Show I Offs Cast Supply u Punch For or Cubs I t i a 4 t A t 1 F LEW LACK HACK WILSON r ti 4 r three offs cast are arc the run-producers run of the Chicago Cubs They are Hack Wilson on Earl Webb and THESE 1 S Riggs Stephenson on They are arc regular r outfielders Each failed to make m good with wilh another major league club prior to joining the Cubs nut But their big bats are booming now now-ani now now now-an J how timely By y HILLY BILLY EVANS S CHICAGO Aug 8 Power house baseball Is 13 the way major I league agUe players now refer to the style of play so popular It is just their way of saying brute strength domi domi- dominates dominates dominates nates the game In the sensational rise of ot the Chi Chi- Chicago Chicago Chicago cago Cubs to the top of ot the th National league standing three castoffs have supplied the power-house power methods method which combined with tight air-tight pitch- pitch pitchIng pitchIng pitching Ing have made the Cubs a strong contender from the start The Cubs by the way are a most unusual ball club dub Of Ot the four clubs club conceded to have a chance in the National league It Is the lightest hit hit- hitting hitting hitting ting aggregation Incidentally the three players who have furnished a goodly portion of ot the offense ottense Outfielders Wilson Webb and Stephenson have been turned adrift by other major league clubs as lacking big league class Just to give some sonic Idea of ot the rela rela- relative relative relative tive difference In batting between Pittsburg and Chicago the two t teams fighting each other for th lead lad the thelast thelast thelast last time I glanced at the National league leaCUe averages the Pirates as a team were batting 32 while the mark of the Cubs was 51 points less or Outfielders Wilson and Webb who were both turned down by no less an authority than John McGraw have contributed the home run punch that put the Cubs over in a number of ot close games In the first 72 games Wilson hit 15 homers to lead the league while Webb made 12 In the same number of games While Riggs Stephenson who for for- merly played with the Cleveland In Indians In- In Indians has made only two home borne runs In-I In he excels at the bat for the Cubs with witha a mark of ot further proof of the fact that other things asid from power-house power baseball have kept the Cubs in the Any critic who Insisted the Cubs I form a great ball club would be tempting fate and courting plenty of ot criticism yet et it would cause no great surprise in National league quarters If It it Iton won on the pennant in that or or- or organization There are no outstanding ou stars on the club of ot Pitcher Charley Chancy Root The team Is just a combination combination combination tion of capable performers who are giving their best efforts at all times A Chicago victory In the National league would be extremely popular since it Is nine years since the Cubs won a National league pennant Should the Yankees win v n Jn In the American and Chicago In the Nation Nation- National al it would provide a highly color color- colorful colorful colorful ful series between the two bIg cities of ot the country and supply the cus cus- customary customary customary tomary intersectional rivalry between the east and west The last New York Chicago York go world series was staged in 1917 when the Giants represented the National and the White Sox the American the lat lat- latter latter lat lat- latter I ter winning the title |