| Show f Ragan or Thomas for the visitors this afternoon Looks like E EITHER Leverenz or Dale for the locals Comedian out In the composing room wants to know If It was Seattle that brought the Rain Walter Leverenz Is still undergoing treatment for a a. strained ligament In his pitching arm which does not appear to be mending as rapidly as the southpaw hoped It would The Bees would probably find themselves about six or eight games higher up in the standing today if Lefty Letty could have produced the goods for Herr as he did for McCredie In 1918 Even from this on Leverenz in tiptop shape would make the Bees dangerous contenders The pitching of Markle Gould and Stroud this week has been excellent Heres Here's hoping that good luck will be with them for the balance of the season There isn't a a. reason in the world why all three of these boys shouldn't be bo stars in this league Poor old Emmett Mulvey l is trying hard to shake a a. bad hitting slump Emmett has poled out only one hit since last Saturday and but five since a week ago Saturday He Is having the kind of a slump that comes to the lot of the best of them and when h he does start again ho will probably go like a house afire Eddie Mulligan is playing good ball during the absence of Ernie Johnson Mulligan's Mulligan one fault Is that he takes matters matters matters mat mat- too seriously As a result the fans have put him down for a perpetual grouch when as a matter of fact he Is not Eddie does most of his crabbing at himself and none of the Bees are more anxious to win than he Sacramento has picked up Bill Dill Stumpf the Infielder whom the tho Oaks tried to send to Omaha He lIe played third yesterday Inthe in inthe inthe the absence of Babe Portland Aug 1 Fielder 1 Fielder A. A Jones manager of the Chicago champions champion of the world In 1906 stated he would refuse to accept the presidency of the Pacific Coast league if it were offered to him Heres Here's what Matt Gallagher baseball scribe of ot Los Angeles has to say about a likely series between Indianapolis and Coasters With the Indianapolis club going good once more Jimmy McGill owner of that club in the American as association association association as- as writes that he feels certain his team is going to grab off first place honors In th the league defeating the International International International Inter Inter- national league contender and come West Yest to play the coast champions All the clubs in the American association are pleased over the plan to have the finals of the minor series played in Cali Call fornia At present it seems a certainty that the Coast league pennant will go goto goto goto to one of the clubs in this city and that means perfect weather for the seven games to be played between the two clubs u Realizing II n that t the Oaks are out of the r race and th that tS S San Francisco cl has little chance to win the pennant an ef effort effort effort ef- ef fort Is being made to land some of the games for the northern city Los Angeles Aug 1 Failure I.-Failure Failure on the part of Rill Hill to live llva up UTI to his pitching promise of last season not only has injured the Los Angeles club by the loss of the victories he was expected to win but it also has prevented presented the team from strengthening Baseball managers find it impossible to bu buy men for love lave or money The only way a a. major league club can be pried loose from a ball player or two Is by getting getting- an option on a promIsing promising promising prom prom- ising youngster That hat is one of the reasons reasons reasons rea rea- sons why the Tigers were able to get set men showing showIng- the past six weeks has been such that the major league clubs are passing him up When John Powers and Wade Killefer sent out outi telegrams i for o an 1 infielder outfielder l and pitcher y the first I S answers es contained the query What have have- you got Some of the men we obtained have not lived up to their promise said That is the reason I am after three more play play- ers But Dut It is mighty hard to corral men |
