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Show HONUS SCORING m pip W!SaJ The anoe photograph BhowE Hans Wagner, the wonderful shortstop ot ihe Pittsburgh team, aa be has appeared ap-peared to hundreds or thousands of baseball fans during his remarkable career on the diamond after having crossed home plate from third The Plying Dutchman looks usl a pood as ever to bib fellow players and to the experts who saw him working out daily with the Pittsburgh squad at Hot Sprlnes Ho s' the same old Honus, banging the ball at a .400 clip, spe.i-rins all sorts of line drives and scooping up the low ones, and juct as happy as the great big boy thai he will always le to the big league i fzns. Knabe at second. Doolan at short and Lobert at third are a truly great infield, in-field, and Paskert Magee, Cravath. Dolan. Capron and Miller ought to hold up their end in the outfield. Cubs Will Have Hard Time. The Cubs will have a hard time to get along under Johnny Fvers, and we ' figure thai this will keep them down to fourth place. Individually the team j Is strong everywhere except at shortstop, short-stop, where cither the veteran Brid-woll Brid-woll or Arthur Phelan probably will pluy Saier Is a steady man at first base. Stars are found in all other positions, with the manager at second, sec-ond, Zimmerman at third. Mitchell. Schulte, Leach and Scheckard in the field and Arc;ier .ml Bresnahan behind be-hind Ihe bat Cheney. Lavender Rlt- chie, Reulbach and the rest are capa- I ble pitchers General laxity in sys- j tem of play, not due to any shortness of brains on the pan of Evers but I to his irrttliK. nature, is ail that will ' keep the te;im down Joe Tinker's presence at shortstop I and his ability in directing the team fhould offset weaknesses of the Reds In some departments enough to give I them the hrtad of the second division divi-sion Brooklyn seems due to climb I over St Louis, since Bresnahan has gone from there, and land in sixth P'ace The Boston Braves, fbouch un- j der a heady chief in Gf.orgo Stallings, hardly can be rate.d any higher than last year the bottom. |