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Show il Wild Heaves and Such purchase promising youngsters of the type of Churk Ward. Necessarily, any club need a certain percentage of veteran vet-eran material which hasn't reached The Mage here it is too slow for the class A A leagues and -hich Is hard to procure pro-cure without the aid of affiliation with tome major league club. He points to the fact that in deals outside out-side of Cleveland the club has been stung. The Philadelphia Nationals have twice given Portland the worst of it. The first time Dan Howiey was sent to the PbillieB I in exchange for Lo-.i Stanfey and a young catcher who never got beyond the training train-ing camp. Then there is the recent deal for Bancroft, in which Herb Murphy and Milton Reed came to the coast. Bancroft Ban-croft is the sensation - of the National league, while Murphy ie with a class B rlub and Reed was tried out by both Portland and Oakland and found wanting. want-ing. Portland Telegram. A contract was sent to young Keen, the Salem pitcher, by the Portland club. This hasn't been returned, so ft is a question whether the boy is anxious for a tryout with the Beavers next srrine. BACK TO THE SOU. The "back to the soil" movement seems have fo'ind a snuggling spot among1 the Coast league ball players. Many star? of the diamond, whom fans would have difficulty In associating with chin whiskers and the oid bay mare, are seriously seri-ously contemplating a rura! existence. The modem ball player is not the spendthrift his predecessor was. He has learned the value of having something to fall bak upon and has learned also the 'mcerraintv of his profession. Two years of hard times in hasebaM have forced many veterans into retirement and set scores of others on the anxious seat. The average ball player knows no other profession pro-fession and it Is Too late for him to start in a skilled trade when baseball magnates cast him aside. Naturallv, he turns to the farm as a means of livelihood. liveli-hood. This Is brought to mind by Jack Ness's announcement That if Comiskey holds him to the terms now presented -for 1916 he will accept Tyler Christian's invitation to take up twin farms in Idaho. Christian Chris-tian has recently secured some good farm land in Idaho and would like to have some friends of his as neighbors in case he decides to turn farmer. Roy Corhan. the San Francisco shortstop, short-stop, has a ranch at Albuquerque to which he devotes all his time in winter. Bill Malarkey is in a farming proposition in Imperial valley. Buddy Ryan, the Salt Lake outfielder, recently invested 1000 yen with four others oth-ers in a big ranch in the northwest. Several Oakland and San Francisco ball players are figuring on Taking up a desert des-ert land proposition near Salt Lake and developing it on a large scale. "Spider" Baum Is famous for his foxhunting fox-hunting proclivities on his land In the Livermore valley. Investing in farm property seems to be an easier way for the ball player to save his money tjian by putting it In It bank, whore the opportunity to withdraw ft too , often becomes a temptation. Oakland Tribune. In a letter received by Dan Torey yesterday yes-terday Clarence ("Pop Boy") Smith said that he twirled a winning twelve-Inning caiie against Birmingham, one of the strongest contenders of the Southern leaeue. Smith Is a former Antrel and in trie came be referred to he held the Birmingham Birming-ham club down to a 1 -to-0 score. He has made himself a great favorite with the New Orleans fans. Los Angeles Tribune. Trib-une. Tom Darmody is thinking of starting an Indian reservation at Washington park within the next month. Yesterday Tom took a fancy to "Chief" Bender, the former Athletic s'ri-- and later of the Federal league. Render has been unconditional un-conditional released and Tom Is anxious anx-ious to land the chief. He will take the nronsition up with Pa Dillon today. Los Angeles Examiner. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. r tj c Br'lS'B8 e . E a- : ST Si fell I w T! : : : 9 , San Francisco . . IT 25 13 17 14 86 558 I Los Angeles . 18 .. 15 17 39 17 86 555 , Vernon . . . . 12 15 . . 