Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-08-22 | Page 17 | Bees-Indians Open Series Tonight; S. L. Hopes to Break Series 'Bugaboo'

Indians Bees Open Series Tonight S. S t Hopes to Break Series Bugaboo Damon Hayes is slated to take the mound at Community park at 8 tonight as the Lewiston Indians attempt to close the gap between tt themselves and the third place third ce Salt Lake Bees of the Pioneer b baseball league The Bees will call on Mel Marlowe Marlowe Marlowe Mar Mar- lowe hoping to break the jinx which has prevented their winnIng winning winning win win- ning more than one game in any of the last eight three-game three so- so se ries Lewiston is is' is trailing by only four games as the circuit starts down the home stretch with the Twin Falls Cowboys and llo Cardinals setting the pace Cowboys Hold Lead Led Charley Chancy Wry's Wranglers Wranglers Wranglers' hold holda a two and a a half game edge and play Tuesday at p. p m. m at Ogden with the Cards app appearing aring at home against Boise at the same hour With no league e games booked Monday Boises Boise's Pilots won 7 10 over the Welser Weiser club of the Oregon Idaho-Oregon league In a benefit exhibition for Delbert Bates injured Boise shortstop Salt SaIt Lake will have four more more home stands after Its clash with the Indians The Bees Bee will not only be trying to break the series jinx they jinx they will be be seeking to erase the sting of a 5 25 defeat handed them at t Pocatello Sund Sun Sun- d day Injuries have hampered the Salt Lakers and nd Shortstop Don Trower is Is stilt still hobbling around as a re result result re- re sult suit of a severe bone bruise on his heel George Byrd has been nursing an Injured hand Catcher Eddie Botelho will be on the sidelines sidelines side side- lines for at least two weeks with witha a fractured thumb sustained in Sundays Sunday's doubleheader at Pocatello Pocatello Pocatello Poca Poca- tello Catcher Is Needed Manager Eddie Eddie Mulligan n hopes to find a catcher in Salt SaIt Lake to fill Botelhos Botelho's place Ray Anderson Anderson Anderson An An- derson an outfielder outfielder- substituted when Eddie was hurt S Sunday The title race ap appears ears to be all Twin Falls or Pocatello although each club has more than two dozen more games in the four weeks weeks' remaining i Twin Fal Falls Falls' expects to have hatte its slugging catcher Jo Joe Junior M McNamee Namee back in the lineup soon McNamee who suffered a a. concussion con con- cussi ri when hit by a pitch in a game with the Bees was expected expect expect- ed t to be released from the hospital hospi hospi- n talT tal Tuesday