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Show WILD HEAVES AND SUCH The leading hitters: AB. 'H. TB. PC. Murphy. Salt Lake fi 5 fi 1.000 Autrey, San Francisco.. 4 .1 T, .7f0 Brief. Salt Lake 4 3 5 ."hO McGaffisan, Vernon .... S 2 li .tit7 Decanniere, Vernon ....3 2 3 .S67 Stumpf, Portlund 3 2 2 .fifiT I Spencer, Vernon 3 2 2 .Gfi? I 'iuisto, Portland 5 3 G .60i) Flpher, Portland 5 'A 3 .600 I Downs. San Kranciseo. .4 2 3 .:no Hath, Salt Iake 4 2 2 .5U0 Home-run hitler On 1st o, Portland. SAINTS GET PIERCEY. Fans will rejoice, please. Manager Blankenship last night announced that he had closed with the New York Americans for Billy Piercey, the sensational young heaver of last year's Vernon club. Blank expects Piercey to leave for the west at once. Billy Piercey is only 20 years of age. He is a California hoy, whose home town is El Monte, He is 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 180 pounds. That is, he weighed 180 pounds last year he is probably heavier now. In 1914 Piercey had a little experience ex-perience with the Sioux City club of the Western league. Last year he was rated one of the best pitchers in the Coast league, despite his youth, and he was picked by big league scouts as a comer. He was drafted by the Yankees. Owing to his lack of experience, the Yanks could not use him regularly. He comes to Salt Lake on a straight purchase. Following is Piercey 's pitching record of 1915: Games. 47; total innings pitched, 292; shutouts, 3; opponents at bat. 1020; opponents' hits, 250: hit batsmen. 18; bases on I balls, 90 ; struck out, 104 ; wild pitches, 6; balks. 2; total runs, 98; responsible for, 71; runs responsible for per nine-inninc game, 2.20. On a won-and-lost basis, he split even. ! wimiinc; 15 and losing 15 for a per centage of .500. He batted .129 and fielded .944. On July 25. 1915. Fierrev pitched a no-hit Rarae against Oakland at Los Aneeles. He was the only one to win that distinction last year in the Coast league. Special to The Tribune. RAN" FRANCISCO. Mnv 1 .lu .-tin FMtzntM will W- a u kv bpll plav!-. t nd I in:drntnH' tint ShIs a hi-kv club, if thf j star outfieMrr ran gt ha.'k intn th linr- 1 (Continued on Following Pare.) Wild Heaves and Such. ; f (Continued From Preceding Page.) ness in less than a month or six weeks. The injury received by Fitzgerald on Tuesday, when he ruptured a ligament in bis leg going from first to second base, has proved more serious than was at first thought, and Dr. John atillivan. who has the case in charge, refuses to commit himself as to when Fllz will be out of trouble. In the meantime it is Wolver-ton's Wolver-ton's intention to use Sheehan, his novice, nov-ice, in rig lit Meld. Slieehan got off to a bad start today, both in his fielding and at the bat. j The series stand: Salt Lake, won l; Portland, won 2. San Krancisco, won 2; Dos Angfcles, won 1. Vernon, won 2; Oakland, won 1. Dooks like Tom Hughes for ':ne Saiirfs and YV'ynn Koyes for Portland today. Five hits in five times, up is passable hitting, we take it. Murphy's record yesterday yes-terday was perfect, with one added, for one of his hits was a double. :b ! A turn ling race that between Bunny 1 Brief and Louie Gulsto for home-run honors, with Ping Bodle a strong con-, con-, lender. By reason of yesterday's four-I four-I savker Louie heads the trio with ten. I Brief is second with nine and Bodie has eight. Vaughn made a pretty one-hand stop of Ryan's bouncer over second in the third. Ward starred with a nice throw on Shinn's drive which othoron knocked down in the third. Quinlan's fine running catch of Vaughn's fly in the seventh was a nifty play. Guisto pulled in Shinn's foul near the covered bleachers in the eighth with one nand arter a hard chase. It was a peach of a catch. Special to The Tribune. LOS ANGELES. May . IS. There was some talk ity town today that the New York Americans were after Tub Spencer, the Tiger catcher, on a cash proposition, proposi-tion, but no one would confirm the report. re-port. CHICAGO, May IS. .lack Ness, whose destiny in the baseball world has been a matter of recent speculation, left tonight to-night to join the White Sox at Philadelphia. Philadel-phia. Moriarity, another White tfox player who signed recently to manage the Memphis club, left for his new post tonight. to-night. Owners of Northwestern league clubs, by a ote of 4 to 2, have decided to raise the player limit from thirteen to fourteen four-teen players. Pitcher Putch Rock, former San Francisco Fran-cisco twirler, has been signed by Ta-I'oma. Ta-I'oma. Bill Sfen tells a story on Rube Oldham, Old-ham, which runs like tills: Rube has trilnyp which would ?io credit to Jess Wtllard, as far as size is concerned. Traveling north In the Pullman, the porter, por-ter, when he went to find Rube's shoes, saw only one, and rummaged around under un-der the herth until he found what he supposed to be its mate. The next morning morn-ing when Rube went to don his brogans he foti nil one nicely polished hoot, and beside It Ills small hla.'k leather grip, al.