13 14 23 77 .503 I Salt Lake ... 12 13 13 . . 13 21 72 . 486 ! Portland . . . . 12 13 11 18 . . il 65 .448 Oakland . .. 1-1 11 12 15 17 .. 69 .445 Lost 63 69 76 76 80 86 The best hitsmitha: AB. H. TB. PC. Sehaller. San Francisco. 2 2 4 1.000 treat, Loe Angeles .... 2 2 2 l.Wfl Rader. Vernon 4 3 4 .750 Gleichmann. Vernon ... 3 2 2 .67 Fisher. Portland 4 2 3 .560 F.tzgerald. San Francisco 4 2 2 .-00 Bodie. San Francisco -.4 2 3 .500 Beany. San Francisco 4 2 2 .500 Garner. Los Angeles .... 4 2 4 .500 Henlev. Vernon 2 1 1 .500 Carlisle. Portland 3 1 1 .500 Sepulveda. San Francisco 2 11 .500 Koerner. Los Angeles . . 2 1 1 .500 First aame of today's double-header starta at 2 o'clock. Sporting Editor Tribune Please answer an-swer this query In your paper to settle argument: Score tied; last of ninth inning; in-ning; bases full; batter knocks home run. How many runs score, and does batter get credit for a four-bagger? A FAX. One run scores Batsman gets credit for a single, much to his disgust. Special to The Tribune. SAN FRANCISCO. Cal.. Sept. 3. Bill Steen pitched to the batters this afternoon after-noon in the early practice and there is a cliance that he will heave in one of the Sunday games, although that depends upon how he feels. With Detroit this year the Big Six won five out of six games. M'CHEDIE GIVES UP. In the time that he has been rolling in and out of our fair city Walter McCredie has worn many roles, but he bobbed up yesterday at the head of his regiment with one which most folks didn't know he carried In his repertoire. He's playing the dog in the manger; he Is not in a position to masticate the oats himself, but he's determined to do everything" in his power break bis neck, shoot a cop or steal a bronze placque to keep the others from getting their noses Into the feed bin. "I'm out of It," he frankly confessed, and then he proceeded to enumerate the reasons why. "In the first place. my outfielders aren't hitting, and what's the use of an outfield that can't hit? You might as welt go hunting with a gun that can't shoot. "In the second place, injuries have raised particular mischief with the club all season. Bill Stumpfs a great second baseman, but he's something else at short. "In the third nlace. thy pitchers have been streaky. They finally got onto themselves last week and. as a result, we won. Why couldn't they do that before?" be-fore?" "But other managers have had their troubles," It was suggested. "Taking your cluh man for man il looks almost as good as any club in the leaeu" "Taking my club man for man." replied re-plied Mac. "it looks like a Three or four-man four-man team. That's what I think of it. "??ope." said Mac wiih a resigned sigh, "it's no use for me to kid myself alone about my chances for this year, for the apparent reason That I haven't any. I've quit worrying about that. My work the rest of this season will consist of fighting fight-ing as bard as T can to win a creditable finishing place at least. and getting things in shape for next year. I have already started work on mv 1916 club, and I expect to keep at ft right Through the winter. This Isn't going to happen To me again, but I will say This, 'as far out of it as we ere. before the etirtain is rung down we are going to do a lot of damage to the hopes of a number of people T could mennon." Pan Francisco Fran-cisco Bulletin. NEW CONTENTION. Unless Walter McCredie changes his mind between now and next spring, the Cleveland club is not the onlv one with which the Portland Team wilt have ah affiliation. Walter, while realizing tha he has been treated falrlv by 'Cleveland, and having" no kick coming at all. has several offers from the majors to take an of his embryo stars off bis hands. Naturallv. any arrangement of thia sort would be with The consent of the Cleveland club and would probably mean that Cleveland would have first chance ai anv of the players it wanted, giving" the other team a Chance after Cleveland ba- been consulted. McCredie seems to feel that he can arrange this sort of working ba sis. which, if he can. will be to his ndvantice. Judge McCredie la not strnelv in favor of a move of This kind, believing that it would be better to go out and |