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Show Wild Heaves and Such Sunday's beet wingers: AB. H. TB. Pet Lynn. Sail Lake 3 2 2 -67 Lush. Portland '..3 2 2 .(67 Bodle. San Francisco S 5 6 .625 McMullen. Tjos Angeles.. 7 4 7 .571 Zacher. Salt Lake 9 6 ! .M Kane. Vernon s 3 4 .500 Wllhoit. Vernon 8 4 4 .600 Decanniere, Vernon 2 1 1 .500 Hall. Salt Ike 4 2 3 .600 Kuhn, Oakland 4 2 8 .50 Home run hitlers M-Mullen, Maggert, Harper, Los Angeles. Bet Harry Wolverton is glad tliat bunch of rough riders in con1. Fourteen nut of twenty game!' played awav from home Is some record, to say nothing of a slvteen-lnning tie. If Salt Ijke continues this lick, it is decidedly within the range of possibility to finish in second place. While there are only three weeks yet to play, there will be ample opportunity within that time to accomplish our fell purpose. Th Salt Lake club Is less than three games behind Ixi Angeles now. Three games won by Salt lake and lost by Los Angeles An-geles would make the standing .527 to 526 for Salt Lake. This week Portland Is here for a six-game six-game series. On dope the Portland ers should be easy for Salt Lake, but It is to be remembered that the Beavers have always been a hard club for Salt Lake to beat. In fact, In only one series, the last one at Portland, did the Blanken-shlppers Blanken-shlppers take the measure of the Mc-Credleltes Mc-Credleltes In decisive fashion. The Oakland Oak-land dub meets Los Angeles this week. The last time these two met the Oak-landers Oak-landers took five out of seven. Here'B hoping they do it again. Vernon plays at San Francisco. The series which closed yesterday "salt Lake won 6; San Francisco won 2. Oakland won 3; Portland won 1, tied X. 1 os Angeles won 4; Vernon won 4. .Of the last forty-seven games played, the Salt I,akc. club has won thirty-three and lost fourteen. This gives the club a percentage on .seven serins of .708. The forty -seven games do not Include the tie game at Los AbWm. Fred McMullen. Los Angeles infieldcr, got his first home runyesterday. In view of the fact that Orr and HjftUi-nan HjftUi-nan are both out of the game with busted hands the showing of the Salt Lakers has been little short of marvelous. Had bese two regulars been stationed at the.. Important positions of short and third. here Is reason to behove that Salt Lake would have made a clean sweep of the San Francisco series. There should be a great crowd out Tuesday to welcome our heroes, and there should be a much greater one Wednesdav. when the town will do honor to riaude' Williams, Salt Lake's sensational sensa-tional heaver. EXHIBITIONS HERE. president H. S. Murphy yesterday received re-ceived word that Frank Bancroft's all-mar all-mar biff league clubs intend to vJfilt Sail 1 ;ik on ' heir Way to I he const . They ask for Novfinbcr 6 :md NOYthnber 7 as their dates here. Mr, Murphy thinks 11 might he well to bae the visitors play a double - header Oil November S a nd to ha" a game on November 7 hetween the all-stars and the Salt Luke club, or as many of the locals as may still be here then. No definite arrangements will be made until Blankenshlp returns tomorrow. Another exhibition jaunt that may Include In-clude Salt LaJte is Indicated by the following fol-lowing dispatch: The Ivos Angeles ball club received notice no-tice yestiTdav that the White Pox and one other maor league club had cancelled their drafts on Galloway, the Denver in-fielder. in-fielder. Los Angeles also put In a draft for this tnan, and now that the two major league clubs have cancelled their drafts it Is Ukely that th Angels will get htm. Galloway was ranked as the best infield-er infield-er and one of the heaviest hitters In the Western league this year. The Oakland club will not vote to oust Portland from the f'oast league, according accord-ing to President Frank Leacitt. who believes be-lieves that the Beaer town is doing as well hs could be expected In view of the unusual conditions throughout the northwest north-west "We are having a tough time In Portland Port-land this week," acknowledge Leavltt recently, re-cently, "and we have had a tough time there all season. We never figured to make any money on the Portland trip because of the great expense, but the war seems to have crippled baseball throughout through-out all that territory'- When things adjust ad-just themselves Portland will be all right. "As for extending the Coast league, we are having a hard enough time getting by now with six clubs, let alone eight. I can't see any reason for extension, and can't see what cities we could take ln." Billy Orr Is apt to have considerable trouble