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Show I WILD HEAVES AND SUCH The leading hitters: AB. II . TB. P.C. Risberj?, Vernon 4 4 8 1.000 Sehultz, Los Angeles . . . i: 3 3 1.000 Brook:?, San Francisco. . Ill 1.000 Koerner, Los Angeles ..3 2 -I .tiiw Routher, Portland .12 1! .rtiiT Nixon. Portland u 3 3 ,ti()U Grists. Vernon 4 2 5 .500 ICllis. Los Anpelos 4 2 2 ..a00 Hall, San Francisco 2 1 1 .oOO Home-run hitter Griggs, Vernon. The series stand: ' Salt Lake won 1, Vernon won 4. Los Angeles won 4, San Francisco won 1. Oakland won 1, Portland won 4. -7 Today's game will begin at 3 o'clock. It will be the last game of the Vernon series and will be the last league base-hall base-hall game in Salt Lake for two weeics. Tonight the Tigers leave for Portland and the Saints will go to Los Angeles. Thus far each of the clubs on the losing side of the series has won but one game, while the winners have won four each. Portland is coming up, mnking the. race for third place a tight affair. The Beavers Beav-ers are only seven ixiint.s behind the j Heals, who are only .six points behind Salt L-ike. The Seals have the best of (he going this week, since they meet Oak-liiml, Oak-liiml, while tin: Saints meet the leading Angels and the Beavers meet the contending con-tending Tigers. Shinn's great work in the seronrt pre- ' vente 1 a run. He took Johnson's hard hopper and slung to third, sending Mat-tick Mat-tick b:ick to second. Brief's play on Gleichmann'a hard grounder in the third was a hen r. lc t"Fsed to Piercey, who covered the hat; fur the out. Sheely caucht Griggs's foul fibnut six Inches from The screen in tho fourth. Orr woke up the Hpectatnrs in tho fifth witli his one-hand scoop of McJaffigan's scooter. McGafflgan phone with his long throw on t'hecly's bounder in the sixth. Pill Orr'a clean whang to Wt in the sixth was the first hit the Saints g't off Johnson. Orr was n Iso t he fi rt man to reach first bare save B'-ief, who waikc-I , in the first ;ind was promptly ph'ked off I first. The sfxih w;is th first Inning in which the Saints h: d any runners (eft on bases when the side was put out. Today's games will closo the twen'v-fifth twen'v-fifth w-ek of the ID fi schedule of the ! Pacific '"oast lea erne. Five weeks remain j to be worked out. Salt Lake has one j more series with ea-h of the other five! rlubs. Ti-esciDv they begin a erven-game 1 series r.i'.niiist the :ni:"!s nt Lnp Anc-ics. Tii following week they pinv Vernon.! Follow pet th;tt series, on O-'toher 10, thev return liorn" for a three w.-eks' star to co-f. the j-e;:snn. Thf vlsiuim clnbs in '(Continued on Following Pago.) . 4 . Wild Heaves and Such 4 f (Continued Prom Preceding Page.) j their order of appearance will "bp Portland. Port-land. Snn Francisco and Oakland. The season closes October 2:K The Saints have . one postponed came on the home grounds, that with Portland. The clubs this week play as follows: Salt Lake at Los Angeles. Vernon at Portland. San Francisco against Oakland. The standing of the clubs at the end of the twenty-fiflh week of the 1915 schedule follows: Won. Lost. P.C. San Francisco bio 74 .575 Los Angeles i'5 79 Vernon S5 ST. .500 s-ilt Uike 2 s:. .in; Portland " !'t .445 Oakland Ttj 99 .131 Risherg pulled prime smart baseball in the elirlnh, when he stretclied a single tn left into a double, li-Mrl calling him safe at second and thereby provoking the crowd to fu.thcr wrath. Downev srarkled on Schmidt's grounder in the eighth. Swede Risberg pulled a wonderful field- . ing pin y in the eighth when he tonk Quinbin's blow to right. II looked like a cerra in hit until Risherg stretched his long legs and nailed the hall. |