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Show Walter Johnson isn't the pinch hitter hit-ter he once was. Harper is having a rough time trying try-ing to win a game. New York Giants are the hardest hitters? hit-ters? in the National league thus far. Eastern critics think Dave Robertson Robert-son will be an immense help to the Cubs. Bill Rariden shows a lot more pep with the Reds than he ever did as a Giant. Grover Cleveland Alexander of the Cubs seems to be back In his best form again. Pitcher Rummage is said to be going good for the Spartanburg team of the South Atlavtic league. Hal Chase is ascending to the top of the National league batting averages aver-ages with leaps and bounds. John McGraw should worry about the minors, so long as the Cardinals don't break off relations with him. Patsy Flaherty's resignation as mnn-ager mnn-ager of the Louisville Colonels was said to be due to newspaper eritieisia. Dick Rudolph has pitched 31 games against the Giants during his major league career. He has won 14 and lost 17. Moran has Mngee, Cneto and Litz-man Litz-man on his roster and yet is compelled I to keep Bressler, a pitcher, In the out-i out-i field. Charley Risberg surprised a lot of persons by going to first base for crippled crip-pled Chick Gandll and playing a swell fielding game. John Ganzel thinks that even with his team falling off in its hitting it will get by now-that he has strengthened his pitching staff. ,Tlm Thorpe, who used to hit only fouls when he wore a Giants' uniform, has a regular job now with the Braver and is batting at a .375 gait. "Lena" Blackbume, who was recently re-cently traded to the Phillies by the Braves, is playing a bang-up game at third for Gavvy Cravath's nine. Eddie Hemingway, who broke a leg right after joining Omaha, has ahout recovered and will he able to play again regularly in a slmrt while. Tex Weslerzil, taken on by Portland in an emergency, has developed into one of the most valuable men on the team. Ilis hitting has been particularly particu-larly effective. Deal crosses over in front of Hol-locher Hol-locher for short Infielil grounders too far In for Ilollocher to reach, much as Zimmerman does before Fletcher for the Giants. Odd thing about Walter Johnson's pitching against the lowly Athletics Is that tin1 big Swede has won most of his games from that club this year by the tidy little score of 1 to 0. |