Show I BLANKS BLANK'S S 'S CRE CREW W SH SHUNTED UN TED IN INTO TO SECOND DIVISION BY DOUBLE DEFEAT DEFEA T A AT T END OF ROAD TRIP I GREGORY LOSES CLOSE ONE IN MORNING ROMP IN AFTERNOON Hammered From Hill but run Four Lead Isn't Enough for Hall and Fittery The SCores stores Morning game Salt game Salt Lake 2 Oakland 3 The batteries bat bat- I Oakland Klawitter and El El- I teries teries Sat Salt Lake Gregory and Hannah liott Afternoon game Salt game Salt Lake 5 6 Oakland 11 Batteries Batteries- Batterie Salt alt Lake Hal Hall Fittery and Lynn Oakland R and Kuhn The clubs are ara traveling today Salt Lake and Portland are on their way here arid and will vill open on Tuesday Los Angeles and San FranciscI Francisco Francisc I will win meet fn in n the Bay city while Oakland and Vernon will tangle in Los Angeles Angela I SAN Q AN FRANCISCO Jul July 18 Harold Harold Rowdy Elliotts Elliott's Oaks plastered L a double defeat on Salt Lake in today's header double and sent Blankenship's Blanken- Blanken ships ship's men nien homeward a second division club The breakfast after affair saw the Utah club beaten benten by the narrow margin of 3 to 2 Tho The boys bos got off to n a run one load lead right at the start and held this advantage right light up to tho the close dose Gregory and Klawitter were the opposing and kept bits hits scattered at six ap apiece ece but two bad errors of the former were big factors in the defeat Dutch was given perfect support and rind sometimes sometimes some some- t times mes the aid was spectacular Main l interest centered in the ninth Nutt batting for Gregory shot a safety past McAvoy oy and Shinn drove the tho ball between Johnston and Gardner Gardner Gardner Gard Gard- ner for far a triple to score the pinch hitter Barbours Barbour's out Guest to Ness brought Jimmy in but Dutch settled and the best Zacher and Ryan could coul T. T do were easy flies flics to Guest and Johnston Ness m made maclo cle sure of another game ame added to his record when with two down and Johnston on first as the tho result lt of a n single to center he banged out a n three-bagger three to right for the first run The other Oakland runs came in the ei eighth Johnston got a clean double double dou don ble blo to center and moved up on Ness's sacrifice bunt Rube Gardner was given gi fur wide ones much to his disgust but Litschi sent Jimmy in on a abad abad abad bad bounder to Gre Gregory The Salt Lake heaver hewer fell with tho the ball hall and made madea a pretty throw while on his back to nab Louie Loula zi at first Elliott singled to left to bring Gardner in in with what proved pro to be the winning inning run nIn IN N the afternoon given i en a run four lead on off in the first inning 0 Blanks Blank's men couldn't hold the advantage Hall Holl was banged out of the box in the tho last of the thc first firs with five runs scored Oaks speedily ran up a commanding score closing with the tally reading 11 to 5 Fittery Fitte- who followed in behind Hall and attempted to relieve a n bad situation tion was touched for si six more earned runs Indeed the Oaks batted themselves around the bases all nIl afternoon aided b by sundry walks men hit mt hith h by pitched balls and wild pitches J Jack k Ness kept on with his record performance a three-bagger three in the forenoon and a double later in the lay clay la giving ghin him seven forty straight ht games in which he lie le has not missed at least one click H Ho pulled his morning triple first time up In the afternoon it looked looke for a time that he tIc was as to be he stopped Ran Hall hit the world champion in the ribs rib as a D. starter and fanned him in the third and gave him a walk in the fourth Then in the sixth when it looked d like another walk Ness pelted petted a hard ball shai straight ht at Gedeon The Tho ball was too hot to handle and went vent through Joe to the fence beyond Ness reached second on the pla play and beyond any ny y question was entitled l to hi his hit DUBE RUBE R UBE GARDNER was WaR wa the hitting demon of or the da day not only ir from ul point V J-V of numbers hut but effectiveness as 35 well He reg registered three hits one a 3 double and drove in six fix ix of the eleven devOn runs the Oaks registered which is isa isa isa a fair a afternoons afternoon's a performance f That Tuat first inning was a humdinger er for fair The Salt SnIt Lakers got their action with ith two out Zacher anti and R Ryan an smashed 1 to ri right ht field and Elm Elmer r landed landed landed-i 6 fn 1 a two two-la two two-bagger er b by Gedeon Tennants Tennant's two sacker a against tho the fence sent in Gedeon after Ryan lyan had scored on a wild pitch It was 35 the end for V With th Prou h in the box 1 singled to left and anil as Middleton Middleton Middle- Middle ton fumbled the ball hall Tennant chased himself across the plate pitched good ball balI thereafter Up tip jo to the ninth he lie had held tho the visitors to one hit lilt In their last chance the visitors tallied once more al iii- iii thou though h h by this time they were so 0 far behind it made little difference Ten Ten- nant's nants single sing and a a t two wo-bl wo b by Hallinan put Tomm Tommy around I U AKLAND looked to lo be he facing a lost game ame with that run four lead lend hut but the fans were counting counting- without their host McAvoy was 15 fanned h by Hall who ho turned right around and walked Middleton and Johnston When Ness was hit the b bases were vere full and Rube Gardner proceeded to do the first of the damage his two ply swat to right tallying n a couple of tho the boys Litschi forced Ness at nt the plate pInto on n a grounder to short but Kuhn singled into loft to s send not only Gardner but Litchi Litschi home The Tho wrecking crew c called for Hall and Fittery went lo fo to the tho rescue With Kuhn still on the tho bases Guest smashed the ball to t the outfield for the fifth rim run of the Given th that t inning slim edge of a run rune the Oaks fairly romped away with the tho session session in the later Inter innings s.- s. When Gardner camo to bat to-bat bat in tb fourth Johnston and Ness were on the sacks Reuben swung hard the ball went safely into right and ud the pair scored It was Prou h himself who ho drove in and Kuhn Juhn in the fifth after the third sacker had been hit and mcl Kuhn had scratched a single Clinton poled the sphere over o second base and aud the deed was done As if that were not enough Sh Gardner carne came up acain in tl the e eighth With one ono out out Middleton and Johnston l had ld d swatted Fittery for singles-Ness singles 1 grounded to short but but Gardner sent the he ball against the center enter field fence for the I teat t of f the lor sc scoring rm so far as the Oaks were concerned |