Show PIRATES MAKE POOR SHOWING SHO WINO IN NEW NEVI CHASE Cardinals Look Like Con Con- Contender Contender tender Indians May Surprise Fans By r GEORGE CHADWICK S Special Correspondent of The Examiner Copyright 1926 Consolidated Pre Press Association NEW YORK April 24 One 24 little ten-day ten period doesn't make a 0 baseball t season any more than ono one swallow sallow makes a summer but the tho first firt ten days clays of o tho the major lea league ue season 1111 have ve developed en- en enough en enough ou ough b surprises and reversals of form to stimulate keen Interest In two races which many prophets had set d down clown wn as cut dried and laid hway In camphor ball balls balIs The biggest upset of alt alL so tar far has been the world champion Pittsburg Pirates The Pirates need needa a sparker a fuse a II tinder box boxa a flashlight or something to get thom them off oft at the tho start of or a season nearer the top where they hope to finish While Pittsburg Is along like a scow In a storm th Chicago Cubs Cube have refused absolutely position to accept the tall end lion tion to which the they had been con COD consIgned con consigned signed willy by almost ev- ev ev every cry ery man roan who attempted to draw a bead on major league before It began How the National league will 11 stand next week of ot course Is a an- an another an another other matter The present stand stand- 6 and In ing standing Is the result of o a II flurry In which the Giants have played only the eastern elsten clubs and tho the PIrates the tho western clubs W CU CARDS C The spectators Intellectual as aswell aswell well as financial would do well welI to keep an eye on the St Louis club The Cardinals Cardinal are am playing strictly championship ball balI against much harder opposition than New NewYork NewYork NewYork York has hIlS been facing In the cast The Boston Nationals and the thc Phi Phillie Illes still appear to be the prettiest matched teams In the National league but have no pl place to fro go 0 but home Iome The Cleveland Indians have been aroun around 1 In the AmerIcan league and making people think generously of ot II a a team that I la is as likely to scale a skyscraper as to dig a ditch Cleveland never did look as liS I If It would be a first dl- dl di dl division vl vision lon team right away and yet It has dared to lead the American league It If Cleveland weren't snorting around In the open field flold near the toP the first group of o the Amer Arner- AmerIcan American ican lean league might night bit be more nor normal mat mal There need be no surprise that the tho Yanks ar up there All Mi pitchers look alike to tho Yanks this year ear The remainder of the American league race raco la Js not lot exactly normal but It soon OO will be That the Browns are arc down need surprise none They were not playing goo good 1 ball bali when they were finishing up In Florida and they are continuing ing log to drift along with tate fats kick kick- kicking ing irig them austerely and unyielding unyielding- unyieldingly I ly The Athletics arent aren't showing batting strength Dont Don't chargo everything to pitchers of ot the Phil Phil- Philadelphia Philadelphia adelphia team Its lis old Bill Punch I who is needed on the bench of the I famous As Ass and old Bill BIlt Olea Glea son Olea-son son eon wilt will be likely to get It there before he Is finished Judge Emil Fuchs u hs of or Boston the freshman treshman magnate of the National league has 11 learned thus early that it takes more than mono mon mon mon- money money ey to convert a a tall end baseball club Into a II pennant winner I offer otter a tall fair air sum urn tor for a ball bali ballplayer player said catch the Judge and I cant can't get him I otter offer a II big sum sum and I cant can't got cot him Then I beg begIn begin b gin In to make Inquiries and find that this player who would be so much good for tor me Is being held by some friendly minor league club for tor It Its II ally in the tho big league I dont don't happen to be ba the ally club so I get nowhere Then Then there comes a player who looks good and I 1 go to a minor league club and ask It If this player Is on the market He is What Is the price Enough to knock you ou oft off your our pins Maybe Mabe I try to undertake negotiations to get the tho price down and then what Competition Tho The man that owns the player bel begin to suggest something about waivers on him the news goes around the circuit and the friend of another friend tolls a II rival club that you are after the tho pla player er and every time you raise 1000 the thc theother theother other chap will wilt raise 2000 it If the player Is worth anything Do you think It Is good for baseball Judge Fuchs was wu ask ask- asked asked ed POOR CUSTOM It It Is the custom Sometimes It seems to be a poor custom when the clubs In the second division need Just enough to send them across the borderline Into the first division Yet every now and then thena a club of that type makes the passage through the tho straits and en enters ten upon a sea of ot prosperity Would a a II reduction of the nurn- nurn num number her ber o of players under control by major leagues league put a stop atop to this a a question that I Is pert pert- pertInent pertinent pertinent enough but I am not going to answer It I expect that some someday someday someday day we shall have ha to touch on this subject In baseball baS But Im I'm too young yet to get on that topic ot of baseball |