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Show Wild Heaves and Such The best hitlers: AB. H. TB. P.C. Magerert, Tos Angeles .. 8 6 7 .750 Stovall, Vernon 3 2 2 .667 Qulnlan, Salt .Lake 6 3 8 .600 Rath, Salt Lake 4 2 2 -500 Butler. Salt Lake 4 2 2 .50 Snodgrass. Vernon 4 2 2 .500 Boles, Los Angeles 4 2 2 .600 Seaton, Los Angeles ... 4 2 2 .500 1 tome-run hitter Founder, Los Angeles. An-geles. The series stand : Vernon won 2, Salt Lake won 3. San Francisco won 3, Oakland won 2. Portland won 1, Los Angeles won 2. Among others, Johnny Butler's hit came just in time. The following table shows the possibilities possi-bilities of today's play: Wins Loses two. two. Splits San Francisco 5111 .550 .556 Salt Lako pfSO .538 .544 Los Angeles 536 .524 .530 Portland 407 .484 .491 Oakland 479 .467 .473 Vernon 415 .404 .409 If Salt Lake wins two and San Francisco Fran-cisco loses two, the standing would be: Salt Lake, .55u000; San Francisco, .649708 Special to The Tribune. VANCOUVER,. B. C. Sept. 15. Unless the Northwestern league sends a representative repre-sentative to the National Association of Baseball clubs at Louisville, Ky., in November No-vember prepared to fight for territorial rights, the circuit may lose Seattle In the near future, according to President Bob Brown of the Vancouver club. Brown said today that there was no question that the Coast league was desirous of acquiring Seattle territory and, if the Northwestern league fails to operate next season, the Coast league would in all ; probability invade the northwest. "The fight for territorial rights In minor leagues will take place at the Louisville convention," said Brown, "and the Northwestern league should offer strenuous opposition to the Coasters. We cannot afford to lose any of the clubs on our circuit, but action must be taken to stop the Coast league from Invading our territory." Fresident Brown believes a four-club league would be a paying proposition next season in the Northwestern. He suggests such an organization, with a. short schedule. sched-ule. Special to The Tribune. PORTLAND. Ore., Sept. 15. Portland got into an early lead the first game when Griggs singled to left and stole second, sec-ond, coming home on Dennle Wllie's single sin-gle to center. Owing to a death in Jack ! Farmer's family. Jack did not play, pull- ing WIlie and his wounded hoof oft the i bench. Long Lee played left field and , carried a stick up to the plate, but Long Lee couldn't have hit a sprinkler today. i There will be two games tomorrow afternoon, aft-ernoon, the first starting at 1:30 o'clock, after which the Angels will make their getaway for the season. Bill Fincher left tills morning for Clarendon, Clar-endon, Tenn., where he will join the national na-tional army. The standing of the clubs at the close I of the twenty-fourth week of the 1(J16 season follows: Won. Lost. P.C. ; Los Angeles 93 66 .BS3 i Vernon 94 72 .566 Salt Lake SI 77 .513 San Francisco 84 S2 .506 Portland 73 79 .4S0 Oakland 60 109 .355 This week the clubs play as follows: Salt Lake at San Francisco. Oakland at Portland. Vernon at Los Angeles. The series at San Francisco this week between the Saints and the Seals is regarded re-garded as one of those "crucial" things we have every so often. The two leaders will be squarely against each other, and a victory or a loss will mean. much. The .series is for seven games. The Los Angeles club, in great trim and riding a dangerously close third, meets Vernon this week. While it has been with the utmost difficulty that the Saints have kept even with the Tigers, the Bengals will probably be easy for the Angels. The Angels regard the Bengals as a soft proposition and the Bencals seem to know it. A successful week for the Angels against the Tigers while the Saints are up against the no-longer-crippled Sea,ls would put the Seraphs In a position to strike out after the leaders. Earl Sheely is due to rejoin the Saints at San Francisco this week. Earl will be with the club at least until mid-Oc-toher. and It is possible that he may be able to finish the season. Today's games will close the twenty-fourth twenty-fourth week of the 1917 schedule. Six weeks of play remain. Following their set this week with the Seals the Sanits ; play the Oaks at San Francisco and con- elude their final round with a series at Portland. They return home October 9 for a three weeks' stand with the Angels, An-gels, the Seals and the Tigers. The season closes October 28. "Lee Is the makings of a dandy ball player. He is a tall, rangy chap, not old ! enough to be drafted, and is built along the same lines as Farmer. I don't think : there Is a faster man on his feet in the , Coast league than I-ee. Ho covers a world of ground. He is a right-handed hitter and takes a nice cut at the ball. I look for htm to be a valuable asset to the Portland club. We can use him any place on the team. "Our infield has been playing wonderful wonder-ful ball. It has been almost Impossible to get a hit through the infield. Rodgers played the best 1 ever saw him on this trip away from home. "If our pitching had held up at S-alt Lake we would have cleaned the Saints up in fine shape. Young Dalley will be the find of the Coast league in another year. In his game at Vernon he had the Tiger batters swinging helplessly until I he became wild near the end of the game and I yanked him. Last week at Salt Lake, after the Saints found Gardner's fence ball to their liking. I stuck Dalley In there and he pitched dandy ball. In another year he will be a find. "Baldwin is coming along rapidly and has been catching great ball. His work behind the bat startled the natives at Salt Lake. He seems to have located his batting eye and jumped a number of points In his batting average." From an interview with Walter McCredie in the Portland Oregon ian. Del Baker was a spectator at Recreation Recrea-tion park yesterday afternoon, but It will be many a day before he is able to catch again. Del has a broken finger which will not be taken out of its plaster cast for another week. And it will be weeks after that before he will be able to use the finger in a ball game. San Francisco Examiner. Ralph Pinelli, Beaver outfielder, has a permanent exemption from war duty issued by the San Francisco board of exemption. ex-emption. Pinelli likes Portland and has taken his wife and baby there to live. If Pinelli can find work in Portland this winter he will remain there permanently. perma-nently. The idea that prevails among many fans that baseball magnates are entirely entire-ly grasping, always eager to pinch the last cent until it wiggles, is found to be wrong In many cases. An Instance of this kind is found in the Illness of BaTje Borton. Portland first sacker. Borton suffered a bad strain the last time the Beavers played Los Angeles in the south. He had to come home and be operated on. This Injury was not incurred in-curred on the baseball field, nor was baseball the cause of it, as far as Portland Port-land was concerned. Borton has been of no service to the Portland club since, and may not be for the rest of the year. Nevertheless, his salary is being paid in full, without question, ques-tion, by the McCredies. No baseball manager or owner is liable lia-ble for a player's salary when lie is sick or injured off the ball field. A manager must give a player a release if he doesn't keep him on the payroll, but In many cases it is better to release a man than to carry one who may never be able to play again. That is the hard-hearted, businesslike business-like manner of looking at It. There does seem to be a little sentiment left in baseball, even in these war-struck times. Portland Telegram. - |