Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-08-29 | Page 4 | Pirates Only Team up to Par

I PIRATES PIRATES' U ONLY N l Y TEAM UP TU PAR i- i Athletics tl Slip B Back ok i in American l Loop Race CHICAGO Aug 29 AP AP With With the only pennant aspirant whose rhose recent play has been of ot championship championship cham cham- caliber speculation as to what the remaining five live weeks o of the he season will bring forth is concerned concerned concerned con con- chiefly with the degree and duration duration of ot the partial eclipse into which Washington Philadelphia and the he New YorK Giants seemed to have lave passed Deadlocked in a protracted ted struggle struggle gle which has ap apparently undermined undermined under under- mined the Athletics the lc strength t and the o of Senators e both clubs give I promise of ot continuing their battle I until the close of ot the season until the dhe winner may be determined Inthe in the Ithe he final game on October 4 at Washington There Is no recent parallel parallel par par- aliel ot of the dhe lockstep grapple these clubs have staged For days at a time negligible margins of supremacy supremacy supremacy acy have been maintained by one or th the other only to be broken brokenfor brokenfor brokenfor for a day day- while the clubs' clubs positions were reversed Despite undeniably mediocre playing play- play irig ing ng by both the Mack and Harris teams earns in the lard lar two we ks the league eague has shown little disposition to furnish a Lochinvar from the West Even Chicago with better pitching pitching- than It had early in the season has been able to cut their distance from the front only from eleven to nine games The weeks week's averages reflect the weakening in the attack on both clubs Philadelphia losing five points from their team batting figUre figure figure fig fig- ure while Washington dropped two The falling ot off In hitting power has in both cases been co coincident coincident coincident co- co incident with an alarming slump by their mainstay pitcher After pummeling the Giants in their recent series the Pirates have continued to move serenely toward their first pennant since 1909 Superb Superb Superb Su Su- Su- Su pitching by veteran hurlers has been backed by timely though not hitting The playing of Johnny has stood out and he appears to have been discarded discarded dis carded by the Giants into a champl cham cham- pl The Tile Giants have 27 games to play In order to tie Pittsburg 20 would have to be victories if It the Pirates Pirates' won half halt of their remaining 34 games