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Show SHEELY LEADS I WITH WAR CLUB .Salt Lake First Sacker Hitting Better Than .400 in Coast League SALiT LAKE CITY, June 29. Earl Sheely, tho big blonde who holds down the initial sack for the Bees, is out In front in batting in the Pacific ooast lcaguo again this week, the tall one having an average of .103 per cent. Flvo Bees are hitting well abovo the .300 mark and all arc sapping the horsehlde on the nose. Shackcr Mag-gcrt Mag-gcrt is second In the percentage column col-umn with an average of .365, while Manager Johnson Is third in the league standing with .357. Bill Ttumler, the league's champion sticker, has boosted his average and is now hitting .325. Marty Krug is hitting well over .300. Bill Pertlca is still the loading flinger in tho league with Stroud and Cullop of the Bees second and third. Jack Bromley and Hollls Thurston, two more Bees, are well to the foro in the percentage column. After Johnson. During the past week three major' league clubs have been after Skipper Ernie Johnson. First" the New York Giants sent out the S. O. S. A fow days later the Washington Americana kept the wires hot for the Bee leader and only Sunday the Brooklyn Dodgers Dodg-ers wired the Salt Lake club asking for a price on Johnson. With all due credit to Ernie, because be-cause he is one of the sweetest ball plnyers in the league, but one of these fair days the big league stars are going go-ing to ask for prices 'on Eddie Mulligan, Mulli-gan, the star shortfielder and third sacker of the Bees, who Is playing wonderful ball. He has the brains, tho class, the batting ability and Is a fielder of the Sisler type. Eddie is surely going great guns with tho locals. The Bees hav6 a tough road ahead ! of them this week. They open a seven-game series with the Seals at San Francisco today and from all Indications In-dications the series will be nip and tuck. The Seals dropped six of seven games played last week to they Vernon Ver-non aggregation and arc expected to come back strong this week. Next week the Bees play with Los Angeles and the following week return to their home grounds. At this writing the Tigers are leading lead-ing the Boss by a mere fraction of a point in the league standing. The Tigers have been going great guns of late and are looked on as the toughest tough-est gang in the circuit to defeat. Other games this week are as follows: I Oakland at Portland; Vernon at Seattle, Sacramento at L.os Angeles. |