The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-09-20

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Salt Lake Plays Last Game Away From
Home Today

Salt Lake plays its last game away
from home this season at Seattle to-
day and tonight they viii leave for
home 10 play two weeks with Butte
and close the season. The team has
done fairy well away from home. hav-
ing won six and lost ten games, which
rs better work than they did on their
last trip. When they arrive home they
ought to at least break even with the
champion Butte team, that is, win six
out of the twelve scheduled games to
be played Butte is sure pennant
winner, as its lead is now too great
for any of the other teams to over
come, yet it will be some consolation
to the local fans if the salt Lake team.
which started out under such unfavOr-
able circumstances, can hold the cham
pions down in the last series of games.
IL is not positively known whether Salt
Lake viii have any new men when the
team arrives here or not. However.
the fans viii see Hewlett, Rabbit and
Weaver-three men signed while the
team has been on the road The first
game will not be played before We'd
nesday, as the team viii not arrive
from Seattle until Tuesday evening.
Both Hewlett and Rabbit are famil-
lar faces to the local. fans. Hewlett
played third base for Helena while
that team was in this city and Bah
bitt played shortstop for Seattle when
DugdaIe's cIam-diggers were here.
Carrish caught for Pittsburg in the
game they won against Brooklyn yes
terday and Pfeister pitched in the
game they lost. Joe Marshall was
also heard from, having made a three
Dagger Three of the nine men on the
champions lineup were former Pacific
National league players. Guess maybe
some Of the players seen on the local
diamond this season cannot go some.
Beginning Oct. /, the Pittsburg Ma
tional league and the Boston Ameri-
can league teams viii play a series of
games for the championship of the
country. These two teams are the
winners in the National and American
leagues this season and the contest is
looked forward to by the fans of the
country as one of the greatest series
of baseball games in the history OF
the sport. As several of the former
players in the Pacific National league
are now members Of the Pittsburg team
IN all probability they viii take part
in some Of these games.
Pittsburg team and Hans Wagner the
other day:
when I see a team go out under a
handicap as Pittsburg did in the
spring and practically run away. I am
compelled to take off my hat to the
club owners. Pittsburg has made a
fight the like Of which has been sell
dom seen. The American got some of
her best talent but she simply closed
TWn III a
be done. 1 honor Barney Dreyfuss for
winning the pennant with what the
American league left him. Heidi not
yell or seek for new talent He an
nounced that he would show the enc
my what could be done with what
had been left him, and he has done
so.
But could he have done it without
Hans Wagner? L don't think so. The
more / have seen of that mans play
the less 1 think of my own expert
ence among ball pIaye=s. When with
Detroit I thought L was among the
hardest bitters the world could pro
duce. / have had what seemed the
height of perfection among my field
ing men at Baltimore and BROOKLYN.
l won the pennant several times in
Baltimore and in Brooklyn. but 7 am
here to say that the greatest ball play
sI WHO ever HVed IS the shOrtstop of /
the Pittsburg team today
New that President Sexton Suddenly
has run the curtain down on Western /
league baseball, the laureIs Of the wear.
In the form of the pennant. easily fell ]
IT the door of Hughey Dumy's Brew 7
ers from Milwaukee. Colorado Springs. /
by losing two games to Peoria. went 4
below the 500 mark. The WfIIies were /
N the lead from time to time but /
nave fallen away within the past few
weeks.
FeoIla' by winning two games. /
moved up a notch, leaving De11e7 -,
sixth place.
Manager Dugdale Of the Seattle team !
.vldentIy believes in signing a good I
pitcher when he gets a chance. me
is just made that he has
'oooled up Stricklett, one of the star