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Show State league gamcs'toda? are Occidentals Occiden-tals at Mitrrav and Ogden at bait Lake. Sunday's amoa are Salt lake at Ogden and Murray and the ' OccUlelnaie at Walker's Held. Phil Harris, the' new manager of the local 8tate league team, states that he Is bent' upon bringing the club out of the cellar and that he' will exercise every effort toward that end. He has strvngih-e strvngih-e ned his team ma terla 1 1 y for I oda y 'a game and ex pacts to make a good allowing allow-ing both today and tomorrow. Manager Plankenahlp of the skyscrapers skyscrap-ers lias caught the last two gamoa himself him-self in order to give Perkins a needed rest. "Wank" has been doing good work behind the bat. Oevereaus Is holding ilown first base O. K. and Hchlmpff I doing well at third. FUankenahlp la for-turmte for-turmte to hae so manv men who ran plav any post ton. Devereaux- ran play either first r third. Van in play outfield out-field or first. 8penr la a splendid ta-rtelder. ta-rtelder. Blankenshlp can eat-h nr play Infield, ffc-hlmpff can fill In an where a: all and Perkins can play a good outfield. The Rio Grande clerks returned laet night from Spanish Fork, where fhv claim to have had the time of their Uvea. They succeeded In defeating Spanish Fork. 9 to . hut report thai they consider themselves lucky to have won and give "the toan "credit TnrTiavIng agooo hatT atrlcken and handed the chairman of the committee- a 15 htn toward the fund. The "dope" from Butte Is that the benefit Kill net MrCluskev at least $Ji00. Not so hsd.' This Is wlm(MaL- t"ld thc funs hcfoieTcavlna on his naalrlp: 'T to make tha trip aaain If possible. Rise and Hales comprised the Snsnlsh Kork hatttery. while Biinklev and Bmlth did the honore for the derka. The retail clerks of this plsved a picked team from Draper. West Jordan and Pandy at the latter place yesterday aft.rnoon and won. 4 to 1. The jtame was close and Interesting and. with a little more practice and better aupport from the cltlsena. Sandv should have a' good ball team. Matt Gallaclier. for the clerks, pitched a fine game, allowing but live scattered hits. Holt did the pitching pitch-ing for Handy. The clerk will play the Rio Grande team at Poplar Grove Sunday Sun-day afternoon at I o'clock. Bays the MiseYiulsn: "Brick'1 Decer-esux, Decer-esux, besides haying a nicas of nW-k-namea. has between 140.000 and ffio.oOn under a loose atone in the fireplace. "Hat Box" Jnnea saya that Tvereeux plaved his flrwt ball tn the Noah's Ark league. .At that more than value received. re-ceived. , Joyce, at Missoula, has handed the pink slip to "Shine" Harmon, the former locsl Stale leaguer, and to. Outfielder CofTey. Both are said to have bean found wanting with the stick. Wonder tf the Helena fans are getting beck this week at MoTloskey for that remark re-mark about "grass growing In the atreeta of Helena f" ... Over tn Butte they have new kind of a fan. It la reported to be a fellow who usually watches the games through a knot hole Or "from the hill." ' Recently, when he heard of the McCloskey benefit, he Is ssld to hsve become- conscious the fans, were bark of me and I didn't want any one to start aomethlng for me. Now that you have I am going to ahow you how I appreciate It. 1 had rather you hadn't done, it though." . Yesterday afternoon the baseball fsns of Brlgham City were given a tresl In a f;ame between Brlgham and Weilsvllle. n which the visiting tcsm came out vie-tprlou vie-tprlou by a. acore of C to I. Harold Kllng, shortstop for the Byra-cuse Byra-cuse university, brother of Uie Chicago National's catcher, lias signed a contract with the Detroit Americans. This afternoon the Z. C. M. !. and the Granite r.umber company will play the initial game on the new ball grouqds in the motordrome at Wandamere. The grounds have been put Into first-class shape, the diamond being fast and true and one of the beat tn the state. The game will no doubt be a good one, aa the Granite Lumber company team is one of the best In the Commercial league, and will, no doubt, make the Z. C M- I.'s fsst team go their limit to come out with the long end of the score. The Utah Fuel nine retains Its lead at the top of the City Amateur league despite de-spite the efforts of the other teems to pull it down. Testerdsy on Wslker's field the fuel bovs heat the Western Rleetrlr tesm, k to 7. The score was tied st the beginning of the last half of the ninth. Park City defeated Heber yesterday at Park City before son people by a acore of 14 to 4. The game waa featured by the heavy hitting of the home club and the pltchmg of Singleton, who held Heber to nix measly hits. |