The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 4, 1925, Page 5

SATURDAY, JULY sBabe Ruth Isn’t Read TRACK AND FIELD ATHLETES COMPETE IN FRISCO | & They’re After Ralph Rose’s 16-Year-Old Record ) Shi auer Star of 1-0 Game; Scores Tally Ruth Coming Back, After Being Counted Out by Volunteer Mourners OUNTED out of the gamo by volunteer mourners less than | & week ago, Babe Ruth shook his tot- tering frame into a couple of gallops in the fourth inning of the game between the Yanks and Ath- . letics Friday after- noon to score the only run of the contest. He became the instrument by which the -Ath letics were shut out, 1 to 0, a re- sult which meant no great advan- | tage to the Yanks, but a very rious inconvenience to Connie Mack's ball team. The Athletics already stood one full game behind the Washington Senators, and this defeat, coinciding with the Senators’ 11 to 0 conquest of the Red Sox, expanded the mar win of two full games, Inasmuch &s it took the Senators several woeks to overcome a two-game ad- vantage when the Athletics were | Yeading, the Athletics may now re #ign themselves to a hard task of coming along from behind. HOW RUTH DID IT Ruth plerced. the Athletic infield} with a single in the third, and clattered to second when Meusel | singled behind him. A moment later | Lew Gehring singled and the Babe | made a tremendous dash past third] nd slid into the plate just ahead| of the ball with the victory Stanley Coveleskiec, one of Bucky Harris’ pitching string, scored the Bhut-out over the Red Sox. He &ave only; four hits. Bob Shawkey pt the Yanks held the Athletics to ive hits. The White Sox beat the indians, § to 5, in Cleveland. The ‘Tigers beat the Browns, § to 4, in St. Louis PIRATES HOLD LEAD The Pirates, leaders of the Na tional league, were the third team fo suffer a shutout Friday. The Reds, with Pete Donahue pitching, Stopped them, § to 0. Pete gave! four strokes. If the Giants had ‘Won they would have gone back {nto the lead, but the Dodgers beat them, 6 to 3, in Brooklyn, so the Pirates are still a few points in front. Rogers Hornsby’s Cardinals continue their climb. They won) from the Cubs, 10 to 6. ce Phillies beat the Braves, 10 to 6./ Two pitchers went the full dis-| tance in the majors Friday. | McDonald Wins Playfield Net ‘Title in Class Y¥ DEFEATING Howard Wels- senborn, Percy McDonald won | the playfield tennis title of the| Class B entrants, at the Woodland park courts. McDonald dropped the first set, but came back strong | to win the next two. Billy Newkirk and Vinnie Galvin | had little trouble winning their | qoubles match from R. DeOca and} Hi. Patzer in straight sets. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS | MEN'S SINGLES | Class A Matches j Semi-Final Hound | ‘Mel Dranga beat Frank Kozlowski, de-) fault. { Class B Matches Final Round J. Percy McDonald eat Howard Wels- ewkirk and Vinnie Galvin va. C. Heckner and G, Johnson, Bob Hesketh and Mol’ Dranga vs. Dr. and H. Finestiver. Howard Welssendorn and J. Percy Mc- Donald vs. winner of B. and J, Cur- Geoge. ett and J. Simpson mateh. WINDS HINDER BOAT gente. vi ‘TORIA, B. C,, July 4.—Boats that were here for the annual Pacific coast regatta left here last night and this morning for Roche Harbor and Rosaria, in American svaters, after one of the best yacht yacing seasons held here for some | ‘time. | Strong winds, that capped the wa- fers of Esquimalt bay with white und tore the salling gear from sev- eral of the boats, swept up the in- jot here and hindered the races. Sev- eral yachts were foreed to abandon the races because of the strength of the wind, Fritz Hellenthall'’s Gwendolyn II. finished first in the race of schoon- ers and yawls over 30 feet. The Imp, sailed by Henry Sanders, was nosed out by Ian MecKenzie’s Ono- a, of Vancouver, SATURDAY A, M. GAMES First game— R. H. E. Boston R207 44 Philadelphia . ry | fale | i Batteries—Ryan, Genewilch, Tt. fmith and O'Neill; Carlson, Couch tnd Wilson, First game R. H. Cincinnati 6 a Pittsburg ..., cau terlene Blemiller, Margrave, Krueger; y r First. game nh H New York , seene 27 Brooklyn ; Batteriea—Dean, Huntzinger, W Hubbell and Tas jin a letter ner and Snyder; ere * * * A —— Illinois Ring Game Legalized QPRING ELD, UL, July 4 legal Semipro League Is Idle Sunday Sem!