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Show WILD HEAVES AND SUCH The leading hitters: An. h. Tn. r.c. Mf I-arr". I.os Ang les. ... I 1 1 1 . (h"1 lies'1, Vernon 4 3 3 . T-Vi Kane, i-aU Lake 3 2 4 'T Hates, Vemon o 3 3 .t'O Kishers. Vernon 1 2 3 .."'Ji KtK-iie. Porilan.l 1 1 -f"0 Home-run hitters: Itrief, iilt I.ako ; Jones. S.ni Kraneiiro. The series m.md: Sail I,ake won 1, Vernon won I. Oakland won 2. San Kratn-N'-o won 0. 1.08 Angeles won 2. I'ortl.md won 0. o TX'Oks liko Tuul Fitter y for Salt Lake today. Skipper Iilankenship reports that lie has pet a pru-e on Kittery a rid 1 1 an nit h f-r ti.o FhilHd"lp:;ia Nationals. Prosi-ei't appear to be eco-1 lr tlie transfer of this I-alr to the I'h!lc. Hall covered first base In fine style to take Brief's toss on il 'Oaf lean's roller in t lie second. F:iinn nailed Hess fi Hy over the infield In the third after a hard run. Ilrief went tn the fcrand stand for Oleichmann's foul In the third. Hall made a preat stop of Eates's fast one in the fourth. Daley starred on Orr's flv in the elfihth. Special to The Tribune. SAN' FRANCISCO. Aug. Ifi. Manacr W'olverton announced touay that he had suspended Bill Steen for indifferent hase-hail, hase-hail, as his work for the past few weeks has not satisfied the boss. Sieen, in defense, de-fense, says he has been putting forth his bet efforts, but adds th.it he has been unable to show his be?t since he Injured hiB ankle in Los Angeles a month or so ago. VANCOUVER, B. C. An?. 16. The Vancouver club of the Norf h western Baseball leacue lias sold Ja- k Calvo, the Cuban outfielder, to the Detroit Americans. Ameri-cans. Calvo will finish the present sea-sun sea-sun with the Vancouvers and report to Detroit in ?ne spring. Jacinto Del f'alvo received a tryout with the Angels a couple of seasons ago, but was pronounced unrfpe. A few days ago it was rumored around that lie had been bought by the .Seals, but litis was evidently premature. The uncertainties of baseball have cast Skeeter Fanning adrift. His release by the Seals Inst Saturday came as a big surprise in Coast league circles. He. was one of the leading hurlers of the league last season. This year. Fanning had considerable con-siderable trouble with his arm and has been of Ii L t ! use. to the Seals. He will visit Los Angeles shortly and have his are treated by Dr. Charles Spencer. Fanning Fan-ning believes that with Spencer's aid he will be ready to pitch winning ball for some Coast league club Inside of a month. Los Angeles Examiner. , Frank Chance has announced that In-iielder In-iielder Groeling of the Peoria club, in the Three-I league, would not report to the Angels until next spring. Chance farmed Groeling to the Peoria club this spring and exercised his option on the youngster soire time ago. Groeling is a left-handed hitter and a brilliant fielder. He has been doing great work in the Three-i league this season. LOS ANOKLES. Aug. 16. "HI" West, former pitcher for various Coast league clubs, arrived In town yesterday from Denver, where ho was unconditionally released. re-leased. West asserts that his release was given him because of poor financial conditions con-ditions with the club rather than because nf his work. West, who claims to be in fine shape, will nttempt to secure a placo with some Coast league club. DOS ANC.KLKS. Aug. Ifi. Chance said today that he had not received any word to da te from the Philadelphia Nationals in regard to a trade between the Angels and Phillies Involving Wolter and Cra-va Cra-va t h. As Woll er Is flue for another chance In the big show. It is certain that Chance would be oulv too glad to make such a trade. Frank expressed great surprise at the possibilities of such a deal, as It was the firm Intimation t hat the " f Tome-run King" of the Phillies was slipping enough to be ready for shipment back to the minors. Johnny Basslcr may be a member of the A t hie tics next season. Scout Ira Thomas sent very strong boosts to Connie Con-nie Mack and advised the solemn leader (Continued on Following Page.) 4 . 4). I Wild Heaves and Such r (Continued From Preceding Page.) of the White Elephants to get Rassler if possible, as lie was the best catching crosnert be had seen on his scouting trip. P.assler has been up in the A merican league before, but he is a two-to-one better backstop now than he was then. Considerable comment has been raised in the Coast league circles over Oscar Horst man's "dust ball." This is not a freak delivery, but rather the method in which Oscar sends the ball up to the plate. Oscar grabs a handful of dirt and covers the ball with the dust. Then he pitches and the dust (lies in every direction direc-tion with tiie pitch, the ball finally emerging from the cloud of dust as It neara the plate. Salt I-ake is away down the line something like eleven games from first place. Fans remember, however, how i they spurted toward the close of last season sea-son and finished in second place. They have seemingly started rallying again. Tiie Saints s at their best on their home lot, and the schedule favors them in being be-ing nt home seven of these last eleven weeks. A strong stand against each of the leaders would make quite a difference in the standing of the clubs. San Francisco Fran-cisco Chronicle. Evan ("Rube") Kvans, now with Spokane Spo-kane and former Reaver, who has been sold by tiie Indians to Salt Lake, is said to have gained control of the ball this seasnn. When he was in the Pacific Const league he had good control over the ball for a lefl -bander, but absolutely no control con-trol over his shirt. That article of clothing cloth-ing persisted in getting loose from his belt and trying to climb over his shoulder. shoul-der. Portland Oregonlan. Kids Want Games. Baseball team under J5 years of age desirous of games, Call Hyland 2019 and ask for Cy. |