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Show ' two clubs to make, especially when they are engaged In the delightful, if somewhat some-what Belf ish, pastime of deciding which of the two is to win the pennant. No complaints were filed against the umpires yesterday, which in itself is an item of more than pausing importance. Jack Roche, recently released by the Oaks, has been taken on by Seattle and played at first base for the Tilllcunis yesterday. Two excellent fielding plays were made In the fourth, the first by Krug on Tenner's Ten-ner's grounder, and the other by Mulligan Mulli-gan on Blue"s grounder. Special to The Tribune. LOS ANGELES, July 16. Tho wire fence at Washington park, reared to make home runs more probable, was finished fin-ished today. It ('oes not shorten the field sufficiently to make it a hippodrume, as generally believed, as, at its shortest point, the fence is 7310 feet from the plate. In center, the fence is 325 feet from the plate, or the same distance as tho right -field bleachers. The fence is ten feet high, but does not obstruct the view, as ail the bugs may sit behind it and glue their eyes upon ail tho hopes and horrors within tho diamond, the wire meantime restraining them from rushing upon the field either to kill or scare the players. Essick's efforts to get the Detroit Tigers Ti-gers to train here next spring at least have aroused the interest of President Navln. Esaick yesterday received from tho big loague mcgul a letter asking for a detailed report on conditions here. If the Detroit team comes here it will have the exclusive use of Vernon park for training, as the Tigers will do theirs at Washington park. Vernon park is an Ideal training camp and Esstck already Is planning a schedule, sched-ule, which would present Detroit to the populace one Saturday and Sunday at Washington park and also one Saturday and Sunday with the Angels at the same place. This would be followed by one Saturday and Sunday in San Francisco, with San Francisco and Oakland. Es-slck Es-slck also will suggest to Navin that the big league Tigers can arrange a playing schedule to be run off on the return trip to Detroit, taking In Salt Lake. Essick estimates that, with Ty Cobb as an attraction, at-traction, big crowds at each game would turn out. Cobb never has been Been on the coast. Navin's letter makes it clear to Essick that the Detroit magnate has, as yet, no other locality in mind for his club's 1920 spring training.. m Claude Derrick, infielder purchased earlier in the season at a fancy sum, was sold yesterday to Toledo. Derrick was taken ill a few days ago, and has not been able to play since, and as he has shown little class for Clymer this year, he was disposed of to the American Ameri-can association team. Murphy will continue to play third for the present, with French holding down short, Hosp on Becond, and Walsh covering the Initial pillow. The Seattle team Is in worse shape right now than at any time this year. Jack Knight's mishap broke up the infield, in-field, and yesterday it was learned that Harry Gardner, the new pitcher secured on the last trip south, was so ill that he will not go south of the team on the present tour. The loss of Gardner will further cripple the Rainiers, because the club doesn't boast of any too good a pitching staff right now. Bill Cunningham played yesterday, but Bill's leg is still bad, and he is unable un-able to put up anything like his regular regu-lar game. Bigbee will continue to play right until Clymer can get another outfielder, out-fielder, which he is trying to do day and night. Ed. Sweeney, the big catcher who was just beginning to help the club when he got hurt, will be back for Wednesday's game in San Fnncisco, which is the only ray of light Clymer can see ahead of him just now. Lapan braced and caught a swell game of ball yesterday, but Sweeney Swee-ney is conceded to be the better of the two. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. SEATTLE, July 16. Joe Devine Is the new scout of the Seattle ball club. The former Northwestern league club manager will leave for the east at once , to look over the talent In hopes of pick- I Ing up a ball player or two to strengthen the team, I Devine Is a good judge of young-' sters. He turned Ray French over to 1 Clymer, and French has more than made ! good. He is after an infielder or two, j and carries authority to spend a large chunk of coin for the right men. 4 I Wild Heaves and Such 4 The best hitters: AB. K. TB. P.C. Rumler, Salt Lake 5 5 11 1,000 Sheely, Salt Lake, 4 3 6 .750 Markle, Salt Lake 4 3 4 .750 Hosp, Seattle 4 3 6 .750 Niehoff, Los Angeles 4 3 3 .750 Schick, San Francisco 3 2 2 .667 Caveney, San Francisco.. 3 2 2 .667 Mitchell, Vernon 3 2 3 .667 Meusel, "Vernon 5 3 7 .600 Cox, Portland 4 2 2 .500 Siglin, Portland 4 2 2 .500 Middleton, Sacramento ...4 2 5 .500 Killefer, Los Angeles 4 2 2 .500 Borton, Vernon 4 2 3 .500 Eddington, Vernon 2 1 1 .600 Holling, Oakland 2 1 2 .500 Brown, Los Angeles 2 1 2 .500 Baldwin, San Francisco.. 2 1 1 .500 Home-run hitters Rumler, Salt Lake; Meusel, Vernon; Middleton, Sacramento. The series stand: Portland, won 0; Salt Lake, won 2. Vernon, won 1; Los Angeles, won 0; one postponed. Oakland, won 0; Sacramento, won 2. Seattle, won 0; San Francisco, won 1; one postponed. ; ! Red Oldham may fling for the Beavers today. Herr's choice is likely to be ! Ralph Stroud. j Tn the sixth inning Penner attempted j to sneak a pitch past Bill Rumler, but 1 instead of being asleep Bill was wide- 1 awake and knocked the ball into right field for a double. On a memorable occasion oc-casion in Salt Lake three years ago, the late Frank Arrellanes, pitching for Vernon, Ver-non, sought to slip one past Bunny Brief. Brief responded by driving the ball out of the lot. Judging from the score, the first game of that loudly proclaimed "crucial" series se-ries at Los Angeles, which,x according to Los Angeles newspapers, is going to decide de-cide the pennant, might have been one of Bonneville park's best products. A score of 13 to 6 is no kind of a score for |