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Show GOOD-BYE, OLD CELLAR; GOOD-BYE FOREVER 1 : - - ' , i SALT LAKE TAKES FIRST r FROM BEAVERS IN GAME FULL OF HARD HITTING Bunny Brief Laces Out Two Home Runs and Gets Three Singles Besides; Ten Thousand Portland Fans Brave Cold to Witness Opener; Long Tom Hughes Travels Rough Road, but Reaches Destination With Another Victory to His Credit. At Portland Salt Lake 13-Portland 13-Portland 9. At San Francisco Vernon 0, Jakland 2. At Los Angeles San Fran-' Fran-' cisco 1, Los Angeles 5. Special to The. Tribune. PORTLAND. Ore., April IP. Ton thousand shivering mortals sat for almost two and a half hours in an admixture of exultation, hysteria and Dausca, mostly the latter, this afternoon, after-noon, and watched the widely advertised Portland Beavers take a 13-to-J licking at the hands of Cliff Blankenship 's crowd. Cliff himself did not see the affair, having been banished from the park as early as the second inning for dating to tell Umpire Phylo of certain defects in his eyesight. There wore the usual ceremonies, to wit: Throwing out by Governor Withy-, "onihe of a ba?eball used in s game in i lStfi!, the catching of it by Mayor Al- bee, the releasing of a flock of homing pigeons, bestowal of flowers, etc. Brief the Star. Most of the glorv was carted off bv Jirief and Guisto. ' Btinnv did all the hitting and Louis all the fielding. Bunny sent two into the left field bleachers, and he had a perfect dav at bat, with three singles in addition to the two circuit- clouts. If Noyes had remained in the game Bunny might have established a new home "hid record. rec-ord. Brief has let it be known that there are others who can wallop the ball besides Guisto. Hughes was given perfect Bupport, Vut the Beavers nicked him for nine run3. On the other hand, four of the Salt Lake runs were made in the fourth inning on errors by Jack Koche and Chuck Ward. Alibi Useless. Analyzing the game from that stand- Point, it should have been a tie, 9 to 9, vmt what is the use. of trying to alibi, ii was what is known and designated among the proletariat as a ' rotten" game. ---About the only fnn the Beaver fans lad out of it after the fourth frame was the terriffic home ran Billy South-worth South-worth hit over the right field fence with one on in the sixth, that tied the score at. 7 to 7. Irve Higginbotham, who was pitching at the time, making about his tenth time in fourteen days, lost the cunning in his arm and the visitors made enough bits to collect six runs, which placed them on velvet. Beavers in Lead. "'Portland started off with a three-rj three-rj lead off Hughes. Speas walked and Vaughn beat out a grounder to Hughes. Williams going to third. South-jvorth South-jvorth forced Vaughn and Speas scored. Sontby stole and Wilie walked. Guisto was out, Murphy to Brief. Bill Stumpf singled to tenter, scoring Southworth and Wilie. Brief opened the second iDning with his first home run. Shinn walked and ftole, going to' third on a wild pitch. Murphy fanned. Hannah also walked and JJ ughes doubled, scoring Shinn. Hannah tried to score, but was thrown put on a perfect relay, Wilie to Ward to' Roche. This brought out the wrath of Blankenship and he was chased out o?' the arena. Saints Again Active. Bri'jf's single and Evan's double put Vm? Saints in a rosy position in the toui'th, acid here ensued an attack of crroritit; on tho part of a pair of Mc-Credic's Mc-Credic's young henchmen. Roche's error er-ror on Guisto's perfect, peg of Murphy's Mur-phy's grounder allowed Briet and Ryan , to score. Hannah was bit and Hughes sacrificed, Ratb rolled to Ward, who heaved wildly to Guisto, and the two ..luiners scored. Morris tried to take i-e'cond, but was out, Guisto to Ward j.o Guisto. . Brief's second homer with two out lu the fifth gave the Saints a total fjV seven runs, four to the good. Here Hughes lost control, walking South-w South-w orth and hitting Wilie. Guisto beat out a long single to Orr and filled the bugs. Stumpf s force-out scored Guisto. rinutbworth and Wilie scored when Fisher, Fish-er, pinching for Roche, beat, out a slow roller to Brief. Ward fanned and bron, batting for Xovcs, was an in-I'ield in-I'ield out. - Saints Finally Win. T!ie l'.cavcrs tied it up in the sixth, u lien Speas doubled and Southworth homed over the right garden walb Hits by Hughes, Rath, Orr 's sacrifice :i nd additional hits bv Qui n lan and JJrief, summed up three runs in the -eventh. Three, mroe crossed in the .4h:hth on Hannah 's single, Hughes 's Vftcrifioe, Rath's single. Orr 's double, Quinlan 's single and Brief 's fifth hit, a s i ti crl Vaughn "s single, Southworth 's "rounder to Brief. Wilio's double, Guistu's walk and Stumpf 's single gave i ho Beavers two in the eighth. Fisher forced Guisto at the- plato and Ward fouled to Hannah, stopping the last rally of the Mackmen. |