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Show MARTIN BACK FOR ! MORE AND GETS IT; I BEES REGAIN TOP Oaks' Young Heaving Sensation Loses Two Games in Two Days; Is Responsible for Only Three of Seven Runs Salt Lake Gathers, but Those Three Would Have Been Enough; Dubuc in Great Form. At Salt Lake Oakland 1, Salt i Lake 7. At Los Angeles Sacramento 1, Los Angeles 0. At San Francisco Vernon 2, I San Francisco 3. I f IKE the noblest gladiator in Fis- liana. Speed Martin, knocked out 6 cold Tuesday, came back for more J J yesterday. He got it. Speed suf-!i suf-!i l fered his second defeat In two days when the Bees beat the Oaks. 7 to 1. It wasn't Speed's fault that the score against him was so tall and stately. He allowed only three earned runs, but even , throe would have beon ample sufficiency for victory; besides, three would have made the game more like an even battle. It would have taken a big league club, a 11,1 a mighty good one at that, to have made a denl in .lean Dubuc's armor yesterday, yes-terday, .lean pitched a superb gume. a nil his Infield, particularly Billy Orr, gave, him the kind of support that a pitcher likes to have. Orr cut down at I least three smashes that looked like sure I: hits, and altogether played a spectacular iianic at short. Other star performers for n Salt Lake were Crandall, Chapped and Sheely, each of whom sparkled with a fielding feat ni- Iwo. For the Oaks Hack .Miller and Chick Hawks made great I outehes. That Fence Ball. The heaviest burden of grief was placed I upon Martin's shoulders in the second in-I in-I nipg when the Bees put over four tallieB. speed was not chargeable with any of i hem, as all were made after chances had been given to retire the side. The whole hunch was scored after two were out. The biggest factor in the inning was Karl ('randall's hit to the left field fence. With the bases full and two out, everybody every-body was on his way and digging his lees in the dirt when Karl leaned against the leather. The ball made for the left field fence. Roxy Middleton. the nimble guardian of left field for the Oaks, backed up as far as he could and also reached as high as he could in an effort to spear Hint baseball. Being already bang up. against the boards and being as high as lie could get, Roxy ptu up ins hands. The ball appeared to alight more or less squarely in those hands, but it immediately imme-diately got out again. The three runners scored and Karl pulled up at second base. To a great many spectators it looked as : hough Roxy had made a three-base uitiff, -but taking the circumstances into conalderaation it was not a muff at all, hut a good try for a difficult catch. Dubuc Is Steady. Jean Dubuc pitched one of his very I best games yesterday. Occasionally Jean I I issued a walk, but he was never in dan-I dan-I gcr. The only run the Oaks made was j due to Hawks's three-bagger. With a l f big lead, Jean could afford to let 'em j have that. Eliminating the third and fourth Innings, In-nings, in which the Bees made 'all their i tallies. - Martin was invincible. Aside from those two rounds, he allowed only ,"! iwo hits, one in the second and one In the seventh. The Oaks bundled two of their hits in the fourth and two more in the fifth. They got but two singles besides those Bach pitcher allowed five walks, which had the effect of putting some runners n on the Hues to keep the crowd guessing ; as to whether they would be batted off (Continued on Following Page.) MARTIN COMES BACK FPU MORE; GETS IT (Continued from Preceding Page.) or not. For the most part they , weren't. Nine Oaks were left stranded. On Tuesday Tues-day the Oaks saw twelve of their runners run-ners die on the sacks, so that in two games the Acorns had twenty-one men left on bases. The Big Third. The Bees threatened to start something in the second inning, when Sheeiy hit a double with only one out, but he never budged from the keystone. The third opened auspiciously for the Oaks and closed auspiciously for the Bees, the last named auspiciousness being due to four tallies on tile local side of the ledger. To start the liming Konnick lined out to Wares and Dubuc skied out to Middle-ton. Middle-ton. Ward Miller followed these discouraging dis-couraging happenings with a double to center. Siglin hit to CrdlL who erred, and the chance to retire the side run-less run-less was gone. Cbappell was purposely walked and the bases were full. In that critical situation Crandall rammed out the hit to left field before referred re-ferred to. and all of the runners occupying occupy-ing the bases scored, Crandall pulling up at second. He was sent home a moment later when Sheeiy drove a sizzler through third base. The Oaks made their sole tally in the fourth. With two out. Pop Arlett singled sin-gled and Hawks brought him home with a triple to the right center field fence. Bees Add Three. The locals caught the Oaks still weak from their experience in the preceding innmg and knocked around three legitimates legiti-mates and fully earned runs in the fourth. Sands drew a walk, and on the hit-and-run went to third on Konnick's ingle. Konnick stole second. Dubuc skied to Hawks, Miller walked and the bases were full again. Siglin lifted a fly to Hack Miller, and Sands scored alter the catch. Chappell's single to right brought in Konnick and Miller. The remainder of the game was without with-out incident so far as run-getting or near run-getting' was concerned. The Oaks collected a couple of hits in the fifth after two were out, but they were in vain, and the contest resolved itself into a fast and snappy exhibition. There will be two games today. The forenoon game will begin at 10S10 and the afternoon game at 3 o'clock. |