-pro league teams are idle Sunday and no regular gumes are scheduled. The Georgetow Mer- chants were to play an exhibition game this afternoon at the Polo Grounds for the benefit of Jimmy McCullough, who was Injured in a game recently. Their opponents will be the U. S. 8. Arizona, a strong navy team. Sunday the Merchants will play the same squad at the Pola Grounds. A full schedule will be resumed next Sunday. ‘Navy Natators Enter Tourney) Coach Ortland, of States Naval academy, to Merman A. local representative of the A. A. U., the announced that Art Rule, Pete Wyckoff, and| if such » sterling quartet as Hart. | Halle Allan will be entered, in the National A. A. U. swimming meet which will be held here July 29 to August 1. The Navy swimmers will | be entered under the Naval acad-| emy’s colors. Morgan Due Soon Tod Morgan, the logical opponent for Snell, will be in Seattle in about six weeks. He has a couple of matches in line {n California and will then héad North for a while. Morgan has done very well over the 10-round route this time South, it being his first experience at the| longer game. He mont and McLean and fought round draw with McLean, A 10+ LOCAL SOCCER TEAM TO PLAY) VANCOUVER, B. C,, July 4.—The Maple Post of the American Legion | of Seattle, had a soccer team today for an exhibition game with | the Vancouver team, representing British Columbia, The Seattle squad will be representing Washington. United | Bartels, | beat Geno Del-| * HILLS Weight Record Due for Drop as Star BY ART CARLSON T= weight ng giants! Or fy re those athletic , Hartrantt of Lillis, ‘arse of Wisconsin. Four” when {t the comes to put A ey do luxe. wouldn't be a bit surpris- a if one of these chaps hangs up a new record in the pill heave ere long. For when the three H's—Hartranft, Houser and Hills plus Wisconsin's | youthful star, Schwarze, begin blasting away, the late Ralph Rdso’s mark of SI feet is in Jeopardy. It was back in 1909 that the giant Californian and former Michi- gan athlete tossed the 16-pound pellet those 51 feet for a new rec ord, It was a marvelous perform ance. So much so, in fact, that despite the never-ending assatlt, it |has withstood the test of time these [16 seasons Quartet of Class Down thru the years the athletic of shot-putters, But it is doubtful Houser, Hills and Schwarze ever tossed Into the ring in the! era. Each of these huskies is fairly | consistent, close to 50 feet. | Hartranft has reached that fig- ure. And ts still going strong, still far from any outward indi- cations that he has hit his premier effort, The other three are right behind, ranft sami against the field. ‘They have been | Dan Salt and Lonnie Austin, who the next boxing date in Se jattle, July 14, signed Snell for that date and are now up against it for an opponent for him. They had figured upon Stewart Me- | Lean meeting Snell that night, but he bobbed up with a broken finger. And so they're secking Dynamito | Murphy now. Word ts expected to- | day on the prospective match Mur- phy, one of the hardest hitters at |the featherweight limit, fought a terrific draw with Snell at the Crys- tal Pool last winter. | have have "Doe Cagerann, Roos Arp 6 Cunears Tony Lazerre is having @ great week with the willow, The Salt Lake short- stop busted @ triple and a double yester- day ‘The Indians are becoming very pro- ficient In t fatter of making double plays, the backbone of defensive base- pall,, A brace was io Wriday In the pinches and they turned In three the day before. quite a stab at Brick Kldred made in the rightfield Oncar Vitt's high fy corner, bounded by the stands and the fence, aticking up hin glove to pull down to tip enont Of courne Brick the #k with all of thowe Indies hia ho Laverre hod » tough time yesterday, Ha lont one fly in the mun and fell dows whil g after Brady's dinky grounder that bounded over Htroud's head in the olehth and rolled two rune coming in on the erlpplé to the outfield Brady made n beautiful slide to tin the seventh, waiting on a double behind Peters who had the ball for him, Vrank O'Dout bit @ home run on hie present the plate in the first trip to t been doing series and he hi the diah nines, Howard Lindimore is » pretty spry bird around second base, Ile brought down a couple of files yesterday that would have made Eddlo Collins green with envy. Larerre's triple ‘yesterday was one of the longest balls ever hit Inside of the Jocal field, It Innded within a few feet houth of the scoreboard, fast running by Lane holding it to threa*bases. Fritz