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Show I t UTES AND OAKS i CLASH TODAY Jl Salt Lake, Aug. 8. After stopping I , two series on the road, one to Lob jj Angeles and one to San Francisco, Cliff Blankenship'a Utes return home today for a series with the rejuvenated rejuven-ated Oakland club. Today's game between the two furthermost fur-thermost from the top clubs will be the debut of the Oaks under the leadership lead-ership of Del Howard, former San Francisco player, and under the presidency presi-dency of J. Cal Ewing, once the czar of baseball In the west. Blackenshlp faces no easy task In the coming battles with the Oaks, as the visitors are beginning to find themselves and are playing a much better brand of ball since the retirement retire-ment of Rowdy Elliott as manager. The Oaks gave an ample demonstration demonstra-tion of their improvement when they drew with the Beavers last week. Chance Increases Lead. Frank Chance's feat In pulling his club away from Vernon, his closest rival, with five victories out of seven starts in the week, has put him far to the front In the dash for the pennant, and practically assured him of winning win-ning tho gonfalon' for his city. Simmering the situation down to what appears to be the Inevitable outcome out-come of the 1916 race, the Angels have as good as cinched the flag. Unless Un-less unexpected upsets occur, the six-clubs six-clubs will finish the season in practically prac-tically the same positions as they now are. Chance has a well-rounded club, fair on batting, tip-top in fielding, and, best of all, the best combination of baseball brains in the circuit. The players all use their heads, field well and get their clouts in the pinches. On the bases tho Seraphs are the terrors of every catcher In the league. No other club figures to beat them out of the pennant. Vernon for Second. Ham Patterson should be able to hold second place for the balance of the season, and San Francisco dopes out as a good third. Patterson is not the manager to win a pennant, although al-though he gets plenty of fight into his club some ffans aver too much for the good or the league. Portland cannot hope to do higher than fourth place this year and Walter "Rave" McCredie Is apparently satisfied satis-fied with that sort of a finish. |
