Show BLANK USES EIGHTEEN MEN MENY IN TORRID STRUGGLE WITH ROWDY Y ELLIOTTS ELLIOTT'S OUTFIT M JL Jf Js JL x-F x V 4 JL JL J. J JL I ISALT SALT LAKE FIGHTS STUBBORN UPHILL BATTLE WITH ENEMY I Five Pitchers of Local Staff Get Chance to toS Stop the Hitting and All Fail S I The score Oakland 8 3 Salt Lake 6 I The batteries Oakland batteries Oakland Klawitter and Kuhn r Salt Lake Fittery Hall La Roy Morgan Williams and Hannah t I Salt Lake leaves today for Los Angeles on a three throe weeks' weeks road trip I I This week Blankenship 8 crowd plays Los Angeles next week Venice Venico and Salt Lake will meet and the following week Salt Sat Lake 1 goes to Oakland Oakland goes to Portland this week whilo Venice I and San Francisco tangle on the Seals Seals' playground j I LI- LI B- B B BASEBALL SI slathers of it was jammed into the C closing game of the Salt Lake club clubs club's 5 stay at homo yesterday esterday There were enough thrills in several of the innings to last nn nil ordinary fan a n week and jammed all nIl together it came about as near being a heart breaking game g-ame for players managers ant and fans as was ever er staged around here Incidentally Oakland Oakland Oak Oak- land won 1 by an 8 to G 3 j count and made an even e break on the tile series but hut the tho mere winning of the game isn't t half of it Blankenship showed his managerial mitt all through the game g and al although although although al- al though h handicapped all the time tune by hein being on the tile short end of the score the Salt Lake skipper had poor 01 old oh 1 Rowdy Elliott biting hiting himself time and again ng Blank wanted that ol 01 game and wanted it mighty mig badly bally so he lie used hit bit of the roll possessed Gregory who every reserve c strength pay barring worked in Saturdays Saturday's s 's game and he ho even en had Greg warmed up in the ninth ready to go to the lull hill In all the tile Skipper used a dozen and a half men including himself l Five ic of the thc crowd were pitchers and none of them was effective On the other hand Elliott had a dozen men in the game gamo three of them In Iii fact tho old pitching hill felt tile the grip of sixteen different pair of hurling supports during during- the afternoon F FITTERY who started the game was wa- unsteady In fact but for airtight airtight airtight air air- tight support ii iV in the thc first frame the game amo wouldn't have been close Fittery proceeded to fill the tile bases with a n walk and two singles Then rhen Gardner Gard Gard- ner ncr slammed a drive over short and Zacher after a great run FUll speared it and with Ith a n perfect peg got at nt the tile plate Then went hack back and took Kuhns Kuhn's long long- fly for the tile third out With anything like luck Oakland would have hac herded in in a whole bevy hey of counters in that inning inning- Salt Lake scored in ill the first when Joe Toe Gedeon eased cased the tile pellet othe o over or r the right field while whilo Orr was resting on first as the result of his IliS sin single lc to right From then until tho the seventh Salt SnIt Lake went before the thc pitching of and Pron h. h Oakland tied it up ill in In tile the second and batted Fittery from tho the hill Litschi walked and stole second Guest fanned hut but Man tanda i da and anti came through with doubles which winch accounted for two runs Hall replaced Fittery and allowed u a run in ui the thc third Ness singled and came on the rest of the way when hen and Litschi hit safely On Litschi's safety the ball hall took a bad bound just before it reached On On- and anel hopped over o the shortstops shortstop's shortstops shortstop's shortstops shortstop's short short- stops stop's head It looked like a cinch double pla play Hall got h by in nice shape for the thc next three innings hut but in tile the seventh ho came to grief and three runs rune scored on a single Bingle by Ness ess doubles by hy Kuhn and Litschi and a triple by hy Manda randa La Ho Roy retired for the thc third out if S SALT ALT LAKE got ot busy hus husin in the tho seventh Tennant led off with a double took third 0 on Harbour's Harbours out and scored when Meek reek hitting for La Roy doubled to left Hallinan ran for Icek rcck and scored scot when wilen Shinn hitting for Faye Fac singled through short Blank ran for Shinn Shiun hut but was forced at second when Orr hit a feeble grounder g to Guest Morgan then went to the thc hill lull Bill walked Johnston dropped lone one in front of tho the plate in an attempted sacrifice but hut Hannah whipped the tile ball hall to Gedeon retiring Mundy Ness hit to Tennant and Johnston who in the meantime had stolen second and alid third was as caught ht and run down clown between third and home Ness went all the way to third on the play Morgan was lifted and Lefty Williams went to the box Gardner singled to right and Ness scored Gardner was out stealing T I IN N the eighth Salt Lake did some hen heavy artillery work ork Gedeon singled 1 through second and Ryan doubled against the thc right field wall Gedeon holding up at third Exit and enter one Dutch h Klawitter Zacher was out ont infield hut but Gedeon scored and Ryan