Show S Blankenship Havi TIGERS AND BEES OPENING SERIES TODAY r Locals Will Have Chance to Win Their First 1916 Series From MILTON AMILTON PATTERSON PATTERSON PATTERSON PAT PAT- TERSON and his HAMILTON Vernon Tigers the toughest opposition opposition opposition op op- op- op position the Bees Beest t have been compelled compelled compelled com com- comI I to face so far this season arrived in the city i this this forenoon for fora forja a series of six I scheduled games and one postponed postponed post post- post post-I paned contest The first game is is I being played this afternoon with I Chester Hoff Blankenship's new southpaw making his first local I I appearance on the mound for I ISalt I Salt Lake Salt Lake has been unable to win a series from the this season The Bees managed I Ito to tie one the first played at Vernon but four to two and four to three was the best they could do against the in the theother theother theother other two meetings Vernon has won eleven games to Salt Lakes Lake's eight so far Last season the Bees found Vernon pretty soft picking in fact the Tigers managed to defeat Salt Lake in but butone butone butone one series the locals winning four and ancl finishing even on games won and lost lostIn lostin lostin in another Last year Salt Lake won two twenty-two to Vernons Vernon's seventeen games Since Salt Lakes Lake's advent into the Pacific Coast league it has defeated Vernon thirty games and lost twenty twenty- eight Patterson has with him hm his entire ball club including the two farmhands farm farmhands rm hands Mitchell and Mitze The former former for for- mer Is about due to face the Bees on the mound this afternoon The Vernon skipper has Just about the same club which faced fated Salt Lake Lakein in the previous series except that Tub Spencer has been replaced by Honus Mitze The latter is well known here h e however as he visited us many times last season The Bees are in far better shape than when Vernon took them for four out of six games on the previous trip here of ot the Ham pats The fact that Salt Lake held Vernon to a three to four series in Los Angeles not so long ago should indicate that the Tigers will have to battle to take the series serles this week |