Show BACKBONE OF THE PIRATES V 4 K X a HONUS WAGNER it is not difficult to trace the recent wonderful brace by the pittsburg champions to the founding rounding to of the veterans on the team wagner clarice clarke and leach are unquestionably the backbone of the combination and while those three stars were out of their stride the club continued in the rut they are going like mad now however and turning the laugh on the critics who declared in that they were all in it Is doubtful it if any I 1 one of the three e eier ever ver played better ball than at present and therein n la Is found the real secret of Pitts pittsburg burgs s spurt toward the to top P of the ladder the work of wagner in parti particular cula r Is the cause of no little enthusiasm the big fellow is stinging the ball again in the style that made him the batang wonder of the age in his best days he e la Is comfortably over the mark row now and is still climbing |