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Show WILD HEAVES AND SUCH The best hitters: AB. H. TB. P.C. Risberg, Vernon 7.4 4 8 l.ono Butler, Los Angeles 3 2 2 .667 Quinlan, Salt Lake 4 2 4 .600 Dalev, Vernon 4 2 2 .500 KoernerJ Los Angeles 4 2 3 ..".00 Whaling, Vernon- 4 2 2 .500 Orr, Salt Lake 4 2 2 .500 Lane, Oakland 4 2 6 .500 Crandall. Oakland 2 1 1 .500 Davis, Oakland 2 1 1 .500 Maggert, Los Angeles -2 1 1 .500 Home-run hitters: Risberg, Vernon; Lane, Oakland. The series stand : Los Angeles, won 1; Salt Lake, won 0. Oakland, won 1; Vernon, won 0. Portland, won 0; San Francisco, won 0. To be held responsible for only one run and lose a game by a score of 6 to 4 is what might -Jae called doggone hard luck. With another postponed game at Portland, Port-land, the latter end of the week promises to be a full one for Beavertown fans. Business Manager Bill O'Connor, who remained behind when the Saints left for California, will leave today to join the club. Bill had some business matters to clean up. SAINTS IN EAOE. Special to The Tribune. LOS ANGELES, Cal., July 26. The new Salt Lake ball team arrived here today to-day for a six-game series with the local club. It may be that seven games will be played, as there Is a chance a double-header double-header will be staged Friday or Saturday. Satur-day. It is the consensus of opinion of Ios Angeles fans and sporting writers that the showing- of the Saints has gathered the Coast league race into a knot. The Salt Lake rally, combined with the impressive im-pressive spurt of the Oakland club, prom-slses prom-slses to make a real race In the league. The Oaks proved they were really trying yesterday when they trimmed the Vernon Tigers in a brilliantly played game. Cliff Blankenship was the happiest man in Los Angeles today when he received a telegram from Salt Lake that he was the father of an eight-pounjl girl. The manager of the Saints says he expects to make an umpire out of his daughter, Blankenship said today that he expected ex-pected southpaw Chester Hoff from the Little Rock club to arrive In a day or two. Hoff was offered to Los Angeles in exchange for Hogg a month ago, but the deal fell through. As soon as Hoff arrives, Blankenship will release one of his pitchers, he says. RAIN AT PORTLAND. Special to The Tribune. PORTLAND, July 26. With the arrival of Walter Henry McCredie and his splendid splen-did pay rollers today came great gobs of moisture. If the militia boys along the boid-'r are torcly In need of showery, one knows of no better means of procuring the same than to sond post haste for V- alter Hennery. That old boy is the original rainmaker. Every time he squints at the sky, likely as not he'll get hit in tho eye with a celestial ten r. Portland was breezing along with a two-run lead in the first half of the fifth, when the rain descended. The inning might have been played out, but Clarence Clar-ence Brooks, who is as simple as a fox, suddenly concluded that his bat needed wiping off. It took a long time to hunt a towel and a longer time to remove the aqua from the ash. By the time Clarence got through. Umpire in Chief Kitty Bra-shear, Bra-shear, known to the two-gunmen of Arizona Ari-zona as Kalamlty Kate, fearful that his new blue suit, costing "?L5-no-more, no-less," no-less," would shrink to the proportions of a bathing garment, suspended play. Half an hour later his red head bobbed out from behind the coop, a signal that the game had been called on account of rain. About the most disappointed man of the day was Dennis Wilie, the fire-eating denizen of Texas. Had a couple of Mexicans Mexi-cans been handy. Dennis would have devoured de-voured 'em without salt. Dennis got a two-hagger and a homer off Young Couch, with which he will not be credited. Dennis's Den-nis's two-bagger and Guistos single in the first inning gave the Beavers their first run, and Dennis's homer over the right garden wall in the third added another. an-other. McCredie announced that another pitcher pitch-er and an ln!ie!rler would be added to th; l'orand to:it.i ? on. Their names are a secret, as tin: deals are not completed f yet. but are suf iic ently far along that it U is belie v ed certain they will be obtained. ob-tained. Biil Slumpf will not play sga'n this (Continued oil Following Page.) I Wild Heaves and Such f v f (Continued Prom FroccdiuK Pngo.) .;en :-u m . IT be ever pbn.'p n ::n I n. HI 11 c r-ti!llvan, m-oni for the D.Mrcit A;nrtricnn.. w, rmr.l up with the Pori- lailil'TH torl.'V. liny Ah N-nri'T. the Tdaho rollRe twlrl-cr, twlrl-cr, j'll net I I he J Vrl land ta in for a in it her I I ,. ou i. 1 'i-iuiil.'