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Show OGOEI COMES TODAY; ZIDW WjLLCLIWlB UP Despite the fact that Ogdon Is the cellar cel-lar champion of the Union league, th 3crics whicli starts at r.;30 o'clock tills afternoon in Coolcy park will be Important. Im-portant. In the first place, the scries will undoubtedly enable Salt Lako to climb very close to the top of the percentage per-centage column. Of course, Missoula may win every day, but that is hardly likely. For that matter. Buck Weaver, who would like to win two games a day If he could, docs not expect to take every game from Ogden. lie believes tha.1 team has been the victim of hard baseball luck. Every day will sec the Ogden team strengthened. McCloskcy will not say what lie is going to do, but ho has his plans carefully laid. Now that the Ogden Og-den business men arc back of the club, it Is not likely to remain In the cellar very long. Another Important phase of this series Is that It will Hhow Cooley whether it is necessary to send for a first baseman and a couple of pitchers. All of tho fans disliked to sco Missoula Mis-soula walk away with four of the seven games, but think what might have happened! hap-pened! If Salt Lake had lost six out of tho seven, there would bo occasion to howl. As it whs. nothing but tho sheerest sheer-est baseball luck gave two of the games to Missoula. , Morgan, who pitched so well last year, has almost as many bolls on his neck and shoulders as Job had. Six of these painful afflictions arc his portion at present. Despite them, he pitches when asked to do so. for Willis Is gritty. DroSBan's left arm. which Is almost everybody dsn's right arm. is swollen to nearly twice Its size where he was hit on tho elbow while he was on second the other day. , ICillilay. who Is a. classy pitcher when bo wants to be, has some mysterious aliment not yet diagnosed, unless It is sl desire to bo released. Jensen, who is always a good pitcher, has not been fultc up to his usuaJ standard stand-ard for the last week. YJeforc tills siirics ends, all of the Salt Lake twhiora should have recovered except, ex-cept, possibly. Ivlllllay. Jf they do not show form by that time Cooley will get somo who do perhaps three or four. He docs not want lo nend for new men now. becauso he considers it highly probable that as soon as his pitchers recover they will bo the class of the lougue. Van Is going to bo released, but ho will tlnd ready employment with some of the other clubs in the bnlon league. Van mad two stnr catches last Sunday and lh a good all-round player, especially effective at hitting, but circumstances havo arisen which make him want to "O and he will be allowed to do so. For the Ogden scries, Abbott will proh-ablv proh-ablv be given a trial on llrst base. Abbott Ab-bott has not always worked well, but his experience is a valuable asset to llio team and Buck Wcawr. who asked foolcy to put Abbott there, believes Abbott Ab-bott will bo a big holp lo him. At any rate fans will suspend Judgment until Abbott gets a trial. No game was played yeslorday because of cold woather, but tho teams will play today unless it snows. |
