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Show II FINAL WEEK OF COASTBASEBALL II j Los Angeles in Lead With Pen-jl Pen-jl 11 nant Practically in Its Pos- H' session Rumor of Blank- enship in Salt Lake. HI San Francisco, Oct 23. As the fi- Ifi I ual week of play In the Pacific Coast mm baseball league swings into existence, m HI It finds Los Angeles winning along SB If in front with the pennant incontcst- Bfl 111 nhlv in its possession: Vernon llmp- Iffl 1)1 8 Ing on in second place fresh from a j lllf fearful drubbing at the hands of Oak- 11 land; San Francisco, Salt Lake and II I Portland making the fur fly in the II J race for third place, and the incon- 11 HI slstent Oaks delivering many a sting- 11 I ,nS blov? from their basement dugout 11 I """hich now is thoroughly consoli- 1 11 dated. II The principal feature of the week, Dllll despite Los Angeles clinching of the j j championship, was the continuation m by Allan Sothoron, of McGredle's 1 ft band, of his startling run of consecu- U J tlve victories. Fifteen games this for- 1 I mer Western leaguer has knocked over In a row up to date, just one H j shy of the league record, w IIJ One other record which bid fair to 11 go by the boards, but blow up during the week past, was Oakland's chance H j to exceed the 139 games loBt by Port- H ill land In 1904. By climbing over the mWj parapet of the cellar and taking six fff straight from the runners-up, how- II ill! ever, the Oaks must rest content HKI with basement honors, unattended by mm anv BI)eca distinction. Km Race Is Keen. Hcl The race for third place is an eye- fl!fi lash affair. At present the Seals and jij the Utes aro tied at .497, with the sjljj Beavers hotfooting along two points behind. Critics seem to favor the fir! II oys Irom Utah for the first division jjjjj berth, as they meet Oakland in the Ml! jl concluding series. Should the Oaks Ul 11 repeat last week's performance, how- ever, San Francisco probably will gel the consolation prize, as the dopest crs figure that the Beavers will prove easy for Wolverton's men at Recreation Recrea-tion park. A week ago it looked as though the championship might rest on the last game of this week's series between the two leaders in the southland. Now, however, what loomed up as the tightest kind of a finish will be a hollow hol-low affair. Neither team can holp nor harm its league standing. One bit of news from Salt Lake has created much discussion among the magnates. Word has come that Cliff Blankenship, erstwhile manager of the Utes, has been busy since his enforced resignation and has secured a controlling block of stock in the club. Rumor has it that he will endeavor en-deavor to stage a come-back next season and attempt to lead the Bees to victory in the position which he filled for two years. This rumor has been denied in Salf T.nVp hv Rlnnlr- enship. Jack Ryan Leads Hurlers. Jack Ryan, Los Angeles veteran, heads the hurlers for the 1916 season of the Pacific Coast Baseball league. With only seven more games to be played In the league, Ryan has a percentage per-centage of .737, having won twenty-eight twenty-eight of his games and lost ten. He was personally responsible for eighty-six eighty-six successes. Sothoron of Portland has won fifteen fif-teen games straight, and is a close second, his percentage being .667, with thirty games won and fifteen lost He let in 108 runs. Other standings follow: Roy Mitchell, Vernon, won 13, lost 8; percentage .619. Fittery, Salt Lake, won 28, lost 18; percentage .609. Martin, Oakland, won 17, lost 16; percentage .515. Baum, San Francisco, won 20, lost 19; percentage .513. The total number of games played is 582. Bill Kenworthy of Oakland hit the' ball so hard last week that he seems to have the Pacific Coast league batting bat-ting title all but slugged into helplessness help-lessness with a percentage of .316 out of 714 times at bat. Justin Fitzgerald, Fitzger-ald, for San Francisco, has a percentage percent-age of .319, but .he has been at bat only 395 times. "Ping" Bodie, another anoth-er San Francisco swatsman, looks like Kenworthy's runner-up, with a record of 745 times at bat and a percentage per-centage of 304. Another result of the week's stick work is the fact that Jacinto Calvo, also a Seal, banged his way Into the .300 class. I Billie Lane of Oakland is so far the greatest base stealer in the league, with fifty-eight to his credit, while Bunny Brief of Salt Lake has scored more times than any other player in the league, making exactly 138 successful circuits. |
