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Show Hard luck In bunches appears to be pursuing th skyscrapers on their trip away from home, rlrat. Illness robbed the team of Ven'e eervlcee, and then Perkina suffered an Injured band twice, so that Biankenshlp had to do all the catching. Blankenahlp waa Injured leter on. but had recovered eulflclently to rllev Perkina yesterday when he. too. sustained an Injury, a broken Anger, which will keep hint out of the. gain for a week at least. Owner Dick Cooley. when he teamed of Blankenship's Injury thla morning, waa quite badly worried about the oelcher problem. 4e la making an effort ef-fort today to aeeure a catcher to give nurryup relief. If possible, he etatee, he will aend "Rllly" Fortler, the Murray catcher, to Helena to help the club out of the hole. Kortler'a good form and splendid hitting could be ueed to good steed. The Mlsaoullan takea the fell owl n unkind slap at our old friend. "Rabbit Sturgeon, who haa joined Missoula: "E A. Sturgeon, known as 'Rabbit showed up yesterday and la elated for an Infield job. So long, Mary? It might better be iMurphy. McCloekey has turned Outfielder Roberts Rob-erts over to Mlaeoula. Roberts wss secured se-cured by Butte from Hclna In trsd for Pitcher K ne. ! Murrey, the new Missoula outfielder. Is said to be making a hit on the circuit. cir-cuit. Plttaburg haa asked for waivers on Fred Hunter, the first baseman who set the American association afire last aea-eon aea-eon while with the Kansas City club. I "Jsck" Code of Boise Is reported to be contemplating the release of Pitcher Taliaferro. Cody Is ssld to be figuring on signing Pitcher Jo Bergen, now with Portland In the Cost league. To a man up a tree It would appear that Taliaferro Talia-ferro Is about the best pitcher he has, next to Maloney. at leaat. The man Baxter playing first for Missoula Mis-soula la a brother of the old "Moose' Baxter, who plaved first for Spokane la the ISO.s Pacific National league. Moose ' Baxter la now running a Turk-leh Turk-leh bath eetablishment at Calgary. Ephralm defeated the R. O. W. clerks yesterday In a onesided game: score, ft tn 1. Kast had the clerks at hla merry. The fielding of Quinn and Dutch was s feature. AD Murray Is preparing to celebrate 1he 'coming of "Dad" Gtmltn' Ogden stftte leaguera to Murray next Saturday. Murrav fans tike "Olm. ' and then they don t like htm. either. At any rate. It te promised that the old fox will have to speed some If he wins Saturday's game with Murray. The Occidentals play Bait Lake on Walker'a field Saturday. On Sunday Murray snd th Occldcntala will play a double header at Walker e. while Halt Lake wll do a slmlliar stunt at Oglen. In th "grahbln process," br mesne of which Ogden and Murrav are "stealing" all of Salt Lske's best men In the state league. Murrav has slipped one over on Ogdrn bv beating the Junction city bunch to Pitcher "Slim" Jensen of the llltated local team. Jenaen will pilch for Murrav Mur-rav tomorrow, in place of Jeneen. Manager Man-ager Harrle haa aliened Swltser. a left hender from Bingham canyon, a hers, by the wav. they appear to have nothing but southpaws. . Charley Ksefer has changed his mind He snnounces now that he la not going to quit baseball for the season: that he will be back at hla old aland for Murray Saturday. The Wet Line team defeated ths TELEGRAM TEL-EGRAM earners on I'tah field this morning morn-ing by a ecore of 14 to II. Dougan and Mann comprised the battery (or th Winnie |