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Show GOOD HERS MOST VALOABLE TO CLUB Experience Shows That Sluggers Alone Do Not Win Pennants. By Tribune Special Sport Service. Nr-:W YOHK. A up. 7. What dofs It avail n ball club if It possess the preat-est preat-est Wifsmen in tho land if Its pit chins staff is punls? The answer Is nothing. A pood pitch-Ini; pitch-Ini; siaff is far more essential to a ball club's quccess than Is a wrecking erow of batters. Husebull records of the past and present show the tYiith of that statement. The New York giants are pretty well down In the rit, ulthouelt they have three men sIurkipx over the :i00 mark and three others near it. Doyle Is mutnf around .."-.'. Merkle la clouting for .:!i:0 and Kob-ertson Kob-ertson b.vsis of a .310 average. No 'hih In la.sebaM paeks a urealer hutting puie-ii t han the Hiooklvn Ked-eraln. Ked-eraln. Mimee is hitting round .575 and Kautf Is near .;it!0. Three otbt-r Brookfcd refTuiars nre over the ,300 mark--vet the team is In the se.ond division, ' The Detroit outfield Is swattlnp the well-known hor?e skin for a combined nveraRo around .:a'.ii--n tremendous clip, yet the TlfrerH are third in the race. In the bygone days the Cleveland N'aps possessed the j;rrntest collect Inn of ulnR-kcis ulnR-kcis that ever battled under one Ftaudard - l-aioir. Hemls. !ay, Hickman. Hradlev, "N'b; I'lailie and a few more fen. o -bust -orr. rrncti.'allv eerv man In tlie oiitl'H was a .:tH'l hitter. Vet I'lcvelaud. durin;; 'hose da:i. nrci came mar to wlnnhu; p. n-Ki to . M1 the other land, tlie rbio o Whiir Son, hack In ltiH. had pi t eliei s --and no ,1'Htievs. et the So won H pennant and o world serh a In that year. In UM2. li't;; si.le of l.der Vt tWTVj, hnvon-t any ' ; 1(.r r.i Vitelline 170,1S',(, of m'r'?;, nssume.i tlie ',' V , PsilV"1 1 1, .I1 .11- i 11 1 '1 v r....l t.al.ol m v!,cal ' ; rovNor ends I oii . thev me. a trri- 10 P011.1.1" -iy i n ,u,.l look II s ef f oe.l I" the ' ; er in- calcic"' |