Show IS GREAT SHORTSTOP TROUBLE MAKER A 00 aw awl 4 1 1 I X HANS WAGNER recently there came out of pitts birg a startling story that three members of the pirates had been in a battle a la jeffries Jeff rles johnson accord ing to the story hans wagner and miller second baseman had jumped on to jack flynn guardian of the in mal sack and both got a licking from the former st paul captain was it everybody denied it B birney arney dreyfuss Diey fuss owner of the pirates used the uglier and shorter word in denying it fred clarke man ager declared there N gasn wasn aan t a word n ord of truth h to the story wagner growled out a denial miller said he never heard of it few fans are willing to place wagner in the role of a trouble maker f y then came flynn I 1 didn dian t lick em of course not he said I 1 had nothing to lick em for I 1 couldn coulden t lick em ent if I 1 tried were we re roommates room mates and friends and there has been no reason for me to punch their faces as report ed it if I 1 wanted to or could now so much for the denials there s an old saying that there al ways Is fire where there Is smoke there certainly was some smoke Is suing from the pittsburg camp some thing was wrong with the team it t been playing the ball it figured to play pretty nearly all of the other teams had been soaking the champions on the jaw they got another man to play first in flynn s place but he didn dian t last long then wagner was shifted from short to first tommy leach came in from the field and took wagner s place campbell center fielder and wilson right fielder changed positions the lineup worked well the first day and the pirates won pittsburg s team Is never beaten un til the last man Is out and as the sea son isn t halt half over clarke s men can not be counted out of the running un less the story of internal strife has more truth to it than seems to be the case rt if the players are fighting among themselves it Is a serious prop position for it has been shown that there Is little chance tor for any baseball club to do the proper work when there Is dissension in the ranks |