| Show Four Salt Ex-Salt Lakers Spark Seals in Coast League Play 1 y 7 m m. m Larry Jansen top left Charlie Henson Ilenson top right D Don n Trower lower left and Ray Bay Perry lower right are all making good with the San Francisco Seals after taking their prep training with the Salt Lake Bees of the tho Pioneer Pioneer Pioneer Pio Pio- neer neer league Trower was In the league in 1939 Perry and Jansen Jansen Jansen Jan- Jan sen played on the 1940 championship champion champion- ship team and Henson Ilenson was the tiie leagues league's batting champion last season rt r y ACS 5 ry i 7 r rr r 9 Bee Alumni Alumn Spark Seals In n P PC C League ea ue Editors Editor's note Bryce Tan- Tan gren who labored on the sports staff of The Telegram last season sea sea- season season son is employed In defense work on the west coast However took time out the other day to dig up the following material ma ma- material material on four ex Salt ex-Salt Salt Lake baseball baseball baseball base base- ball players who vho are making good on the Pacific coast By BRYCE TANG REN SAN FRANCISCO Sept S It 3 It may be a whale of a jump from class C baseball to a prominent place on a double A loop club but the San Francisco Seals parent club of the Salt Lake Bees and currently the hottest club in the Pacific Coast league are being sparked in their present drive by bya a quartet of young players all of whom have worn Bee uniforms in inthe inthe inthe the past three years The four are Larry Jansen the Pioneer leagues league's leading hurler in 1940 Don Trower who did a lot lotof lotof lotof of shortstop ping for the Bees back in 1939 Ray Perry r regular third I baseman for the Bees' Bees 1940 pennant pennant pennant pen pen- penI I nant winning club and Charlie Henson who last year won the the Pioneer loop batting championship with a mark Trower has been the Seals' Seals regular regular regular regu regu- lar shortstop since early season but the regular berths for Perry and Henson didn't come so easily At the forepart of the season Perry was just another infielder and a third string one at that to the Seals but a flock of injuries hit the Seals giving Perry his big chance Since first being inserted in in the regular lineup June the stocky Perry has been a fixture fixture fixture fix fix- ture in the Seals' Seals infield first performing performing performing per per- forming at second then at third Henson after being recalled I from Tacoma in the Western International International International In In- I league in early June has spent most of the summer picking up splinters off the Seal bench once in a while getting a pinch hitting chore and faring none too well at this part time job The main reason for Henson's in inactivity inactivity inactivity in- in activity was that Frank Lefty ODoul Seal manager was sold soldon on Farris FarriS' Fain a sensational rookie for the first base job Fain has never approached his form of last year but ODoul kept him in the lineup hoping for a change that never arrived When a slight injury put Fain out of the lineup last week Henson wasted no time His booming bat accounted for three of the Seals' Seals four wins over Seattle and his fielding while not spectacular was more than passing From his showing last week Henson is going going going go go- ing to be hard to remove from the Seal lineup Jansen whose sensational pitching pitch pitching ing for the Seals last year won him the title of the boy wonder Continued on Following Page Fag i q r rn n f oy y r I I f A Ar r Y r 9 y dJ cW y t Goff Shoots 31 Am Arm Goff clipped par for a a. 31 Wednesday at Bonneville shooting shooting shooting shoot shoot- ing five birdies and never staying staying staying stay stay- ing above regulation figures on the par 36 course according to Haydon Newton t firs 4 i ir irr r rr Four our Ex-Bees Ex Star for S. 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F Continued From Preceding Page has as been plagued by tough luck all season eason A foot infection in spring training raining put him off to a bad start and nd then in June still troubled with a bad foot and a general rundown rundown run- run down own condition attributed to a mumps attack last winter long lean ean Larry was felled by an atack attack attack at- at tack ack of pneumonia which put him himon himon on n the shelf for over six weeks Returning to regular duty only in n the last two weeks Jansen has won two of his three starts one a hit five shutout over the pennant bound Los Angeles club The Seals had counted heavily on Janen Jansen Jansen Jan- Jan sen en this year and his absence from the he hill during most of the campaign campaign cam- cam aign is one of the prime reasons why the Seals arent aren't higher than fifth place in the P C L standings Larrys Larry's record for the season shows hows eight wins and ten losses with six of the victories coming at t the expense of the champion Seattle club Jansens Jansen's return has helped the Seals considerably in their heir belated drive for a first division division divi- divi sion spot Mickey l Mouse l Shines Trower whose rather anemic batting average belies his value to the Seals has been a sensation in the field all year Time after time he has helped unsteady unsteady unsteady un un- un- un steady Seal pitchers out of tight holes loles with plays that border on the he impossible An example of this type of fielding which is just in a aday's aday's aday's days day's work to Trower was shown in n a recent game with Seattle With a man on second base one out and the Seals in a very tight spot Mickey Mouse as he has been dubbed by Seal fans went far farto farto farto to his right to nab a grounder labeled base hit He trapped the runner on second who tried to go goto goto goto to third finally nailing him about 10 feet from second base then with a headlong dive tagged the batter trying for second on the play The dive covered at least 15 feet but plays like that to Trower are common Trower in his position as leadoff leadoff leadoff lead- lead off man for the Seals has proved valuable Hie He has chalked up l base hits several for extra bases and is near the top in both the walk and sacrifice hit table In addition he is near the top in stolen bases with 12 I Absolutely Faultless Perry whose spark and fight Inthe in inthe the field has injected a new spirit into the Seals is one of the mos most popular players in the loop Every city in the circuit has a special specia nickname for the rotund Perry Perry- and the names go all the way from to Absolutely Perrys Perry's average at the plate is which is better than average for the Pacific Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- Coast loop Strictly a power hitter Perry has been robbed o of many a hit that in smaller parl parks s would be home run blows Jusa Just Jus Justa a little more distance on his blows and Perry will become a home run king The square built Perry has slugged a round tripper in every park in the loop the only player playe in the P C L to do so this year a athis at this date If the Seals land in the coas coast playoffs and they are only two tw and a half games from the gold gold- paying spot the four ex-Bees ex Henson Henson Henson Hen Hen- son Jansen Perry and Trower will deserve a world of credit fo foit for forIt forit it has been this quartet that has ha shouldered the load in the Seals Seals' desperate drive for a first division spot |
