OCR Text |
Show MURPHY TO AVOID THE QUICK SLIDE When the baseball star drops ho falls with a thud The same goes for tho championship club, and it looks as If C. W Murphy Is trying to escape the quick slide of the Chicago Cubs in bis wholesale cleanup. Whenever the name Chicago Cubs is mentioned mention-ed it brings back the wonderful feats of this club for many years. Of the old guard who started all the pennant fireworks in 190G and set a record of 11 G victories the following have left the fold. Chance, Tinker, Stelnfeidt, Brown, Lundgren. Overall, Pflester, Hofman, Kllng and Single, with Sheckard on the way This leaves only Evers. Schulte and Reul-bach, Reul-bach, three of the fourteen regulars. Not only were the Chicago Cubs the championship club, remarkable ball players mechanically, but their brainy and tricky plays aided them materially material-ly But the stars of yesterday are gone It took years to bring the Red Sox back to a championship, as well as Pittsburg and other clubs |