| Show BEAVERS BEA COMPLETELY Y ROUT BLANKENSHIP'S BLANKENSHIP S. S CREW SALT LAKE DROPS TWO GAMES Lio J HAVE EDGE ON ALL BREAKS Morning Game Games Is s Won by 5 to 4 Count While Afternoon to Set-to f Ends With 3 to 2 Reading The scores Morning game gam Portland game Portland 5 6 Salt Lake 4 Afternoon I game game Portland Portland 3 Salt Lake 2 I The batterie i pam Tn m 0 0 w and Salt Lake Lak Williams and L Lynn Yn n. n Afternoon game Port game Port Portland land Evans Krause and Carisch Salt Lake Fittery and Rohrer Probable batteries for today Portland Lush and Fisher Tisher Salt Lake Hall and Hannah Today is NOT ladies' ladies day f T I S. S ALT LT LAKE again went down to defeat before Portland yesterday afternoon afternoon afternoon after- after noon before stands packed to capacity with cheering fans eager cager to see seethe seethe the home team even cven up In in the double bill and make th the result of the series look more like a contest than a n long shot betting hetting odds The Thc score was 3 to 2 and as in ill the morning game which the Beavers won Avon 5 to 4 Salt Lake took tooke n B e two run lead and then n lost it iL The fans had little chance to kick however Salt Lake Lako led ed most of the way and when the change did come it was so sudden there was as little c chance hanc for complaining Salt Lakes Lake's usual trouble that of failing to drive in men who frequently jammed the bases spelled defeat Salt Lake got nine nine- nineteen teen een men on bases but only two t got around Many rany were nipped on sacrifice hits bits that turned sour and got the wrong man and some were nipped on trying to o stretch legitimate hits bits In four innings Salt Lake made ten hits in addition to one base on an balls alls and one man who lived on an error but of these twelve only two I crossed the pan In the fifth and sixth innings in each erch of which one man scored it took three hits for each cach tally one of the three hits in each inning being beinE a r Portland made two runs on two hits in the seventh se and one run on three hits in the thc ninth but the they would have scored two easily had not Bates f pulled 1 a Merkle Merkie by not touching second on Stumpf's single r t T HIS data gives an idea of the hard luck under which Salt Lake labored and has been laboring this series Optimistic fans say things will ill change when Brief gets here herc Probably so but Pop Tennant cannot be held re responsible rc- rc any more than the tho rest of the club for atno at no at o time yesterday was Pop the third out ont and in the second inning Pop did single with ith Hallinan on first while the thc remaining players could not do so BO well Paul Fittery was the home clubs club's stellar light He Hc pitched splendid ball but the luck was against him In only two innings did he alow m mord r r than one hit and two of these were scratchy cratchy However Portland was ready to take advantage ad of every bobble of fate and won Blankeuship tried the tho thet t same stunt himself and lost That is the way war fate behaves Fittery Fitter in addition to pitching good ball and fielding sensationally accounted for one of Salt SnIt Lakes Lake's runs scoring in the fifth on a a. a double a nifty slide into third on on a passed ball and a scamper over o the plate on Orr Orrs Orr's s 's timely single over O shortstop He was wab primed to count the other in inthe inthe the sixth when Hallinan doubled to center advanced to third on Tennants Tennant's well placed sacrifice and came home homo on Rohrer's sacrifice fly to center Fittery Fitter then got his second hit singling singlin to center raced to third on single and remained there while Orr grounded out aut Bates to Derrick Orrs Orr's bounder looked good rood for a count but Bates robbed him by bj neat nent fielding and a perfect peg Orr also played good good ball He started two double plays and saved Carisch's apparent double in the fifth when he hc raced behind second scooped it it up and A nd relayed to Tennant The throw was made while running headlong and came within feet of catching Carisch Orr caught Cari ch on