Show SALT LAKE BEGINS SECOND HALF WITH OAKLANd OAKLAND AHNS KEEP HOLD IN UPPER L REALMS OF LEAGUE DESPITE RA RAVAGES INFLICTED SUN SUNDAY DA Y BLANKENSHIP AND HIS COLTS r FURNISH SURPRISE OF YEAR Success of Skipper Through First Series Even EvenT Eveni rt T Dims Glowing Light of Jack Ness r t h i I Salt Lake will open the fifteenth week of the Coast COLSt league season I today t day in iii the first of a seven-game seven series with Oakland at San Franj Fran Fran- j cisco At the conclusion of the series the team will return to Salt SaltI I SLake Lake where it will play three six game series with Portland Los Angeles geles and s San n Francisco in the order named The probable batt batteries bat bat- t teries tories for today are tt and Kuhn for Oakland and Gregory and Hannah annah for Salt Lake T ODAY'S TODAY'S games in the Pacific Coast st league will ill set the race into its j J. J half of th tho season With the tho crushing defeats administered Salt Lake Lak San Francisco and Portland all occupants of the first division Sunday ho first half was ended Numerous things thing'S have come to be bo in the fifteen weeks and md many things have havo not come conic to be as yet ret T The Tho first surprise that has come to pa pass s is the persistent and highly enjo T enjoyable able presence of the Salt Lake team in the first fiLSt division True the team is not exactly sewed up in the tho first division but hut for that matter neither is fis San Sm Francisco Y Yet ct the te team m is still there and has been sticking the tho greater part of the year car occasionally in first frequently in third and most in second This i is highly highl edifying ing At the present Portland winner of last years year's pennant is not in in m th the first division Nor will the team likely bo be there before the publication of this However the Cleveland recruits are doing nicely and are arc pulling fully awfully strong for the scalps of Salt Lake l Los s An Angeles and San Francisco Another pleasing fact is occasioned by the indomitable batting strength of of Jack NC 5 Ness The Oakland Oal land smiling German slugging fielding hendy heady first baseman felt he lie needs must tic tie Cobbs Cobb's record this record this is is not a pun hut but an unadulterated veritable fact For forty games the has hit at least once in each consecutive game If Salt SnIt Lake does docs not become rambunctious rambunctious ram Tam today he will probably break the record other happenings 5 have ha been noted in the recent past but tho the NU 1 J. J big surprise is yet ret unmentioned It consists of two words Cliff Blankenship Blankenshi is undoubtedly the big surprise of the year ear Ever Evert t ince since the season began Blanks Blank's colts coIts have ha been figured for the bottom of the pile and no wonder the way Vernon Oakland and Portland and the rest of the teams arc are playing ball However the Salt Lakers have stayed in the select rin ring constantly If the skipper can hold up in the race the tho next half he will ill be all nIl to the tho good as a manager Any position in this race is not to be he sneered at A team is lucky t to hold better than seventh sc ln In jn such a close one Speaking Speaking- of or closeness there is great congestion of or the teams at present one Sixty Si b points separate leader and Six games separate San Francisco and Oakland Nowhere in professional baseball can such a record be he found and in many the two teams are further separated When it comes to grouping si six teams in little more than fifty points it takes some architect and they sa say Fate is just such an nn architect Fate Pate can enn only do doone doone doone one thing more to better the race That would be to place them all at and let them start anew j w WHILE tILE I-tILE it is hard hart to prophesy in such sueh a race raco as this one thing is certain fl Y V Portland has strengthened The Beavers ers arc up end and going for the gonfalon With the e exception n of last week eek when Los Angeles smothered I I Khem Portland had been winning numerous cries They even eyen beat bent their i jinx team Oakland not to mention the Wolverton outfit and Blankenship's I hirelings Vernon likewise appears to have strengthened If Vernon could scare are up a pla player er to get on base occasionally th thew w would win in numerous ball games As it now noTe stands they can hold most any team within bounds with i but are arft ro tnt ak with trip the dub As hit artists tit and dl base t- t ti i they come m-e- m well vell il up p t to P. 