Show LOOKS LIKE LIRE BATTLE OF BATS WHEN PIRATES AND MEET And it looks like Detroit VS va Pittsburg with Cobb and Wagner in the Battle of the Bats The meeting of these two would furnish after all aU the one big sensation of the year the clash between the two past vast masters In the School of Slug the clash between the Ter Terror Terror Terror and Honus the Horror In the test teat duel that would settle for the time at least the great supremacy of the tha bat Cobb obb and Wagner Vagner the two greatest exponents today of the art of caressing care the ball upon the trade mark have nev never never never er met upon the battlefield Year Ye r after year they have he topped the rest of the field Held in their respective leagues but the supremacy has lias been divided And Anti now unless the dope elope wanders astray and gets get badly through another month these UH e two athletes will draw the chance to fight light it out at last laM in the same arena And if it both are on edge edg with I their sights properly adjusted the meet m t lug ins 10 will be a Battle of the Bats to a a finish Pit still stilt has eight games gaines left with the Cubs C wherein Chances people have a hope of overcoming the tiie lend lead But the old dope dOIe d nt bend bt nd In lii that direction Barring a Messina jolt or a Monterey flood the Pirates have their end PUll of or the argument sewed up in an asbestos sack ack Detroit yet lia liaa has hasa a rough eastern estem tour to face but the Tigers have all aU the edge over Philadel Philadelphia Philadelphia phia or Boston and it tent likely they the will be headed he ded You know baseball b however Anything is 18 likely that looks unlikely in ht this game and theres no clamping down any an certain finish until the figures are all In and added up But Buton Buton Buton on the form sheet sh t Detroit wins and Cobb and Wagner r at last Jast take their bludgeons to the same tent for a walloping jam boree bore to a finish The Sampson of the National league and the Goliath of or the American face to face should be bl a sight worth watching above aboc the conflict of a worlds series The dope will be an weri with figures and facts as to the theone theone theone one entitled to leadership in the Clan of And the winner for the time being at least will have Dr Cook the human polar bear with the Wrights and Curtiss backed off the viaduct for the wallop that brings in the winning run is nearer n home bome than either the pole or the atmosphere above A meeting of the Pittsburg and De Do Detroit Detroit troit teams would be still further inter interesting Interesting esting in deciding the issue between two worlds series failures Both have had their crack at the big title and both have tumbled on the job burg had her chance against Boston in 1904 1004 and after winning three of the first four games played came back home and let Jet Jim Collins team romp all aU over spine spineto to a w finish Detroit has had two wallops at the I title and about all the Tigers ever got out of or th the meeting each year was a swift kick on the ankle They were jokes on each occasion completely outclassed sed by the Cub machine mahln Against Pittsburgh PIttsburg however how er Jennings men would stand a far better show for her star batsman hatsman would not oot b be called upon to face fal pitch ing of the type hpe when hen these worthies were at the top of their stride The Pirates have no to compare with either of the star Cubs as they were in 1907 and 1908 1909 As an example when Cobb came to bat against the Cubs last fall he was forced to face a brand of pitching that no eye In the world could gauge nor any bat hit consistently Pittsburg with a good grood steady ste d slab corps corpa has no ph no tIe the box to whiff the batter round after round Neither has Detroit So here the fight would be more of an even one oni and the series therefore consid considerably considerably considerably more interesting than through th tho two back years ears when the only ques tion was as to whether Detroit could score or by what fancy odds the Cub machine would gallop home to the prize |