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Show Pre si-it.-;:t Laum's strict enforcement of ;ii,'ainML '.'-.'ry deiivtrd or dU-coloro dU-coloro J biius, when "doc lured" by tr.e pit-T.trs. Pr-.-ai'lt-nt Pa'm has Riven his umpires h'.r::t orders to throw any t wirier out oi '.ho, wi:o either puis any deoiorin p'jfj.sriirr; on th.; ijail, or anpi.es it to h:s tro'.i.-ers, and tl.cn rubs the ba.il on this eoi'ed svot. This is the part of the rule which has been maJe more drastic. Formerly pitch-fis pitch-fis (,-ot around it by putting the atuil on their trousers, as it was illegal only to appiy the foreign substance directly to the ball. Now it works both ways. As a rule, it is the veceran pitchers who have Leon pulling these tricks and i-'ettintf by with them. It is poine to be hard Tor the umpires to determine just what constitutes discoloring a baseball. Tln-y should have their salaries increased with these arlded duties. It will take a regular sleuth, gum shoes and aii, to put this across and catch all of the offenders. Manager MeCredie says that none of his twirlers has been usin an illegally prepared pre-pared ball. Probably every other man n serin ser-in the circui t will say the same thing. There is reason to believe that the local chief tells the truth, however, as there has been no kicking by other clubs against any of 1 1 is twirlers. He expects to do all in his power to abolish the spit ball in this circuit next year. The American association has done so, and the change seems to work well. It Is a freak delivery, and its death would cause more hitting, much to the delis'ht of the average- fun. Portland Telegram. Roy Brown was released yesterday. Roy wanted a chance, and Mullen gave It to him. The youngster can't hit Coast league pitching. Mullen has a flock of young pitchers in uniforms. PIgg, a likely looking boy from the Big Four league, is showing quite a bit of . stuff in practice. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Post-Intelligencer. In an effort to discourage trick deliveries, deliv-eries, orders have gone out for the umpires um-pires to enforce, as far as possible, the rule against discoloring the ball. This recalls how one trick delivery was nullified. nulli-fied. During a recent fanning-bee the incident was related by Ed R. Maier. Jack Ryan, who can figure out as many ways to make a ball misbehave as any pitcher in the business, adopted and perfected per-fected the mud ball. During an impor-. taut series between the Angels and Tigers it was deemed necessary to offset this. So Howard Lorenz, who at that time was custodian of baseballs for Vernon, got out his little brush and pot of paraffin paraf-fin e. He gave the balls a neat paraffine bath. This made the pill so slick that Ryan's mud would not adhere to it. i Los Angeles Times. 4 . : Wild Heaves and Such 4 The day's best hitters: AB. H. TB. P.C. nddlngton, Vernon 1 1 2 1.000 Fisher, Vernon 5 4 4 .800 Mullen, Seattle 4 3 3 .750 Mulil.can, Salt Lake 3 2 3 .667 Borton, Vernon .6 3 .5 .500 Fitzgerald, San Francisco. 4 2 2 .500 Caveney, San Francisco.. 4 2 2 .500 Cooper, Oakland 4 2 2 .500 Cunningham, Seattle 4 2 2 .500 Krug, Salt Lake 2 1 1 .600 Baker, Portland 2 1 1 ' .500 Koehler, Portland 2 1 1 .500 Home-run hitters: Sheely, Salt Lake; Meusel, Vernon. Tbe series stand: Salt Lake won 4, Sah Francisco won .1. Vernon won 4, Portland won 1. Oakland won 2, Seattle won 3. Sacramento won 2, Los Angeles won 3. Death Valley Jim Scott for the Seals and Sailor P.alph Stroud for the Bees are the picks for this forenoon's game. Tom Beaton and Ai Gould are tne probable flingers for this afternoon. Special to The Tribune. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 23. The Bees are proving a great drawing card. The crowd this afternoon was a corker. This week the clubs play as follow7s: Salt Lake at Seattle. San Francisco at Oakland. Sacramento at Vernon. Los Angeles at Portland. There probably will be no game at Seattle Se-attle on Tuesday, since the Bees will be unable to reach Puget Sound in time for the scheduled opener. Los Angeles also will miss Tuesday's game at Portland, and Vernon will miss at Los Angeles. The Bees will play eight scheduled games at Seattle during the forthcoming series two games on Labor day, Monday, September 1. After this week's round at Seattle the Bees return home for a three weeks' stand. They will play Los Angeles, San Francisco and Vernon in turn. As the Bees will be unable to reach home before Thursday. September 4, there will be some double-headers with the Angels. The Bees will close on the road, playing Vernon and Oakland. The Salt Lake And Vernon clubs have fifteen games to play. The pennant will lie with the outcome of those games. There will be two games between the Bees and Peals today, the forenoon game ut Oakland and the afternoon game at San Francisco. The standing of the clubs at the close of the twentieth week of the 1917 season follows: Wan. Lost. P.C. San Francisco 78 62 .557 Salt T,ake 71 62 .533 Ixis Angeles 72 67 .51S Oakland 6S 71 .4S? Portland 62 70 .470 Vernon 60 79 .432 A double-header will be played at Los Angeles this afternoon between the Coyotes and Angels, but no game at Vernon Ver-non this forenoon. , The switch is due to the street car strike. There will be a double-header at Portland Port-land this afternoon between the Tigers and Beavers. Seattle also will have a double-header this afternoon. The fans hear little of Lester Cook, catcher of the Sacramento club, beyond seeing his name In the box score. Cook deserves a world of credit for the way he has continued under repeated discouragements. discour-agements. He has been passed from hand to hand and fired with enough frequenoy to make the average athlete quit. Generally, Gen-erally, he was signed chiefly to help out In an emergency. But every t'me he w:is fired and then caught on again he worked wKh redoubled vigor, and always gave the team his best. He likos the frame, and his heart Is in it. He is a far greater ssset to bnseball than the player of greater great-er natural ability who sulks and shirks, and gives the impression that he is thinking think-ing only of tho first and fifteenth. Los Angeles Times. Walter McCredlo Is greatly in favor of |