Coumbe Is another one of thone ox-pitchers playing regularly because of jhia hitting ablilty, Tho Beo firet wacker atung three on the none yeaterday, gat- Ung two doubles and a s#ingle, ne, the genial prexy of the Salt haw iamued bide for a dinner «boys Sunday nigh Bill Lake for the pri Ralph Stroud In doing the Hoon after several years of independ 1, Ho lead tho league five years ov no ago in 1 rune whit It Lake, 1 sounds fishy, but 1s lithe truth, Ite wan some hurler then, turn that trek Larerre, who seme to be breaking Into |print more than any of the rent of the Jathlotes, Has to Ket one more notice be fore this column ts completed, Ie atolo third yenterday, Awiping the baw cleanly, which {# unurual in thane days of rather ba wobbly running. ng the 16-pound shot, | assemblage has turned out a galaxy} ‘The four stand out Ike stihouttes | to} Herfol orm wares in displaying thelr thrte Houser, vari Schwarze past wea Hartr three in ons nft the and Hills ran 1924 Olympics 1 the Big d remained intact ne-twe Schwarze r that t smash n mark since 1904 Chance Looms Now The present record is one of the oldest on the athletic books. Any performance that can stand up jagainst tho ceaseless cannonading for 16 campaigns and escape a knock-over, surely is out of the or- dinary. Eapecially in these days of heavy bombardment and creating of | new feats annually | When Rose pushed the leaden ball out & perhaps never be excelled. For tn days even 45 feet wan con sidered a g00d enough effort to win in virtually any competition, | But the shot-putting gang kept up its relentless attack until nowadays it usually takes a 48-foot tons to insure an athlete of victory | Yet that’s somo distance away from the existing record. Rose was so far ahead of his competition that it has taken all these years to even approach his supreme performance, let alone better it. Today, however, there finally ap- pears a chance to send the long- standing record into oblivion. And | from present indications tt will be) Houser, Hills or Schwarze | Hartranft, | who will do the shattering—If any | shattering 1s done. At le all are real threats, And each is bent on accomplishing the feat cre he drops out of the picture. Keep your optics on these four welght-heaving giants—the Gollaths lof the shot-putting ovent! Hospital Show EW YORK, July 4—Humbert Fugasy, producer of the Greb- Walker and other fights at the Polo Grounds, looked up from his ledgers Friday evening to Announce that the Itallan hospital fund, in whose name the bouts were arranged, prob- ably would realize $75,000 on tho undertaking. i Tho gross receipts were $339,040, paying spectators, Harry Wills and Harry Greb each received 15 por cent, or $50,856; Charlie Weinert got 10 per cent of the first $250,000, or $25,000; Jimmy Slattery was paid 6 per cent of the first $250,000, or $12,500; Walker's share was 10 per cent, or $38,904; Dave Shade drew $5,000 flat, and Joo Lynch and Jack Sharkey each | received $1,500 guaranteed, accord- ing to Fugasy's report of the pay- roll. This version differed from’ state- ments which came from his office a few days before tho fight in which {t was sald that Wills was guaranteed $75,000, Walker $40,000, Slattery $5,000 and Lynch and Sharkey $2,000 each. SNELL FIGHTS DRAW BATTLE BUTTE, Mont, July 4-—Doe Snell, |acoma, and Tommy fyan, of Pennsylvania, battled 13 spectacular |rounds to a draw last night. Snell | put Ryan down for a count of eight in the second, but the Hast- orn veteran came back and outboxed him. | Trojan Mentor Is | | Howard Jones, now coach of the | University of Southern California, is | conducting a coaching school at the Colorado State ‘Téeachers' colloge, at Greeley. Jones i recognized as one of the beat athletic teachers In the Went fi has | Brings Retums| he sald, contributed by about 40,000) Teaching School | * Senators and Pirates Hold Magic Berths {Teams Leading Majors | July 4 Invariably Win Big League Pennants By HENRY I BW YORK, July 4.