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Show fFIRST GAME WITH PORTLAND THRILLING BATTLE BLANK STEPS ON , BEAVER'S TAIL, AND TAKES THE OPENER " Excitement Intense When Portland Stages Rally ' jn Ninth; McCredie Has Runners on Second and Third When Game Ends; Chief v La Roy Has Only One Bad Inning. U bait Lake Portland 5, Salt Lake 6 ilr t San Francisco Venice 0, San Francisco 1 (10 innings ) lj t Los Angeles Oakland 0, Los, Angeles 3 Ladies daj todaj , game starts at 3 o clock II-p-jWS as the not tnfl dr incident I L turns the course of human 1 fe III so also does the most trivial n t"" udent ofttimes detern ines the Bukono of a ball jrame There was a Ihnsl th tig in the n nth inning of yes My s battle at Majestic park wh ch while it didn t tmst the result came ii jhtj cloe to t It so happened that it all turned out o k and bait Lake won 6 to 5 The tri nal thing referred to was a Mackinaw sweater coat The gaily col o ed garment lav peacefully and calmly in the shade about ten Xeet in front of I tie, grandstand It had no thought t o her than a des re to be left alone. It Nru far from be ng of a icious nature (find it bore n alice toward none lAeTertheless, that sweater coat was re ppoiiB ble for a tembl lot of heart ptrouhle " t i Rambunctious Sweater ' If was in the ninth inning when the Mackinaw projected itelf into the CTotlight "With two out, McCredie had i man on third and another on second widv and e en eager to leak out into lie plate at the slightest proioeat on k3iU" btnmpf was the batter Bill I tted a h gh foul Hannah went after it In his path lav the Mackinaw .Inasmuch as a catcher who is trying lo corral a twister of a high foul hasn t pery much time to make careful obser rations of the landscape Hannah evi laatlv thought that Mackinaw was a all player all flattened out or a bear r a house and lot or any other old thing When Hannah caught a glimpse it that weird thing on the ground he hesitated jut long enough to lose h s bearings and as a result he missed the ill KThat gave tumpf another chance A I I lay between defeat and victory but wiappily B 11 hit a poppe, which was ira nered in bv Eddie Hallinan for the fljiiid out and the game was our n. llFull of Excitement IK It was a battle full of exc tement nd it belonged to anvbody nntU that last catch w as made 'The suspense was so great at that crucial moment that tie sigh which followed sounded like a fair sized roar and then a tremendous cheer spl t the sky. for Salt Lake stood ,600 in the percentage column La Roy's Spitter ffctef Louie La For made his first appea anc before the home crowd. The cmef had something: It was hard to deleft Just what he had but It must have been something: classy because the Ba ers except n one inning- cou dn t Bet them out of the d amond The chiefs sp tter was working perfectly In e.ght of tbe n ne inn ngs. ' McCred e s first offering was Irvie H g pnbotham. He was p teeing fair to me :Uum ba but was removed for a p nch iter Hig was succeeded by Rube Evans, and Rube was the best friend Lak had. Two doubles and a tins e spel ed Rube s retirement and also ga e Blankenshlp the best of it Tiny Leonard finished the game for Portland One m trie one bat counted t e needed mar En was made off Tin-Salt Tin-Salt Lake put up a con derable quart , 7 of winter feed w h le the sun s onw Mn the second inning A bae on bal s ; o Tennant, a hit by Gedeon and a sao rl ce by Haliinan put runners on sec nd and th rd They w ere drained oft Into Jhe c edit box when Hannah cent out a .slash ng single to left ; Bank added one in tbe third Mnn s jfionbe and Orr's out at first put Jimmy on th d and Zacher"s out let him come pome McCredie Gets Bus ' " In the fifth McCredie made his frst appea ance on the coaching lines There o o e the chief Bea er had observed a ja e of re irement on the bench. When , appeared is batsmen went to It r J? lober and Bobbv Coltrin led off ar TOn s ng es Coltr n was In luck, because Ily Orr and Edd e Hal nan got their es crossed on his 1 ttle pop and it I safe Johnn Lush was snt in to lor H gginbotham He slammed to aeon who put out Co trin at seco a Mr o ng to th rd. Callahan was put to run fo Lush Doane dumped one front of the plate that had a mis evous ro and w le Hannah was ng it to Tennant Lober scored. IT Sy tne wa made a remarkable cn in th s Instance Speas singled and Uahan went to t d toeas headed for second and Hannah ew In the genera d rect on of Gedeon ' the ba i went to the outfle d Han S afer a as sad that the bal wa e ed with about an inch of La Roy s i a and that It si pped out of h s hand son wonder was hat it ddnt flj lot he lot Oa ahan scored on the play Then came Fred Derrick with a doub e that counted Speas and next along came B 1 Stumpf with a sing e that counted Derrick Fisher rolled to Tennant and the s de was out The do ngs ne ted th Bea era four tallies and put them one to the gooa. Blank Gets 'Era Back The ia aders lead d d not last long bowever "because Blankensh p came back at them in hts half of the f fth with a coupe of nicks It -was Evans s kindly offerings that suleed the Sa t Lakers so we L, After Orr fanned b mer Zacher b tted out a double Tennant went out on an Inf eld play and Joe Gedeon brought Tennant home w th another two bagger Ha nan next happened along with a s n g e that counted Gedeon and then Mr E ans d sappeared and Leonard came forward Hannah skld for tl e th rd man down Salt Lake made another n the seventh After a double pay had set down two Tom Tennant smashed out a corker to center Speaa was set for he hopper bu the ball took a corkscrew bound and Tennant took a chance The two takes resulted In a trip e for Tom Gedeon once more was the power beb nd the bat his double scoring Tennant. McCred e buck ed n again in the e ghth and put one over It was made on a doub e by F sher and a s ngle by Lober The ount stood 6 to o for the home club when the Beavers s aged the r ha r ra 6 ng performance in the ninth Car iBCh, batting for Leonard was thrown out by Ha nan Doane doub ed to r ght center and wnt to third on Speas s in fed ou Derrick drew a wa k and sto e second There we e two on there foe when the Mack naw inc dent oc curred as p e ious y related Th game was put Into Blank s bat bag when Stumpf popped to Ha nan It was sure some f n sh The clubs wi 1 play aga n th s af er noon at 3 o clock |