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Show I CLOSE GAME ENDS I IN TIGERS' FAVOR H Clinton Prough Tumbles From H Pedestal and Oaks Lose H to Vernonites. H M San, Francisco, April 21. With H j three straight victories to his credit and not a blemish on his season's record, Clinton Prough tumbled from tho pedestal today. Given a three-run three-run lead that under ordinary circumstances circum-stances would have been quite sufficient. suffi-cient. Prough was a victim of a battering bat-tering by Vernon hits In the sixth that evened the score. He wilted away on a couple of singles and a disastrous dis-astrous wild pitch in the seventh which gave the winning tally to the opposition. Close All the Way. Vernon took the honors, 4 to 3, and even to the close the Tigers' trenches trench-es were threatened. In the seventh, with the score 3 all, Prough practically tossed away his own prospects. Mitze rapped one at the mound artist that chromed to one side. Mitchell was fanned and Doane grounded to first to send his catcher to second. A high wild pitch escorted escort-ed Honus to third and from that vantage van-tage point he trotted in when Glelsch-mann Glelsch-mann poled his third hit of the day, a single into right The score: Vernon Runs 000 003 1004 Hits 000 114 2019 Oakland Runs 000 210 0003 Hits Ill 211 0018 PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE. Won. Lost. Pet Los Angeles 11 5 .688 Oakland 10 7 .588 Vernon 9 9 .500 Portland 7 9 .438 San Francisco 7 11. .389 Salt Lake 5 8 .385 Standing of the Series. Salt Lake 1, Portland 1. Los Angeles 3, San Francisco 1. Oakland 2, Vernon 2. Today's Games. Salt Lake at Portland Vernou at Oakland. San Francisco at Los Angeles |