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Show I SENATORS AND N ealiicr Man Also Gives Mouul-men Mouul-men and Scrappers a H REED ELECTRICS AGAIN H 'JROUXCE THE IRRIGATORS Dave Byrd Joins Helena; Battle of Pitchers Js Expected Sunday. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Hl Great Falls. 9; Hoisu, !. 1 Halt Lake-Helena game postponed: wet grounds. Duttc-Mlssoula game postponed; With the weather matt out of line, four nf the teams lu llie Union league circuit. Halt Lake. Helena. Butto and Missoula, rested yesterday, but Ihey will resume operations ut tho old stands at 3:30 o'clock tills afternoon with renewed vigor. The only spot in llic el 1 cult favored by the weather oracle yesterday was Boise, and there the Great Falls Electrics trounced the Irrigators. 9 to J, and by doing so crept closer to the Mountnien for Etiond place. .Salt "Lake and Helena will renew hos-tllitics hos-tllitics this afternoon with ilunnnel on the slab for the Saints and Vos proba-ltly proba-ltly for the .Senators. The faints, chagrined ut their ilefcat ol Thur.sday. are vowing vengeance and the remaining contests with tho Senators should be spirited ones. Irby is strengthening for the icmaimlcr - f the first fray with the Saints. In ad-(Mtion ad-(Mtion to signing Byrd. originally with the ck scrapers but recently with the Salt l ake State- league nine: "B!ub" Is after r'ililKr Clailin, with Spokane, in the ortriwc-sl last year, but under suspen-ion suspen-ion by Victoria In the Northwestern 'r-3gi f now. Irby alto is after Benson i f P!a rvllle. Cat. repoitcd to be a crack i utlirldcr. .Stronger Than They Look. lrb'.s tvam is a groat deal stronger Than t looks;. The Senators are fielding 'U1! ;!'! running bases like lightning, i.it apiear to bo weak in the- pitching de-j de-j rr''.fnt and with tho exception of the M - a iK- with 'lie Saints have not hit any M ton r. i'i. Since their invasion of Salt 1 al - though. Hie Senators have been i ' 1 Hug the ball like veterans, and if il ey 1 opp n) this hitting stride they will M ni' i he bos i aliibmen in the league trouble ail th" Both of Sundnv's contests are likely M i devolno into pitcher:.' tiattles. For i-r'i Lake Morznp and Schlmnfr likely nil! ! on flu" sl-ib. while Irbv probably j will saw- Byrd for one of the Sunday 1 'pi-s smil Fend Cook, who held the j Vao -b!ttin Saints- to four scattered l 'iig'e-; Thursday, back to the mound for Me kciv'ihI struggle. Byrd knows the Saints' batting wcak- cfpu and should be able to make a food s!tewjng. if he does not win his came, and ihero is a strong probability ''mt, tie will In-, nble to hold (he Skv-f Skv-f rapeis. When Jacks apparently had '"-hi t lie second cranio to tho Huston I loil fis the elongated hurler from Hie noi-th-went In and stopped tho ramnage. 1in held the Speed Roys while ids teain-mates teain-mates pounded out a victory. Bvid has shown everything but control, and once --ets this he will give the best of the 1 Prion leaguers t rouble in connecting with h'.s slants. Cnok Is a Utah boy. having pitched in caiues around RInshani for some time 'Scrappy Bill" Joyce when Missoula was h-r': gave him a tryout. but the Saints pounced onto lilin in short order and j forced his retirement, after which Joyce ''( Die port wheeler go. Cook had the Salntu standing on their heads in Tliurs-dav's Tliurs-dav's gamas and sure lool;cd good, hut It m.iv havebeen that it was an off dav for Blankensiiip"s vouncslcrs and that "lev did not have any hits about them. Tf foolc works Sunday there may be a direrenl storv to tell. Undehatablc When Eight. Blankciishin lu all probabilitv will work Morgan in the (lr.( gatuit and Schimpff in the second. .Morgan, a good hind mil- "i and r lnio t unbeatable when riglii. las shown the best form of ,-i;iv of lilankensliin's hurlcrs. and Scluiupff dis-iloscd dis-iloscd in the i-ainc acalnst Helena Thurs-dav Thurs-dav that he is a wonderful little hurlcr an well as a meat utilllv man. cutting th" SeiiPtora down with two hits In six j and one-third inning.1: after thev had walked all ovor tK Jachs and his erratic tain-mntC8 for right runs and the game. S'hlmpf. despite the old injury to hi? pltrhiug hand, displayed wih cnres. good onirol and plenty of spend, and will give the league's heaviest hitters lots of trouble when his hand heals entirely. Big Jachs elves promise of 'being in the pitching c lass of the league once ho strikes his stride.' He lias plenty of steam, big curves and a good change of pace, but is lacking in control. Lately, however, he has shown wonderful improvement im-provement in this department, and with plenty of woik. essential for such nitch-,ers nitch-,ers as Jachs. the husky Washington state bov should have the hardest hitters In the circuit eating out of his hand when going well. |