Show I I i I L o Colorless and limp will be le the finish of the American league pennant race regardless of which club leads home Y Voices of the thousands of baseball fans wild and joyous yesterday are arc now pitched in low lows hushed whispers The psychological effect of the fatal accident to Ray Chapman Cleveland's star shortstop at the thc New York Polo grounds has suddenly dampened their th ardor and taken the heart out of the tile hottest pennant fight in history Accidents often happen in baseball as in any other sport but before has a league player been killed from direct I Injury injury received on the playing field Cleveland under tinder the leadership of great Tris Speaker has I been setting the pace all year With one of the strongest cogs of its powerful machine removed the thc clubs club's pennant clubs pennant hopes have been dealt a crushing blow Whether the tile Indians will rally from the depressing effects of Chapmans Chapman's death and continue in championship form or slip back and ami simply play out the string during the remaining fag end of the tho sc season son is a question to be answered within the next few weeks It was a n Yankee f fan fi n who said Ie It It wont won't S SIt mean anything if the Yanks do win now Such is the heart of a baseball fan always loving victor victory against equal odds but caring little to vanquish a rival that has been so pathetically handicapped in the thick oi of a great rent fi fight ht I |