Show 8 RT RN I IH H HOME M f FOA R A 3 WK STAYS STAY STA S Presence on Home Lot May Start Them on I Right Track An Official I cial cia Ruling Is Awai Awaited ed edI I TIE Bees Bees will be back among T THE i friends again tomorrow I when they open a three weeks' weeks stay at home with ith an Oakland series at Bonneville park All indications are that the I boys bos are aie sadly in in need of a little home influence for the three weeks ou enemy soil which closed yesterday in in a disastrous defeat at Sacramento was rapidly rapidly rap rap- l idly raising Ned with Walter Valter McCredie's ball club The stay at Sacramento was T apparently apparently appa appa- not a pleasant one No one expected expected expected ex ex- ex- ex that it would be but even the theS S most pessimistic did lid not anticipate I such a thorough beating as the Salt Lake pang gang received there last week Bill Rodgers and his raw meat eaters caters were cocked and primed for Salt Lake and evening up tip matters for or the live five toone to toone toone one beating recently received here furnished furnished furnished fur fur- more downright satisfaction to ROdgers and Sacramento than winning a pennant ennant I From rom the looks of oC things at this distance it would appear that the Solons simply got McCredie's s men on the run and kept them there The three weeks at home is bound to bring about a change in club spirit and there is every e reason to believe that the team will again fatten up before beCore it hits the road June 18 IS Although McCredie's McCredie s men men suffered a thorough walloping at Sacramento their three weeks' weeks road trip was not without Its successes The club failed Called to break even even by but a single game The boys won nine and lost eleven They took lour Jour out of seven from the Seals and four out oC of seven from the Tigers They ran into a asnag asnag asnag snag at Sacramento and grabbed but one of six six RULING AWAITED Until a ruling is made at Washington I that baseball is or is not an essential sport Americas America's great national pastime will be forced to remain on the anxious I seat S If the ruling is unfavorable it is highly likely that organized baseball will suspend operations until after the war Under the ruling that men within the draft age must find some essential occupation occupation occupation pation or shoulder a rifle many persons believe belleve that baseball is doomed Every club owner and president in baseball Is willing to make the great sacrifice sacrifice sacrifice sac sac- to win the war Most 1 of them be believe believe be- be lieve however that It is not the intention Intention Intention tion of the government to interfere with the game Since the start of the war President Wilson has been strongly in favor of sports No established business has been directly hit by by the government and millions millions millions mil mil- lions of dollars doll rs have been put in the national national national na na- na- na pastime Ban Johnson president of the American league who was so loud In his denunciation denunciation denunciation of players quitting the game to work in shipyards and thereby be put In Ina Ina Ina a deferred class so they could not go to towar towar war says he is Ia ready to have his league suspend operations to help the government govern govern- ment nent lIe He is against the big industrial plants that go In for baseball on the side Ninety per cent of ot the players In th the major leagues are affected by the new ruling and the percentage will be almost as large in the Coast circuit Baseball magnates today stated that they did not intend to worry over the proposition and will continue to play ball until a special ruling Is made on a baseball baseball base base- ball case Then they will know what to do |