-u polished bv the-near-sighted porter. Slim Love has been having his troubles in New York. He has had plenty of stuff on the ball, but his fie;diiig has been ;i v-k wit rd. As was feu red hy his friends, the i-HslornTs s;ar t ed hunting on him. !,ih-p inwnf dialely prot eeded to tumble all uv. r himself. The r-:Uini of Love would be much to the liking of the Los Angeles fans. It Is perhaps this wish that has given the rise to the rumor. Slim Love was not the most graceful pitcher In the Coast league last season. At times he looked as It he might be tailing tail-ing to pieces. But nobody eer hit him hard. Two runs in a gameott Slim Love sent the opposing batters away thinking that -ihey had Just enjoyed a siua-test. siua-test. Los Angeles Times. ' Billy PhyUs related a story on Cliff Blankenship that gets the money. According Ac-cording to Billy. Blank ts most superstitious. supersti-tious. So when the tfuints' manager was chased on Tuesday and his club hit out a victory immediately following. Blank began to do a bit of thinking. The next day Blank was chased again, and once more the leaderltsB Sain is swatted out i a win. That decided -Blank.! jjn the next afternoon, Thursuky, he kitked long and strenuously, out no one listened, ana the Saints lost. On Friday Blank kicked on a decision at second and Doyle refused to pay any attention. Blank persisted in tne next inning, with the result that he was ordered or-dered to the clubhouse fur the third time in the week. The strangest part of the proceedings was that tne Sumta again had a bailing rally and won out. To tell Blankennhip now that the wins were not due to ins being chased is the neight of folly, according to Phyie. Ball flayers and their superstitions have given rise to many stories, but this one beats the world. San Francisco Bulletin. Herb Kelly little knew when he went on the mound and pitched the last two innings of the game against San Francisco Fran-cisco Saturday that he earned a chance ! to go on the road with the Beavers, tn-; tn-; stead of being turned back to Cleveland. Cleve-land. Kelly had pitched In one game, and mud A a fnir kind of showing, although he lost. Before Saturday's game Manager Man-ager McCredie announced that he was going to take all his players with him except one, who was Kelly. He admitted that he wasn't especially impressed with the way Kelly had worked. After a conference with Judge Mc-Credie, Mc-Credie, Walter sent a wire to Cleveland, stating that Kelly couldn't be used by Portland, and wanting to know whether to release hira outright or turn him back to the Naps. Then Kelly had his chance, and while he worked only in two innings, he secured se-cured a hit and kept leading oft first and worrvlng Bill Steen until the latter threw the ball in the dirt and let the winning run across. ' As a result. Kelly was one of the athletes ath-letes taken along and Oscar Harstad was the unfortunate party who was left at home. Harty will try and get in shape while the club is on the road, in order to take his regular turn on the slab when it returns here June 6. Although he has all kins of "stuff," he has been unable to win, due, perhaps, to lack of control. Portland Telegram. Blllv Orr tells a good story on "Ping" Bodle and his hits. "Ping," it seems, accompanied a bunch of leaguers to Sebastopol last winter, and for live Innings In-nings the visitors were made to look foolish by Rav Kramer. A couple of mtsplays and Billy Orr's double netted the stars two scores, and with Billy on second, sec-ond, "Ping" hit a ball a mile high in tne air ana me wina caineu iu um I bat it dropped just outside the fence for a hofher: These four runs were all that were made during the game. In the showers "Ping" had turned his high fly into a plain long fly. Coming down on the train it assumed the regular regu-lar proportions of a long hit. Back in Iowa, Bodle was hailed by one of his admirers ad-mirers for the result of the game. "Nothin' to it." said "Ping." "We kidded Kramer for a couple of innings, an' then I comes up and busts one on a line clear to Santa RoEa. Never hit a i ball so hard in all my life: Gee, what a clout It was. Ain't it the truth, Billy?" Ruse Hall, owner of the Tacoma North- j western league club, has announced the pronation of Bill Leftrd from field cap- ; tain to manager. Hall will devote Ills attention to the financial side of the game. The former Seal second baseman has been going good and is popular with the Tacoma crowds. .Joe Mathes, who once had a brief trial with Connie Mack and then figured in the Federal league for a while, is to get a trial with Syracuse. He was with that team in 1913. Last year he played in the Rio Grande league and the Western West-ern association. He was formerly with Butte. PHILADELPHIA. May IS. There was a rumor going the rounds here this morning morn-ing that Los Angeles was figuring on getting get-ting Young Terry of the White Sox back On ineir team, niaimsei nuwwuu sw" put a quietus on this yarn when it i reached him by saying that he had never thought of canning the youngster. He could not get rid of" htm very well at the present time, for Zeb is the only utility infielder left since George Morlarty went. away. Morlarty, however, has been ordered to join the Sox here. The report was credited to the fact that the Angels had sold Bob, Fisher to the Cincinnati Reds. |
