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Show T " 1 Having Started, Why Stop? We Say, Why . Stop? SAINT AND BEAVER . TANGLE IN SEVEN GAMES THIS WEEK Salt Lake Will Have to Extend Itself Full Length, for Portland Looks Like Strongest Club in League; Work of Guigni Sensational; Dutch Klawitter May Help Blank-enship; Blank-enship; Angels Are Within One Game of Leading Tigers. THIS week should be fraught with momentous doings for the Salt Lake ball club. The series at Portland, Port-land, which begins today, likely 0 mJ will prove whether Blankenship's club is strong enough in its present form or not. The Beavers, starting the season in the ruck, have strengthened and strengthened, until now they are the best looking ball club in the league, bar none. Portland began its strengthening process proc-ess just before the team came to Salt Lake. At Los Angeles they were boosted some more by the addition of Bill Rodgers and Rip Hagerman. McCredle now has an in- Held that is a real infield and his out-1 out-1 field is hitting like all possessed. Wilie and Nixon are clouting the ball hard and Southworth lias risen to a place among the six leading hitters of the week. McCredle Mc-Credle 's pitching staff appears to be slipping slip-ping along on a winning basis. Last week Wynn Noyes won four games, which is a mark well worth aiming at. Of course, Wynn didn't pitch four full games, but he got into the fray at critical criti-cal times and always delivered. Taking Tigers Down. Portland took six of eight games played with Vernon and those victories served to pull the Tigers down to a point where they are only one game ahead of the Angels. When the Vernon club was in Salt Lake they were at the top of their speed. They won a lot of games at Majestic Ma-jestic park on ball playing that was far from champion caliber, and when they had finished their stand here local fans, while forced to admit their prowess he-cause he-cause of their standing, felt that they had not been looking upon a ball club -. that was going its normal gait. The I Tigers were playing over their heads. They were winning games on pitching, and when the pitching staff wobbled at San Francisco and at Portland they began be-gan to slip. There Is no question that Vernon has a good ball club, but. so far as being pennant-winners is concerned, they ddnt measure up. Beavers Are Strong. ... While-Salt Lake fans have not seen the present Beavers in action, reports from fc the Willamette leave small room to doubt gHr that McCrediehas just about the best hall club in the league. This statement should be qualified In one respect. The Beavers need another catcher. Roche is not of Coast league proportions at least, his work in a long series of games lias not shown it. With a mate for Gus Fisher. McCredle would he in a position to show big heels to 'most any of them. Tt Is the rejuvenated Beavers against whom the Saints contend this week. Blenkenshlp's pitching staff has two cripples, and those two are among the very nest pitchers we have. Bill Plercey pitched a game Sunday afternoon when, according to reports from San Francisco, he was enduring intense pain from rheur matism. Stanley Dougan Is not yet fuHy recovered from the strain he suffered at Los Angeles. Fittery and Hughes pitched gopd ball against Oakland. Will Dutch Deliver? The addition of Dutch Klawitter may prove a wonderful strengthening factor, and again it may not. There is no question ques-tion of Kalwitter's ability to pitch baseball. base-ball. He has shown it. Last year he started like a world-beater, but along In the middle of the season he forgot that he had a Job and thereafter Dutch wasn't worth very much to his club. This season sea-son he has pitched a couple of winning games, but for the most part he has been easv for opposing batters. There has been a persistent report that Dutch Was not well satisfied with the environment en-vironment at Oakland. Blankenship tried to get him earlier in the year, about the time he first beran to ancle for Charley Prulett, but Elliott wouldn't listen to reason or to monev talk then. Blank thinks Klawitter will work hard for Salt Lake and that Klawliter will make the 'pitching staff. Let's hope so. Guigni a Star. The performance of the voting inflelder, Guigni. has been the brightest spot for Halt Lake, during the last two weeks. GuiRiil joined the Salt Lake club at Los Angeles. He brought with him out of the Northwestern league a reputation as a classy fielder, and a weak hitter. The gratifying thing about Guigni is that he has proved himself not onlv a classy fielder, but also a great hitter. In fact. Guigni has been about the onlv consistent hitter the Saints have. His mark this morning is .400. He attained that with a jump from last week of .169 last Tuesday Tues-day Guigni was marked down for an average av-erage of .231. Guigni has been in eleven games and has failed to hit safely In only two of them. Sap Kelhcg did not prove equal to the test of pitching in the Coast league Neither did lie perform as a pinch hitter. hit-ter. That Kellogg can hit when he is. in the game regula rly there seems no doubt, hut, as is the case with so many others, he cannot spring off the bench and lace 'em out ns a pinch hitter Is expected to do. The series at Portlunrl this week will have at least seven games, and posslhlv eight most likelv seven. The Saints have t wo postnonemon is at Portland. After the set at Portland, the Saints go to Los Angeles for a round with Vernon. They return to Salt T,ake for a two-game holiday holi-day card on Independence day, .Inly 4, with Los Angeles the opposing club. This week San Francisco plays Ver-t Ver-t non at Los Angeles. The first game of ' that series will he played Wednesday on STANDING- OF THE CLTJBS. I ti &i)r & . h 2. ts n '. g a . ? . I r8ii ; i ; Vernon 8 8 9 710j42 .583 Loa Angeles .. . 6 . . 12 5 8!lOI41.669: San Francisco . 6 9.. 7 6illi39 .517 1 Portland 9 6 5.. 5 7 32.508 Salt Lake 5 4 6 4 . . 10 29 .446 ; Oakland .. 4 4 4 6 10..28.368 Lost 30i31j353136!48L .. account of the inability of the Tigers to reach home in time for a game today. Ixs Angeles plays Oakland at San Francisco. Fran-cisco. What Records Show. Following are some of the leading performances per-formances in various departments of activity ac-tivity as extracted from the records of the first ten we'eks: LEADING RUN GETTERS. Schaller. San Francisco- 3 Brief, Salt Lake M Wille, Portland M Bodie, San Francisco 49 Bates, Vernon ; 47 LEADING TWO-BASE HITTERS. Kenworthy. Oakland 21 Gardner, Oakland IS Risberg. Vernon (. 18 Ryan, Salt Lake 1.7 Downs, San Francisco 17 LEADING THREE-BASE HITTERS. j Bates, Vernon 7 i Woiter,. Los Angeles 7 1 Koerner, Los Angeles 6 Maggert. Los Angeles 6 Wiiie. Portland 5 Schaller. San Francisco 5 Ellis, Loe Angeles '. 5 LEADING HOME-RUN HITTERS. I Brief. Salt Lake . 12 I Gulsto, Portland . 11 Bodle. San Francisco 91 Schaller, San Francisco 7 j Bates, Vernon 4 Ryan, Salt Lake 4 , TOTAL BASES ON HITTING. ! Bodie, San Francisco 147 Brief. Salt Lake 137 Bates, Vernon . . 131 Guisto, Portland 123 Schaller. San Francisco 110 Quinlan. Salt Lake 108 , Kenworthy. Oakland 108 Woiter, Los Angeles 10S LEADING SACRIFICE HITTERS. Gleichmann, Vernon 26 Vaughn, Portland , 21 Middleton, Oakland, 17 Coffey, San Francisco 15 Daley, Vernon 14 Bodie, San -Francisco . 13 LEADERS IN STOLEN BASES. Woiter, Los Angeles 19 Daley, Vernon 17 Schaller, San Francisco 16 Wilie, Portland 15 Lane, Oakland 15 Doane. Vernon 13 I Maggert, Los Angeles 13 1 Ellis, Los Angeles 13 |