Show Superb Pitching Carries i Ball Club Along Road to Pennant I On paper pape the Hie Robins dont don't look so goo good But what is that to 10 your nelc Wilbert rt I The 01 old 1 boy is 5 57 and fat but his heart is young an and his digestion perfect Last spring the experts looked his athletes over and guessed ma maybe bc hed he'd 1 be a first first- division club but they never mentioned anything about a n pennant I Then hen it it seemed seem cd that any team playing in the same wheel x wi with illi h t the lu rapid fir fire firt 1 clicking of the World Champion Champion Cham Chani- pion piou Reds would be an also ran Yet the tho have turne out to b bo be th the cre cream m in the National r league ague crock th crock they rose rOlo to lo the top lop Mound Aces GOo Good pitching has turned the trick I for them The failure of ot the Cincinnati hurl hurl- I era to b bear r down hard enough at atI I times coupled 1 with some careless s ball bail pinning has haa helped Uncle Vil Vilbert bert Robinson to lo breeze along alone The Tho Robins have five pitchers that came through th the first holt halt of or the races raco with I erl averages cs above tho the 00 mark m With Ith Grimes Rube flub Mar Jolt Jeff and Al AI Mamaux as IS a nucleus they nt art are clocking games mes I Gr Grimes is the tIle real leader of the NaI Na Na- I len league hurlers with tin on n average better than Clarence Mitchell aver I tops him but bot has not been on the mound so 50 O often as aa his teammate I Then Sherrod Smith and Leon Cadore Cadore Ca- Ca dore can b be counted on to break ab ut even en when they go o on the hill bill Good Road Team Brooklyn hasn't a great t outfield ant and It has S a mediocre infield So SoI I there Is but one OM answer to Flat Flatbush bush pennant noise noise excellent excellent pitching and the Iho l ader of ot Uncle Wilbert The They are a a. Joo good road team which which- counts a a. lot In baseball On their last Irest western trip they spurted and copped sixteen out of two twenty two gu games gaines n e s. s Already Prex is planning th the distribution of or seats scats for the world series this fall He says he Is Js not conceding the th- tic flag to the Robins b by any means menns ct It believes they have ha a great great- ch chance nce and that It would be foolish not to to I look bole ahead R Rain l Check Idea plans to adopt the rain check Idea In disposing of the stats that are left after the usual allotments allotments allotments allot allot- ments arc are made The regulars will have e first call on the series aeries sales sales- that thai Is Is those who can t. shop by their rain checks that the they h he e been steady visitors tors field will seat seal peo peo- lIe PlC Brooklyn has just b begun began a home series of ot twenty two da days s and the they ought to pIa play the kind of at baseball that will bear bear- out President Ebbetts' Ebbetts hopes hOtes He accompanied the team on the last lut western tour lour His presence seemed to put the winning magic Irto their playing Watch Giants As yet ct the Reds neds have not taken the spurt of the Robins seriously and believe they will tame them CIncInnati Cincinnati Cin Cm- i Is giving ear ur JUt Just now to the warning from St. St Louis Chicago and ancl Pittsburg which t says sas Watch Vt out for the McGraw McGraws s pitchers ha have begun to come Conic through h. h The whole team is 18 getting back to fI righting form forni since I n nc c 1 II 4 V fT OB 1 4 0 i j t W C It r F w t s r r i d 4 S I G losing heart at the great favoritism allotted to the Yankees at home hume early enly this year car carThe The National league race raco has been beena a sort of or wran wrangle le b between In and ou tars I But if it Uncle Wilbert can continue to UJ nl h the tho necessary evidence will keep on all studying how lo to pl please the greatest num number er of or Flat by his rain check plan In a 11 world series erles |