| OCR Text |
Show Whaddaye Mean Murphy s ibaiiin on m Jditang: SAINTS- TURN ON : BEAVERS; SLAP 'EM SHARPLY ON WRIST Only Solace for McCredie Is Louie Guisto, Whose Homer Counts Only Two to Which Visitors Are Entitled; Herb Murphy Batting Star of the Day, With Five Hits; Bert Hall Steady. At Salt Lake Portland 4, '.Salt Lake 11. J At Oakland Los Angeles 1, ' San Francisco 4. "jPr At Los . Angeles Oakland 2, Vernon 7. f WE'RE right proud of ourselves tins morning, for yon gotta hand it to us as the fine young prophets. 'Yesterday we allowed that Salt Lake Tvas due to make eleven tallies in Thursday's ball game, and, sure enough, that's what they made. Of course, we also allowed that Portland was due to make thetr , usual twelve. We're glad we were wrong, and wo hasten to assure our already large and ever-increasing circle of ..readers that we have no alibi to oi ler we worn wrong in our guess, but we're powerful happy to admit it. Having put across at least a 50-50 prediction, we are so tickled that wo are going to venture another. Oh, we're the daring little dogs when it comes to taking a chance. We are almost al-most as bold as Hugh Fullerton. So we pick todav's game for Bait Lake by , a score of 9 to i. We think that ought to be about right for Tom Hughesi Before it escapes' us in our niad exultation, ex-ultation, let us announce that Salt Lake turned on the Beavers yesterday and ; hit 'em squares in the nose hard. Hall Pitches Ball. Bert Hall had a wonderfully good . day. Bert kept a considerable space between hits, and he was astonishingly miserly with his bases on .balls. Usu- ally Bert's big, generous heart is so 'filled with the juice of human kindness kind-ness that ho upturns his cornucopia and lots the walks spill out all over the place. Bases on balls have been Hall's principal hoodoo, but yesterday he had the hoodoo on the run. -, Until Louie Guisto got his trigger to working in the seventh inning Hall W1" had pasted a long line of lovely round ' gooso eggs on the Portland board. In the seventh Louie busted tho ball over the fenco when there was a man on, that gave McOedic his first two tallies. The two counters in the ninth were gifts. Both Hnll and his teammates let up and tho fielders indulged in a ' period of kittenish frolicking. One of the frolics was the failure of Bunny Brief to stick his foot on first base after Itath had made a perfect throw to retiro a runner. Another was the unmolested theft of certain bases by-Port by-Port land runners. However, tho Saints could afford to be .iollv, and, as it didn't cost anything and made the beneficiaries of baso his and stolen bases feel good, it was a 'lisplay of good nature and good fellowship fel-lowship properly appreciated. Saints Hit the Ball. ' Salt Lake's runs were made by hit-.'ting hit-.'ting tho ball. They hit it both often and opportunely. Except in tho seventh sev-enth inning when tho Saints made three tallies on two walks, a passed ball and nn error, all the locals' counters were tho result, of laying on tho wood. Allen Sothoron started the firing for ."Portland. Jn each of the three innings . he pitched ho allowed a run. Of course, .as ball games go in Salt Lake, that wasn't anything to be a-scairt of, because be-cause lots and lots of times three-run leads haven't amounted to shucks. Sothoron was cased out of the line-up in tho fourth when the Heavers had : fjiion on second and third and needed a, hit. McCredie most likely thought that I Sothoron didn't stand much of a chance of producing the hit, so ho sent in his old friend and counsellor, Johnny Lush, .lohnnv didn't hit, either, but he finished fin-ished out tho game as a pitcher. JSk Guisto in Action. Lush was no puzzle to the locals. They liked the kind of balls he threw -up there so well that they pinged Jcm right along. ' Herb Murphy was the hitting fiend of tho day. Herb fared the opposing 1 flingers five times, and five times did .he soak the pellette. Once he made it a two-bagger. ' Louie Uuisto. in addition to his "homer, got two singles ami played a star game at first base. In the eighth Jimmy Jim-my Shinn hoisted a twisting foul over by the bleachers. It didn't seem to be in thr cards for a first baseman to get it, but Louie did. Ho got it with one hand, and he did it just as easily as though he were eating pie. Although tho Beavers had two men on iu the first, two in the second, one in - Ihe third, two in the fourth and two in ""'the sixth, Hall kept them from getting the needful hit. In the seventh Wilie was on bv reason of a double and Guisto brought him home with his drive over he left-field fence. Gifts in Ninth. After two were out in the ninth and folks were moving toward the exits, Guisto broke out a single and stole second. sec-ond. Fisher hit to Kath. It was an easy grounder and Kath had the ball in i Brief's hands in a jiffy, but Bunny neg- ' 'looted the all-important duty of toucn-' toucn-' i ng the bag, and Fisher was safe. 1 1 j won Id have been tho third out. Then Southworth stepped into one for a , screeching single, which scored both Guisto and Fisher, Southworth went to sei-ond on the throw to tho pinto a.nd stoic third, where ho died when Orr threw out Spons. Salt Lake showed a white light in the l T8t. when Rath got to second on a walk (Continued on Following Page.) SITS BREAK ICE; Willi OWE FDBM6E (Continued From Preceding Page.) and a poor throw by Sothoron and scored on Brief 's double. The one in the second wes fI:e result of singles by Orr and Murphy, a stolen base by Orr and a double play, which retired Murphy and Hannah, but let Orr cross. A single by Bath and another double by Brief rang the bell in the third. Saints Tickle Lush. With Lush pitching, Salt Lake stepped I a little brisker in the fourth, scoring 1 two. Murphy singled and Hannah was hit. They both scored on Quinlau's ; double. Bath followed Quinlan with a j single and Brief drew h walk, filling the bases, but Byan was thrown out by Ward, retiring trio side. A double by Murphy and a single by Hannah sent the total up bv one in the fifth. The seventh showed three strokes for the Saiuts. Byan and Shinn walked. Orr was safe on au error. With the bases full, Murphy knocked a sizzler into right, scoring Byan and fehinn and ilepositing Orr on third. Hannah's in-ficld in-ficld out allowed Orr to score. The eighth gave us another pair. With Bath out on a fly ball, Brief singled and trotted home when Buddy Ryan punched a triple into right center. Shi mi fouled to Gursto. Orr drew a walk and then Murphy registered his fifth hit of the day, a single to right. Ryan scored on the hit and Orr advanced ad-vanced to second, but the ride was retired re-tired when Fisher caught Hannah's foul. The clubs will play again, this afternoon after-noon at 3 o'clock. |
