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Show COYOTES CLOSE Of! M HEELS Salt Lake Has Only Three-Game Three-Game Lead Over Sacra-mentans Sacra-mentans for Third Place. It is no longer a question of how far the lVes are behind Los Ansyeles and Yernon for first place, but how far they are ahead of Sacramento for third place. Tha rate at which the Salt Lake club has accepted and assimilated punishment , in the last week augurs ill for the Bees to finish the season in third place. Indeed, In-deed, they may be lucky to linish in , fourth place. . j The Sacramento club Is only three ; srames behind the Pees for the three-hole, i This week the Coyous meet Seattle in seven irames. and the chances are strongly strong-ly in favor of the raw meaters lakins a good deal of profit in the l'uget Sound metropolis. While the Coyotes are biting the Tl'Heums, the Pees will be trying to keep the Oaks within bounds. To do this they will have to put up a different brand l of ball from that shown in the Yernon I series. Happily for the Bees, the two final games of the Yernon series which were to have been piayed off yesterday were canceled. Bitter Pill for Fans. If Salt Lake fails lo cling to third place I it will bo the first time in the city's history his-tory in the Coast league that it lias fallen fall-en heiow that point. Once we finished in second place. It has been painful for the loyal Salt I-ake inns to watch their club slip and slide into oblivion. Only two months uito the Hecs were piven ftn inside chance of miming the Timers and the Anscis a race for the pennant. No sooner did our townspiop.e reauze timt taey nan v.in apeared to he a pennant-cont. 'inline hail eluh than the I '.erg hestan t't.etr descent. Thev have scooted with rapidity and dis-piueh. dis-piueh. until now thev are watching for tiie miracle that will save Hum from relative extinction. Riseball interest this week will, of course, center on the world's series 1 e-tween e-tween the Keds and the Wliite Sox. t.e tirst time of whieh wi'l he played tomorrow tomor-row "at Cincinnati. The seru-s botucn Vernon and l,os Aniro'a s for the Coast lea cue rennant. liowover. wiil not lie lost sicht of. Tiiose two rluhs will nu-et in th "Who Is" series this week, hfij.nninp Wednesday, sitn e it will he imposs. 'lo for the Anro'.s to reah home in time for a me today. Seems Certain for Angels. The Anqp'.s are two and n half rtamrs alu ad of the Ti-vrs for the il.i.;. H is a tr'-mtuvlous lead in vit-w of the fact that on! v sevon pames re in a in to he playt d ; and In order to overcome it the Tiu-ors wiil have to cut through the Ani.vs like a hot knife through hu;;er. Tt Is unhkr'.y that thev can do it, and Itjooks as tlioimh the An eels are as p.ood as victors in the h'1? pennant race. The plavers of the champion eluh will divi.jp ?lw,VnV a bonus sul-S'-noeJ hy I.os Vnu-'-iri f'.ns for either th. Anc-ds "r Ti-.rs should one of those clubs win tho ll A like fjm waehunK up in fait Lak for a po'inant. After the close of the Coast le-cue soa-so'i soa-so'i n'-vt Sunday, tc.. St. I'aul riuii. ' chamnious of the American a.-social iun, will nv-'t th"- Anqy'. in nn Intrrieiu'uo ti-t ti-t Ft-ri-s on a basis of nine pa-n.-s. thf chjh wdntiinir Ave to be the cock of th-r0ot th-r0ot All the c-a mes will be p'.av.tl at l.n r.p-lei. The drst pa me te pla-.d (r:ru-r f:.-r th-'.r maf-h at T.os Anp-d . th-' ?x I'aul eluh wi I prot.ab'.y :a a few panics at San I-'rancl'-co. L'pon tho cor.r.usion of th" Ilnil nnn1 of the Oak s"r:"s at Sin Kinn"eo, S.m- j day, tho 1 Vt j i w u'd disband. |