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Show CAN OUR PINCHERS PINCM? WKLh SAY THEY CAN , HERR'S STRATEGY TURNS APPARENT LOSS TO VICTORY Bee Skipper Shoots in Three Pinch-Hitters, Two of Whom Deliver; Hack Spencer Hero of Occasion, Oc-casion, His Double Sending in Two Tallies and Deciding the Game; Big Beaver Lead Overturned by Monster Rally in the Eighth. At Salt Lake Portland 6, Salt Lake 8. At Oakland Seattle 0, San Francisco 8. At Sacramento Oakland 4? Sacramento 5. At Los Angeles Vernon 4, Los Angeles 3. YA gotta hand It to Eddie II err for being the bold and daring buc-ka-roo he is. Eddie put on an exhi- bition of strategy yesterday after- noon at Bonneville park that won j the Bees another ball game from the Beavers, and also proved conclusively that Eddie's got the nerve to try something some-thing once. He tried something three times in the eighth inning yesterday and two of his tries proved so eminently successful suc-cessful that last night Eddie was accounted ac-counted a regular Pershing or Eoch or somebody. The Beavers looked like sure, certain winners yesterday, but a ball game is never over until it's over, and thereby hangs the charm of the game, and therein also lies its fascination for the American people. Everybody Hits Homers. Lieutenant John C. Oldham, commonly and not altogether properly called Red, had Ralph Stroud downed In pitching until un-til he suffered a blowout in tho eighth. Stroud didn't pitch so badly, his misfortune misfor-tune lying In the fact that practically all of the hits he yielded were cither home runs or two-baggers. In fact, three of Portland's tallies were due to home runs, one directly to two doubles and two others oth-ers indirectly to a two-ply swat. Billy Speas, Paddy Siglin and Art Koeliler gathered in the home-run honors, each knocking the ball over the left field fence. As the pellet passed over the proper sign, each Is entitled to a five-pound box of candy. Bill Rumler, falling to get a ton of coal or a box of candy, and determined not to go rewardless, won a silk shirt for himself him-self by tapping the designated spot on the left field fence. An Exciting Ball Game. The game turned out to be tremendously tremendous-ly exciting. Nothing like It has been witnessed wit-nessed here in a long while. The crowd began to take hope In the sixth, when the Bees crawled up two, continued their hopefulness In the seventh, when there was a glowing prospect, but which was knocked silly by a double play, and their enthusiasm rose to mountainous heights In the eighth, when runs began to trickle over for the Salt Lake side. There was a tremendous roar as the tying and winning win-ning runs scooted across on Spencer's double, and well there might be, for it was a gorgeously grand exhibition of how to pull a ball game out of a fiery furnace. fur-nace. Walter Leverenz pitched the ninth inning in-ning against the Beavers, and. but for a walk, he put the side out in order. , Since the eighth is the principal topic of discussion, a brief description will not be out of place here. The Big Eighth. Sheely sent one to center and Rumler beat a throw to third, Slieely hooking second. Johnson slipped one through the middle of the diamond, scoring Rumler with the -first otm Salt Lake's five runs for the round. Mulligan leaned on one for a long fly to center. Billy Speas made a great catch of it, backing broadside against the fence. Slieely scored after the catch. Smith, batting for Byler, hit to center, putting -Johnson on second. Dale, batting bat-ting for Stroud, took three mighty swings, but failed to swing where the ball was. Spencer was called in to hit for Mag-pert. Mag-pert. Since Oldham is a left-hander and Maggert a left-hand batter, Harley cheerfully cheer-fully agreed to the switch, and it proved the properest of proper things to do. Hack fouled a couple and then slammed the ball Into right center. It was a regular kazooker of a slam, as is shown by the fact that Johnson and Smith both scored with time to spare. Hack pulled up at second, but might have made third had ho tried real hard. One More for Luck. Well, those two runs won the ball game, since they put the Bees one to the good, but an extra tally wouldn't hurt, It was figured, so the boys proceeded to make It. Krug hit to Westerzil, who fumbled. He . recovered the ball quickly and attempted to tag Spencer on the line, but the grape- I frult-like form of Hack wasn't there wiien I Tex made his dive and Spencer was safe on third and Marty on first. Mulvey hit one between first and second. The ball was properly fielded, but as first base I was left unguarded it went for a hit and Snencer trotted home. Rumler popped to Westerzil, there being no need of further effort on Bill's part. The first run of the game was rung up in the first Inning, when Billy Speas knocked the ball out of the lot. The second for the Beavers came In the second on doubles in succession by Siglin and Koehler. Kochler's homer made them another in the fourth. The visitors made two in the fifth, both runners scoring on sacrifice flies, which Is rather an unusual condition. Oldham led off with a single and Blue followed with a double. Oldham scored on Wester-zil's Wester-zil's sacrifice fly to Rumler and Blue counted on a similar fly to Mulvey. The final run for the Beaves was registered reg-istered in the eighth, when Paddy Siglin knocked the ball over the fence. The Salt Lakers took their first counter in tho fourth. Sheely doubled, went to third on Johnson's out and scored on Mulligan's Mul-ligan's sacrifice fly. The Bees brought up some of their lighter artillery in the sixth, when they scored twice. Mulvey started with a double dou-ble to left and Rumler singled to right, scoring Mulvey. Sheely walked. Johnson's John-son's sacrifice sent the runners along ana Rumler scored on Mulligan's out. In the seventh Maggert and Krug got safe hits, with one out, but Mulvey sent a short line fly to Cox, who doubled Krug off first. The eighth, as already elucidated, saw the Bees win. The clubs will play again this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. |