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Show WILD HEAVES) AND SUCH I The leading hitters: AB. 1L TB. PC. Berger. Oakland 2 2 3 1.010 Hall. Uis Angeles 1 1 1 l.nOO Middleton. Oakland i 3 2 2 ;U7 Kinnev, Oakland A 2 2 . f7 Nixon. Portland 5 3 3 .HO0 Rodgers, Portland 4 2 3 .5ft0 Couch, San Francisco 4 2 3 ."0ft 'Brooks, San Francisco, . . .4 2 3 .fifti) I Kenworthv, Oakland 2 I 1 .300 'Hhel. Los Angeles 2 1 1 .oftft Mitchell, Vernon 2 1 1 .000 Home-run hitter l-ane, Oakland. The series ended: Vernon won tf, Salt Lake won 1. Portland won 4, Oakland won 2. San Francisco won 4, Los Angeles won 3. During Lie last four wpeks Salt Lake has won five oi twenty-five games played, giving them a percentage fur those four weeks of .200. In-Salt Lake they won two of seven from Los Angeles and one of six from Vernon. At Lor Angeles they won one of five from the Angels and one of seven from the Tigers. The Saints will open a series against Portland at Majestic park tomorrow. The series will be of seven games. There is a postponed game for the clubs to work off. The series this week will be followed by one next week with San Francisco, and the season will wind up with a set against the Oaks. The schedule will be completed on October 2J. after thirty weeks of baseball, fifteen of them in Salt Iike. The Coast league Reason is the longest in baseball, consisting of seven, months. The Seals and Oaks play schedules sched-ules of 215 games. The ma.ior league schedule runs about "vl games. H Two new faces will show in Puiddy Ryan's t roupe Tuesdav, na mely. Pit cher Jim Park, acquired from the St. Louis Browns, and Pitcher Harry Gardner, from the Lincoln club. The expected arrival of TJill Bernhard. prospective new manager of the Saints, did not eventuate yesterday. He is expected ex-pected today. It may be, however, that he had to stop en route on account of illness, ill-ness, since he was a very sick man when lie left Memphis. The Chicago Cubs are to use beautiful Pasadena as a place for their spring training, train-ing, and preparations are now gohiz on to take care of them. Early in the spring a special train, much like that which bore the Chicago White Sox and their rentes to the coast several years ago. is to head for these parts, and a party close to lftfl will make the trip. At the present time work is going on in preparation for the arrival of the National leaguers, and the shower haths and other accommodations are now being put up. Exhibition games will be arranged between the Cubs and the Toast league clubs which will also be in training hereabouts, sn that we will have plenty of baseball to liven up the hitherto dull pre-season days. Los Angeles An-geles Times. SAN FRANCISCO. CVL S. Red OMham, the left-Ii nided pitcher, who has been simultaneously the hope and rk-Kpn ir of Seal fans this season, was purchased from Detroit yestenlav. and will he a member of the HI 7 Sea.ls. Oldham earne here from Detroit, and for many weeks was a disappointment. Tn the Inst, few weeks, however, he h, is pitched in gond form, and his innuoed showing led Wnlverton to make the deal for him. 1 Frank Chance is being discussed in Chicago as the next manager of the Cubs. Chicago newspapers yesterday printed a report, -aid to be inspire-i bv th best of authority, that Charles Weearhman had decided to release Joe Tinker and call hack the Peerless Leader to his first love. It was nmted thai the deimls had aM been settled, and it alt-o was said thati there was general satisfaction in Chicago. 1 where Chance is still an idol wit h the fans. Thev have clamored for his return ever sin- e he resigned t he ma r.a cement of Hie i"ubs in 1?I2 after trouble with Charles Webb Murphv. But Chance declares all 1 his is nc-.vs to him. '"o such pror-'Mlirm j;a been mnd to me." dc, hired Frank lasr nig!::. "There has been :io correspondence nf an-.- so- , Continued on FoIIoTiug Page.) 4 . . . Wild Heaves and Such l , r (Continued From Preceding Fae.) aside from such correspondence as has been related to the purchase and sale ot players. I am intimately acquainted with Mr. Weeghman, who was always a great ball fan when 1 was in Chicago. 1 am sure he has made no announcement of his intention to offer me the managerial job, for he would first of all have said something to me about it. "Would I accept it it 'were offered? Well, I'm not prepared to say. I am perfectly per-fectly satisfied here. 1 have my home 1 tere, a nd 1 a m pa rt o w ner in the bal I club. Why should I want to make a change?" San Francisco Examiner. |