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Show been turned over to Des Moines. Whether Joe will come back remains to be seen, but somewhere or other, if our memory serves us right, not many of the men that the Seals have sent to Des Moines have been rescued from that spot. Joe looks as though lie may develop into a good ball player. He's a great fielder, has a kane to live. He has bought the biggest bowling alley up there, and lie writes there is more interest in bowling up there than there Is down here. Cliff will organize or-ganize a league and boost the game for next winter. - After he quit as manager of the Salt Lake club, Cliff ran a bowling alley here and afterward had the Maryland alleys in Oakland. San Francisco Chronicle. Hughey Jennings and Edward Barrow, managers respectively of the Detroit Tigers and the Boston Red S'ox, must feel Vke kicking themselves from here to Kingdom Come every time they see the name of Jean Dnbuc in a Giant box score. says a New York writer. Either one of I the American league leaders, both of whom have held title to him, could now , be making great use of the burly French I Canadian; but neither could figure him to ! execute a revision of old-time form, and so he belongs to the Giants, with whom i he bids fair to become a second Otis I Crandall. j Crandall .will be remembered as a ponderous, pon-derous, slow-moving right-hander, who for some years enjoyed an enviable reputation repu-tation with the Giants as a rescuer of imperiled ball games. Any time any other slab star faltered on the job a hurry call was sounded for the famous Old Doc, and the battle that refused to respond to his treatment was properly reckoned a total loss. He hadn't the stuff to carry him through a full nine-inning game, but he did have a knack of suppressing late rallies ral-lies and many a decision that might otherwise oth-erwise have been saved through the timely time-ly efforts of the Indiana farmer. Dubuc seems to have fallen heir to the mantle which once draped the massive shoulders of the justly celebrated Doc. He Is not only starting a proportionate number of games, but is enjoying quite a vogue as an emergency worker, a role in which his peculiar ability to mix 'em up makes him especially valuable. Thus, while officially credited with the result of only one game, he has actually participated partici-pated in eight, and has shown to greater or less advantage in all of them. announcement of the taking over of the organization by Arbuckle and Anger. The public has not been completely set right and the association of Maler with the club persists. As a matter of fact, Maier has never entirely en-tirely severed his connection with the ownership. He is still financially interested inter-ested in the club, and is likely to remain so until October 1, when it is expected the Arbuckle-Anger option on the stock still remaining in Maier's hands will be taken up. When that is done. Arbuckle and Anger will come into complete possession pos-session of the club. Arbuckle and Anger took a large share of the stock of the Tigers, paying cash lor it, and. at the same time, took an option on the stock remaining in Maier's possession. This option expires October 1, and until Arbuckle and Anger redeem their option, Maier will have that amount of interest in the club. This interest on the part of Maier is perfectly agreeable to Arbuckle and Anger. However, with the game going as it has been all season, it Is more than probable that the comedian and his associate will exercise their option. op-tion. good arm, but he is not much of a hitter, and he's not fast merjtally. San Francisco Fran-cisco fans are awfully rond of "Our Joe," and they hope that lie will do a comeback. So do we. San Francisco Bulletin. PORTLAND, July 8. Oscar Harstad was signed as a pitcher by the Portland baseball team today. He was with the team three seasons ago, but his record was not brilliant. Last season he played with a shipyard team and won consistently. Recently he has been attending schooi. Cliff .Blankenship, the well-known baseball base-ball man and bowler, has gone to Spo- Here's what brought out a protest from Manager Walter McCredie in last week's series against the pitching of Ftnnernan of the Vernon Tigers: "Finnernan's mode of doctoring the ball consisted in rubbing paraf fine into the seams on one side of the ball. By pressing press-ing his glove into the dirt and rubbing the ball into the palm of the glove the dirt entered ' the seams and stuck there, thus making the side of the ball containing contain-ing the paraf fine and dirt heavier than the other. Without the paraffine the dirt would not hold, but the wax substance kept it in. Flnnernan could make the ball take peculiar gyrations in practice, but lie could not properly control it in a game." Portland Journal. Because he is not yet properly seasoned, in the mind of Manager Charley Graham, Joe Conolly, "Pride of the Mission," has visloners losing. Salt Lake held its own in relation to San Francisco, but slipped back a peg "in comparison with the Angels and the Tigers. Salt Lake won 0, Oakland won 1. San Francisco won 0. Portland won 1. Sacramento won 0, Vernon won 1. Los Angeles won 1, Seattle won 0. Mebbe Leverenz will fling for the Bees today. Manager Herr was chased to the clubhouse club-house in the second inning for disputing a decision. Special to The Tribune. LOS ANGELES, July S. The Bees have departed, leaving the Vernon club of the P. C. li. a sadder but wiser aggregation of baseball talent. Said .lack Cook before departing for the north: "It's the first time our pitchers pitch-ers have been going good, and when they are going good they're the best string of pitchers in the league. Gould here proved a wizard of fadeaways, and after Gould were Ijeverenz. Stroud and Dale. If ever again this quartet of pitchers comes here in uniform It's bound to be a bad week for either the Tigers or the Angels." The outstanding Vernon alibi is the plain truth an overdose of high-class heaving. Feeling here is summa rized in Lou Anger's farewell to Herr as he hopped aboard for San Fra ncisco. "So long if you never come back Jhat'll be soon enough." Special to The Tribune. LOS ANGELES. July s. The uncertainty uncertain-ty as to ownership of the Vernon "baseball club that has existed in the public mind ewr since it was first announced that Edward Maier had disposed of the club, seems still to cling despite the recent 4 Wild Heaves and Such 4 The best hitters: AB. H. TB. PC. Eldred, Sacramento 3 3 5 1.000 Klsher, Vernon 4 3 3 .750 Eddlngton, Vernon 3 2 4 ,rtfi7 Lane, Oakland 3 2 5 .667 i Byler, Salt Inke 3 2 3 .667 1 Murphv. Seattle 3 2 2 .667 Walsh. Seattle 5 3 3 .600 Crawford, ls Angeles ..4 2 4 .500 Sheely, Halt Lake 4 2 2 .5ui Mulligan, Salt Iake 4 2 2 .500 Wares, Oakland 4 2 2 . 500 Fitzgerald San Francisco . 4 2 2 .50 Crandall. San Francisco.. 4 2 2 .500 Baker. .Portland 4 2 3 .5m.) J. Mitchell, Vernon 4 2 2 .5m) Meusel, Vernon 4 2 2 .500 High, Vernon 4 2 2 .500 Kltterv, Ijs Angeles ... .4 2 2 .500 Murphv. Oakland 2 1 1 .500 Elliott, Oakland 2 1 2 ..M'O Blue. Portland 2 1 1 .500 Rader. Portland 2 I 1 . 500 Home-run ' hitters: Siglin, Portland; Lane, Oakland. The series stand: The two leading clubs in the league won yesterday, the other two first di- |