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Show H. WOLVERTON SAINTS START OFF WITH SIX TALLIES IN FIRST INNING Five Hits, Combined With Six Errors, Give Salt Lake Commanding Lead; Make Five More Later at Expense of Regiment of Seal Pitchers; Rube Evans Keeps Tight Grip on His Club's Advantage. At Oakland Salt Lake 11, San Francisco 3. At Los Angeles Oakland 1, ' Vernon 2 (ten innings). At Portland Los Angeles 5, Portland 4. l.peclal to The Tribune. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 31. Five hits, a majority of them oft Bill Steen, who finally was forcerl to give way to Hi West, and six errors, er-rors, most of them charged to the account ac-count of Clarence Brooks, who went fifty-fifty with the rest of his club, gave Salt Lake half a dozen rims with which to start the game today, while the Seals seemed paralyzed. They laughed their way through the rest of the afternoon, the crowd laughing with them, and fi- nally, when the last of the innings had been duly signed, the visitors were to the good by 11 to 3. There was no sign of the havoc to come when Quinlau grounded out to Jones. But Bayless and Brief smashed to left in a row and Ryan sent home the first of the runs with a well-placed shot to, right. Brooks rumbled the re- , covery just enough to score Brief and a moment later made a high throw to second in a vain effort to head off Bud- dy. Orr hit to Steen to land Ryan, but Jones, who took the ball, tried to work a double all by himself and, after running run-ning past second to touch out Orr, dropped the piil. Ted Easterly sent a , liner to center that Bodie booted for Orr to come home, and tho Salt Lake catcher came all the way around as Ping wa9 chasing the elusive horsehide Vn. clear to the clubhouse. , V Rath 's bunt in front of the platfc went for a scratch single and when A u troy booted on Gislason 's grounder linth "hauled up at third. He worked the double steal with Gislason, and another an-other boot by Brooks, the. last of three, scored the Salt Lake second packer. Salt Lake registered off West in the third and, with Oldham laying soft ones across in the fifth, there were three more, (.'ouch took his turn at the gen- ernl smashing down of pitchers when lie was scored against in the sixth, singles by Quinlan aud Bunny Brief turning the trio It, San Francisco put up its big fight in the fifth, but it did no good. x -4- STANDING OF THE CLUES. S?,g WO S "3 P f2L op3 "'g: c a e g 3 ;P JD g. : 1 ; - K I fi ' . KJ :i: ?l: : i : : Los Angeles . ..I. .jl7jl61613jl9 81j .583 Vernon 'ill. .l9il4'1525i84.571 San Francisco . 12il6 . . il3,15il8 T4 .507 Salt Lake 91216 . . 17 15j69j .504 Portland 10IUI10I14I. . 15i60 .459 Oakland 16; 7;lljllill . . 65j . 378 Lost 58!63!726817192 |