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Show STRAfJPJIAS CSIAfJCE Tp vSHAjTEippEa; rec.ou0:i;h8;-vT": : : Leslie Has Ten Tv;o Dn:o Ilits to Go to Tio nccr:! Sheehan Close on LetlieV Heel, While Ray Rohwer I Pushing Strand for Home , Run Honors By LeeJDelaney I . npHE fsct that the Bees snd Seattle Siwanhes j I play an eight-game series here beinnning I this afternoon is not rery lmportsnt But the V"";""--' 1 'ct thst Psul Strsnd has chance of bresk- Lv g ing the home run record is something to worry W- " sboutX And the fact that Roy Letlie is but V" ' ten two-bae hits behind the record snd has " a chance of equaling or breaking it before V,'.';' j the series is completed is another thing that rrrryt " ? t'p to date Strsnd has thirty -two homers iVijfc..:-j to his eredit, snd his but one to go to tie Ihe" record' of thirty-three" held by Bunny I I Brief, ex-Salt Laker. There are three mora series to be plsyed in Salt Lake, snd unless Strand breaks sn arm he will imaah the record snd add a few more to it. t.vl has a total of fifty. seven two-Bnajrrer to his credit and will hav to register ten mora before he equals th record made by Joe) uede-on. uede-on. of Celt ..eke. In ItU. tweeter Sheehan also la putting up a hard attempt at-tempt to catch Lrnh and oqual the record.- . He has fifty-four is hie credit. laat week there was one record shattered when the Boea and Ttrs put up a wetrd contest on Haturday, and the Bees scored sixteen runs in On Inning- The previous record waa fourteen. This week there ehould be one mark broken and at teeat a few more two-baggers added to th present pres-ent total, ao aa the players will be within striking distance. Week by week the Ba boeees are lidding themselves of players who are of no use to the club. The owners started the tak when they released EdiJIe Anflneon to Buffalo, The next week Barney Kama and Harry piae-hotder piae-hotder were dlamlad. And now Walter Wal-ter Peerce. the Bee alvortetop has been aent home for the rest of the year snd will cve hla chipped elbow a chance to repair Iteelf. lineup there has been an army of players trying to take care of tS position. Plrst Kfnu played short, then Anflneon, and so down until Lewie, Iaalt and fcheehan hd had a crack at t he fob. Now t hr a r three youngsters taking care of the place. Of the three) players two of them ar fUlt Lake sandlottara who' the big stare on their clubs. I'inf Nyberg, who waa playing in the Cp- Rer league and who waa hittirf .4 5, as been alternating with tteorae Irew of Oakland who was the star In the Oakland amateurs. The oth-r player te hav a chance to ahow his Ware was LHck Barry, who waa playing play-ing with th I.'iah Oil aggregation and who was formerly a Be. Last week waa a great week for th . Bees, After losing tha first game t hey ra me bark and took the n t als, thereby winning the eeriee, sis to one. During the aerie the fane wltneaeed S4me feet. Slow, good and bed ball. But there were some ral games and the fans got their moneys worth In nearly every game. The serif this week should ha a thriller. The Indians Just finished a series with the Heals at the latere park snd succeeded tn winning two iamea from Pilot Bert Kllleon a nm. This la the first time the Indians have been here this veer. Hat n was to open her at the first of the year, but the Bee boeae shifted the playing to Kreano, where rain halted a few of the gamea. Aa a reeuit the Bees and Indiana will play an eirM-game eirM-game series, with double -header ot-urdar ot-urdar and Sunday, Tony Laaaerl and Puke Tuchalnk'. two Beee who were farmed out a hi t the mtirfle of the semarm. will rrort . hera about September Ji to II. Th' two players have been with the Foot - team of the Three 1 league. |
