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Show 4 f Wild Heaves and Such The best hitters: A B. H. TB. P.C. Konnick, Salt rike 3 2 2 .G67 Kodgtrs, Sacramento ....3 2 2 .b'117 Crawford, Los Angeles ..5 3 3 .600 K'oeniei'. San Francisco. .. 4 2 2 .000 Chapped. Salt Uike 4 2 2 .500 Shcely, Salt lake 4 2 3 .500 Corhan, San Francisco. . .4 2 3 .500 V:ilis. Lo.s Angeles 4 2 2 .500 Iliooks, San Francisco. . .4 2 2 .r.Ou Martin, Oakland 2 1 1 .500 .Maggert, San Francisco. .2 1 1 .600 Home run, Wolter, Sacramento. Tlit1 scries stand: Los Angeles won 4, Salt Lake won 1. Sacramento won 3, San Francisco wen 2. Oakland won 2. Vernon won 3. The clubs this week play as follows: Sacramento at Salt Lake. Vernon at Los Angeles. Oakland at Sail F'raucisco. The standing of the clubs at tlic close of the thirleenth week of the 1017 schedule sched-ule follows: Won. Ixst. P.C. San Francisco 54 35 .607 Salt l.ake 44 3S .537 Oakland 44 41 .500 Los Angeles. 42 41 .-tUS Portland 37 15 .151 Vernon 36 5J .414 The Bees return 'home Tuesday for a four-week stay. , They meet Sacramento, Vernon. San Francisco and Oakland in the order named. T'n ere wil! be two games wit It the Coyotes on Thursday, Independence day. It is irobable that they will be played in the afternoon and evening. Twilight baseball in all tho cities of the league will be the rule for July. y While a few Portland fans may be sorry when the Pacific Coast International league winds up its season in two weeks, rbre is no reason to believe that the big majority of them will pay any attention to it. They are too busy thinking of more important things. However, the recent turn of events will undoubtedly leave Portland in better shane when I he- war is over than it is at present. The ultimatum delivered by Bob Brown, which resulted in Vancouver, Wash., being be-ing given a franchise, may react in a manner which will give Portland and Seattle Se-attle what they want after the war ends. Naturally, Judge McCredic, having been unceremoniously kicked out by Coast league oflicials at their last meeting, will make no overtures to be returned a member mem-ber of that a u gust body. Neither will President Dugoale of Se;) t tie. j tn tnp light of tiie present situation, unless un-less Brown kicks over the traces and : gets t he circuit tangled up in some so.'t ; of litigation which can't now be foreseen. ; Dugdate and McOredie wil control the destin ies nf the two cities, and will be : in a position to say where they will be located on the baseball map in the future. fu-ture. This means that, should the. Coast league be so inclined, Portland and Seattle would be free to enter this circuit, mak- j ing it an fight -club affair. 1 1 ere to fore when the Cotst league wanted Seattle, i when Portland was already a member of j the circuit.- it had to gain the consent of; (he members of the Northwest league cir- j cult, a thing which was impossible. j The magnates at Spokane, Tacoma and i Vancouver realized that without Seat lie t he lea gue would not be a'ule to exist. They wouldn't even consent to sell de territory for a big price on this account-Now, account-Now, as t hings line up, there are four chilis in tho circuit or, rather, four franchises;, and three of these are controlled con-trolled by the McCredie-Dugdaie combination. com-bination. Both of these gentlemen tire entirely too wise to utter one word about any hnpo of uttering the. Coast, lonc'ue later on, hut it is easv to see that this is what they are figuring on. One of the worst objeel iom; th'1 ("oast league people had in rega.nl to continuing Poriland In the circuit w;c on account of the long .jump from San J-'raucisuo or Salt Dak- o the Bose city. It rciuln-d entirely en-tirely too rnur-h money to pay transporia-!ion"b(!ls transporia-!ion"b(!ls for a one-week stand. Tills would he obvial"il or cul In half hv tnkoig Seattle in. Teams enulrl then come into Portland, piny a week', then go on to Seattle for ii not her series and th.-n go south again, ("lass AA baseball wuld draw well in Seattle, it is believed. This is t he si r ua t ion, and shows what can lie done along this line when the time comes. The (.'oast league, owners arc not especially note'.l as having dim lights in their roof gardens, and don' t ncd a puti'di in the to-ilii rack to "wise them up" to facts of the cae and its possi-hilif possi-hilif ics. Borl la ud Telegram. |