Show 1 CUBS MAY liE BE THE TUE I PENNANT Team Has Fallen Down inc the Injury ry to Hans Wagner BW J McBeth In New York I It looks more eor every minute ns as If tho Cubs are to o figure In fourth tIght fight the thc worl worlds s cham lp this It Il does not appear Its certain as a week ago DetroIt Will oppose thorn for tho third time Whilo tho Cuha have been beon Improving the Tigers have just as perceptibly shipping Wild ild Bill Donovan pitched the tho American league champions to two t I In a row Ho took up the bur burden burtIOn den tIOn as soon ns as George spring twister pure puro and simple shot Khot his holl 1011 Bill Is off color this year rear And AnI the tho Tigers are tumbling Th They arc still In front but not by a very err gr great nt I margin or Of course that club or of SU SUt slug sluggers t gers does docs not need such a fancy taff of pitchers RS as their rl rivals lh but It II more than one and andI I 1 Summers seems the only reliable Iman on the In Hard Luck It Is 16 very cr unfortunate that PI Pitts r f burgs slump followed closely on the I heels or of Wagners Injury It goes to show the tho value or of one ana groat star or of orI the calibre of at Hans It also I how a gallant club may mar bo be thrown out or of gear by the loss of the tho main cog Is not out of It yet et etI I by a long way The Tho Pirates may be counted upon to put up n a stiff mont rl right ht to the end or of the flea season Bon But Dut Chicago Is 16 In much the better belter shape for n a gruelling finish for th the club ban haa hoen through the tho Ore fire before and Is never beaten till the oDd end or of the tho thelast last same game No one would much regret a now American league is I ot of Detroit of course The L Tigers have had two chances at the I Cubs an and aIled dismally It would not he be so bad perhaps If Detroit won In the event of a triumph But another series bet between weon the Cubs and would put the worlds on Its Uppers The Athletics and Boston BORton will give Detroit a m merry ro argument the en end or of the tho campaign And one or tlc the theother other will surely win Jennings can remedy his pitching Immediately great lead In the ear early sea lien season son Ion was gained at the expense or of orthe the ostern clubs which lid did not find fInch their true form till th season Il hall half over OYer Tho eastern clu clubs s with without without out exceptIon MO have more than held their own with the tha champions |