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Show I WILD HEAVES I AND SUCH Tho lending hitters: AH 11. TR. PC. ScoKulns, Los Angeles... 2 U 2 1 n0 I hi 1 111a h. Salt Lake 3 2 2 Wllle, Portland 7 4 J ..71 Uriel', Salt 1 Jike ?t 4 ll .:'" Shirm, Salt Lake I 2 4 Hobs, Los Aimelrs- 4 2 3 ..Vim G. Johnson. Veinou 4 2 2 ..VM 1 lome-riin hitters Schaller, Joiu-s, San FraiidHco. Tho series ended: Ixis AngclfH won 4, Salt lik won 2. Portland won 2, San i-'ianclsco Won 3. Oakland won 3, Vernon won 4. This week the clubs play thtu way: Salt Lake at Stui Kranclsco. Oakland at Portland. lis AiiKeleH against Vermin nt Los An- iieles. For the first time, In lo, these ninny summer days the Miunk of liunny Pili-t'n hickorv was heaid t lnounhout tin- land yesterday. Bunny got t hn-ti In thf Mrst game and one tn the m-eond. Two of thi'iii ware doubles. It Is to he fi-rvently hoped that Bunny's slump has come to an end. Paul Fittery worked In hard luck In the Los Angeles seties. Wednesday his mates : kicked tlie game from under him. and yesterday they failed to get even a reasonable rea-sonable number of lut.s. Portland bids fair to niln itself out of the Coast b-ague. and that Is no Juke. This thing of travelling that far north in miilMimmer only to nnd the grounds waterlogged wa-terlogged day after day is berlous business. busi-ness. Portland, as usual, playe I the Mrsl three weeks of the season a way from home in order to escap- the spring wetness. wet-ness. Since that time Vernon and Oakland Oak-land have br en the only teams to plav a full series or games in that eitv. A total to-tal of fifteen have been postponed to dat. and tiie postponements are still piling up. Some of them probably never will be played off. Not only does this tend to yum up the race, but ih ex pense ' in-olved in-olved in taking a team lo that city is ponderous. Ltd ess Port la nil can next season give a bond to sua ran tee the goo-1 heha lor of the weather It would nut be surprising- to t an city dropped and Sacramento Sacra-mento subst it mod This change would at least eliminate the heavy expanse of transport atio ti and make it possible for every club In the le:;-.-ue to plav an approximately ap-proximately full schedule. Angeles Titr.ec. At th s writing it does not nppear that Justin Fitzgerald will be or much value j to the Snn FTan.-i.-co club during the I condng months tlt.it remain to round nut J the season. A couple of weeks ago Flt.-I Flt.-I i:eraid appeared to be coming along in I nice shape, but tilings are tdnw ing up I with him and even Harry Wolvertnn. j usually the last to give up, admits thai FiU'-'e-ald's ease looks to h a bad one. When Fitzgerald first went to Argolrs." wild Boss Harry, "we had some most encouraging reports. Lat-r. however it has been another story. The other day while hr was pracrh mg at 'tiie Los A nee o nark, l.e swung at n ; bail, missed and fell over. H is lln.O is ! t.10 weak to support htm. I r. Sim n cor 1 experts to pull him through, but de. hirrx ' it will be a long, hard struggle. For that ! reason I have about given up hope of 'having tiie use 01 t.:e San Mateo county 1 ou 1 :; M 1 r an v more this vea r. "Tl.a t s a handicap, of course, hut we will have to grin and bear i:. .lust as we have stood other disappointments that have come to us " It hezrins to look as if Jack Coffey will he permanently deaf in the left ear as tiie result of the heanirg he suffered at the hands of Wynn .oye-j, t he Portland pitcher. Coffee has recovered to the extent ex-tent of being able to get Into the lineup, but he says there is a ringing sensation in his left ear that interferes with his hearing. In one way Coffey ls hxjcy to escape as eaOly as he has afror such an accident, acci-dent, but it's no funny thing to suffer from dafnevs ;i nd the former Denver manager is to he sympathized with in his misfortune. Portland Oregon hi n. Manager Fatterson of the Hampats is , rather soured on the Los Angeles fans 1 and the newspaper men. "We haven't had a fair deal," lie I growled, in San Francisco. "When we , win. ih" paper boys say we are lucky ; w hen we lof-e. they write to t he effect that we are in great hick because the score is not more one-sided. So, anv way ; you look at it. there isn't much chance 1 for Vernon. Neither Is it fair to the league. It has hurt our drawing power ; around the circuit, as has been proved in j Los Angeles. It begins to look to me I as if there is a conspiracy on foot to keep 1 us away from the pennant." |