Show I I I I By Ross C. C Miller I I IkE San Franciaco c t team of ot the Pacific Pa Pa- T TIm due cinc Coast baseball league went into first place two months ago and never has been out of the lead since that time Since the beginning of the season the only week that ended with the Seals In second place was was that of May 1 13 The first week of play netted them a percentage of and this is the lowest rating they have held The week they dropped to second place ended with a a percentage of ot With these two exception n each e-ch week has lias found them with a percentage in excess of Their ThIr highest was wasat at the end of the second week with Oakland with witha a percentage of 28 at the end of the second week occupied the cellar position Her climb has been steady and consistent although they are below their high level of ot at the end of ot the sixth week of play Los Angeles has has- occupied everyplace everyplace every everyplace place except fourth position during luring the course of ot the season The Seals have never been below second place Salt Sat Lake has been in first second and third places Portland has been confined to third fourth and fifth places Vernon has lisa placed everywhere except firs first t and fourth while Oakland has spent one week at atI fifth position two weeks In hi the cellar and the remainder at at three a old That baseball they r struck days ti than out r they cre 3 do men e In ni In later a the theold times limes Is evidenced from this little bit rom from the records of ot thirty one years ago One of the greatest for strikeouts was made on June 18 1886 when Mark Mare Baldwin for fer th the th team tm nf of i nn n men the n Northwestern Of w these l twelve league struck fanned out one I I In after the other Baldwin later pitched I Ifor I for or Chicago Pittsburg and New York and then devoted himself to the practicing of I I medicine In Pittsburg I With the approach of for the Pacific Coast baseball league and the warm weather aiding in limbering up the pitching witching arms of the various batters matters are slowly receding from the heIghts of a per cent batting average Bassler Sassier of Los Angeles who has been In n the leading among the regular players and was the last to step out of the class fell tell 10 points further away accordIng accord accord- Ing lug to the unofficial averages given out I for the thirteenth week He has dropped to At the end of the eleventh week he was batting 02 At the present rate 1 t Ot f retrogression he lie is likely to lose his position as the leading baUmen of the league before many more weeks Fitzgerald Fitz gerald Jerald of San Francisco who ha has been holding holding- second place came up 11 points I making his average so that only 10 ID points separate the two players At the en end t of ot the eleventh week Fitzgerald was 68 points behind Bassler The men who made the biggest gains during the week were R. R.- Miller of Oakland who jumped I 44 H points and Hoff of Salt Lake who made a gain of 65 points Williams of Portland still retains a comfortable Jeaa with eleven home runs ruris Sheel Sheely of Salt Lake with wilh seven is his ne nearest rest tor I C C S The favorite sport of so some e ball ball players these days seems to be walking over um umi um 1 ri pires The etke recent performance ho of Babe g Ruth w who took a punch Dunch at T Brick kobe Owens and the disgraceful scene at Cincinnati in which John McGraw and Lord Byron starred Is about enough of rough house tactics for this year Our own Pacific Pacino Coast league umpires are not immune either There was a time when mobbing an umpire was was' considered proper propel and Just Th There re was a a. time In boxing when men sat at ringside with drawn revolvers i menacing the referee Those days lIas have passed The e a average baseball S 1 crowd ofa ft wants plenty of pep It m may ride a an umpire um tim- pire to death but it doesn't care about the rough house stuff stutt and wont won't stand for tor much of it Perhaps in some some- cases the umpire Is La blamable on account of bad decisions In that case It is the duty of the league president to take a a. hand not for a ball player layer to assert his bel bel- belI I on the field There have been many complaints about umpires this year particularly those in the National league Some have been charged with Incompetency incompetency and even with making players suffer e for personal S dl dislikes This h c condition condi condi- i g tion should not be e permitted ite to exists exIst I t Umpires who dont don't have good judgment or who permit outside conditions to Influence in influence influence In- In fluence their decisions should be immediately im tm- lm- lm mediately released Some managers have suggested that each league should have a chief pf who should go from cl city y t to city and watch ch the wor work of tho the arbi J S d I I I I I I and report report t to the league president These visits should be secret and the I chief chiet would be able to get a a. line on the tile work of ot the men men under him It Is evident evi dent that something of this sort should be done don so far as umpires are concerned and It is certainly necessary sary that such severe penalties be Indicted on players TV who ho resort to tol slugging umpires that the practice will die ale ou outa out t. t a a C I Norman Ross floss of ot the Olympic club holder of a half haIr dozen swimming records including both national and American i I II titles is said by h his t friends n to be swimming swim swim- iI j i 1 tl wt I ming at the top p of t his form r with It the end not yet in sight They have set up I the claim for him that he is the oest Dest I 1 all round swimmer of al time for the reason that while former champions have I gained distinction either In the short I sprints or else in the longer swims Ross Is showing his superiority in both Not I Ionly I I only this but It Is pointed out that his versatility is apparent in his ability to negotiate nee the breast stroke and the backstroke backstroke back back- I stroke Ok in competition with I athletes who i iare I e th i are specializing In these events v his S recent recent re- re I cent mark of 51 5 4 seconds for seventy- seventy j I i five yards in th the latter event being a a worlds world's Ross Ross' remarkable work has all been done during this year Prior I to 1917 while it was acknowledged he had all the makings of a champion his I erratic performances were the despair of i I I j his him tr trainers take er swimming I who were seriously unable I e to For make this I reason there was considerable opposition I In the matter of sending him East early I j in the year That he appreciated the confidence placed In him by his support support- ers era In lu the Olympic Ol club and rose support support-I to the occasion Is evidenced by his triumphant record I |