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Show COMEON, DUTCH, GET THAT ONE BACK -FOR US MUCH EVIL HIDDEN IN LITTLE POPPER THAT FALLS SAFE Downfall of Salt Lake Attributable to Necessity of Playing Men Out of Position; Great Day for Two-baggers, Ten Doubles Being Registered; Reg-istered; Harl Maggert Hits Two Homers, One With Two On. At Salt Lake Los Angeles 8, Salt Lake 5. At Los Angeles Oakland 0, Vernon 3. 0? At San Francisco Portland 2, San Francisco 3. THE market for extrn-base hitting was on the bull side yesterday at Majestic park. Salt Lake knocked eight two-baggers and Los Angeles An-geles punched out two more, making a total of ten two-baee hits, which is some considerable total for one ball game. Add to this two home runs and you account for twelve extra-base swats out of twenty-seven hits. The game went to Los Angeles, 8 to J. It has been proved time and again that you can 't expect a carpenter no matter how good a carpenter lie may be to run a locomotive. No more can you expect a first-class watchmaker td be an equally first-class sailor. Nor yet can you expect a prettv good infteldor to be a viz in the outfield, nor even a part of a wiz. In the Wrong Place. It is because these things are true that Salt Lake lost the game yesterday. Herb Murphy is a mighty good run-of-mine infliMder, but even his most ardent ar-dent admirers can't truthfully call him an outfielder. First off Herb misjudged a fly ball. That was pretty bad, but when he let a little popper drop at his feet it turned out to be extremely expensive. ex-pensive. If Murphy had caught the little fly ball George Washington Zabel knocked in the fourth inning, the Angels An-gels would never have got four runs in that frame they wouldn't have got any. Support like that makes a pitcher look foolish, and it gets on his nerves, especially espe-cially if he be a young man. Billy Piercey Pier-cey had every reason to expect reasonable reason-able assistance, and when he didn't get k it things began to happen. The worst of the things that happened was a punch over the right field fence by Harl Maggert Mag-gert his second one of the day that counted three runs, a total or four scores directly attributable to the fact that a little pop flv fell safe. Of course. Maggert might have hit his homer next inning, but he wouldn't have done it when there were two on the lines. Up Against It. However, it's all over. It's too bad, that's all, and it can't be helped now; neither could it be helped yesterday, since there was nobody else to play left field. Now the Saints will have a whole i' boatload of outfielders, but that didn 't help tjie situation yesterday. It was a good game to watch in spite of the way it wont. There was so much hard hitting that every time a batsman stepped up to the "plate the crcwd expected him to knock some sort of a marathon hit, and the crowd almost al-most nlways got its wish. The gamo was practically freo from errors, especially espe-cially that kind of errors which makes the spectators groan with agony. Piercey had a good speed ball working work-ing and looked like a wiuner until the unfortunate fourth. The lead the Angels An-gels got in that inning set them going and they finished up witli three more in the "sixth, one of which was presented pre-sented to them by Tom Hughes when lie heaved a wild pitch with a runner on f. third. Zabel was luck' for six innings, but his luck deserted" him in the seventh, when the Saints battered four runs across on six hits, three of them two-bnggers. two-bnggers. However, he recovered his horseshoe, and the eighth and ninth were flivvers for we'uns. Hit 'Em Hard. Suit Lake scored first when thoy put one 'igurp up in the second inning. Orr led oft with a double and advanced on Downey's sacrifice. Murphv hit to Galloway Gal-loway and Bill was cut dVwn at the plate'. Murphy went to second during ihe melee and scored on Hannah's double. Maggert 's first homer in the third lied the count. In the fourth there was trouble a plenty for Salt Lake. Brief erred on ("Jallowuy "s grounder. McLarry slashed a low li ner to Brief that came like a shot out of a cannon. Bunny threw to second, forcing Gallowav. Bassler 's single sent McLarry up. Butler fanned. Then Zabel hit his little rainbow into left. ft seemed like a cinch, but Murphv, Mur-phv, evidently fearing to overrun the ball, wnited to take it on the bound. It nhoiild have been the third out, nnd the .Angels nhould not have scored. At anv rate. McLarry came in on it, and then Maggert knocked his second home run, sending in Bassler and Zabel. Saints Cut Down Lead. The sixth gave the visitors three more, and again Maggert was the brave Ind with the big pole. Bassler singled aud Butler sacrificed him to second. Zabel Za-bel got another hit, his third of the dav, nnd then Maggert cracked out a double, scoring Bassler and putting Zabel on third. Tom Hughes took Vharge and heaved a wild pitch on which Znbel scored and Maggert counted on Ellis 's single. The score stood S to 1 in favor of the visitors when Salt Lake started the seventh. sev-enth. Mnrphv began with a single nnd .rnme nil the way on Hannah's long-Vnnge long-Vnnge double. fJtiigiii fanned and Hughes wns an infield out. Qui n Ian t slithered out his third two-bagger, scor ing Hannah. Ruth's single put Quinlnn on third, whence he scored when Brief STANDING OF THE CLUBS. ii It1' W' w O -d d a iBill b i ; s;g f s f: g : ? s : : : : : '. Vernon 8 11 9 111564.593 Los Angeles '. . . 6 . . 12 6 111348I .558 San Francisco .10 9 . . 10 6 15;50.538 Portland 9 7 7.. 8 7 38!.500 Salt Lake 8 6 6 7.. 10 371.446 Oakland 4 8 7 6 10 . . 35 .375 Lost 37i38i"3l38;6;6"0.. came across with a two ply swat. Rath poored on Orr's single. Downey skied to Wolter to end the scoring. From that time forward there was nothing tor either side. The clubs will play again this afternoon after-noon at 3:30. |