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Show Ian ear to -1 the ground i "Blfr Schiller ef the San Francisco Fran-cisco tasra materially Improved his batting average, according to the latest lat-est unofficial averages. He gained 24 points In one week. Jumping from .22 to .214 per cent. Basaler of IM Angeles, alone of all the regular players, play-ers, still continues In the .400 per cent division. A margin of 4 points gives him this d Inunction. see No tesm In the Pacific Coast leagu baa undergone mora changea than IjOb Angelea. The men have been shifted all around and Hobby Davie la the only man in the Infield who has atuck to hia atation throughout. Bobby Vaughn, who waa shifted from aecond to third base, is showing up to be one of the best men In Manager Man-ager Cnanoe'a lineup. rtillv Orr nlaved a great game at short snd we Han Francisco fans will have to admit that be is Just as good as Corhan and mayba better. Not that Koy lan't some aborts top. Ban Franclaco Call. a Bill Kenworthy baa been appointed field captain of the Angela. During the closing gsmea of laet week'a series, when Chance waa out of uniform uni-form through lllneea, "Koperka" handled han-dled the club on the field and thinga moved along In grand atyle. Kan-worthy Kan-worthy has the "pep" and daah necessary nec-essary for a auccesKful captain, and hia proweaa with the war club may serve ss sn Incsntivs for some of the other hirelings to get busy and knock la a fe runs. A eritlciem has been made of Frank Chance's tactics In going forth and getting some ball playera. "He'a buying buy-ing a pennant. Just aa he did last year.' Putttng aside the 'unpleasant thinga that wer thought and aald of laat year's race, and the trades that helped L. A. to a pennant, as something- that 1 beet forgotten, the fact remalna that Cnanoe'a method of getting get-ting ball players at thla atage of toe rsent rac I abov criticism. If It "unethical" for Chance to epend some money to get ball players with the race not more than two montha under war, when would th critics havs him buy his plsyers? Or would they rather have the Angela limp through the season, a Joke club. Just because the men picked to deliver fell down on the lob T Saa - Francisco Bulletin. o e a Marty Berghammer. ahortstop. has wired tha Loa Angel club for a Job. Whereas the Angels would have given almost any amount of money for htm laat sane on. b will now receive the marble anitL BerjrhAiTt mer formerly was a sensation with Cincinnati, and later In the Federal league. He wlrea thai he la now a fre agent. e e e , Tom Parmod y , peeved over the treatment Outfielder Bob Snyder haa received from the Taeotna club, haa . i-ecalled the youngster mnd ordered him to report to Btovmll at Portland, e e e Oakland plays apparently with more spirit ax si nst the Bees thaa sgalnst th. Heals. ass Manager McCredis of Portland announced an-nounced that he intended to cut down to alxteen men In the near future, which leaves three to be disposed of. ' He says that other cluba tn tha circuit cir-cuit are talking of doing the asm. Variety la ths spice of life snd ths Frenchman waa "the apiee" Itself In the alxth yesterday.. He walked five, (Continued on page 1) EAR TO THE GROUND . (Continued from pag 1.) allowed on real single, two srratch Infield hlta and struck out Middle-ton Middle-ton and la.ne. Bee Invade Portland thla week, e Bee must win both gams today ta break oven on the aerie. e Portland fell Into the dark cellar yesterday when Stovsll's men shoved the hoof In face of the Mack men. ess Frank Chance had better stay sirk. His club took another from the Seals. a Counting the game the Bee hav not played on account of rain, and had they won them, the Seals wouldn't hav anything on them. e Jean Dubuc'a habit of outtlng th corners Is clever stuff, too clever for the umps. Msny times the Indicator man call Jeana grasers balls. A -tarns flnslly hss discovered he can i net. rie manes up tor u ny ' peppery sprinting. Yesterday he beta out two dinky Infield hlta e e Bor he broke hi finger In the tussls yesterday. Murphy replaced him. e e The Angels will hav the Real pretty well broke soon. A Seal will make a fin steed for an Angel. e e Bradley Hogg pitched one of hfs good games yesterday. Aside from the aeventh when the Seals handled him a little roughly he was king, queen, emperor and th whole ahow. see Teaterday's Bee -Oak t-to waa th conjugation of wild a far a pitchers go. Burn wss wild. Debuo wilder and Kremer wildest. e e Tuesday flash: It's w arming tiro In For Hand. s s Baum feel pretty bum after two wefeata la a vreak. e e It wasn't Portland fault that rhey I hit the depth. It wa reoanniere s i anal the other Vernon! tee. Dscsn- i nter didn't let the Beaver gt i many real pokes at the pellet. e e ' The week to date has been a tef- 1 1 roping on; ."h per cent separates ll th ledr from the cellar lighta to- 1 1 asaT aa aAcalast .237 tor last ftuAAtaav I i |