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Show According to advices from Mae, . M. Clariin, a pitcher from Bsaerefleld. Cel. Is In that city awaiting the arrival of Manager Blenkenehlp and bla Selt Lake club and reedy to Join the ekyecrapere. Owner Dick Cooley; when seen th I morning, morn-ing, staled that Blankenshlp had been dickering with the maa and that no douot signed him. The Olaflln reported to have been signed by Bait Lake waa with Spokane last year. He won six and lost five games for the Indlsns. This spring he was sold to Victoria but refused to report. re-port. Recently a Sad Franrlero paper carried a story to the effect that Claflln a (ether, who Is said to be a wealthy man. purchased ls eon s release from Victoria, fcellackey and frbyhave been after Claflln but the latter Is said lo havs preferred Salt Lake. He Is s right bander. The t'tah atate lesgue Is no more. The organisation hss been unsble to weather the storm for a doaen and one reasons. Murray, strengthened by members of the 8sl Lake team; the Occidentals and og-den og-den will continue to play Independent ball. The rumor that the Mlsseuls club will be transferred to Ocden Is still going the rounds but In the meantime the Missoula sporting editors contend that "Mlasoula Is the beet ball town In the circuit, and all we need le a manager." , y . McCloskey'a Butte outfit Is surely In hard luck. One double header waa postponed, post-poned, and, of course, Butte wss In oa It. Carpenters are nishlng work on McCloa-key's McCloa-key's additional grand stsnd In Butte and expect to complete It today. The skyscrspers hsve won eleven out of twenty-five gamea while on their first trip away from home. Might be worse. Keep your eye on them after this week. , Helena ahut out Salt Lakfle Saturday, 1 to 4. All other Union league gamea were postponed. The Occidentals defeated Salt 1-ake II to 8aturrtay, while Ogdsn trimmed Murray Mur-ray 11 to 4. Blllv" Foitler didn't do a thing but make 'irooirvwlth the .skyscrapers In hia first time out. The former Murray backstop back-stop caught both games yestsrday and lined out a triple, a double and a single In ths first game and a double In the second. Says the Mlssoullsn:' "If Missoula had a team that won half of Ita games, the rtande would not hold the people. We are rather loyal, ae It Is.' The handle "Juveniles" plastered en the Missoula club does not look goad to Joyce. It Is said. First It wsa the scrappers, scrap-pers, then the educators, an official title, and now the juvenllea. The following are a few extracts from en Interview credited to Ralph Frary. after leaving the Union league: "The Vnlon aaeoclatlon la here to aay; every club except one or two will make money. You can depend on a league that Is hesded by I Aires: mark whsl I say. because be-cause I havs worked srlth him for four yeara; Lucaa Is the gameet and best bee-nsl! bee-nsl! msn I have ever done business with. Missoula haa a young player named Mur. ray who looks llkiy. the making of another an-other Ty Cobb, and he a the beat looking look-ing young ball player I ever aaw. - Fortler'a aggressiveness en the - baaea should be to Blankenshlps liking, because be-cause "Blsnk" Is there strong himself on that score. Butler, the new Belt Ike pitcher, "has eventhlng." but they seem to hit him It will, no doubt, be either he or Claflln Claf-lln to aurvtve now. SchlmpfTe return to Ihe box yeeter-day yeeter-day In apparently good condition will be welcome news to ths fsns. Blankenshlp Blanken-shlp and Cooler have aald many times that when thia little fellow geta going he will be hard to catch. . Pendleton la playing with a bad ankle. Cordts has s had knee and Perkins hss a swollen bsnd caused by a buckle on his glove. It -affects his hsnd so thst he can acarcely grip a hst. Ogden won from Brlaham Cltv yesterday yester-day by the score of It to I. the peach town crowd filling In after the Salt Lake club had aenl word that It was no more. The hsbtterles: Satlner and Lehr: Jenson and Nucha. The Rio Grande baseball tasm won from the Murray fire depsrlment men veeterdsy bv the score of 1 to 4- The batteries: Cooper and Smith; Thompson and Duel. At Park City yesterday Park City defeated de-feated the picked team from Heber and Midway. 12 to 2- The former Capital Electric team, now plavln as the silver Oraye. won Its fame vesterdav afternoon at Liberty park y a score of 24 to 4 from the North Salt Lake team. This team la now one of the fssteel In the city snd rrtagengee any other emsteur tesm. Bstterles: Ostler Ost-ler snd Hand, for Silver Grays: Fubner. Smith and Berastrom. for North Salt Lake. The Wells-Fargo bseebsll teem defeated de-feated the SsM Lake Hsrdwsre nine. 17 to 2. on the Fort Douglas dismond Sun-dsv. Sun-dsv. Bstterles: Hsrrls, McCsbs and Laraen. Plgg and Bean. |