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Show SUPERB PITCHING CARRIES MEDIOCRE BALI CLUB ALONG ROAD TO PENNANTV1L1E BY DEW SNYDER, On paper the Robins don't look so good. P.ui what Is that to youi Uncle Wilbert? Tho old boy Is 5 7 nnd fat but his heart is young and his digestion perfect per-fect . lyjist spring the experts looked his I'lhleic.M over and gui-ssed maybe he'd be a first division club, but they never I mentioned anything about a Platbush , pennn.nl . I Then It seemed that any team playing play-ing in the same wheel with the rapid-fire rapid-fire clicking of tin- World Champion Reds Would be an also-iun Vol the Superbas have turned out to bo the cream In the National league crock they rose to th- (op. HOUND ACES. I Good pitching has turned the trick for them. I The failure of the Cincinnati hurl-ieir hurl-ieir to 'bear down' hard, enough at times, coupled with some careless ball I playing, has helped iiuie Wilbert Robinson to breeze along. The Koblns have five pitchers thai came through the first half of th-race th-race with averages above the 500 I mark. With Burleigh Grimes. Rube Mar-, Iqnard. Jeff Pf offer nnd Al Mamaux jas a nucleus they are clocking games. .Grimes Is the real lender of the Na-j (tional league hurleis with an average Letter than .700. Clarence Mitchell (tops him, but lias not been on tho I mound so often as his team-mate. Then Sherrod Smith and Leon Ca-dorc Ca-dorc can be counted on to break about even when they go on thP hill . m id ROAD I I .M. Brooklyn hasn't a great outfield and it lias a mediocre Infield. So there lis but one answer to Flatbuah pennant ! noise excellent pitching and the lead-jershlp lead-jershlp of L'nclo Wllb- rt. They are a good road team, which , counts a lot in baseball. m their laSI j w estern trip they spurted and copped 1 1 ; out of j j garni - Already Prcxy Ebbetts la planning trf distribution of seats for tho world I' S this fall. , He says he is not conceding the flag ,to the Koblns by any means, yet believes be-lieves lh y have a great chance and that it would bo foolish not to look ! ahead. RAIN-CHECK IDEA. Ebbetts platu to adopt the raln-Check raln-Check Idea In disposing of the seats that are. left after the u-,:ial allotments jure made. The regulars will have first call on the series sales that Is, those who ran show by their rain checks that they have been steadv Isitors. Kbbcits Field will scat 2 T.t'u p, o-! o-! Pie I Brooklyn has Just begun a home series of 22 days and thev ought to .play the kind of baseball that win bear oil! President Kl, belts' hopes, lb accompanied the team on the b,st '' . - J ' 1 y J fIp- G&.AIELS tAA1LJ I western tour. His presence seemed to I put the winning magic nr.o their play-llng play-llng ITCH GIANTS." At yet the Reds have not taken the spurt of the Robins seriously and be-lleve be-lleve they will tame them. Clneln-nati Clneln-nati Is giving ear Just nowjLo the wnrn- I ing freuii St. Louis, Chicago and Pitts-bnrr. Pitts-bnrr. which saye 'Watch out for the j itiiints." McGrnw's pitchers have begun lo 1 one through Th'- whole team Is get I ting hack to fighting form since lo.i-Ing lo.i-Ing heart at the great favoritism al-lotted al-lotted to the Yankees at home early this year. The National league rice has been a sort of wrangle between In-and-out-ers. But If Untie Wilbert can continue to furnish the necessary evidence, Bb-betts Bb-betts will keej) on Btudylng how to please the greates number of Flat-1 ..ushers by his lain-cnVck plan In the, - , irld series 1 |