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Show Here's the Crucial HourMay the Best Man WitfT SAINT AND SEAL FACE TO FACE IN SEVEN-GAME FRAY Series at San Francisco This Week Likely to Have Important Bearing on Pennant Race; Each Day Means Full Game to Contending Clubs; Earl Sheely Will Rejoin Salt Lakers Today; Oaks' Help Appreciated in Zion. THIS week's series between tlie leading lead-ing Seals and the eontetidinK S.iint.s ut Ha n I-'ran-lHvo may prove to be the dyldlns series of tlie 1017 pennant rac. Tlie .SatiiU enter San Franeitro's park thlg a fterno'Mi Hvenl y- thrite one -million (lis of e point less than u me te-lilnJ te-lilnJ the Stain. For all practical purpose pur-pose h the Seals' lead amounts to n game, einee, by the freak of tlKures, that (vuc t innal pot ii l may be wiped out any day. The Seals Imve played mom guinea than the Saints and for that reason tjie winnings win-nings and losings of the two rlubs do not have the, same outcome in the percentage, percent-age, column. The Salnis tilt the Vernon series with a vktory of four games of seven played. Thd final game .Sunday afternoon, although al-though by no means a good baseball game, nevertheless was a heartbreaUer, the Tigers twice tying the koiv, and the S in ts winning out in the ninth. An Error ful Week. Soma of t he yellowest baseball of the season was played at Los Angeles last week. tl lf-i half the names were derided de-rided by inns due to errors, The Tigers resist e red a total of eighteen errors and Ihu Saints hud ten. The most regrettable regret-table incident of the week at Vernon was the defeat of Rube Kvans In the ninth Inning In-ning of Kriduy's game. 1'p to the ninth I tube had U two - run lead and had held the Tiwers not only runlfHs, but also almost al-most hit less. Knhe's defeat wis a se.t-buek se.t-buek to his ambitious firmb to chief pi I cijhig houorti in the league, and gave iilaf Driikson a renewed advantage. Jean Dubuc won two a mes from the Tigers. In the first lie should have had a shut-out. but errors on the part of he Saints gave the Bengals three runs. Tom Hughes pitched- a four-Id t game to open the series, but Jack Quinn pitched a two-hit game, and Long Tom lost. However, Tom retrieved his loss when he finished strong in Saturday's game, which the Saints won in the ninth. Lefty Lev-erenz Lev-erenz won a neat victory and Ollie Kir-meer Kir-meer lost Sunday forenoon's game thr-'uigh walks. Ti e best series of the week was played at Portland, where the Angels took the series, thru sanies to two. The pitching pitch-ing on both sides was the best seen in successive ganu-s In the Coast league In years. Oaks Help Us. The Oak? arose in their might and emote the Seals, "lour games to three. It was the Oaks' triumph that put the Saints in a posit ion to make a drive on the Seal stronghold this week. It is now hquarely up to the Seals and the Saints, aluce a win or loss moa ns s. .nil game tor the victor and the vanquished. The best news of the week came from 8 oka ne, when word was received that Karl Sheely's draft call had been put over ; until t he final per cent quota. Sheely will rejoin tho Saints in Sun Francisco and no doubt wilt be in the game today. Hilly Orr, suffering from a skin disease resembling poison oak, was out of the frav witli the Tigers, and it is feared he will not be able to resume play for several sev-eral days yet. Bern hard was fortunate in picking up Johnny Butler, former Oak and Ancel, to till in at short. Butler, although accounted a weak hitter, was up with the leaders on the Salt Lake club for the week, netting seven hits. His fielding was reported good,' in spite of a few costly errors. At this time it looks - af though "Bernhard will carry Butler the remainder of the season. Jean Dubuc, First Baseman. With Orr out of the game and Crandall out for a day on account of eye trouble, Jean Dubuc played iirst base, and acquitted ac-quitted himself well. Jean played two errorless games at tirst. His hitting also was a factor in the success of the Saints. With an awry linkup and the prospect of losing Sheely, Bernhard had closed a deal for t he loan of First Baseman IMunch of the Atlanta club, pennant winner win-ner in the Southern association. The deal was called off when word was sent the skipper that Sheely would again ie available for duty. The need of another pitcher U still acu le. Ir is possible that Howard Gregory, Greg-ory, who nun had a great (.