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Show HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE A NABOB. JOE ? SALT LAKE WINS PAIR AND KNOCKS SEALS FROM TOP Gedeon Knocks Ball Out of Lot in Tenth . Inning of First Game, Counting Winning Runs; Locals Get "Breaks of Sun" in Eighth Inning of Second Game and Put Six Across. t It Lake First game San Francisco 4 Salt Lake 5 (ten innings ). Second game San Francisco S, Salt Lake 9 it San Francisco ernon 3, Oakland 2 U Los Angeles Portland 4, .Los Angeles 5 (ten innings) SALT LAKE did a lot of things la i baseball way yesterday TifT iron two pn ea Francisco, and tumbled the k,ers from their exalted perch -which o u occupied by the. inela, Ow L to the unfortunate f. t that er-I er-I boa iw, salt Lake remains in the eel now Portland. Instead ef the f Bdti of yesterday's ball games were fhMadoaJy exciting The first went lio w 5to 4 in ten innings and the fitwti went our way also, 9 to K joe Gedeon Hero. Jm Geueon was the great and out ViiJ hero u the first game. It was rf-jt that Joe should be that for it tt, ks home-run dnve in the tenth feiS ie-1 the two runs across that were Jeeded to win the game. The score seal 4 to 3 in the visitors favor at a . . j Mowing Geoeon s horn a-ran drive is fu induced in a tremendous dem Bsbitton. Tor fully five minutes the Btd howled and yelled and shrieked itl screamed, and while the noise was on Joe was calmly bat indus tnastT engaged in pichin., up com of be fata. When Joe's pockets were fcuei, other ball players came to his ejotsace and before they had cleaned tf i that was on the ground four till piTers were loaded down with 'Base? real mosey and last n ght Joe ns a bloated capitalist, a plutocrat lad i lot of other like things. tTfae 'nn Field. Be second game was the most re-eirkihle re-eirkihle ball game ever played in this a probably any other town. Salt Lake to because it got the breaks of the so. The breaks of the sun is a Jrv expression in baseball lore but it lis come to star in Salt Lake. Nine jus three for an Francisco and six Ebr "ah Lake in the e ghth inning T"t broadtv speaking whollv and eole-i eole-i fee to the sun. (Tie tin has been troublesome in left 5fcd for two months and verv often Tk fielders have been unable to field PL4 kit out there. Yeterday how ere the culmination of that sun stuff ns reached when Buddy Bvan for Salt Sake and Biff Thaller for San Franco Fran-co ere rendered absolutely helpless Jot otJt tould thev not see the ball was hit, but also they could lot discover its whereabouts until the wad of its impaet against the fence W tlem Its location, r Ta third basemen and the shortstops Jt m no better situation but luckily r them balls were not often hit to Vs. IPTfocallT every ball that was hit hi56 haTe9 weai mio lrft field BA tter aj went for two bases tiSer two doubles and a single had " made off Be Kg m the eighth he ja lfted for Spider Baum, but Spider ed so better and all told the six tade in that inning counted six 2m. . , Iocal8 and put them two lead. San Francisco made a bid n tie ninth when a double and a sin Mnnted a tally but Fittery was mm to HIeve .Gregory and he quick f k-posed of his opponents Bonny Brief s Homer Jifter the eals had gone crat'rn the irM.j?e of.tle Pener Quinlan w'' and, 'with Shlnn at WPK t0 BteaI bnt a perfect w aaded him Shinn hit one past EM went to second when Schal " Wed the ball. Brief slammed a the lftfl6ld fence for ftJirtn, Gedeon poled a two to . 2 le" nter toot third on . E m, P to Meloan and counted h i fiLrl '"l361 Schmidt on Cor Wder the pkte on Traant s tS" & eir first run m the Ut, f J?4, ar4 opened by working S Tinf ml CTet down i (JJad after 'zgerald had tethfIler clonted a double to TCiB 1 4lLotted Schmidt end fj umog by ground ng to the Jfc" tte xth Wolverton s boys oe over on Downs s double and loan wTOce- of han was hit and WdJ? dof n, a ht, which Wil 5 0ot ftH cleauy and Jerry U Seventh 5?-eti.1'tt' and one boot gave the WraM ,run m tte seventh -d wvBgrei t0 nS-ht and went W br On- let hinn s throw i1 J;4.116' ehort hit to center Jidt . 5 I, anther sack and K''to left scored him SwmSS heId & the far eorner 4, FPPed, and Bodie s walk filled ith 7ha,kh,t. t0 Bef who fell bMi Ped nntl1 the tenth al Cff WaIk of the daJ' to Wn,3,rh,a,n anf iced Wil I jKkand slashed a double .fn Following Page) I SILT LIKE TAKES BOTH FROM SIS (Continued from Preceding Page.) apaiust the center-field boards, scoring Pingo. Leard 2nd Cavet went out. Brief raised Salt Lake 's hopes by clicking a double to center, eoiug to third on Buddy's huntand wnen Ged-1 eon raised his' high, one, he held the , baj, for had the ball landed inside the rarK. he could have scored on the catch. The trail weDt over and Gedeon circled tho bases for the winnincr count. In tbe fourth the Seals nad a chance to score, when Bodie and Schmidt both sicgled. Salt. Lake got two on in the eighth, when Brief walked, took second on Leard 's error, letting Ryan's grounder ground-er co through his legs. Gedeon f lie J to 5te!oan and Orr hit to Downs, who pot Ryan at second. Bunny taking third. Zacher batted for Tennant and walked. Hannah hit to Leard, who got Orr for the third out. Hammer Gregory. The Seals yot after Gregory on the jump. In the second a double bv Me-loan Me-loan and a triple by Jones scored one, and in the third a single by Corhnu. a double by Bodie aDd a. final single by tSehaller scored two more. Reisitrl was in trouble all the while, but he pulled out until the fifth, when he forced in a run with two singles and two bases on balls. The Seals scored arain in the seventh. sev-enth. Singles by Mclean and Jones and Orr's error put Meloan on third, and he scored on Reisigl's sacrifice fly. Salt Lake made two in their half. Brief doubled and counted on Rvan 's single. Gedeon 's double put Buddy on third and he scored on Orr's out. The Amazing Eighth. The eighth was the most amazing in-in in-in of baseball ever witnessed in league pastiming, without a doubt. The Seals started off by making three. Bodie Bo-die doubled 8"d scored on Downs 's double. Downs went to third on a wild throw and scored when' Lynn dropped the throw on Jteloan 's hit infield. Jones's single and Sepulveda's double counted the other. All of those hits wero into left, where they were lost in the sun, either by the iniolders or the outfielders. Rut Salt Lake 's ill fortune was nothing noth-ing compared with that of San Francisco. Fran-cisco. The Salt Lakers took six in their half, Lynn started with a double. dou-ble. Tfizory skiod. Lynn scored on Quinlan 's double. Then Shtnn singled and .Keisigl went out. Brief was walked and was forced at second by Ryan, Qtiiulan scoring. Gedoon 's double dou-ble scored Shinn and Rvan and Orr's double scored Gedeon. Orr tallied on Tennant 's single. Four of the hits were to left. The Seals threatened in the ninth. Kitrgorald led off with a siule and scored on Bodie 's double. Gregory was yanked for Kittery, aud there was nothing further doing." The clubs will play again this afternoon aft-ernoon at 3 o'clock. It will be the last game of the series and tho last in Salt. Lnke for three weeks. |