the next pIny taking a hot one off Hillyard's bat and tossing to Faye for a force at second Portland evened up the count in the seventh on two hits and some neat sacrificing Bates doubled to Ryan and Stumpf followed with a scratch hit to Shinn which clung clunE to the ground evading the fielder Bates scoring Sacrifice hits b by Carisch and Hillyard then scored Stumpf 1 Their winning counter came in the ninth on a single by Bates hates followed by Stumpf's single which would have placed Bates on third had ho he not failed to touch second second Carisch doubled to right scoring Stumpf Carisch sch Was has as caught off third when Fittery threw to Tennant to catch Hillyard on n first and Tennant relayed to Hallinan getting gettin Stumpf at third for the thelast thelast thelast last out 1 McArdle had already skied out to Zacher sending Stumpf from second to third T HAT morning affair was one of the toughest games Salt Lake has had to lose for many moons Lefty Williams pitched enough h good ball to If win mn a couple of contests but bush support a a. couple of kicks b by himself and nd 50 some C of the worst umpiring of the year vear conspired to put another dent in the thc lofty average o of Blankenship's crooked arm I And then th the tho breaks brea of baseball in the ninth kept the local runners I tawny iway aWny from the plate when it seemed n a cinch bet they would at nt least tie tic liethe I the score if not win the time ol of game Same right there 1 Williams and Higginbotham drifted alon along for three innings inning pitching I masterful ball In the fourth Salt Lake took two Shinn walked and Ryan I stuck tuck his sou per in front of one Barbour crossed up the infield and amid beat I I out mt out a half chop to the short field and the pathways looked like the Gulch Tennant popped to Stumpf but Hallinan sneaked a Texas league back of second second for Shinn to score Ryan was wag ordered to go on in when when- he never had bad a chance and was out at the plate Hillyard to Carisch Lynn beat out outa I f I ft I hard hit ball to Bates and the bases were loaded Hi Higginbotham lost control control con con- and walked Williams forcing in Barbour with the second run Faye I I was ras an cas easy infield out CALT ALT LAKE went sky high in the fifth and Portland took the lead with I I 4 three runs Stumpf and Garish singled and Barbour Hillyard's 5 under filling the bases hases Left Lefty uncorked a n wild pitch for one counter md nd Barbour let lot Higginbotham's grounder oun get through him for a couple of finore ore to count Clean donations all r Salt Lake tied it in the sixth on a neat double by hy Hallinan nn and 1 singles l y Lynn and Williams Portland won the time old contest in the ci eighth and all nIl fter two were down Double Doubler by Stumpf and md Carisch Mch and a n single b by Hillard Hillard Hill- Hill ard tord did it et At that Ph Phyla le did a lot of damage e for Williams had Stumpf as sure as Salt l Lake k scored 0 it its fourth a ace ci in the 1 eighth i t Lynn doubled c Williams Yi j I T 1 1 et t i T 1 I f A t J L L- L 1 T T. u TZ 1 1 U I LL lu u list leu mil mil- un vH u n t G n. n III umu u iu 10 v U u. u l' l L tole second and then appeared apt reared Coveleskie Co the Salt SnIt Lake jinx and Orr I d fanned and ond Shinn fouled out to Bates Salt Lakes Lake's big bib n chance came camo in the ninth And here herc was OS clearly demon- demon I haled grated the breaks of luck Ryan led off with a beautiful little double aWn n the r right field line Hue Nutt attempted to sacrifice him liim to third hut but theall the I 1 all went t to Coveleskie Co who threw to Bates nate retiring Ryan It looked had bad badi 1 I ere i but hut Tennant came through h with another dandy double to right center I tL t holding bolding up at nt third With men mell on second and amI third and only one a none gone I I I n Prospects were bright I U Then crack I i Eddie c who was WI hitting like a n house afire got ot hold of one he led ked I p Smock Smack and it stuck in Derricks Derrick's glove c He lIe relayed it to McArdle finc and was doubled off second i |
