Show EXTRA EXTRA SPORT EDITOR MAKES GREA T DISCOVERY DIS C 0 VER Y FINDS WHY wJ-IY SALT LAKE DOES NOT WIN f I 1 Read All About How Blanks Blank's Crew Could Have Won the Entire Series From l Portland nd I IThe 1 The score Portland 4 41 Salt Lake 0 O. The batteries Portland batteries Portland Coveleskie and Fisher Salt Lake Gregory Greg Grog lory ory Hall and Lynn There will be no game today as the teams are traveling Tomorrow Tomorrow Tomor Tomor- row Los Angeles opens with Salt Lake for a six-game six series Portland Portland Port Port- I land plays Vernon at Los Angeles and San Francisco and Oakland meet on their ther mutual lot p Georgians Georgiana there aint no alibi AIl week sometimes twice a 3 day we have hn been searching our none too ponderous or or fertile brain for that elusive reason how Salt Lake could have won won U but yesterday we gave up But we believe there is a reason cant can't cant can't get awn away from a habit why habit why a n number if not all of the ball games Salt Lake has lost should not have been so Here fete it is They haven't made enough runs rims This Thi famous discovery has taken hours of toil and md delving into records but we honestly believe and no one has been able to prove c otherwise otherwise that this reason and this alone alono has been the cause use of Portland taking seven out of the thc eight games For instance to have won have won the seven games that were lost ost all that would hov been necessary would have been Ifor Blankenship's boys bos to have ha corralled corralled cor cor- railed and properly dist distributed twenty three more runs A minor task tak of course An example tho the first game was won by Portland 6 to 1 L Now to have 11 gathered in that engagement S Salt lt Lake should have llave made six more runs and nd the score consequently would have hav stood 7 to G 13 in favor of Salt Lake Of course all great grent discoveries seem simple when once explained To have won yesterday Salt Lake should c have made macic five e runs then the score would have stood Salt Lake 5 Portland 4 You get it of course O of the thea way a the score stood the thc game yesterday was a pretty dern deni bright exhibition of baseball Young Stan Coveleskie pitched a brilliant game game- allowing but four hits all of them U widely separated ed On the other hand Mr Gregory and md Mr r. Hall who occupied occupied and and ed-and and that's all the till the hill hin for Salt Lake allowed themselves to be pried loose from nine pine hits a Do number of them for tho the extra stations And of these nine blows a number dame ime ame at a 3 time when a pop fly or a strike-out strike would have hn been far more acceptable to the good goodly 1 gathering of fans The affair really ended in the second inning Portland scored then but they had to play the other seven sc frames cause enuse the rule book says sas so and the umpires f felt they needed to earn their money moncy some way or other Gregory got by the first inning and gave an intimation of what he ho intended to do do by b- striking out Shinn Shian Orr and Barbour arbour the first three Salt Lakers The wreck rcck occurred in the Ule second Bales Bafs was ns out infield Tennant and Gregory dO doing I the undertaking Then things started to happen Stumpf slammed one on a line at Ryan Ran and ond Buddy came in and ancl took it off his shoe tops but it was asking too much of f the ruddy faced l left ft gardener to hold it and he e dropped it About nine out of ten other fly-chasers fly would have been content to have ha taken it on the second hop Then Pottsboro Tex broke up UJ the game Pottsboro's sheriff one Augustus Hyrum Fisher slammed a triple into left center Just as easy casy as if ho he were vere throwing one of the city cut tips into the 11 f YARD fanned but McArdle bounced one over O Gregory Gregor into center a and Fisher isher scored The rhe Portland run tm ambled in in the next frame when a fielders fielder's choice and a scratch triple by Bates sen sen 1 Speas home Gregor GregOl Gregory Greg- Greg Ol or ory got the thc gate here when Blank just might i ht as well ivell have left him in Hall up an and fanned fanne Stumpf for the third out But ut Stumpf go cot hi his r ren revenge en e for forit it was his double double that sC scored led Speas in inthe the thc eighth after Bill had lived eel on a n fielders fielder's choice and took third on Bates' Bates Bates'S single s Salt Lake had two chances The first firs was as in ill the second in inning ing Ryan led off with a 3 double to right center Zacher walked Tennant was in- in 5 to sacrifice them along but he lie put too much juice on ball hail and his lus grounder went ent to Coveleskie who got Ryan going to third Hallinan ed one into left that looked good for two but hut Carlisle mad great cat catch catch h. h Then Lynn bounced an ens easy one to McArdle 1 wh h forced Tennant at second T T lIE HE other opportunity came caine in the je last frame With one gone one Nutt hitting for drew a walk Tennant nant hooked one against the fence in right that was a good for a l two two-bagger agger in anyone's hut for the fact that a aI aI I pla player r who is not only a t filbert iJ in name but in the the tho general up make-up of his cranium cranium was on the paths ahead o of him In crossing second Nutt wh who will nev never r draw any medals for his grace grace- s stumbled on the bag For For fear that he might get to third and thereby there- there Thy by make it possible for to be he cheated out of a shut out he went back ack and stood lood on second Tennant Tennant was as almost on that bag when Nutt can- can ered back The rules Jes do not provide that two runners can occupy a n baso base at iL ft the same samo time with any alY degree of legality so McArdle touched the ker J and what looked like liko a chance to add little a spice to tho the game arac w was wasCo shot 1 in tho the left eyebrow V for Reuther hitting for Hallinan grounded out C Co- Co f leskie I to Derrick 4 |