-hcailfi h bp, ilayed Satur lay and Sunday i.'alcher Hnrwond. who wan xvilh the Scnln In trainim: camp, rece ed n tele-ra tele-ra in troni , be (inks on 1'Tldn y t o ropoi't lo the dub in San Krn nclsco. Accordinjc-lv Accordinjc-lv be -Mill hits job In the Trolley leagno tn In- on liaint. Tonkin, the M'-tni-pro oulflr-Mer who wan Willi ll)e SciiIh Hie tiisl of IiimI week, has been Id j:.i for the balance nf the (season. (sea-son. W'oU'.Tton i;ih promised him n trial in the uprlne m a sun, lni l mh.vh 1i cm nnot iilTotd in work with inevpet ienceii talent at thin Hlaue of I he ('.lime, We' vc be; i rd from Hen Herry nn t lie 'ineallon nl V'lt.k'ciald'H Injury. "Doc" Spencer hi.H had hi Mtv, So lum Hurry Wnlverlon. II struck tin that KHz mlk'llt hac muiu'IIiIiik lo Miy on lite subject I I I in in -1 f tin wn wrote 1 1 Irn, and bern'R I he '.'ii il.it. of the man inont Interested: tin the bufJliicHa side of a photo of Spring- street, looking north, 'which by the way is the direction that all Los An-seles An-seles looke. for obvious reasons, f'itz writes: "The old flat tire is coming along as well as can be expected. 'Doc' Spencer Spen-cer cannot tell for certain at this ti me when 1 will be able to play again. Personally Per-sonally I do not think I can possibly get back in the game in less than three or four weeks." Now that we've heard from Fitz on the subject, tiieie are no opinions being with- i held, unless Trainer Denny Carroll of the Seals lias (something to say, which is not 1 likely. San Francisco Bulletin.. When Rowdy Ulliott bows himself out as leader of the wilted and faded Oakland Oak-land baseball cluh, the Pacific Coast league will find itself without a plaver manager for the first time in its history. In the passing of Elliott the Pacific Coast league, it is believed, bids fair to create ihe world's record of being the first organization or-ganization in the country without a playing play-ing manager. In the old days of the Coast circuit the majority of the men at the helm of the luhs took active parts on the diamond. They occupied practically every position, too. from ca trhera to outfielders. They were proud of their ability to take their regular places on the lot and at the same time direct the work of their charges. But times have changed, and conditions condi-tions also. The majority of the modern managers sit on the benches, plan their diamond campaigns, just like generals plan thoir maneuvers, and in their spare moments keep. their eyes opfc-n for likely talent 10 develop. The wisest men in baseball 'todav have come to the conclusion conclu-sion that t he berrch manager he w.-.ose. days of usefulness on the diamond have pped i? the most effective pilot. There Is no question that the burden which was placed upon the shoulders oi Elliott impaired his worth as a pi-iver. lie simplv could not so the route and do double dutv. He realizes his mistake now. Player managers always were popular in the Coast league, however, and eispe-cialiv eispe-cialiv Oakland. They ruled in the trans-bav trans-bav town ever since poor old Pete Ixih-man Ixih-man landed the pennant in 1902. Since then OiUlielder George Van Haltren. Brick Devereaux, Bill Reidy, Harry V"ol-verton. V"ol-verton. Bud Sharpe. Honus Mitze. Tyler Christian and Rowdy Elliott have held down the job. San Francisco, on the other hand, has been used to bench pilots, although when Del Howard had the club he frequently got in the game at the start of the season. sea-son. Before the fire the late Hank Harris was ross. When he passed from baseball. Catcher Parke Wilson took the job. He did most of tlie catching then, but he failed to last more than two seasons. Dannv Long ran the team from the bench from 1307 until 1I1J, when Pill Reidv. another bench man and an old pile lie r. stepped in. Del Howard succeeded suc-ceeded the departed William. Frank Dil- Ion. at Los Ang-eles. was the last insr manager who proved a suC'e Cliff Biankenship, at Salt La.-- , Into the box scores a few times la:- --;1.' Wit has been to bat just once this Walter MeCredie of the Beavers ha. 1-out 1-out of the ttarr.e for several ve.j7. not thought that Ham Paf;'e-' "! Frank Chance will ever aram s'eV'-. tlie fray except as a pinch hitter " |