Show FINISHING HOME MEANS NOTHING Coast League Race Is Over So Far as Portland Fans Are Concerned By Lou Kennedy ORTLAND Aug 29 FInishing Finishing the DORTLAND PORTLAND P season at homo home doesn't mean halt half I as much this year rear as It would Inthe Inthe in inthe the past Portland really has Ing to play for Cor as there is no hope of 01 even getting out of ot the second division let alone put in a bid for the pennant The team showed that it was entirely outclassed by Vernon last week It was wae and as well as out- out pitched by the league le leaders ders and as aa now constituted doesn't look like a class AA organization About all that the can do isto Is Isto Isto I to lay their lines for the retention of ot the best men on the club adding experienced players wherever needed They were under a big handicap as was Seattle this spring being beng faced wit with the problem of ot building up an entirely new club 1 from nothing to start with I tl This fall it will be different rl At least st Walter McCredie says sas it will To go back backover backover over the season and try to make alibis forthe for forI forthe the club on account of the jumping of ol I George and Frank Walker VaUter injuries to players and the failure to se secure secure secure se- se cure good pitchers from Detroit because e eother other major league clubs wouldn't waive dont don't help the club It is results that thai count and Portland hasn't gotten re re- re suits The way the fans tans have turned out In spite of ot repeated reverses shows that Portland Is one of ot the best towns in the country as far as minor league baseball Is concerned and ad with a real fighting club in line th could have made money here this year Portland and Seattle two towns with taM tail end clubs are and have been for tor some time drawIng drawing draw draw- ing better than Los Angeles which has the leading club and the up runner-up and has a greater population to draw from froni than either of ot the Northwest burgs The showing of ot Lefty Schroeder Sunday Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day was one of the bright spots of the theL week This young pitcher who Js a local L product is big strong and knows how to pitch and ought to be a winning pitcher next season one whom the can rely on He has only one weakness that thatis is his inability to field bunts The right kind of ot practice will eliminate this |