Show EEN V lii I THROUGH THROUGH JO J e A THE 1 SEEN l ip SPORT PERISCOPE Wi Yesterdays Yesterday's leading AU U. U II lct ct Los LOll An 5 4 SOU SOO Spens Spen San nn 1 fl 4 Ot Vernon 3 1 OO UtI Lane Oakland J. J 3 U 3 Un InIa Lou ON 3 3 I Cunningham C Oakland 5 r a 3 00 oot Oakland r. r 3 COO 00 YanD Oakland 5 3 3 Hall hail San l Vs n f 4 IS 3 Doane Ioane Vernon I 1 2 50 00 Mi- Mi Vernon 4 i 0 Salt Lake LaUc 4 I 2 3 50 00 Lou Lorn Auction ele I 4 50 OO Hills Los Loa 4 2 SO Frank Chance didn't need to write himself a congratulatory letter for Cor winning that game gamo It was about as ns easy caay for his tribe to lose it a an It would be bo to lose tho tue stra stray who adopts you as aa anice a a. anice anice nice man Sheely has been a 3 steady stead customer customer cus cue tomer in the thc column colemn of or boots bools v Hall doesn't d often orten put Up such an exhibition as was WM charged to him yesterday He lie bunched the tho hits and the tho Angels took advantage ad of this every time for swelling the tho score 1 Tom Torn McQuire former Chicago Federal league pitcher will probably probably ab ably join the Los Angeles club in lu Salt Lake today John Infielder Infielder in- in fielder with the Toronto Internationals Internationals Internationals will Join the club when it returns to California Ic Roy Bliss tho the youngster who Joined the Utes Just before they tiley returned to Salt Lake from their last road trip had a t chance chanco at the center conter of ot the tho diamond yesterday The young oun sho showed shoed ed that ho he had plenty of at confidence and with a a. little sea seasoning oninS' oninS should de develop develop do- do into a winning It is cause for regret that at this particular juncture when it looks as I if Omaha was to reaU really develop into a baseball city of the Clr first t close class that the tue prospects for forthe forthe the tho season of ot 1917 are so forbidding forbiddIng forbid forbid- ding writes Sandy Sand Griswold in the Omaha World orld True exactly ex ex- acU the same conditions have prevailed in the Western league as those that prevail now and at divers times at that and yet et the wa way has always been found to keep the old craft afloat and nd with no very great loss to anybody concerned The trouble with the Western estern league Is Its lack of ot available territory territory territory ter ter- and with he ho exception those years ears in which it embraced the cities of at St. St Paul Minneapolis Milwaukee Mil Mu- waukee and Ian Kansas as CIt City It has been compelled to enroll from oneto one oneto oneto to four tour towns that never ne had nor never could have a chance chanco to sus sustain tam tain a n. club in the class claas represented represented by Omaha and Denver Den and tho the cities above e mentioned They arc aro too small they haven't the baseball population and consequently consequently consequently conse conse- the enthusiasm of ot tho the few tow has hat never been sufficient to carr carry them through a single le season cason wIthout without with wIth- out great financial loss and dis die The league lengu moguls have ha been a n long Jong while learning their lesson but it now looks as It If they were about to graduate Jr at Lt l la last t t. t and nd 1 If the they are arc you n need ed not apprehend the attempted at attempted attempted at- at tempted restoration of ot the old in inimical in- in circuit Money Ione makes the mare go in ever every game me but baseball clen- clen u h a 1 I Cj U u i iL goes guca I u a long zutie longway b I way in the great national pastime but it Jt doesn't mean everything like it did in the political game Iame of or Marcus Aurelius lianna's day writes Dick Collins In the tho St. St Louis Republic If H money could have bought a pennant there there would have been nothing to the National league ea ue this year ear but the New York Nationals Hempstead and McGraw McGraw Mc- Mc Graw spent money monc lavishly la to put puta a championship winner in the field leill They acquired the cream of ot the thele le Federal 1 league ue last win winter ter Kauff Kautt Housch Anderson and cost the tho Giants In Ir actual cash outlay to sa say nothing of the wartime wartime war war- time lime salary contracts assumed by bythe b bythe the Now York club Later McGraw knocked the tho bung off oft the NewYork New Now NewYork York barrel and turned loose a golden solden stream tream of or coin for Harry Sallee Charley and Heine Heino Zimmerman All 11 in vain Too marty stars statS The combination of a a. stellar manager er and a a. team of in individual individual In- In dl headliners has fallen tallen flatin flat flatIn flatIn In Gotham Tho The Giants are arc lucky to be bo fourth A A lowly position for tor fora tora a team with a pay roll roU 5 Little remains to the International International International leagues league's schedule and the tho end of the season will not be unwelcome unwelcome un un- un- un welcome to about all the club owners of the tho h league ogue as it will give them a chance to forget wee weeks in which little came In an and considerable consid consid- erable went out says a wr writer ter inthe in inthe the Rochester Post Moreover Moreover More More- over it will give them opportunity to consider the tho many mon causes which contributed to 1 poor baseball conditions and build for tor better conditions conditions con con- in 1917 One thing thing- Is CErtain certain tam tain should they goIng go- go going Ing Ins along on ch cheaper aper lines they would do well not to spend all winter winter winter win win- ter advertising the the fact Poor ad advertising ad- ad last winter and spring to our way wa of at sizing up the situation situation situ situ- did more to bring about the poor attendance of ot 1916 than anything anything any any- thing else |