—W ington’s champion Senators and Pittsburgh's raging Pirates will fur nish the amusement In the next world series if there is anything be hind one of baseball's oldest legendas. ARKELL The team that are in first place on July 4, it Is believed by all ball players, are the teams that will finish in that position, and the Senators jand Pirates are | in the lead, ho Pirates aro only a half fame ahead of the New York Giants in the National League and the Se are two FARRELL ahead of the Philad tics but they are in the les a day | that is supposed to hold magic. } Considering that it bas not | 80 long since the Pirates were tin sympath: for being In such lowly company in the National League basement, a most surprising change has been brought about. ‘The speed with which it was brought |about is the surprise, ax everyone knows that the Priates were no sec ond division team Tho secret of Pittaburs {s not hard to find, Good pitching # success and tremendous hitting—there nine m 1 the team hitting ter than .200, and the pitchers are just rounding 4 ning form, Washington looks like a sure re peater on any day in the month. The Athletics are promising but they were depending na great Tailors Ready for Golf Meet Seattle's merchant tallors are all net to lay aside the needle and thread | and go a-golfing. Here is the draw for thelr |links tournament: Leman (18) vs. | Rothenberg (24); Galvin (30) vs. Byo; Goldfarb (24) vs, Pierce (30); Kane (28) va. McGregor (16); H, G- Stono (20)} i FE, C. Alt (80); Bowling vs. Dunn (24); Booth (22) vs.O'Ne!! (30); \c. Stone 51 feet the critics opined it would | DY ALEX DSS Don Moore says that his score in the Northwest amateur cham- pionship would have been much better if he had not been Iaid four perfect stymies. Charlie Burnett saved the Tacoma moet. He arrived the “Away up in chorus. the mountains” | One of the most popular places during the tournament was Joe Gable's cottage on the lakeshore, Everything was so good and cool. The price of McGregor goods Is ex- pectod to take a jump on the local market, Manager Archio Stuart ts a week-old daddy. It's a boy. Casey Jones, of the Will King com pany, cannot play a lick less than 160, but that doesn’t keep him from dressing like a golfer. Simon Burnett got hia first look at the golf game when he wisited Glendale last Tuesday. “Doem't he get another chancef” quoth Simon after a player had dubbed a shot. ‘This happened In Canada, Caddie: Here's your ball, sir, In the cup! ing the lie): niblick! Well, gimme my The BaMard ment is now in ks” full swing at Olymple course, and George Abrams golf tourna. the honors. How do Georgo told u: won the medalist we know all th OR sheer stuff on the ball there arent many pitchers in this league who have much on John Mil- Jus, When the big fellow has control the Indian ace is one of the tough- ent pitchers to beat, He ta v fast and has a good change of* pace to go with it. If Miljus would ® slow up ones in a while he might make his speed moro effective even than it is at | present, alttio it’s plonty good as it is when he has control When the Sorbian Salt Lake ° MILJIUS blanked | other day ho had nd didn't try to fool Just busted the ball big the apeed to apn anybody, but shing: | annual) in time to join} Playor (staggering up and inspect. | -hic- | Yankees Give Gate to Witt YORK, July 4,—Whitey New + daly AW ed unconditionally by was the Ne York, Yank Walter Beale, former International league pitcher, way released un- der option to the St Association clut Paul Amer ican Lacoste Wins at Wimbledon IMBLEDON, Eng., July 4,—Rene Lacoste, young French tennis star, became the British singles champion here today when he defeated his teammate, the defending champion, in a | four-set match at 6-8, 6-3, 4-6 and 8-6, Baron de Morphurgo and Miss Elizabeth Ryan, former California star, won their match in the semi-finals round of the mixed doubles today by defeating Pat Wheatley and Mrs, Lambert Chambers, Brit- ish pair, at 9-7 and 6-4, The | Winners will meet the French} s, Jean Borotra and Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen in the final round on Monday. Jean Borotra, | Roy Casey and John Hennessy of America meet Borotra and Lacoste of ‘rance for the men's doubl cham, pionship Monday, These ouths vanquished the Itlo-Hungar two French jan entrant, Baron De and r 119 16.1, in the other semi-final and more the F the opponents, wore ally exhaustion and third set A Lacoste Seattle Tennis Squad in North for Tournament ANCOUVER, B. C., July 4.