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Show WILD HEAVES I AND SUCH The leading hitters: AB. II . TB. P.C. Jones, San Francisco I 1 .1 1 jmo I'avis. Oakland :i ' 2 '3 ,HH7 H. KUiott. Oakland i 2 2 .500 Bodic. San Francisco. .. .4 2 2 .fi00 Klawitter. Salt Lake 2 ' 1 1 .r.un Couk. Oakland 2 1 1 .5uu Two tough old birds lo lose. They expect Buddy Ryan to get back into 1 he game today. Let's hope their ! expectations arc fulfilled. Special to The Tribune. LOS ANGELES, June 30. Manager 1 Cliff Blankenship of the Salt Lake ! club announced tonight that he had I signed Tom Downey, the veteran Kansas City second sacker. Last year Downey was shifted to Little Rock. In the Southern association, but he de- 1 cllned the honor. He got a good job at Pay and has been playing great ball In the Arizona Copper league. He was famed as a hitter in the Amerl- ! can association. Blankenship says Downey Is to report at once. Th : coming of the veteran will replace either Murphy or Guigni, probably the former, Guigni . being retained as utility man. The scries stand:' Salt Lake, won 1: Vernon, won ?,. San Francisco, won 2: Oakland, won 2. Portland, won 1; l.os Angeles, won 1 Special LO The Tribune. PORT I. A NO. Ore.. June :n. Rain caused another postponement in the Port-land-Tos Anceb's series today. The Angels An-gels and the Beavers have met in two series tins watery season in the City of (Continued on Following Page.) . f I Wild Heaves and Such. : (Continued From Preceding Page.) Roses and altogether they have played but five games. Inasmuch as there are double-headers tomorrow and Sunday, and as ten games are already scheduled for the Angels' next trip here in August to take up postponements, post-ponements, there is no place for today's postponed game in that series. The enforced idleness ig not hurting the three Portland cripples Louis Guisto, Dennie Wilie and Billy Nixon one bit. Guisto will not be able to get into the game until the Beavers reach San Fran-1 Fran-1 Cisco next week. Nixon's right shoulder was hurt in a fall last Saturday and he may get back before Sunday, but It is doubtful. Wilie has been playing, but his ankle is still unreliable. McCredie said tonight that he had concluded con-cluded to stick out the season with his' present catching staff, Gus Fisher and Jack Roche. He has lso about decided to stand pat on his present pitching staff since Petroit took Mitihell from Cleveland, Cleve-land, thereby robbing Portland of another left-hander. SAN FRANCISCO, June 30. Whether Ralph Stroud, former Sacramento pitcher, pitch-er, and more recently with the New York Giants, joins the Seals, depends upon the ability of Harry Wolverton to fix up a deal with Louisville. AlcGraw of the Giants turned Stroud over to Louisville, and, although Wolverton Wolver-ton has been in communication with the pitcher and the. clubs, he is by no means sure of what will happen. "I would like to get Stroud,' he admitted, ad-mitted, "but if he comes here it will have to be after a satisfactory arrangement with Louisville. Stroud is anxious to return re-turn to California, and I am making no bones of it that I think he would do us a lot cf' good." Whether Boehler -of Detroit will come to San Francisco is unsettled. The pitcher, pitch-er, according to the story, is quite willing to make the jump westward, but Mrs. Boehler thinks there are wild Indians, unruly cowboys and all sorts of ferocious animals In California, and ihas advised 1 Friend Husband that she doesn't propose to streak for the Pacific coast. It's up to Boehler, and the baseball people are awai t ing his final word. Wolverton predicts that Lefty Oldham Is going to surprise the fans when they next see him in action. "Oldham has got the stuff now," said the leader of the Seals, "and the next out will be a surprise. Fanning pitched a remarks hie game, and will be one of our stand-bys for the balance of the year. Steen will be ready next week, and then we wftl be prepared for any club In the league." Rowdy Elliott announced yesterday that if all goes well, Speed Martin will he ready to pitch his first game next week. Word came from the physician yesterday that Martin ought to be in shape within another week. It is expected that Jimmy Sliinn will be ready to resume duty by the time the Saints reach home next Tuesday. Jimmy j has a severe case of charlcv boss. J 