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Show WILD HEAVES AND SUCH The leading hitters: AB. II. TB. Pet. Hannah. Salt Lake 1 1 2 1.000 Kenworthy. Oakland 4 3 4 .750 Gleichmann, Vernon ....4 3 3 .750 Downs, San Francisco ...3 2 2 .6;i7 Fisher, Portland 3 2 2 .67 Ellis, Los Ancelcs o 3 h" .KiO Middleton. Oakland 4 2 2 .500 K. Johnson. Vernon 4 2 3 -rvO Speas, Portland 4 2 4 ."00 Spencer, Vernon 2 1 1 .o"0 Crandall, Oakland 2 1 1 .500 Home-iun hitter; Ellis, Los Angeles. The series stand: Vernon won 1, Salt T-ake won n. Oakland won 2, Kan Francisco won 0. Portland won 0, Los Angeles won 1. The humble Oak seems to he acquiring some new rouis. Two shut-outs over San p'rancisco in succession ought to niako the Oakland fans take heart again. PORTLAND, June 2S. Frank Chance was not the least downlu-arted over his Hub's loss of the series to the lowly Oaks. The Peerless Leader points out thy t the Oaks have played 1 tetter ball of late than they luive played at any lime since the opening weeks of the season. They won two series in Their first spurt, and t lien hegun to lose, the present series being the only one they have t;iken since. Chance points nut that his team b;is been bad !y crippled tb i uugh I be absence of Johnny Putler. Butler is the regular shortstop, anil when it comes to fielding there is no shortstop in the league who run cover more ground. Johnny Kane filled in as suhstiluW: until yesterday, when Larson was given a chance. Kane is an outfielder and. while he made some remarkable plays at short, he was responsible re-sponsible for tho loss of one un me a nd perhaps of two games by his ragged fielding. field-ing. ' Butler will be back a rain Ibis week, the spike wounds he rec-ived in the fast game with the Seals in Los .Angeles having hav-ing healed lo such an xt.-nt that he can risk his shins again. The Anuel pit-'hets, all of whom wire slow in starting, are hoghming to show winning form, and the Peerl'-ss Lr-n der rrcd h s that his ci ub will lie setting the pace before many days have passed. It is underrtood that Sr.ce 1 Martin will be rady to join the Oak la nd si af f a era i n in n bon I a we-k. Spec! brok-- it is In ft hand while wrestling with a trunk and lias siive bpen rniTying it in a sling. Me was pit chin-.; wnr.dtrf i d ball at t Iip t in:r and was the only dependable iw:rl"r on j EllioU's staff. With Maitln. rrandall, Prouh, Fleer. Boyd and I ! i ggi n!v; ha in, Elliott will have a formidable array of hurlers. Cliff Pank-iiship confided to ns that he ill most s;gind Fitzgerald. Now, you Kitz 1 oosters neden't i;f; J. ; was in the long nan that the Seal cit-freider cit-freider n--;ir!- ier-mie a pv:-a;e un ley ! (general Plankensh.ip of tho M;ssouht b,,!! i eh;b. j 'lank jniimpve.-I tr, s,i n Maten whjl,-I whjl,-I Fi'z va- b-;pliin it for the 0.-al r!Mb ' a 1. n'li-r n-;it'V,;r,s !i:m iro t to: : li tn j nii;ior. for nii"(e inTiiii-.-, v."i sn :n-Presse.-J -;.t 1 f. prr.,1"' erj ;, ron ! ra . Ti-:s 1 happ'-ncd in the Sail .M a t e, i d !' si i ig ;; r- ters, which happened to be In the rear of a saloon, ks so many of our best bush dressing ronni s are. "Kirz read the contraet," said Blank-enship, Blank-enship, "and had his fountain pen balanced bal-anced rc;ifiy lo sign whf n the phone rani:. He was called to the phone nnd a moment later came back with the Information In-formation that someboiv across the pireet wanted to see him. He said that the party was in a hurry, but that he'd he riu-hi back to sign up. I waited quite a wh.iie. in fact, I'm still wflitintr, for Fi;z never did come back." San Francisco Bulletin. ' Sine there are but five days interven-: interven-: Sntr lefrue the Saints return home, it lie- j j h.-.nves f;, us te i.ein practicing our new. I infh-lrier's name. It is Jun-e. see? j j ;-',r.'--i. Jinny, Gigny and all such are I I ',arrf"' 1 |