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Show nuiiEL BULL TOO MUCH FOR apes Tiny Leonard's Under ground Delivery System Makes Blank's Men Dizzy. MAKE BRAVE STAND IN EIGHTH ROUND LOnce Solved, the Portland ? Heaver Is Quickly Put to Jb Rout; Local Pitchers P Easy for Invaders. t Salt Lake Portland S, bait Lake 6 it San Frano-co "Venice 6, San Francisco 7 t it Los Angeles Oakland 3 1 Los Angeles 4 (14 innings) Today's game begins at 3 o'clock It will be the last league game in Salt Lake for three weeks. A tunnel ball s an awful thing fait Lake found that oat daring the . I first an lnrangs of yesterday s ball B, gaaie, which Portland iron 8 to 6. I K A tunnel ball be it known la a ball S"tit sprouts rapidly oat of the ground u the center of the diamond It takes i eourse more or 3ca in an upward Band win ard direction toward the catch r a glove Sometimes a batter nter Booses his -weapon but usually the inter Knptron profits the batter 1 ttle, be-Kraase be-Kraase the carom fizzles into a little Binbble ball into some infielder a hand B A gentleman from Portland of the Baame of Leonard Elmer Leonard to be Tree se . a tunnel ball pitcher Be-Bcaose Be-Bcaose of his d nunutive stature Elmy is Vailed T n Tut fits him better than Bites an uniform that ever was eon K&rncted br contract Without his lregikes T nv we ghs 64 pounds and he 'Bias beautiful hair of a ravishing auburn JKrst. Abo he is a bo act six feet tall Tid w de and thick in proportion. The Subway Stuff , Tiny bad his subwav delivery serv I e in perfect working order for en finings. During that long and agonizing agoniz-ing stretch of time only twenty Salt Lake batsmen faced Tiny Of these only tnj got as far as first base, where they promptly expired from in anition. In the seventh Tiny put the jinx on . kimself. With a double play in s ght . and almost a cinch Leonard heaved the ball high to the second base guardian . sad the two runners who profited there-by there-by came home soon afterwards. The eighth found Tiny s underhand endow ftents puzzles no longer The absence ef a controllable fast one made th ngs had for Tiny and before he was lifted the stag was set for four counters. , The rally gave Salt Lake little else than hope however for at its eloee r Portland not only still had a lead of oiio but also added another one to that lead. . Hit Blank's Hea ers Opposed to the superb pitching of Leonard in his prime was that of Frank ; Arrellanes who started for Salt Lake Be lasted a couple of innings or so but r even then he was not 6naked early fcenongh for Portland had the jump and some four or five runs either garnered or in the garnering when Howard Greg ' cry appeared upon the scene. Howard p tched good rnn-of mine ball, but every now and then Portland added a counter . and when the end came they had a total of e ght whereas our athletes had ' only s x. Lefty Williams took a b t of a hand in the last nmng and quick 1 1' struck a man out but Salt Lake J eouldn t raise the wind in their half and consequently lost. B 11 Stumpf was the best bet Port land had yesterday for knock ng in 1 runs. At least half of the Beavers J , iota were due to Bill s timely and 1 sturdy blows Tom Tennant performed V in a similar-capacitv for Salt Lake four J of Bait Lake s six runs being directly due to Tom s trusty hickory 0 President Allan T Baum watched the t doings from the grandstand. Portland Gets Lead f Portland dug into the earth in the t first inning and fetched up a tally The reaon for it was Derrick s double and Stumpf s eingle ' The th rd was the Beavers b g time r pogagTuent Leonard sneaked a s ngle into r ght and Doane followed with, one r into left Speas h t to Orr who touched second fore ng Doane Leonard 1 going to th rd. Dern k s out put Speas on second And then came along "Jfr fcturaof with a crack ng s ngle on o ch both Leonard and Speas counted .Arrellanes then went into the woods 'and Gregory went to work Fisher clicked out a single and Stumpf went . t third A passed ball let Stumpf kfome across and Fisher went to second. A nifty single by Ty Lober sent r ' ner home with the fourth tally of the inn ng , Another was added in the fourth Orr Wrew wild on Dav s s hopper After i o outs, Doane drew a walk and Dav s atranced to second whence he scored P Speas s double , Tje invaders made one more in the ftth on two leg rolls so to speak ilampf h t a nice easy one to Orr and JB '"eat beween his legs and kept on jBfilJ1! Whon it reached Ryan f also yWni a -vacant spot between Buddy s Hg'S!i and there were two boots on KPf tame ball m the same way Fish Wr.t ,ilyont ent Stumpf to th rd and K,Js; minutes later a single by Lobor MBtyg him T 9 tn seventh inning the only two Salt Lake men to seo the color of first base were Gedeon w th a single in the fourth and Jimmy Sh nn by beat ng out a bunt in the s nth In the seventh rays o hope began to spr ng up all over the lot Bobby Dav s .kicked Zacher s roller Ryan b t a bounder to Leonard who attempted to make a double at second T ny threw the ball so hard and so high that the f elders eouldn t get t and when t was brought back into plav Zacher was on third and Byan on tecond Mr Tennant then loomed above the cloud of dust and slashed out a double to center scoring Zacher and Ryan Although Gedeon drew a walk and a f elder s cho e put Tennant on th rd (Continued on Following Page ) TUNNEL BALL IS TOO 1CH FOR SALT LAKE (Contlnned from Preceding Page.) the side wis retired before any further scoring could be done The eighth was Salt Lthi best in ning netting the home clnb four conn ters Shinn made a noble beginning, with a double to left Orr skied and Zacher s single scored Shinn Ryan waited for four balls and then Mr Tennant once more made a welcome appearance This time he soused t squarely on the muzzle The ball hit somewhere near Billy Speas in center f eld, but B llr couldn t corral it and Tom a hit went for a three bagger and brought n Zacher and Ryan Gedeon was b t b a pitched hall Tiny faded from r ew and Irve Hig ginbotbam took hold Barbonr replae ing Hallman stepped into H g s first offering for a hingle He triad to stretch t to a double but was nailed at second But his hit scored Te-nnant for the fourth counter of the nning Hannsl who replaced Rohrcr h t to Stnmpf and the side was retired. The score stood 7 to 6 whan Port land came up for their last wheck With one out Donne leaned on one for a right field single and Speas leaned on another for a r ght field double p t ting Dnane on th rd Derrick was hit by a pitched ball Rtumi f hoiitc I one to Sh nn It was a sacrifice fir nod Doane counted LefU W 11 ami was sent in and struck out Fisher for the tb rd man down Salt Lake half wasn t even worth seeing the ride going ont in order The clubs will plav again at 3 o clock th s afternoon It will be tbe last game of the series and the last of Salt Lake f rat installment at home |