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Show FOUR HOMERS NOT "ENOUGH TO SEND fK BEES IN VICTORS Good Effect of Long-distance Hitting Nullified by Collapse of Pitching; Salt Lake Apparently Apparent-ly Has Cinch, but Appearances Are Deceptive, Decep-tive, as Proved When Vernonites Assert Themselves in One Grand, Red-hot Inning. At Salt Lake Vernon 12, Salt Lake 8. At Los Angeles Oakland 0, Los Angeles 4. At San Francisco Sacramento Sacramen-to 8, San Francisco 5. Today's game begins at 3 o'clock. ORDINARILY one would say that a club that makes four home run drives and counts five tallies on those smashes is a cinch to win a ball game. Ordinarily perhaps one would say that, but he wouldn 't say it twice after he saw what happened to the club that got four home runs at Bonneville Bon-neville park vesterday. When tho Vernon Tigers got ready to jX fly they took those four home runs uSnlt Lake's, rolled them up into a wnnWid tossed them into the ash can. Whcnhe crowd left tho park for the 'lay the score was 12 to 8 in favor of erno, and there is reason to believe tint it stuck at that figure over night. Bee Pitching Collapses. clalt'Lake had the game won a couple of times, but evidently Rube Evans could not stand prosperity. In the course of his activities Rube won a ornml new shirt and drove, in two runs. That is too much for a pitcher to do all 'J one afternoon, so nooodv can really "lame Rube for collapsing like a punctured punc-tured tire in the seventh, the inning M which tho Tigers made five runs and won the game. To be sure, they made " good many more runs afterwards, but their collection in the seventh inning was enough to give them the victory und incidentally to give a healthy Saturday Sat-urday crowd the shivers. H seems to be fate in Salt Lake that the Saturday game shall always and invariably in-variably be" a cabbage ball exhibition. For three years now clubs have boon "laving superb baseball all week, but when Saturday comes, boom! we have 'he fizzelle grandes. People who have watched the Bees and the Tigers battle all week would not believe that those two clubs could have staged a 12-8 exhibition ex-hibition had thev tried. Saturday is W the hoodoo day. Four Home Run Drives. It wasn't all petrified at that. There was somo mighty good fielding yesterday yester-day there had to be to keep the score trom leaping the fence. Naturally the 'catiirc of the game was the 'long-range 'long-range clouting of tho Bees. Karl Sheely aiiic (0 t,e home-run column "wo over the centcrfield fence; 0V Farmer pushed one over the left "old wall and Buddy Ryan knocked Continued on Following Page.) FDDR HOMERS NOT EIDER FOR BEES (Continued from Preceding Page.) i one over the scoreboard. The bases were vacant when Sheely and Farmer hit it over, but there was a ruuner on when Buddy hoisted his'n. Gather De-Vormer De-Vormer of the Tigers came within six inches of gotting a homer himself. The leftfheld fence proved just about half a foot too high. i Elmer Reiger started the game for Vernon and fared badly. He was lifted in the fifth in favor of Charley Chech. Evans pitched for Salt Lake up to and ! including a large part of the calamitous I seventh and then Penner relieved him. Penner did. not add any glory to hiB own reputation or to his club's, either. Today's Game Decides. Yesterday's victory puts Vernon within striking distance of the league leadership again. If they should win today the Tigers will be in the position they occupied when they came to town Tuesday half a game to the good. If Salt Lake wins today the Bees will start on their road trip in first place by a game and a half. The managers of the two clubs are confronted with something of a problem prob-lem respecting pitchers for today. It is generally supposed that Manager Hssiek wili pick Jack Quinn in the hope that his star can slip over another an-other victory. If he uses Quinn, however, how-ever, he will not have this stellar at-traction at-traction to open against Los Angeles next Tuesday, and it is undoubtedly more important to Essick to beat Los Angeles at home than it. is to boat Snlt Lake, because it is a question of sink or swim, live or die between the Seraphs and the Tigers in the City of' the Angels this year. Art Fromme would be Rssick 's second choice for today. Promine came so close to beating beat-ing Sail Lake earlier in the week that he is almost' as much to he feared as Quinn. While the dope, figured from a Salt Lake standpoint, favors the selection se-lection of Quiun, it is not a wild guess to make Fronime the overnight selection. selec-tion. McCredie is worse off than Easiek. It is a cinch that the best .Mac has is none too good to semi against either Quinn or Fromme. Walter Levereir. pitched Thursday, and. while it is not Lefty's 'urn, he may feel pcacocky enough to go against the Bengaleera again today. Tn the event that Lev-erenz Lev-erenz heaves for the Itees, there is every reason to predict that the final game of the scries will be a battle