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L requirements qu-i qu e t n n Los Angeles and San Francisco are aro still running at the merry even en characteristic of them this thi and likel to I gait year appear likely keep on so running I O cc S ALT T T LAKE likewise has held its own although h it has hns lost a majority of ot O games on the road this time Vernon appeared as 35 Salt SaU Lakes Lake's arch enemy Vernon just t naturally took five games game away amy from Salt Lake while the locals negotiated with two durin during the series abroad That's what they get for flaking up lip George Washington's ton s 's favorite fn towns town's name and dispensing with f h sunny country's s tourist towns town's name Ital Italy never was a n baseball burg nid especially now with their act activities ties engaged in less tess interesting com corn petition So far this year San Francisco Portland J Los Og Angeles Oakland and Salt Lake have ha been picked ked a as pennant winners Many tinny scribes have already donated the flag to the W a as runny many more to Los Angeles a whole flock of or rabid fanatics to Portland the tho peanut vendor fendor in a local ball park to Oakland and several local artists to Salt SnIt Lake Vernon has hns not stood much of a ri chance Their home town so far as playing ball ameS m i is concerned is Los Angeles and although the sport writers there are arc playing no favorites it would be he bad taste for them to see soc see Vernon Los Ios Angeles To show ho hi his taste The Republican Herald office boy f Jias picked ed the thc Ti Tigers ers He stands a n good chance to cash his hs bet at ot that with ith ten pitchers and two left handed batsmen in the outfield not to mention the gentlemanly r Mr 1 White O 0 OPENING PE NG this thi weeks week's series Salt Lake will do clo homa homage e unto Oakland Give unto Oakland that which is her own is good good preachment and now that Salt Lake Litke has given them who already has hIlS twice paid for himself I Salt alt lt Lake should figure it had given them enough and take a n slice of the Aeries Blankenship has as ns yet uncovered no new twirlers but wires he be is campI camp- camp I on the trail of several Blank says sas he lie has plenty plent of chance to get but few twirlers Ho He sa says s 's the fellows now nO nOon on the market have r Consideration ration and ambition in their hearts but their pitching ability is in inI eore sore distress so far as class AA baseball is IS concerned He also says sas he will I pet Jet them if it takes all an summer General Grant has nothing on the local skip 1 J LUC JUG C mue win use today Gregory has not fattened his average an any since the Oaks leftY left here and andis is all charged with that it lesire He has not played in two series now owing to his arm which pla played ed j a Hi West Vest on him temporarily Gre Greg has sawed off all but the upper segment seg seg- J ment of the wing now and can serve sel the same old stuff 1 f 0 AKLAND probably will start is a good t twirler and can 1 V also take defeat gracefully Next to his teammate he is tho the j workman of the league and enters most of the games the Dutchman does not enter I 1 V mon will again mix blows with Los Ios Angeles Last time they met i Vernon Vernon then then Venice won Venice won by a one game mn margin n. n Now the tile name lame has been 1 II changed they should do better than that With his host of r classic twirlers there is no forecasting who White will start with In fact it is ig doubtful if White himself can ever tell teU in advance San Francisco will meet Portland In nearly every series this year Portland ortland has trimmed the Seals and is looking to them with gusto now The I left handed brigade will be worked overtime If Portland continues to win there is a rare chance for either cither Salt Lake or Los Ls Angeles to step ahead The i only difficulty standing in the way of such a maneuver cr is the pitching strength of Vernon and the terrific clouting denting quintet from Oakland After this weeks week's series Salt Lakos Lako's boys will return to their high alti alti- i tude tade The home products most of them manufactured in sunny California I I like lika the high altitude now and find sometimes a chance to eke out sustenance for far their batting pedigrees Returning hero Salt Lake Lako will play Portland Local fans have one big desire just now and that is to win a series from Portland The Tho Beavers are much too selfish and have haye twice beaten the Ioe locals ts in in weekly weekly- hors de combat while white Salt Lake has won only one ono series I from them After the Beavers will come Los Angeles and San Francisco Continued on Following Pace Page j |