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Show STROUD EXPLODES IN EIGHT ROUND; SACS SCORE FIVE Big Bill Prough Flings Superb Ball for Coyotes; No Scoring Until Eee Heaver Is Overwhelmed With Hits; Griggs Knocks Homer and Cooke a Triple; Salt Lakers Make Lone Tally in the Ninth. At Sacramento Salt Lake 1, Sacramento 5. At Los Angeles Oakland 5, Los Angeles 1. At San Francisco Vernon 10, San Francisco 5. At Seattle Portland 7, Seattle Seat-tle 6. (Twelve innings.) Special to The Tribune. SACRAMENTO, Aug. 9. Big Bill Trough pitted his best game of the season against the Salt Lakers this afternoon, and won. 5 to 1. It was a thriiihiLf. nip-snd-turk battle bat-tle between J'ro'.iyh and ; a 1 ) h Stroml until the eighth, iviion the local;; set oil" a hunch of bemb crackers under StrouJ and scored five runs on as many hits. One of thoe hits was a homer and another an-other was a triple. Griggs knocked the ball over the right field fence, with one on. Lester Cooke drove in a tally with a three-bagger. In the ninth .Trough eased up and Johnson and Kumier gt sale hits for the Bees' only score of tiie game. The series now stands three games to two in favor of the vUttors. The s-t winds up with a linal game tomorrow afternooji. The Salt Lakers are certain cer-tain of a 50-5U break on tile series, even though they shoal.! lose tomorrow. Stroud found himself in a couple of threatening situations earli-r in the game, but he pulled out iioblv. It was not until the eighth that t lie Coyotes wheeled their guns into action in' earnest. ear-nest. Pinciii's single was followed bv a sacrifice. A hit bv Eldred scored Pinelli. and another hit bv Wolter brought in Bri.-k. Griggs's hoiner counted count-ed two. McGai'i'igan lived .on Mag-gert Mag-gert 's main and scored on Coolie's triple. In the ninth John-n'i dnnbied and Eurnier sent him acre-? with a single. Piercey will probaldv itch for ."Sacramento ."Sac-ramento tomorrow and 1'ale for salt Lake. Another big crowd attended todav's game and the spectators got their money's worth in tight baseball and a home-town rallv. It v.-a.s one of the fase-t games eve-played eve-played here. 1,-nh Prou;h and Stroud pitching -with little fuss or leathers. |