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Show : f Wild Heaves and Such f I The day's best bitters: AB. H. TB. P.O. I Rumler, Salt Lake 4 3 4 .750 I Fabrlque, Los Angeles. ..4 3 3 .750 Wolter, Sacramento 4 3 4 .750 I Chadbourne, Vernon 3 2 3 , .067 Kddlngtun, Vernon 3 2-5 .GH7 ' Mulvev, Salt Lake 5 3 4 .BOO i Krug. Salt Lake 5 3 3 .liOp Johnson. Salt Lake 4 2 2 .500 Koerner, an Kranclsco. . 4 2 3 .500 It'onnollv, San Francisco. '.4 2 2 .500 Ks'iim, San Francisco 4 2 2 .500 Walker, Portland 4 2 .2 .500 Cox, Portland 4 2 2 .500 l Cooper, Oakland 4 2 4 .500 Murphy, Oakland 4 2 2 .500 I Borton, Vernon 4 2 2 .500 High. Vernon 4 2 3 .500 I Gleischmann, Seattle 4 2 2 .500 Smith, Salt Lake 2 1 1 .500 ' Cunningham, Seattle 2 1 1 .500 Wilie, Oakland 2 1 1 .500 Houck, Vernon 2 1 1 .500 Home-run hitter: Blue, Portland. The series stand: Salt Lake won 1, Seattle won 1, one postponed. Sacramento won 0, Portland won 2, one postponed. Los Angreles won 3, San Francisco won 0. Oakland won 2. Vernon won 1. v CT.fr Markle may fling for the Eees today. to-day. Special to The Tribune. PORTLAND, Ore., June 5. Pitcher Cooper, released Wednesday by Mc-Credie, Mc-Credie, is undecided as to what he will do in the future. He may remain in Portland, get himself in shape and try for a .1ob with some Coast league club. Jim Steele, scout for the Chicago White Sox, was a visitor at the park, but made no comment on the playing of tho two teams. Special to The Tribune. LOS ANGELES, Cal., June 5. Scout Connery of the New York Americans, who has been here this week looking over Oakland and Tiger ta!ent. before leaving for San Francisco last night pronounced Carl Holllngs "the best young pitcher 1 have seen this season." Connery's verdict ver-dict Immediately was followed by the declaration of Del Howard that Holllngs will finish the season in an Oakland -uniform, but that he is willing to make a deal whereby players would be turned over to him this year, Rollings to report to the big leag-jo for the 1520 season, j Hollings's chief assets are his fast break- ing curve ball and his cooinesa on the j mound. ( 1 Miller's broken log, received while sliding into the home plate. Is surely hard 1 Ui'-k for the Oaks, putting one of the leading hitters In the league out of the i lineup for perhaps the remainder of the j season. Frank Chance, only a fan now, came out of his baseball retirement sul'riciently today to make the prediction that the Coast league this season will develop 1 more major league talent than it has in I any year in the past six years. Among prospects mentioned by Chase is Mulvey of Salt Lake. He says the addition ot young players to the P. C. L. rosters is going to have a greatly beneneial effect, ef-fect, with fans more interested in comers than in veterans. The Oakland boss expects Claude Cooper to prove a highly valuable player, but at the same time refers to Miller's Injury as "the most expensive home run in Coast league history." Pete Lapan left last night to report to Clymer at Seattle. 'All his anti-Seattle holler was hushed before departure by use of salary anesthesia. The fame of Pitcher Bertlca of tho Angels has spread so that on Manager Klliefer's arrival in San Francisco, Tuesday, Tues-day, he found awaiting him three letters from major league managers and another from the owner of a major league club, asking if pertica were for sale for immediate im-mediate delivery. The Los Angeles manager man-ager replied to all alike that the young player would not be sold until later, and Uien for rlellverv only in 1020. Bobbv Meusel's furlough frum the navy having expired, the Tigers are again crippled. crip-pled. ,Nw York, due to a -mixup in telegrams tele-grams and failure to turn over to the Tigers Outfielder Miller as agreed upon, seems to have lost out In its efforts to secure Meusel. Both the options on h:m have expired, and the details of the deal are in such a tangle that entirely new negotiations must be entered into. lvs-siok lvs-siok Is rather bitter at tho turn of circumstances cir-cumstances in connection with the deal. He expects the upshot of the matter will be the cash sale of Meusel at the end . of the season for $15,000. Business Manager Halbrlter of the Tigers says he still is in the market for two or three "dependable" pitchers. Howard's pitching staff is badly shot to pieces, but he expects relief In a few days from Harry Krause, at present a victim of a lame shoulder. Dr. Spencer promises the star southpaw will be able to resume his place In the lineup Saturday. Satur-day. Howard has his lines out for another an-other heaver. VANCOUVER. B. C, June B. directors di-rectors of the Pacific International Northwestern North-western baseball league, at a meeting to be. held here tomorrow afternoon, probably will order the league to close its schedule and suspend operations immediately', immedi-ately', it was announced here today, when word came that the Tacoma and Victoria clubs had disbanded. ' Although the other two clubs. Seattle and Vancouver, are drawing good crowds, it is thought to be too late in the season to attempt to replace the two weak clubs. " I SEATTLE, Juno 5. Seattle yesterday 1 purchased a slugging catcher from Los I Angeles Lapan. The Angel backstop has ! been rapping the ball hard and often for the league leaders, and Clymer thinks I he has solved his catching problem. Schang has not lived up to expectations; Ritchie Is hurt, with Cook doing most of the work now, and l,apan will strengthen the locals in the receiving department. , Lapan has left for Seattle and may be in for tomorrow's game. Pitcher Hi Jasper, once of the White Sox ancf one time Angels and with Milwaukee this spring, has gone to Cleveland Cleve-land for a trial. Milwaukee could not use him because he Is a spltball pitcher, the moist delivery being barred in the American association. Clarence Rowland says he can make good in the big show. Special to The Tribune. SEATTLE. Wash., June 5. Sheely pasted a couple of hard ones, but Compton Comp-ton snagged both balls. Ralph Frary had his troubles behind the plate. Both skies thought the umps was missing. Mulvey is having a big week with the stick, with two doubles, two singles and a pair Of sacrifice hits in the two days. Something unusual In the old game popped up in the seventh, when a Bee runner scored on a sacrifice hit to shortstop. short-stop. The play came up when Smith squeezed Rumler across. Jack Cook, business manager of the Bees, says his sluggers are going to clean up the rest of the week. Salt Lake got away with all kinds of baseball, mixing up their two-base hits with bunts. Tho, slugging of Mulvey, Rumler and Krug was mainly responsible for the win, these three garnering nine hits among them. |