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Show CUB PITCHERS DO GREAT TWIRLING Chicago, July 22. Pitchers of the Chicago Cub baseball team aro doing somo extraordinary twirling at tho present stage of the Natlona leaguo race. Little room for Improvement could be found In the work they have been delivering the last month. Their hurling has held the club In second place slnco Pittsburg dropped to third position, and there will bo no chance to shovo tho Cubs out of their present pres-ent location if the fllngera continue ns thoy aro going now. They aro out-pitching out-pitching their opponents, thereby demonstrating that Manager Chanco has ono of tho loading staffs In tho organization. Tho success of Manager Chance with his pitchers Is creating considerable consid-erable gossip around tho National leaguo circuit. When the season began be-gan It waB declared that his staff was , not of high class caliber and would not bo able to keep tho club out of tho second division. Critics through- out tho circuit failed to count tho Cubs as strong contenders for the I championship, but they havo been I compelled to change their Ideas and tho talk now Is that the team is the only one which has a slim opportunity opportun-ity of keeping tho Olants from taking tho ponnanL Manager Chance is lamenting that ' bis fllngcrs did not strike their win- j nlng form In the spring. Ho declarod I there would havo been a different i standing at present If he had been j able to get the pitching he Is secur- j ing now. It was not until tbo warm weather came around that his hurlers l began winning, and now the opposing nines are having- a strenuous time to score off them. Chanco has enough ' effective men to work them in rotation rota-tion and obtain the best results. He does not hare to force one or two , men to do orortlme on tho hill. No Force Needed. Manager Cbanc does not, hare to force or appeal to his men to work , for hlra. They are eager for It. The ' more they get of It the better they ! like It. It was only a sbcrt tlmo ago ' four men afked him to allow them to pitch every third or fourth day. Chance thought ahila and then answered an-swered that be would give all a chance to perform an often ax possible. possi-ble. He ha been picking out hi ' raoa to work agalnM certain teams and ha profiled by tbo system. The j men apparently aro standing the each contest In which hey appear Is bettor than tho last Of late Jimmy Lavender has been asked to do a little moro than any of tho others, but ho Is proud lo bo called call-ed on so often and dollghts In work. He has no objection to pitch ovory third day, ns he Is sturdy and strong and can stand It. Larry' Cheney also Is hu3ky and is compotent to pitching often, but at present ho Is being both-ored both-ored with a streak of wlldneas that (makes the work hard for him. I Low Rlchlo is In tho winning stride that made him Cbanco's mainstay last season. He will aid tho club wondor-fully wondor-fully against tho loaders, Pittsburg and Brooklyn. Brown also Is in superb su-perb ahnpe and can bo dopended upon to get his sharo of tho glory. Rculbach Rcul-bach 1b not UBed vor.v much, although ho did display striking form against tho Reds. No staff of fllngors In tho leaguo Is procuring th results Cbanco's men are. McGraw of tho Giants posslblv Is getting better results, but his mon are not twirling a bit better ball than tho Cubs' tosoers Tho latter havo lost only soven contests in the laBt t,wenty-four games. Five of theso were dropped in tho last Bovonteon. Somo superb work was dono by tho mon in those last seventeen combats, as eight of them wore sbutouta. Eight I blanks for tho opponents in sovontcon I battles Is wonderful work, especially I when tho class of teams mot Is con- I sldercd. They were scored agninat the Reds. Pirates, Cardinals and Giants. |