1 Even though he is charged wi t h losing !his game, Dutch Klawilfer pitched fine baseball yesterday. it is gratifying to .know that the big Dutchman shows promise prom-ise of soon being in the form he showed in the early part of lT'ld. There was an axiom in the Pacific ; Coast league at one. time that the only player who could play that right-field: fence, according to Hoyle, was Heine j Meh-hoir, then a SaL : This bit of ancient history forces us l to remark with proper emphasis that j Rube Gardner can play that field and that fence. Furthermore, Rube can grab base- balls off the boards with all -ihe reckless abandon that Mclchoir ever displayed. "Safety first" and Gardner are strangers. Rube would just as soon bump up against the boards in pursuit of a fly as he would gather in a base hit. Gardner's fielding stunts in the Oaks' last two weeks at home have entitled him to rank as at least the equal of Heine Melchr.ir at getting basehalls off the r. f. wall. San Francisco Bulletin. When lie left Portland Sundav night. Blank appeared to think tha t the club was due for a spurt upward. Catcher Vann seems to be rounding into shape and will divide the work up with Hannah, Han-nah, as he has been doing the past two series. But the one weak spot is the pit cii in c staff, and this Plank does not seem aide to help a lot. His big disappointment dis-appointment of t lie season was the failure of Jaek Warhon to make good. T'nless Oakland and Salt Lake lake a brace, and take ii quickly, they mav as well be counted dut for the" Balance of the season, as far as rhnneps of getting Into the first division are concerned. But the club everyone is beginning to fear now is Portland. McCredie seems to be getting ready for a real drive. Portland Oi egouian. SAN FRANt'ISCO, June 30. The flag-raising flag-raising ceremonies today, while not of great extent from the standpoint of variety, were sufficiei ly interesting lo the crowd, which came early, prepared to enjoy the festivities. Monte Austin sang two selections from a vantage point out In center field as a starter. About tiie best thing on the card was the drill of 400 lads from the naval training station sta-tion on Goat island, led by their band of forty pieces. Then cae the parade and the real event of the day. On one side the Seals were grouped, with the pennant flag in front of them; or, the other side were the Oaks and in between were the baseball magnates and President Hatim. After the purade the flag raising took place. Pitcher Oscar Theander Harstad may again be a Portland Beaver before the locals depart on their road trip next Sunday Sun-day night. When Boss Walter turned Harstad over to the Spokane Indians just before the club left on its last road trip, a goorilv number of fans thought that lie was making mak-ing a mistake. Oscar came to the Beavers Beav-ers from Cleveland, where he was used last season as a relief pitcher. The year previous he set the Northwestern league afire while chucking for Bob Brown's Vancouver club. He was always a slow starter, and looked poor as a Beaver the first few weeks of the season. Since joining the class B league club he has won something like five and lost one game. In the one he lost, he allowed but two hits. "Since Willie Mitchell has been turned over to Detroit by Cleveland, I can't figure fig-ure where we can get a pitcher from the Indians," said Walter McCredie last night. "Loudermilk has refused to come to the Coast, and if Cleveland had any youngsters they didn't figure on using later, Fohl would have shot one of them west before this. If any one of my live regulars fails to deliver in pretty short order, I guess It will be up to us to get a (linger from Spokane." When asked if Harstad was the Spokane Spo-kane dinger whom he was figuring on, the Beaver chieftain replied: "Hardy couldn't get In shape when with us. He was always a slow starter. I turned him over to Nick Williams, and from the way he has been pitching of late, he would certainly aid us. If any of my present staff fall down,, I'll get 1 Harstad from Spokane." Southpaw Rube Evans is another ex-Portlander ex-Portlander going great guns with the Indians. In-dians. Evans also majK be a Portland twirler again if the Beavers need him. This big chucker has won something like twelve games and lost one since the season sea-son started. Portland Oregonian. 1. |