— Members of the Seattle Tennis | club who are to take part in the| team play match with the Vancouver | | Lawn Tennis association arrived here Saturday morning. The play was to start this after- hoon on the courts of the local club | land the matches would be finished | by Sunday. Six singles and ee ' 4Goubles are on the program, OKS-SLICES on Seattle {airways C.ROSE 7% || Emily Sumner, the women's 192 | didn’t | | | x} “chairman of {| state meet, | | know she was anybody out of the ordinary at Tacoma | last week until the colored waiter | said, “Ain't you all tho golf ed- | {tor of this ere P. N. G. ral || meet?” After that remark this | Everett miss didn't mind spend- \| I} ing $4 for taxi fare to the Ta- coma course. | % \ Nobody knew that Carl Reiter | had a boss until last Tuesday, | Carl didn’t attend tho opening of the Glendale because—his boss was in town. | It was pathetic to watch these fel- }lows doing their prima donna stuff on tho greens and amusing to see them miss their putts, | If taking from five to 15 minutes to make a putt makes | a player a top-notcher, Tacoma certainly produced an army of them last week. DON’T REMEMBER WHETHER HE SAID IT WAS A BOY OR A GIRL, BUT BOB LITTLER OF F CK & NELSON IS P. THE RS AROUN WE This is the busy season for Seat tle’s tailors. They are playing for the Woolen Men's trophy. If Theo Leman wins it they'll have to put up another prize next year, as this young man has copped it twice. Threo times means “for keeps.” past them, working on tho theory of you can’t hit what you can't see, George Boehler has generally been credited with being tho fastest righthander in the league, along with Charley Root, but neither of them showed any more speed in Seattle this year than Miljus did Thursday. | Lane Disappointed ILL, LANE, owner of the Salt Lake club, is disappointed in the lack of patronage at the Seattle games, altho the crowds have been better this week than they have for wome tigio here, a city of Seattle's size and} with « fighting team in third place | I can't understand why the fans | }don't support the club better,’ says} | Lane. “With a elty of 100,000 peo. | | plo we drew 117,000 fans in Salt Lake |Iast year, more than our population, | while Seattle didn't have anywhere nour that record tn percentage, and the Indians won the pennant,” y for Has-Been Class Yet | WWendtor A. A. U. Events on Program for Saturday. ~ 100-Yard Dash and Wei Some of Finest Competi mous Stars Entered in Saturday Schedule ISAN FRANCISCO, July 4, be crowned here Saturda national A. A, stadium, when States compete. the greatest ond day of.th competition w Hartranft lywood, try to discu, Sensational the 100-yard vy Scholz, of Ney HAKTRANFFT negro broad-jt Alfred Leconey, Meadowbroo York; Chester Bowman, Athletic club. . The hurdle races will bring who take in S. F. Meet oe records broken in the Junjor National A. A, U. meet, which was held at & Francisco Friday, were as lows nches. Former r hes, made in 19 w—Hoffman, Olym ‘ Distance, 146 feet, 7% hes. Former record, 136 feet 114 inches Pole vault—H. Smith, Los goles A. C. Height, 12 fee throw—He: Bonura, 1 Distance, ar 192 feet, aus colle; 6% Inches, \Hollywood 4 C. Wines in Junior A. A. U. Events ESEAR MEMORIAL STADI- UM, San Francisco, July 4.— The Hollywood Athletic club was a decisive winner in Junior Na tional A. A. U. track and field championships here Friday after- noon, securing 5§ points in competi- tion with athletes from all parts of the country. The Los Angeles A. C. was second, with 48 points, nocing out the Olympic club of San Francisco in the main event. The Olympic club finished with 47 poin: after leading the L. A. A. C, until the closing race. New national records were made in eight events. There is a possi- billty that the new tra the javelin record will not be recog- nized officially, because of a heavy west wind which aided the per- formances. Other Scorers Other point winners in the meet were the California Institute of U, track and field me In almost e competitors so even, ners is almost impossible. offer the West's best chances to take a cham- pionship in the Olympic Newark, and C. n at Chicago, running as an Olympic; Snyder and | Marks Broken ght Events to Bring Out ition of Season; Many Fa- of champions will enior events of the t at Kesear Memorial stars in the United Champions y in the athletics event Saturday, the sec- 1e national championships, the ill be so keen, the records of that selection of win- and Hoffman, Olympic club, shot put. Bud Houser, Hol- games winner, will again Hartranft’s measure in the performances are ‘expected in dash. In it will be Jackson v York; De Hart Hubbard, the imping champion from Detroit; k club; Frank