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Show 4 Wild Heaves and Such 4 f The best hitters: AB. H. TB. P.C. Middleton, Oakland ....4 3 3 .750 yiizserald, San Francisco 4 2 4 .70 Corhan, San Francisco ..4 3 3 . V50 Leard, Oakland '. 5 3 5 . POO Krause, Oakland 4 - o .o00 The series stand: Vernon won 1, Salt Lake won 0. San Francisco won 0, Oakland won 1. Bui for Jack Quinn's extreme tightness Tom Hughes would have been a handy winner. Special to The Tribune. LOS ANGFLES Sept. 11. Somebody connected with an afternoon publication thought something was the matter with Shortstop Orr of the Saints when he arrived ar-rived here for the Tiger series and iin-, iin-, mediately doped It that Billy was suffer- , ing from an attack of poisoning. How- , 1 ever, ihe player "walked unassisted" and,' as there are no ptomaine parlors con- 1 nected with the Salt Lake Route's service, ser-vice, the terrible suspicion evaporated in the conclusion that Billy may have been suffering from the heat. However, at Saint headquarters It was said the s. s. had not been feeling well last week and hud stayed in the series by nerve alone. Whatever is the matter. Orr, it was promised tonight, will be in the lineup tomorrow. He didn't appear there to-da to-da . Tom Darmody. owner of the Vernon Tigers, is In San Francisco on a mystery trip. The report is that Darmody is after af-ter several youngsters who have been playing around San Francisco. It Is known that he would like to get a couple cou-ple of young players from Santa Clara end St. Mary's, the institutions where a n u in her of star athletes have been developed. de-veloped. Walter McCredie is said to be In the market for the Seattle club in case that town is added to t lie Coast league. He can find plenty of backing amon? Seattle Seat-tle business men. In fact, he lias been offered the casii. Manager Kern hard of the Saints Is planning to phk ud some young tn-fieidcr tn-fieidcr in this city to help out the rents re-nts inder of the season. If he can get .Johnny Butler he will sien him. ft is said. , Manager Downs of the San Francisco club will give Ralph Valencia, the young , spmi-pro heaver, a tryout with the Seals. Downs si emed the youngster yesterday and Valencia worked out in a Seal uniform. uni-form. Valencia was with tie Tigers i for a short time this season, but was re leased because of wildness. Both the Giants and the Whit p Sox gained ground yesterday. The (Hants now have a lead of ten games and the White Son seven and a half camps. The G'uiits gained a full game when they defeated de-feated i he bodcers in hot h games, while te 1'hillies broke even with th Braves. The White Sox gained half a ;:;iin? when the Red Sox lost to the Nat i orals, while Chicago remained idle. In order to clinch the pennant the Giants need win but thirteen of their remaining twenty-two g mes, while i he Phillies win all of their twenty-two contests. con-tests. The White ?ox need to win but twelve of their remaining sixteen eames to clinch the pennant, even if t '- lied Sox win all of their twentv contests. The all-absorbing question In Salt I.ake, outside of who will win the pennant, is how will Harry Hannah ro in the majors. Sal t Lake fans figure Harry has a cinch to get by if thev give him enough work. But if they play him on the tench the boys are rather skepticn 1 as to Harry's chances of s; inking the year out. Hannah is essentially an ev-ery-day worker. He Is not the flashy tvpe of catcher who makes a brilliant showing every other day. He plods alnn at his even gait, but he gets there jus; the same. When Hannah Joined the Sacramento club four years af;o he was a rank bus her. He worked In about half the came that year and did not set the league on fire by any manner of means. The folio wint: year marked a siisht improvement im-provement in his work, hut still "nothing startling. Iast year he started the bov's ' to thinking he was real big league timber. tim-ber. This spspon. however, found him vastly vast-ly improved. He participated in more than 10 straight eames and showed to advantace earn day. His true worth in t he' majors will be detf rmlnp-d hv the iimounf M work they rlole out to' him. Hannah will have Al Wnltprs. one of the be.-t hrkston? in the hip lragne. t compete com-pete aeainst. Naturally. Hannah wi not supplant this star in every came. But he will havf to be in 'here mor than on-e a mnnth to ,io himself just tec Pan Francisco Chronh'le. Mrs. Edward Finnev. wife of i )to Co;iM I league umpire, is seri'msly iil at her home I in tiii.1 city, Einnc' remain''1" at home' yesterday while .Meek handled the' i.'ame with Ihllv I'liyle. I-os Anueles: Hcrjtid. |