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Show I SEALS PLAY THE 1 SALT LAKE TEAM Doubleheader Will Be Played Saturday Ball Players I Honor Happy Hogan. Salt Lake. May 10 Rain interfered j with the opening game of the Snn J Francisco-Salt Lake series yesterday. and as a result a double-header will I he played Saturday The San Fran j Cisco Seals, headed by President Hen ri Berry and Manager Harry Wolvor-ton, Wolvor-ton, arrived yesterday morning and are at the Hotel Utah. The Seals ar--' I now occupying position No 1 in the j percentage column, with Salt Lake in third place, but a few points away. ' and as a result the battles this week promise to be anything but tame. i Henry Berry is one of the original I boosters for Salt Lake, and is cominc here with the club to see what the I town he stood behind is doing in base ball. He has bad a flock of bad luck this year After separating himself . j from some hundreds of thousands of t dollars for the San Francisco lran- ; chise he has been having the very ji worst kind of weather, and appear? ( to have brought it along with him. J However, the weather man declares that the storm is over ana that there II is every indication of lair weather I ; from now on. P According to instructions from I President Baum. the game stopped here for five minutes today, in respect re-spect to Happy Hogan. At the call ; of the umpires the game and players .! in their position at the time stood ' with uncovered heads in memory and respect of the most picturesque base-I base-I ball figure the diamonds of the west ever have known, or probably ever will know j It i8 difficult for members of the j baseball fraternity who have known J and associated with Happy to realize I that the big-hearted, care-free, genial fellow, who was faorlic in the west, I is dead. The fans of Salt Lake saw Hogan in four games and in that time I he endeared himself to the baseball public here. telegraphed Walter McCredie, president presi-dent of the Portland team, today, ask ing the right to purchase his own re lease and stay In the east, staling that he had an offer from a major I leacue team. McCredie granted ' Rodgers' request |