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Show .1 i PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE. 'I V i Won Lost Vet nj I Lob Angeles 77 t0 .5C2 mm I San Francisco 75 60 .556 Tjilj j Vernon G7 G7 .500 j i Oakland '....64 74 .461 1 1 Portland ., 59 69 .461 'UJ j j Salt Lake .i . . CO -72 455 fl j ' SALT LAKE-PORTLAND. iVn Tie Salt Lake team will open its '! I twenty-second week in the Pacific '! Coast league today at Portland, where dfl a seven-game series will be played. .M j Salt Lake and Portland are the two lowest of the cellar teams, and only M ; one game separates them in the M standing of clubs. By winning the M't) edge on the series, Salt Lake can .);; j lift itself from last position, substituting: substitut-ing: ing Portland for Itself. Manager I M Blankenship has strengthened his ; I team with Jimmy Breton, Chicago m American league third baseman, but My :; I Breton wjll probably not arrive in 1 j' ' time to enter the Portland series. I : With last place clutching the strug- ! gling Salt Lake team, and with last K .i , place close to Portland, these two ;! teamB will open a seven-game series -: in Portland starting this afternoon. I'j i The series will be the fifth between mri r the two teams, Portland winning ij ioree of the four already played. II 'I I . In total number of games played I S i Detween the two. Portland leads In I j victories by a wide margin, winning , : . seventeen games, while the loea If, team has only taken eight. Portland ;' ?s won more Bames from Salt Lake WW. than any other ttfam In the league. m ' , J.hq la8t Be"es was by far the most V.j ' dinastrous for Salt Lake, Portland Mi j taking seven out of. eight. 'Since ' I ! .?, Salt LaUe haa strengthened m Quintan and Brief havo"been added to il. th? team and also jQck KillilQv, who 1 won his game last week against San I Francisco. Portland has not changed the personnel of its team since the serlesbut may be able to use Davis again on shortstop the latter part of the wjjek. Until then Hammond will play the position. McArdle has been released. |