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Show BEES HIT TOBOGGAN AND LOSE BATTING LEAD TO SAN FRANCISCO STRAND LEADING SLUGGERS BY BIGMARG1N Claude Cooper Increases His Base Stealing Lead by Pilfering Pil-fering Two at Portland San Franclaco regained tha lead tn ffae Pacific Coaat league batting race y eater jay, when tha litee faltered and made only nine hits off Pitcher Nick iHjmovlch of ixi a Angeles. HI nee tha Beae hit the southern metropolis, their bUinjc power haa been shot full of holes, due to the superb huiilr.g of Ioc Cran-daU Cran-daU and Oeorge Lyona. Ae a conae-t conae-t quenca, the Heaia are leading; by two : polnta. not bacauaa they have. hit a hat-, hat-, tins streak, but bacauaa tha buea hit the tobog-gan. SEES PALL OFF. Paul Strand and tha whole flee lineup, T wu 41e saeeptleaa 4a-WHhel and "Pat" Anflnaon, have dropped off a few 7 points alnce tfaay left the home lot. Even after slipping a cog or twa, Strand contlnuea to lead the league hy , a wide margin. Hla par oen tags la .404. Following Strand cornea Vulty iwla. . tha Bee skipper, who la clicking the ,aple at a ,17 pore. Mammy Hale, who haa bear! out of tha lineup for the paet two weka, hangs on to third flaca, a osonalderabla dlatanca behind Lewis. 2 COOP EH ADOS TWO. Clauda Cooper stole (wo bates during . the firat half of the aeries with Port- land and boosted his total to thlrty-i. thlrty-i. eight, which Is seventeen below the mark f aet last seaaon by Marty McClaflMgan of v gacramenta and eleven short of hta own snark laat seaaon. With ten weeks to a go. however. Cooper haa an even chance - to beat his own mark and possibly to overcome tha mark aet by McGafftgan. The only other Coast leaguer to steal two baaea during tha week waa none other than our rolypoly catcher, Kat" nflaaon. Tna rotund paraonage of the "Bees found tha Loa Angelea receive re " sy to swipe on and Increased hla total To threa for the seaaon. No doubt "Pat" "would be running Cooper a hot race If ha had played consistently. HOME HUNS SCARCE. - " Homo runs have been eearcer than -ten's teeth since tha park at Bonneville ' haa been quiet, Ls Hheehan of Hac ramento poled one over the wall at Han Franclaco on Wednesday, Brick Kldied lifted ona over at Heattie, Art rHgga hit , ne Into tha bleachers at Washington 1 ..park, I-afayette and Wllle of Oakland 1 . poBiTectad for circuit clouts at Portland, t but that haa bean tha limit, ' |