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Show llWILD HEAVES ! AND SUCH r I i Wins Loses both. both. Splits. San Francisco.. .;8S .677 .as2 1 i Los Angeles 541 .530 .536 I Salt Lake 612 .500 .506 Vernon 4:17 .486 .492 Oakland 451 .440 .446 Portland 442 .430 .436 The day's hitters: AB. H. TB. r.O. Bartholemy, Portland 1 1 1 f.000 Ryan. Salt Lake S 6 10 .750 Harper, Los Angeles 4 3 6 .750 Hosp, Oakland 4 3 5 .750 Johnston. Oakland 4 3 3 .750 Beer, Oakland 3 2 2 .667 Koerner, Los Angeles...! 2 2 .500. Stow, Oakland 4 2 2 .500 Fromme, Vernon 2 1 2 .500 Fanning. San Francisco. .2 1 1 .500 Home-run hitters Southworth, Portland Port-land ; Bodle, San Francisco, i '' p ,..' ''.'''.'" The series stand to date: bait Jjake, won 4; Vernon, won 1. San Francisco, won 5; Portland, 'won 1. Oakland, won 4; Los Angeles, won 1. Two and a half games ahead. There are two games between Salt Lake and Vernon today, two games between be-tween Oakland and Los Angeles, and a double-header beiween Portland and San Francisco. Beginning Tuesday, Salt Lake plays at San Francisco in seven games. Los Angeles An-geles plays at home against Vernon, the latter being the home club. Oakland plays at Portland. ; Jack Killilay has pitched sixteen successive suc-cessive runless innings. Long Tom Hughes, Angel pitcher, who came to the club from Washington, has been handed his release by Dillon. 1 41 Jimmy Carberry, a San Franclseo pitcher, who hails from Santa ("Mora, has Deen signed by Manager Rowdy Elliott of the Oakland team. Gage has been returned re-turned to his Sacramento home with Instructions In-structions to report for spring training, apd Carberry will be taken to Portland tonight to be given a taale of lif a on a CoasL league ball club. Harry Wolter, the star outfielder of the Angel crew, was fn San Francis. -o ves-terday, ves-terday, but declared that he would 'not be able to get back Unto the game for the rest of the season. Joe Tobin officially severed his connection con-nection with the Oakland baseball lub yesterday. His five days' notice expired and he was allowed to go. AA ALSO DRAFT. Now that the majors have finished drafting men from the minor leagues of the country, the class AA leagues will get a change a 1 the same game. Todfiy is the first day of the drafting season for AA clubs, and Coast teams nroin sn tn draft several star players from some of tbp sniAller organizations of the country. coun-try. Los Angeles will put in drafts for three men, it was announced by Vice President Darmody of the Angel club last night an outfielder, a pitcher and an infielder. Two of the players are now in clasB B leagues what leagues Darmody would not say. The other is a class A man. All three are young fellows. 1 The Vernon club is also expected to file dr?.fts for several young stars. President Presi-dent Ed Maier of the Tigers announced his intentions some time ago of getting several youngsters for the lfllH club. It is his belief that Doc White will be able to develop enough goud men from the young blood to more than make it worth while. Vernon and los Angeles are not the only clubs In the Coast league which are after players via the draft route. Cliff 1 BlanUenship announced last night that be 1 will attempt to get two players by that I method, but refused tn divulge any Information In-formation as to the class of league they are In or what part of the nouniry they hall from. Txs Angeles Tribune. Billy Neal, the Phillies scout, who is 1 sfill looking over local baseball talent. : as well as visiting the exposition, paid I Spider Raum h genuine compliment the other day. He said that If Detroit had I had Baum (his season the Tigers would have won the pennant In the American : league. ! Pitcher Riordan. a former Santa Clara 1 student, was in an Oakland uniform Wed-. Wed-. nesday, pitching to the Oaks during bat- ting practice. Rowd v hasn't signed the I kid up. but is just looking him over with an eye to the future. j BUCKS DUOD ALE'S PLAN. "We don't want Seattle to get in the Coast lea g ua an d will bu ck t he m o ve I strenuously If Dugdale tries to edge In I on the AA organization." This statement, contained In a letter from President J. .7, McGinnlty of the I Tacorna baseball club, gives the feellnir I of every city in the northwest, save Seat-! Seat-! tie, in regard to the proposed inc reuse to an eight -elub circuit bv the Pacific , Coast league, and the nvaqlng of North-; North-; western league territory by the Const clubs. , Tacoma, Vancouver, Aberdeen and Victoria Vic-toria WlU oppose the plan, according tn I MeGinnlty. And not only wdll the four magnates pppoae the plan of Dugdale I to pot in the Const larrue. hut they "re planning Instead the expansion of the Northwestern body lo include two more teams, making an eight-cbih circuit. "Already we are planning tn give franchises fran-chises to Missoula ami Butte," write? McGinnlty, "thus making eight clflbs for the league. These two cities are as enthusiastic en-thusiastic over the possibility or again getting "class B ball as Salt Lake was before being taken into the Coast leaeue. "We are iji receipt or an offer from both Butte and Missoula, in which t he agreement is made that the two Montana Mon-tana cities shall guarantee $ 1600 per series to the visiting clubs If taken into our league. This listens pretty good to me, "As far as Seattle ever being taken into the Coast league is concerned, that is all bosh. We have a written agreement agree-ment "up here, siyned by a II the magnates, mag-nates, that no club shall be allowed to leave the league without the consent of .every owner in the league, unless the organization should break up and quit altogether. "We are not going to break up-neither up-neither will we allow Seattle, one of the best-paying cities in the circuit, to flrin out and join the Coast league. "I was toja there was a possibility of Tacoma also getting in the Coast league if Seattle stmui foe taken In "But we don'i want to get into the Coast league. Tanonia is Satisfied with class B ball and I would not take the chance of joining tho Pacific Coast league at. increased expense when the city is not big enough for that class of baseball" PORTLAND. Sept. 25. Chuck Ward is a much-desired youngster, as the Chicago Chi-cago Cubs Is not the only cluh which wants him. Tim O'Rourke, it developed today, approached Ward and had a long conversation with him regarding- his Joining Join-ing the Federal league at once. O'Rourke Is the accredited Federal agent in the northwest. Ward admitted he bad been apumnehed hv O'Rourke and says he was offered in the neighborhood of (8000 for nxt year. He crave O'Rourke no definite answer, hut talked to HM Held, the Coast lea true umpire, who is responsible re-sponsible for Ward's entry into organized bal! circuits. Held advTaed bfrn to remain In the foH and It doesn't seem fflcejy that he will be inclined to do the hurdle act Ward savs he realizes that should he be sent to the Cubs he would have a better chance, even If he fnfled to make good and was sent to a minor league for morr- experience than ho would with the Federals In the lone t-t m. |