took third thirl when Tennant went outs out Manda randa to Ness Barbour slammed the ball hall into right for for a n double and Ryan trotted home Hannah sent ent a feeble roller down tho third base line and Litschi refu refused ed to field it believing ing it would go foul but it di didn't nt and Barbour took third But Hall Hallinan nan was unequal to the occasion and was an easy casy infield out ont i Oakland added another in the ninth when Kuhn tripled to center and scored on Litschi's safety to left The Tue fans had a great chance to yell when Salt SnIt Lake opened its half of the ninth Rohrer Bohrer hitting for Williams doubled a against the thc center field fence Orr On watched Klawitter sneak over oer the thc third strike Gedeon hit hita a Big Bill to and andO was O out And Buddy Ryan ended the whole show by succumbing to tho the Dutch party on st JACK T TACK ACK NESS smashed Chadbournes Chadbourne's s 's re record ord for consecutive hitting yest yesterday yesterday yes- yes t when ho lie slammed a neat drive to left in In the tile opening inning Yesterdays Yesterday's game was tho the ninth twenty consecutive affair in iii which Ness has Ims hit bit safely safety In that time he has crawled from a few points point over r the mark k to within u n few of and is now considered tho most dangerous slugger in the tho P. 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L Ness slammed out three singles in five tr trips ps yesterday During the thc week tho the Oakland captain collected thirteen hits in tw twenty three trips to the thc plate plate chance chance for the jinx jinx for for n a percentage percentage per per- e of Three of his hi- hits were doubles S SA ALT LT LAKE is leaving for lor another strenuous til trip on the tile road with a strong rip grip on second place The Blankenship crowd crowel hn has twenty five points o-ci- o Los Angeles in third place and is but twelve points behind San in n first place The race i is ns as tight now ns as most any time in the thc history of the league ue only three seventy points separating Uc the lenders leaders tail which is going some that in most leagues more than that number divide the thc leaders and the flue holders holder of second place Right now it is is an anyone's oneR race and from the wa way the clubs are traveling the going promises to remain mighty mig hot The Awful Details I OAl OAKLAND IA D. D All Ali It n H TO PO A 13 g If It 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 of cf 5 5 0 n 1 2 0 0 0 Ness Nessib ess J Ib b fi Ii 3 t 3 1 12 1 0 Gardner rf 5 r r. r 0 ii i I 1 0 11 0 J Kuhn u h n c 4 4 9 2 3 Ij d I 1 I C 0 Litschi 2 3 i 1 3 0 Guests Guest e 8 3 1 t 0 o 0 2 2 Z 0 Manda Mando r t. 1 2 Z 2 2 4 0 p I 1 1 I 0 1 0 0 0 h p 2 2 0 0 1 1 0 Klawitter p 1 1 0 0 0 2 Z 0 Marcan darca I 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total 37 S l 15 27 21 14 0 SALT LAKE LAIn A AB 13 13 n 11 H PO A E Fayo o rf Tf 3 3 0 2 1 0 0 Williams P o I 0 0 n n Cl 0 o 1 0 o Orr rt 1 I 1 I 1 T. T 0 T r. 2 Z 2 2 2 Z 0 Ryan nyan If It 5 1 1 2 0 0 r cf ct 4 4 0 0 2 1 0 Tennant Ib lb 4 4 1 1 10 1 0 Harbour J I 0 1 3 2 0 II Hannah a n lIth c e 3 I 0 2 z fi S 3 0 Fittery p 0 o 0 0 0 0 o o 4 0 Hall 11 p 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 La 10 Hoy P 0 0 I 0 0 0 0 0 0 Morgan an p 0 0 0 0 0 0 I 0 Hallinan S ss 1 1 I 0 0 0 0 Meek Ie k 1 1 0 4 1 3 0 0 4 0 Shinn 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Rohrer 1 1 I I 0 1 0 0 0 Totals Total 39 9 6 13 27 i 16 0 Marcan ran for tor tt In third Meek leck ba batted for La Ro Roy In seventh Shinn for Cor Fa c In seventh e Blankenship ran for Shinn In 5 seventh C V en t Ii Rohrer batted for Williams In ninth Score h by Innings Innings- Oakland Runs nUns 0 S 1 GOO 1 1 1 8 Hits Hll Z 15 2 3 0 lOt 1 2 15 15 Salt Lake e Runs nuns 2 6 0 0 0 0 0 Z 0 0 6 Hits Jilts 2 13 0 1 0 Z 0 3 4 1 13 1 13 Summary Two-base Two hits I hits Kuhn uhn Litschi Manda Ianda Ryan Tennant Barbour Hannah HannA Meek Three base hits hits Man Man-la Kuhn Homo Home run run Gedeon Sacrifice flee fice h hits Its hits Kuhn Gust Guest Stolen bases Johnston bases Johnston 2 Z 2 Litschi DaRe Base on balls Off bans Off 1 1 or off 2 2 off Hall 2 off Morgan lorlan 1 Struck out out nut By Z 2 2 b by 2 b by Kia Klawitter wi 2 Z 2 by F Her 1 b by Hall hail by by Williams 1 L Two runs C Z hits 11 at nt bat off In 3 in innings innings In- In two runs 7 i hits 19 at bat off h In 4 Innings s two runs rUn 3 hits 9 at hat bat off oft Klavitter In 3 Innings two runs run 4 I hits 9 at bat hat off Fittery In ill 1 3 2 innings four tour runs rum 7 j hits 19 at hat bat off Hall In 5 6 Innings no runs 1 I hit 2 at bat off ott La Ln Ho Hoy In 3 1 of or an Inning two runs 3 hits 5 at bat oft off Williams in 1 3 2 in In- In fling ning Runs nUns responsible for tor 2 h 4 4 Fitter Fittery 2 Z Hall 4 t Morgan Mor Mor- gan gaii nn 1 Williams 1 Cr Credit victory vietor to Charge Chare defeat to Hall Han Lefton Left Lefton on bases bases Oakland Oakland 10 10 Salt Snit Lake 7 i. Double plays plays plas to Kuhn luhn to Manda Zacher to Hannah Time of ot game hame gaine 2 14 Umpires WillIams Umpires Williams and Fi Finnoy Finno |