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Show LEACH REPAIRS CUBJAC1E (By James Clarkson.) Chicago, Aug. 6. Last season, after Barney Dreyfus had come through with an alleged $22,500 for Marty O'Toolo and that boy wonder had dropped a game or two, some bright Pirate fan sprung a little 6ong, the refrain re-frain runniug. "Oh, what does he think of him now; oh, what does he think of him now?" This season the Pirates and the Cubs held a little pow-wow, at the conclusion of which Tommy Leach and Lefty Leifield became clawing bear-lets bear-lets and "Circus Solly" Hofman and "King" Cole desperate Buccaneers. Fathoming tho mind of the astute Barney is hardly given to the gray matter of the common or garden variety va-riety of fan, but out on tho west aide there are many of them gleefully chortling these days, "Oh what does he think of him no'w? Oh, what does he think of him now?" It begins to appear very much as though our Frank Chance had driven home another nail in the name Peerless Peer-less Leader when ho engineered tho deal which brought Loach to Chicago. Tommy has plugged up the hole in the outfield in wondrous fashion and apparently was just the cog needed to start the old machine going at top Bpeed again. Along with the question to DreyMa as to what he thinks of Leach now, the west side fans are also putting the same query to the Giants, for Tommy surely has been some whale in thq Cubs-Giants series. On Friday of last week he broke it up for McGraw's pennant chasers by slamming out a double In the ninth Jnning which scored two runs and effectually ef-fectually put the game in the cooler. Saturday he made the first inning a continuation of tho last of tho day before be-fore by slapping out another double, which again scored two runs and started Rube Marquard down the toboggan. to-boggan. In the sixth he got another -double, in the seventh a Bingle which scored another run, and in the ninth he ripped off anothor hit good for one station. The west side fans have heard from neither Dreyfus nor the Giants as to what they think of Leach now, they themselves think he's Just about right. |