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Show Bees' First Baseman Wins Walla Walla Girl as Bride EARL SHEELY. pX S 5 ill 1 pillar r)m y Hi Special to The Tribune. OPOKANE, Wash., Jan. 31. Word has been received from Walla Walla of the marriage of Earl F. Shcely of Spokane Spo-kane and Miss Mary Ruth Keyes of Walla Walla. Mr. and Mrs. Sbeely left on a wedding trip to Seattle and San Francisco. , Sheely is a member of the Salt Lake club of tho Pacific coast league; going there from the Spokane team of the Northwestern league towards the close of the 1916 season. He was rated as tbe leading first saeker of tho Northwestern league and had the same ranking in class AA company last year. He was a .300 hitter and was near the top in fielding. field-ing. He was drafted last summer, but was exempted on account of physical disability after reporting at Camp Lewis. Sheely lived in Spokane practically all his life. He first gained fame as a ball player when a member of the Spokane high school team. Later he was a Spokane Spo-kane City league star. He suffered a broken ankle while a- member of the Vancouver club in 1914, and the Jnjurv has thus far kept him from going to the major leagues. |