The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-23
This Weeks Series of Games
Will Indicate Proper Positions
of Union League Clubs.
BOISE is AFTER pENNANT
Missoula and Helena, Both With
Improved Teams, Will Contest
for Last Place.

With the series which opens today
Salt Lake will have played every other
team in the Union Baseball association
Thus far Salt Lake has outciasscd each
of the opposing teams. The series with
Boise will determine conclusiveiy Salt
Lakes right 10 The position at the top
of the percentage column.
With what Boise maintains is the
strongest pitching staff i'll the league
and with a good fielding club behind the
pitchers the Boise fans believe they are
entitled TO the pennant and will demon
strate that fact 10y defeating Salt Lake
and climbing To the top position
Two weeks ago Boise WAS contending
TO keep away from the last position.
1t recovered however. by taking the
series from Helena and the one from
Great Falls thereby securing third place
ia the league. The players appear TO he
ably keep Salt Lake worrying to stop the
winning streak Of the Irrigators;
Butt us Is threa,egng nd Sail Lakes ISs posl
with Boise MA may ' give Butte Suite the I top po-
sition, Butte has achieved the remark
allie feat of taking every game OF the
Butte meets Great Falls nj home. Great
Falls has a wonderful team and some
rare baseball will likely be seen by the
Butte fans this week II Butte Keeps
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team oct of first pace. Only two games
now separate Salt Lake and Butte from
first place.
Tail-enders Will Meet.
The two tail-cnders each with
la today, Helena after losing five out
of six games to Salt Lake will go to at
tack the Scrappers at Missoua. who
have lost thirteen straight games. Each
team VIII be stremgthened for the at
tack. Scrappy Bill joyce is going TO
break his losing streak il be has 10
get an entire new team. During the
ened his team, as was evidenced by the
close scores in some of the games which
were lost to Butte: More recruits are
from discouraged,
Helena has a stronger team than her
position at the foot of the. percentage
team showed considerable Improvement.
The batting. too, improved during the
series with Salt Lake; The principal
ns asa apfe5Ted f5T i9 sf IN The h5 h
Salt Lake by the addition of Cook and
Byrd With these two and Fox and
Ames Helena appears to have a fairly
position to start to climb.
Local fans are beginning TO worry as
TO what Salt Lake will do on the road.
leaves home. OF course. IL would be
folly to expect the team to duplicate
on the road the record 1t has made at
home. However, II may be expected that
the team will do well and take the ma
5orty of the games it plays
If Butte maintains its present posi-
ton in the percentage column. and the
indications are that it will. q great
struggle will he entered the first week
that Salt Lake leaves home Salt Lake
hnd Butte Will open at Butte on Decora
tion day and il Salt Lake wins this
series it will augur we'll for the success
Of the team on the road.
Salt Lake Road Prospects.
Salt Lake will likely suffer consider
nble by change of grounds. The ar
rangement OF the local park makes for
harder hitting and poorer fielding than
The grounds OF the other clubs on the
circuit. The short fence makes home
runs more frequent and probably pre-
vents many OF the long drives being
caught. Tie fielderS are so boxed In
by the stands and the fence that catch
Ing fouls is practically impossible. The
gravel on the diamond makes for looser
fielding, as the ball frequently fails 10
bound true and many reach first who
woulG be easily thrown out on a better
Held.
improvements which will be made
while the team is on the road will rem
sdy to a considerable extent these de-
!ects and better games will be seen when
The team returns from Its trip
Salt Lakes position at the top OF the
percentage column is largely due to ma rd
hitting and fast base running The team
Is well balanced in it's hitting depart
rent. as is evidenced by the fact that
there are four or FIVE who alternate from
week 10 week in leading the team in hit
ling. Just now Rabbit Cordtz the
brilliant little center fielder. is al the
cd atl, III.