald Indian hurler pitched hit five ball Seattle's new manager George Burns has won three of his first four games The tribe collected seventeen hits Holl Hollywood made it four straight Inthe in inthe inthe the present series by beating the thc Missions Mis 5 to 3 The victor victory strengthened strength strength- ened the hold of the Stars on first firs place The S Stars bunched twelve hits to the embarrassment of three Mission Mission Mis Mis- sion pitchers while Fred Ortman Hollywood southpaw kept the Reds Reds' safeties well vell scattered The Thc Seals Angels game at Los Angeles Angeles An An- geles eles was postponed because of we wet grounds