royal. If the regular order is followed. Tim McCabe will pitch for the Bees. flees' Great Showing. The Salt Lake club's stay at home has I n profitable from tin1 viewpoint of games won. Yesterday ':. defeat made the fifth in three weelts, against which the club has won twelve. Even though the Bees should drop the final I it ss 1 f today, they will have rendered an account of themselves before the home folks assaying .667 per cent when the fray is over this afternoon. For a club whose pitching staff looked like the fag end of a hot day at Yuma, it is not saying too much to say that that kind of "a showing leaves nothing to be desired. The Bees came to Salt Lake for their first 1918 appearance three weeks ago with a fifth-place berth and a percentage in the league race of .385. This morning they are at the head of the procession with a percentage percent-age of .567. The worst that can possibly possi-bly happen Co them today is to lose the league leadership by haif a game. It is a record of which the town, the club, and the management can feel justly proud. Tigers Well Liked. The Vernou baseball club, which closes here this afternoon, has won a high place iu the estimation of Salt Lake faus. Building upon a foundation founda-tion of a couple of pitchers and a couple of fielders. Manager Bill Essick has gathered together a splendid ball club. Possibly without brilliantly shining shin-ing stars, the Tigers, nevertheless, are a well balanced organization. There is no spot in the whole structure that can be called weak. A left-hand pitcher seems to be Essick 's greatest need. The Vernon players arc a fine lot of fellows. On the field they go about their work with a vim and vigor which betokens a whole-hearted purpose to i givo their pilot the best they have. There is nothing forced about the pep they constantly display it is the kind of pep that is labeled genuine. Not a single instance of crabbing has occurred oc-curred during the week. On occasion, to be sure, there have been protests on decisions, but they have always been made in a proper and dignified manner, and there has not been a single exhibition exhibi-tion of rough stuff. In this respect the Tigers are like the Bees, and it certainK has been a pleasure to watch these two ball clubs plav ball with their Hands and their feet and their bats and not with their vocal organs. That the patrons ot the sport appreciate this class of ballplayer and bail playing is well attested by the highly satisfactory attendance at the games last woek. At the close of the second inning yesterday yes-terday the Bees were two runs to the good) the score standing 3 to 1. In the first inning the Tigers counted one. Mitchell hit safely and scored all the wav from first 'on Chadbourne's hit and an' elusive throw from right field to third, which escaped and rolled to the fence. Jack Farmer's homer in Salt Lake's half of the first tied the count. The locals made two m the second. With one out. Sheelv singled an.l was forced bv Sands. Konnick 's double brought Sands mound, and Evans's hit to the shirt sign brought Konnick across. ... . Tho Tigers tied the count with two in the fourth. Long led off with a double ami sored on Borton 's single. Hosp'e hit put Borton on second and he scored on two outs. Bees Again Lead. In their half of I he fourth the Me-Credieites Me-Credieites rang up two more. Tin1 first was tlue to Sheely 't, homo run drive over the center field fence, ami Sands carried over the second on his walk. Konnick 's second two-bagger and Evans's sacrifice fly. The Bees boosted their coilnt with two more in the fifth, when, with Siglin on first, by reason of a hit, livan knbeked the ball over the scoreboard. There was no further scoring until the Tigers, ears laid back and tails twitching spasmodically, waded into their enemies in the seventh inning. When they got through with that inning in-ning they had turned a 7 to 3 disadvantage disad-vantage into an 8 to 7 advantage. The inning uetted them five runs. The Tiger success was due to seven healthy hits anil a sacrifice' By. Daley, Mitchell and Chadbonrne singled in succession. Long raised a sacrifice fly, on which Dalev scored with the first marker. Borton hit safely, anil the bases were again full. Then' Hosp knocked the ball into center and Mitchell scored. Penner relieved Evans with three on and one out. Westerzfl shot one into right and Chadbourne crossed. De Vormet followed in kind, and Borton and Hosp scored. This brought the total for the round' up to five, and there was no more action for that inning. The Tigers scored twice in the eightfi on hitsby Mitchell and Chadbpume and an extremely cosily overthrow 01 first baso, both runners' scoring on the heave. The Bees got one of those runs back in their half of the eighth, when Sheely knocked his second home run. In the ninth the Tigers scored two more. With Wcstoral and De Vomer on the paths. Bete Dalev knocked the ball away out into right center, s, inff both. Today's game begins at :i o'clock. |