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Show Angel and Saint Will Open Play Here Today in Seven-Game Series Game Will Begin at 2:30, So That Fans Can Watch World's Series Battle at New York Before Local Contest; Salt Lakers Return After Disastrous Road Trip; Final Series at Portland Produced Better Ball and There Is Hope That Slump Has Ended. Today's game at Bonneville park begins at 2:30. AT 2;30 o'clock this afternoon the Saints will open a three weeks stay on their home grounds to close the season. Their first op- ponents will be the Angels, who ! will appear in six scheduled games and 'probably a double-header, on Sunday. Following Fol-lowing the Angels', the Saints meet the I Seals, and close with the Timers. ! The club returns from a tuur weeks' ; trip on the road in fourth place. Of the ; four series played abroad they won but one. that witli Vernon, from which club ' they took four of seven. They lost five j of seven to the Seals, six of seven to ! the Oaks and four of six to the Beavers. 'Two games at Portland were tied. I For the games lost the Saints appear i to have littla alibi except hard luck, save i in the San Francisco series. Persons who saw that set, and whose testimony is supported by the coast newspapers and reports from the Golden sate, say that the order of win -and -lose should have been reversed, that Salt Iike should have won five instead of San Francisco. The series with the Oaks was undoubtedly the Oakland Oak-land boys' victory. It happened that tht Oaks had one of their good weeks. They bad just been beaten to death by the Beavers and. being successful against the Saints, it was a certainty that they would be beaten to death by the next club they met, which happened to be t lie Angels. True to form, the Oaks lost six of seven games to Los Angeles. The series at Portland was nip and tuck, the final game being a l-to-0 affair, in which the Beavers had just a breath the better of it. Play Better Ball. The playing of the Salt Lakers at Portland Port-land was a vast improvement over their showing against the Oaks, and it is possible pos-sible that they may have shaken their slump now and that they will play some regular baseball again during the next three weeks. At a corresponding time last year the Salt Lake club fell into even a worse slump, losing twenty-one of twenty-five games played against the Angels and the Tigers. In comparison with the 191$ disaster, dis-aster, the Saints are at least a bit better off than they were last year. During the I four weeks just closed they managed to win nine games, losing eighteen. They ; return home in fourth place, three points below Portland, which is 'in the first dt-i dt-i vision. Last season, at a corresponding time, the Saints were In fifth place. They finished the season in third place. Possibly Pos-sibly they may be able to do likewise this year. There is. of course, still a chance to nose out both the Seals and the Angels, An-gels, but the chance is not regarded as being In any wise a glowing one. Seals and Angels. The race for the pannanl seems to have settled down to two clubs, the Seals and the Angels. The Angelenos are only a game and a half behind the Seals. This week the Seals meet Portland in San-Francisco, San-Francisco, while the Angels are battling in Salt Lake. It depends upon t lie opposition op-position which Portland is able to give the Seals and the opposition which the Saints are able to eive the Angels, as to whether the race for the leadership between be-tween the two clubs will be affecfed by the week's play. The Oaks play the Tigers Ti-gers at Los Angeles. The Seals are better off for pitchers than they have been for some time. The I addition of Rudy Kailio and Howard Gregory gives the San Franciscans added numerical strength, at any rate, and probably prob-ably considerable pitching strength, too, as both are good heavers. Morrie Rath lost the league leadership in ba ttlng last week, Justin Fitzgerald now leading Morrie by four points. The j Seals probably set a record for hitting in i coast towns during the week when thev made ninety-live Mis. Two weeks ?aco fl" the Onks made ninety-two hits off ?J Lake- pitchers. wl Oaka K. Davis, winning pitcher of the j St. Anthony club of the Snake Rhvr-Yellowstone Rhvr-Yellowstone league, arrived in Salt Lake f last night and will be in uniform today. He Wi,i.s accompanied hcr by M. G. Hav- X rls. secretary of the Idaho organization and a prominent lawyer of St. Anthony. The big event of the week in the base- T ball world, of course, was the opening of m the world's scries. On Saturday The Tribune achieved the remarkable feat of playina- three baseball games on its electric elec-tric scoreboard the world's series game at Chicago and the two games at Pori-land. Pori-land. Tremendous crowds watched the board. Today and tomorrow the hoard will play the games at New York. These games begin at 2 o'clock New York time, ' which Is 12 o'clock Salt Lake time Ky ti starting at norm In Salt Lake local fans W rwill he enabled to gpt to Bonneville park w for the opener of the Angel-Saint game, which begins at 2:30. |