Show THREE NATIONAL LEAGUE TEAMS IN GREAT CHEAT RATTLE BATTLE FO fOR 1926 PENNANT r Cardinals Are Favored to Outlast Outcast Reds and Pirates Crucial Series Comes Next Week When Pirates Meet Cardinals at St. St Louis By HENRY L L. L FARRELL United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK Aug 25 Approach 25 Approaching ing the home stretch In the National league race with a blanket covering the leading St. St Louis and Cincinnati clubs the clockers are on the rail waiting for one or more of the clubs club to crack Experience doesn't count any too much as the Pirates have only a y year ar on the Reds and the Cardinals Cardinl The winner will be the team that can stand the gatt gaff aff Many wl wise e baseball m men n. n IncludIng including ing lag John McGraw have been watchIng watching watchIng watch watch- ing for fOl Roge s Hornsby's club to fold up under th the strain but the Cards ha have e been playing better ball bail day by day with splendid pitching inspired fielding and savage hitting The Cards Ire are In the midst of ofa a a. spurt that gave ga them sixteen out of ot eighteen games gams s and the predicted collapsed of ot th the team looks far ar re re- re moved Jack Hendricks and hi hii hb Reds seem seemed d to be out of or the running after the disastrous Eastern Invasion invasion inva lava sion but ut the team tam went back home and ran up a string of nine straight coming from b behind hind to win most of ot their gam games 3 The Pirates survived Internal dissension dissension dis die sension that resulted in the fining of se several ral stars and the firing of Eddie Moore Max Carey Babe Adama Adams Adams Ad Ad- ams ama and Carson Bigbee but they are still hanging on The break brak may come next week when the Pirates go to St. St Louis to open one of the most important series seMes of the year and the advantage advantage advantage tage ought to be with Hornsby's club r rs as s the they will be in familiar surroundings with St. St Louis Y yelping for or its first National l league ague pennant pen pen-j nant Betting and anft general opinion h favors the Cards to outlast the Pirates and the Reds because the club has mo more around all-around str strength than he the Reds and bett better r morale than the Pirates |