The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-04

The season at home Tor the Salt Lake
team OF the Union association reopens
this afternoon with a double header at
Cooley Park In which Great Falls will op-
pose Salt Lake. The first game opens at
80, and the indications are that before
the play begins the grand STANDS and
bleachers at the park will be filled to
overlooking with Salt Lake baseball fans
eager TO welcome the team hack home.
Every indication points to the fastest
double header of tho season this after
noon. The teams VIII play on grounds so
much improved over those on which they
played before the team went away that
the teams will scarcely recognize them,
Both the infeld and the outfeld have been
scraped and filled in, All of the stones
and pebbles have been removed The
recent rain packed the dirt and the dia-
mond is now considered one of the fast
est on the circuit.
Only Point Apart.
hind Salt Lake. and winning the double,
header will put Great Falls ahead OF Salt
Lake and close TO Butte for first place,
During the past week there were three
salt Lake opened the week In first place
and then dropped to second, Great Falls
taking the lead Great Falls lost pair
10 Missoua and Salt Lake went back in
Butte won, Butte going to first place.
Salt Lake dropping 10 second and Great
Falls 10 third. Buttt is still at the front:
but Salt Lake and Great Falls are close
behind.
For Salt Lake two new pitchers will
work today. They are CARRIER and Clat-
lin CARRIER was seen in action In Salt
Lake the first week OF the season. pitch
Ing for Missoula. lTc was the first pitcher
to administer defeat to Salt Lake, Gar
ber was acquired by Salt Lake not long
ago in a deal whereby CARRIER came TO
salt Lake and Jachs went to Great Falls.
He has been doing great work for the
Saints. his most notable. performance be-
Ing his recent tcn-inning victory over
Boise to l. BlankenshiD regards Gar
Der as one OF the very best pitchers In
the league and expects him to take his
game this afternoon. CARRIER will prob
ably pitch the first game;
Clanin Is former Northwestern league
pitcher. He Joined the Salt Lake club at
Boise, Clafln has a world of speed and
wonderful curves, but his control Is not
good He is not yet In condition and
has been suffering from sore arm. How
ever, in his workouts at Boise he showed
rapid Improvement and Manager Blank-
enshlp thinks he. is duo. Blankenship
says that when he gets in condition Claf-
lin will likely prove the greatest pitcher
in the league.
Fortier and Perkins Will Work.
Perkins. Salt Lakes clever little back
stop, who has been out OF the game for
week on account of injuries. has fully
recovered and VIII he behind the bat in
game billy" Fortier. the former State
league catcher. will work.
Salt Lake, He is pounding the bali out
OF The lot at every opportunity and lis de-
cidedly aggressive on the bases. He also
has lot Of ginger and and keeps H up the
appears TO be in throwing TO second. For
tier has good arm but apparently hasn't
yet got to throwing, right; With a little
practice Fortier will probably get back
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be dangerous TO make any attempt 10
steal on him. Fortier has been hitting so
we'll that Blankenship has put him up
enship believes that Fortier will be lead
ing The league in hitting at the end OF
the season.
CARDS as the best in the league will be In
the box for the contenders today. Hide
brandt, the hitless wonder, will probably
work in the. first game and Iron Man
Salt Lake several times and the Sky
scrapers are eager for revenge. II tho
pitchers for Salt Lake hold up against
these phenoms the locals believe they
can pound out a pair of victories. Gar,
Der has beaten Great Falls couple OF
times for Salt Lake and is due to re-
peat Schimpff will be today's reserve
pitcher and In case the curves OF Nor
gan or CHafiin arc too much 10 the lik-
ing of the Electrlcs Schimpff will go
to the rescue.
SRyScTapcTS ana tIle I<leCLTiSs Eot
to town yesterday afternoon at o'clock
on the same train. The local team is
lust recovering from the effects OF a
long and somewhat disastrous trip. The
long trip away from home was rather
hard on some OF the youngsters and some
are on the crippled list However. they
have already begun to recuperate and
with 5000 fans behind them In today S
double header they Will be expected to
go some.
The members OF the team with the ex-
ception of the pitchers all showed i'm
provement on the trip. The batting fell
by Improved pitchers who were given
much better support than when the
teams met In Salt Lake. The fielding has