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Show AWFUL WITH FEDS; STAR IN NATIONAL By Tribune Special Sport Service. PHILADELPHIA, July 22. Some folks mlffht find - in the case of one Charles (Chief) Bender an argument to show that the Federal league of 1915 was somewhat speedier than the National circuit of the present time. Bender has worked In nine games to last year and his performance was something some-thing awful. He labored In twenty pames and the result was: Won, four; lost, sixteen; six-teen; average, .200. That tended to show that Bender, as a big leaguer, was very much through. And now In 1916 we find the aborigine heaving In tho National league and standing stand-ing most of t he opposing batsmen on their domes. Just a few clays ago he pitted his fin against the Giants, supposed to be the heaviest clouting organization In the game, and he beat them without any undue un-due exertion. The same curves and slow balls and speeders which the Fed mace artists batted hither and yon deceived the Giants to such an extent that they looked quite foolish In their efforts to hit. Bende rhas worked in nine games to date a.s a Phillie. He has won five of those contests. In two of the four he lost he had the toughest kind of luck. Furthermore, Bender, who yielded a,n average av-erage of 4.27 runs per game as a Federal leaguer, has allowed less than three runs in the National. |