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Show r A LITTLE REVERSAL OF "FORM, PLEASE, BILL i' SAINT SLUMP COST THEM CHANCE FOR FIRST PLACE POST Failure to Win While Seals Were Slipping Unfortunate; Unfor-tunate; Extra Games Today on Account of Holiday; Jimmy Shinn and Jeff Cress Released by Skipper Bill; Peerless Leader Gives Gus Gleichrnann . Free Agency Ticket. SALT LAKE lost, an extraordinarily gool opportunity to overhaul the Seals last week. The club seemed to be in the dumps aeainst Oakland, Oak-land, losing sir. of the eipht names played. The Seals collided vrith the Angels An-gels to such good effect that they lost five of the eight games played at Los Angeles. Oh the. week, therefore, the Peals gained a whole game on the Saints. It. if unfortunate that the Saints couldn't have won a, few games while the Seals were slipping, for then they would have narrowed the gap between the two clubs. The week ended with the Oaks in position to give alt Lake a run for second place. The Tig?" and the Beavers see-sawed during the week, first one club being in last place and then the other. The Portlanders wound up the series with three victories and four defeats. The features of the Portland-Vernon series were provided by two extra-inning games and the remarkable baiting of Kenneth Williams in Sunday's game, when he hammered out three home-runs and a two-bagger. Schedule Twisted. This week there is a confusing shifting shift-ing of the schedule on account of today's to-day's registration day arrangements. The Saints play one game at Portland and the Tigers meet Oakland in two games, while the SeaJs remain at Los Angeles for two games with the Angels. The regular regu-lar schedule will be resumed Wednesday, Wednes-day, when the Angels meet the Oaks at San Francisco and the Seals meet the Tigers at Los Angeles. Jimmy Shinn, a veteran outfielder of the Salt Lake club, and Jeff Cress, a rook catcher, were released bv Manager Bernhard. That is. they will be released re-leased as 60on as their five days' notice no-tice has expired. Shinn came to Salt Lake with the Sa'eramento franchise. While still a good ball player, Shinn has fhown a deficiency in hitting this season. sea-son. Cress had no experience as a catcher in fast company. The release of Shinn leaves Bernhard with but one utility man, Karl Crandall. Crandall tan play an outfield position, although he is ranked an infielder. In the event that Kyan, Tobin or Quinlan should suffer injurv Bernhard could use. Crandall Cran-dall in the outfield or send Orr to the outfield. Crandall taking his place in the infield. Orr is a first-class outfielder. out-fielder. The addition of Stanley Dou-gan Dou-gan to the pitching staff rendered a Telease necessary. Gleichrnann Released. Frank Chance released Gus' Gleich-niann, Gleich-niann, rated as one of the very best fielding first basemen in the business, but a weak hitter. Gleichrnann 's place is being tempprarily filled by Red Kil-lifer. Kil-lifer. No doubt Jacques Fournier, acquired ac-quired bv the Angels,- with Shortstop Zeb Terry, from the White Sox, will be given a whack at first base, although al-though Killifer seems to be filling the bill satisfactorily. Fournier will prob-ably prob-ably get into the game this week. McCredie has practically closed a deal for Catcher Baldwin of' the Spokane club. In exchange for Baldwin McCredie McCre-die will give Manager Williams Pitchers Pitch-ers Fitipatriek and Harstad. The acquisition ac-quisition of Baldwin will mean the dropping drop-ping of Louis Sepulveda from the Beaver backstopping staff. McCredie is also reported to be after two more pitchers. Warren Adams. Oakland first baseman, base-man, whom Del Howard, after much trouble, got from the Pittsburg Pirates, appears to' be about through with the Oaks. He has been displaced in several sev-eral recent games bv Roxy Middleton. The Oaks have obtained Kay Miller from the Cleveland Americans, and it is likely that Miller will hook the first basing place. with that change the team is one man over the fourteen -veteran limit, and an infielder is slated to "go. THIS AND THAT IN COAST LEAGUE TALK Swede Fishery, the Pacific Coast Infielder In-fielder from the Vernon -club, who hat i made good with the Chicago White Sox. : is homesick and wants to return to the coast. He has told the club management ' as much and has requested Comiskey to : arrange for a change. But, there isn't one chance in a hundred. The sale of ; Zeb Terry means that Ftjsberg will have I to stick. ' Report ha? it that the Chicago White Sox. despairing of signing up Speed Mar-It Mar-It in. who was purchased from Oakland last fall and turned down the contract I Comlskev offered him. have expressed their wiliingnegfj to turn Speed back to i the Oaks if the purchase money is refunded. re-funded. But J. Cal Ewing says he has I not heard of any such suggestion, and j that it would be turned down even if it ; were made. i Without a pprising the other members i of the Oakland baseball club of his intentions. inten-tions. Pitcher William T. Bums took to himself a bride yesterday in Oakland, the bride being Miss Laura P. Carroll of Cincinnati. Cin-cinnati. They were married at high noon at St. Francis de Sales' church, with the Rev. Patrick Bresnan officiating. The other members of the Oakland club heard about it last evening and promised prom-ised a "time" for Burns. He gave his age as 37, while the bride's age is 25. San Francisco Chronicle. Occupying hia old familiar grandstand seat was John Peter Cook, who hummed during odd moments that ancient ditty: "It was not like this in the olden days, In the days that I recall, i When T ran the Oaks and they all were ! jokes, j It wsa not like this at all!" j And yet old familiar Jack in his old i familiar seat had the old familiar feeling, ! for Jack is now Impresario of the Bees. ! How often, oh. how often, in the days of the dear, dead past, he has sat in that self -same seat and watched his ball club finish last. San Francisco Examiner. . Among the Leaders. LEADING RUN GETTERS. Fitzgerald. San Francisco 42 Tobin, Salt Lake 40 Maggert, Los Angeles 33 ; Pick, San Francisco 37 I Williams, Portland 3b i LEAPING TWO-BASE HITTERS. ; Fitzgerald, San Francisco 17 Schaller, San Francisco 17 : Borton, Portland , 16 Hannah, Salt Lake 14 Tobin, Salt Lake 14 Galloway, Vernon , 14 LEADING THREE-BASE HITTERS. M c Larry , Vernon 5 Pick, San Francisco , 5 i Maggert. Los Angeles 5 Miller, Oakland 5 ! Bassler, Los Angeles 4 ' Murphy, Oakland , 4 , Williams, Portland i Farmer. Portland 4 LEADING HOME-RUN HITTERS- Williams, Portland . . . .' 7 Sheely, Salt Lake 6 . Ryan, Salt Lake 4 Koerner, San Francisco 2 I Borton, Portland 2 j Farmer, Portland 'j I Mi' Larry, Vernon ; j Galloway. Vernon . . , . , 2 Griggs, Vernon 2 LEADING TOTAL-BASE HITTERS. Williams- Portland 103 Ryan. Salt Lake p$ Fitzgerald, San "Francisco -97 Pick. San Francisco ,,. 04 Scha.ller, San FTancisco 0 Tobin. Salt Lake S3 LEADING SACRIFICE HITTERS. Mr-Larry, Vernon 18 Middleton. Oakland 15 Rath, Salt Lake 14 Downs, San Francisco 12 Gislason, Salt Lake ll Adams. Oakland H ' LEADING BASE STEALERS. Meusel, Los Angeles -. 20 Williams, Portland IS Corhan. San Francisco 17 McLarry, Vernon 17 Schaller, San Francisco 16 |