Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-10-09 | Page 10 | Brown to Open for Seraphs in Opener

BROWN TO OPEN FOR SERAPHS JN OPENER , - . Special to, The Tribune. LOS ANGELES, Oct. S. Confident of winning this year's pennant, Killefor and his Angels are on the way to Salt Lake. A game and a half behind the league leaders, and with three more weeks of play to the I'.M T season, the Angels see no reason why they should not finish In front, with several games to spare. ( i Klllefer. in addition to managing the club, will look after the secretarial duties, du-ties, as Secretary Weher remained at home to gel the books in shape for the annual meeting of the A ngel directors. None of the Los A ngoles officials accompanied ac-companied the Angels. The Saints have just finished a disastrous road trip, but during the Portland scries showed sporadic spo-radic signs of bracing. Brown will prob- J ably pitch the opener. The way Foumier is hitting, he ought to bust up cinlte a few games this week. Rube Ellis has a broken blood vessel in his left -iinee. Dr. Charles Sppncer told him to rest it for a few days. That 1 is the reason Ki liefer has been playing " left field. 1 John Powers, owner of the Los Ange-J les club, today went on record as favor-ing favor-ing the reduction of the schedule for t Iip 1 !)1 S season. D 1 I Toward suggested shorter season last week. "I have been in favor of a twentv-five-week sehed u le for the pa st two ye;i is." said Powers today. "I believe the schedule sched-ule will go through that way next year." Tom Casey, former Santa Clara cate'i-er, cate'i-er, who caught a couple of games for the Tigers last week, was drought to T-os Angeles today by Manager Stovall. "Ca-&ey "Ca-&ey lias the imi kings of a grat catcher," said Stovall. "He is a good hitter and I believe ho will fit in well with the suad next year."