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Show WANER AND HARRIS ADD HARD PUNCH Have Been Big Guns of the Pirate Attack for Weeks. There may be more and bigger headlines about the brace of Yankee belters, Buster Gehrig and Babe Ruth, or the clouting combination of the Athletics, Ty Cobb and Al Simmons, Sim-mons, but no Pittsburgh fan would consent to take either pair just now for the two Buccaneer bombers, Paul Waner, the bridegroom, and Joe (Moon) Harris. Waner, a youth of twenty-four, but already a star of the first magnitude, and Harris, the battle-scarred veteran of thirty-five, have been the big guns of the Pirate attack for weeks. Their consistent and timely w-alloping has been as vital a factor as any in the club's ability to keep its pace around the top, where bad "breaks" such as the temporary loss of Kremer and the injury to Cuyler threatened to be disastrous. dis-astrous. Paul Waner has replaced Glenn Wright as the team's foremost exponent ex-ponent of the timely art of driving in runs. Harris has been zooming along the top of the league's batting ever since Manager Donie Bush shifted his lineup and put the Moon on first base, a move that netted immediate results and snapped the Pirates out of their earlier slump. Harris and Dutch Ruether, both cast off by Washington last season, have become vital factors in two pennant pen-nant races. Reuthcr has been twirling twirl-ing brilliantly for the American league champions, the Yankees, now well out in front in a dash for a second sec-ond straight title. If present prospects are fulfilled Dutch may be tossing 'em up for his old teammate, Moon, when the world's series rolls around in October. |