-ar vlrh tlie Lincoln cjul,, mny join the Salpts t-0 finish fin-ish out the teasun. Lincoln is not a contender con-tender for the pennant in tlie Western b-iinue and the season in that league, so far as Lincoln in concerned, is over. !re?ory unquestionably would help the Saints In tluur final drive. Catchers Laker and MeKe.e of the Seals nr st Ul on the hospital list, but both Jen Orondorff and Bill Stevens are -rendering tho Seals good service, and the loss of Baker and M- Kee is not so seriously seri-ously felt as it would be had the Seals failed to find these two substitute catchers. Hugh McGinnis, shortstop of the Vernon Ver-non club, was called for draft examination, examina-tion, and lie will report to the San Francisco Fran-cisco board today. Lester Cook, a Texas league catcher of the San Antonio club, will be given a try-out try-out by the Tigers. Pitcher Bill Fincher of tlie Beavers left for Tennessee during tlie week to report for duty in tho national army. Rube Oldham, Seal left-hander, was exempted from military duty upon the request of Ids wife. A peculiar phase of the Salt Lake hitting hit-ting last week was that Tobiu, Rath, Crandall. Ryan, Hannah and Butler each got seven hitB. Quinlan had six. Among the Leaders. Leaders in various departments: RUN' -GETTERS. Tobin, Salt Lake 113 Hollocher. Portland - Ill Rath. Salt Lake 105 Williams, Portland 105 Wilie. Port In nd 103 Pick, San Francisco 103 GREATEST NUMBER OF HITS. Tobin. Salt Lake 203 Meusel, JjOs Angeles 190 Williams, Portland 107 Pick, San Francisco 195 ; Ruth. Salt Lake, j IS! Fitzgerald. San Francisco 1S5 TWO-BASE HITTERS. Schaller, San Francisco 43 Tobin, Salt Lake -11 j Uvan, Salt Lake ,.. 38 ' Williams. Portland 37 1 Meusel. Ios Angeles 37 , Farmer. Portland 35 Fitzgerald, San Francisco 35 THRI5E-BASK HIITTERS. Wilie. Portland 11 Miller, Oakland 11 Murphv, Oakland 10 Williams. Portland S Farmer. Portland '8 Koerner, San Francisco 7 HOME-RUN HITTERS. Williams, Portland 22 Sheely, Salt Lake 14 Ryan, Salt Lake , 8 Koerner, San Francisco 6 Meusel, Los Angeles 6 Crandall, Salt Lake 5 Griggs, Portland 5 Farmer, Portland 5 TOTAL BASE HITTERS. Williams, Portland 316 Meusel, Los Angeles 266 Sheely, Salt Lake 254 Tobin, Salt Lake , 254 Ryan, Salt Lake 248 Pick, San Francisco 239 SACRIFICE HITTERS. Rath. Salt Lake 47 Terrv Los Angeles 44 Middleton, Oakland 35 Wilie. Portland 33 Hannah, Salt Lake 27 Sheely, Salt Lake 26 Quinlan, Salt Lake 26 BASE STEALERS. Williams, Portland 63 Pick. San Francisco f,o Meusel, Los Angeles 50 Lane, Oakland 48 Wilie, Portland .- 40 Corhan, San Francisco 38 THIS AND THAT IN ' COAST LEAGUE TALK The big need of the Seals just at present pres-ent is another half-way reliable pitcher. No other club in the league is getting along with live hurlers. The strain upon the players, who have played very day (Continued on Tollowlng Page.) SMS 10 SEALS IE FACE TO E1CE (Continued from Preceding Page.) for sixteen days without a rest, has been tremendous, but it has been particularly so upon the pitchers, who need three or four days to recuperate after working a full game. The pitching staff is just at present suffering from overwork, and nearly all the arms are dead. Relief is in sight, however. The Western league's season closes today, and Rudy KallJo and Frank O'Doul, who have been pitching there all season with big success, are due to leave at once for San. Francisco. They should be here in three or four days, anil while they may not be ready to lake regular turns, they will at least be able to take a game or so each week oft the hands of the regulars, and that will help a lot. San Francisco Kxaminer. Some lime ago It was printed that Connie Con-nie Mack wanted to take a chance on Fitzgerald, but that Ira Thomas, his scout, did not think Fitz sound enough in legs and arms to stand the gaff in the big show. Yesierday an inquiry came I from the Philadelphia Nationals about Fitz. If Pat Moran can be convinced that Fitz can throw well enough to get by he will grab him.. San Francisco Chronicle. Chroni-cle. ' San Francisco fans might take a lesson from the Oakland fans, who are still loyal, loy-al, in spite of the position of their club. There is more enthusiasm in Oakland over a rally, no matter how far behind the club might be, than there is in San Francisco when the Seals win a game that means the series. San Francisco Examiner. Players in the Pacific Coast league declare de-clare that this circuit contains another Billy Sunday. Herb Hunter, utility Infielder for the San Franci.sco club, studied theology. Hunter never swears on or off the Meld. Th lad has the makings of a good ball Player, In spite of a tendency to go up in the air after making an error Los Angeles Herald. |