with the hand he rut when he tagged I.ieard in the Wednesday game. His hand Is hndly puffed and It was so painful yesterday that he had to quit the game. San Francisco Examiner. Despite the fact that the Oakland club has been suh a conspicuous failure this season, no players were sought by draft, a circumstance which will appear rather suprislng to most of the local bugs. Neither has the club indicated any Intention In-tention of spending any monev Just at 1 his time In the acquisition of hew players. play-ers. Cutting two and two together, "it would seem that either Messrs. Leavltt and Cook are preparing to retire from baseball, or they have decided to appoint a new manager for next year. In the latter event, of course, it will be up to the new manager to secure the talent he desires. If the club Is to be sold, it is hardly to be expected that Its present owners will be putting any more money Into it. One of the two things possibly both seems likely to occur. Oakland Tribune. Cliff Rlanltenship professes to view uncertainly un-certainly his Ohancea of being at the head of the Salt i-akers next season. Blank lias a contract for only one year, and It expires with the end of the present campaign. cam-paign. He says he has no idea as to whHt the attitude of the blghernba is They may keep him. he says, and again thev may not. One can put all this down to Blank's modesty, however. Any "bush" manager, as Blankenshlp was called when lie came into the league, who can slep in and carvo out such a record as he has (Continued on Following Page.) 4 . I Wild Heaves and Such. I 4 : . f (Continue4 from Preceding Page.) achieved for his club his first season in fast company, is certainly too good a man to be turned loose. Blank ought to prove the Ma yor Rolph of .Salt Lake. San Francisco Bulletin. Aa soon as the season Is over Spider Baum is going hack to nature to store up some more pep for ncxl season. fie and L-oiiis Kepulveda expect to go for a motor trip through the northern, part of California and will be gone for at least a couple of months. They Intend to camp out. Want to see Tien Berry lose his calm and unruffled demeanor? Suggest that he hold a Blankr.nship day. San Francisco Bulletin. " BOSTON. Oct. 3. -President Lan-nin Lan-nin of (he Red Sox upon his return today from t he national commission meeting In New York announced that suggestion had been made at the meeting to have the winning team in the world's series go to I he Pacific coast immediately after the coming series Is decided. "The plan, as T understood It." said Mr. Lannin. "is to have either the Phillies or Red Son, whichever club wins the cha.mpionshlp. pia.y a series of games with a club selected from the best players in botli the American and National leagues. The proposition proposi-tion was broached hy a. committee from the Panama -Pacific exposition, where it Is proposer tn play a series of games belween tbo world's champions cham-pions and the picked team. "Jn addition, games will be played en route, a.nd although nothing definite def-inite has been decided upon yet and will not be until next week, I tie trip will last about a month. "A fter the trip Is arranged, both pin vers a nd clubs will benefit financially. finan-cially. When the matter was pui up to me, T Immediately asserited, for T knew that Manager Bill Carrlgan and all the Red Sox players would welcome wel-come the opportunity to add to their bank accounts. President Raker of the Philadelphia club was not willing to sav positively what action bis club would take until he has consulted with Manager Moran and the Philadelphia Phila-delphia players. "There will he another meeting In Philadelphia fust before the start of the world's series, at which President Ra.kor Will be able to give a definite answer and the na tional commission will then select, the all-star team. As T said. If the Red Sox win, the team will make the trip." Special to The Tribune. FORTTaAND. Oct. 3. Rowdy Elliott Is happy. ne predicted that he would put the Beavers down in the cellar, and he did 11 to a nicety. Manager McCradle put irisher in right field in both contests. Gus kicked through with a couple of nice hits in the first game, but was hitless In the second con-tesl con-tesl . Portland left for Salt T-ake on the evening train. Every player accompanied the cluh and t V elesklc will likely open the seriH against I iie Suit Lakers, Between the flrsi and second mimes Rudolph W libel m. slate golf cba tnplon. h;ivp an exhibition pf drh Inc. lie put three out of four golf balls' oui of the for, Bend Ink two of them over a school building build-ing OUtride of the park. |