Hussey, New ril Coaffee, Illinois together Leistner, of Stanford, | Guthrie, of Ohio; Dye, of Hol- lywood; Maxwell, of Los An- geles, and Brookins, of Iowa. Allan Helffrich, conqueror of Nur- mi, will be in the half, together with other speedy New York stars, and Buker and Dodge, of Ilinois. The New York Athletic club has the largest number of stars entered in today’s events and apparently has the best chance to take the meet y from the Illinois Athletic club, and a light rain Saturday | threatened to slow up the ) track, but the weather prediction was / and cool weather later in for c the da athalon will be / third and last of amplonships CELIA BEATS HOPPE WOOD, Cal., July 4.—Tom- my i n Francisco lightweight, | won all the y in a 10-round bout pa Dick Hoppe here last night. cs a Technology at Pasadena, 11; Kan- State Teachers’ College, 5; En” se Country Club, 5; Boston 4; Humboldt A. C., 4; New Cc. 3, and Ohio State unt The last event, the pole vault, saw the most spirited competi- tion of the day. Harry Smith of the Los Angeles A. ©. cleared the bar at 12 feet, 1144 inches, breaking the record of 12 feet, 714 inches, made by Re H. Emmons in 1921. | 2 Smith, also of the L. A. A. Gy was second, giving his team points | €nough to pass the Olympic club im the race for second place in club | scores. Other Record Events Other events in which records were broken were the 120-yard high hurdles, 220-yard dash, 20-yard low hurdles, 16-pound shot, hop skip pene. jump, javelin throw and discus throw. (GENE TUNNEY WINS BY K. 0. I SAS CITY, Kans. July 4.— Gene Tunney knocked out Italian Jack Herman in the second round of a scheduled 10-round bout here last night. A left to the heart and a clip on the chin put Herman out for the count, Harry Galfund, Brooklyn, sent Bud Nelson, Chicago, to the canvas for the count in the elghth round of the welterweights’ fracas. Joc | Rivers and Charley Dodge, bantam- | weights, went the full 10 rounds in the chrkals raiser. Bercot to. Leave Pode Bercot is going to California again very shortly to take another fling at the 10-round shots down that way. Bercot is one of the big- gest cards in Los Angeles and can make more money there than he can in the Northwest, and he’s not boxing for exercise, |Landsdowne to : Provide Horse. . . : 3 Racing in B.C. V NCOUVER, B. C, July 4— Saturday marked the last day | of the four-day stand of horse rac- ing at Brighouse park, and the track was to close until the middle of — July. Vancouver racing will be pro- vided by Landsdowne park, starting | July 8 and lasting three da‘ ae ‘VILLA RULES) AS FAVORITE. OAKLAND, July 4—In Oakland's first open-air show since California. |Yogaiized boxing, Pancho Villa, world's flywelght champion, meets: Jimmy MecLarnin, Pacific coast 122 pounder. Villa was ruling a two to one favorite over the young Van- couver bo | \ | ‘Around the Bags: Gossip of Diamond} Devine Praises Cochrane (6A BOUT once in 10 years, a young ball player like Mickey Cochrane is developed,’ says Joe Devine, the Pittsburg scout, who Is a Seattle visitor, “The first time IT saw him was in the Portland training camp in 1924 and I tried to buy him for Pittsburg then because ho showed wonderful possibilities, being young, fast, intel Mgont and a hustler and ho looked good at tho plate, 1 think he is the beat young catcher to be developed in the past decade in the big show.” Leslie Ready Soon OY LESLIE, the big first sacker of the Bees, will be ready to play regularly again soon, Ho crashed into the Salt Lake dugout several weeks ago while go. ing after a foul fly and broke an arm when he fell on the concrete floor, Leslie is not a flashy ball player, but he does everything well. In the meantime Fritz Coumbe is doing a pretty fair job of first base playing for the tourists, Oakland Pitchers Wobbly UST a year ago Oakland had the best pitching staff in the league, if not in the minors, ‘Today the great staff is pretty well — shot and the Oaks are skidding to the basement fast. The Acorns feel the loss of Walter | Mails, with his ability to win, George {Poster has turned scout, having lost |his ability to fool the hitters all of a sudden, | George Bochler has heen worked to death and is the truck horse of |the league, Hub Pruett has looked 77 good at times, but Harl Kunz and Harry Krause haye been having their troubles, Oakland, Sacramento and Vernon are hopelessly out of the Coast race,