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Show 1 BY THE INSIDER I M The world Is largely centered About the stars of the skj, They give us marks to shoot at If our alms are pointed high. But let a star shoot downward, Down to the common cartTi, Our hopes they tumble also Back to our humble hearth- The simc Is true of the diamond Where the brilliant stars perform, A team will trail a leader In fair winds and in storm And w hen a star starts slipping The team's hopes then are shot. For the game Is played round leaders From big league to sandlot, Believe it or not baseball would be a limp Institution without brilliant stars. The latest example of a team's crumbling up when it's s!ar slumps Is furnished by tho St. Louts Cards. While Rogers Hornsby was going ati top ppeed the Rickey pes were pennant factors. The Cards came 'home on July 1, but three games out of first place. Hornsby pitched headlong Into a b.V-ting b.V-ting slump and the whole team went off Its stride. After playing 25 homo ?ames they were but seven games from the cellar. t St. Louis played one whole week without breaking Into the win col-1 umn. Hornsby's great lead with th H bal enabled him to stay at the top desplto his recent slump. PBI 1 la even hlnti fj thai Rli kej m 13 yet i. induced to part with his high- A,. , priced star to tho Giants and Me- Craw still wants him badly. llH Lj&jil The Detroit Tigers without Ty Cobb were almost as much of a Joke ball club si the grammar school Athletics, though they are all veterans. With Ty back in the game the Tigers have iBj, taken on new life. It looks like they were following Cobb almost cxclu- I The great fight which the Cleve- Jl iiri.i Indiana are making ! a good 5a Tut The "iankees. without Babe Ruth , to lead them with his great slugging I reputation, wouldn't bo cutting the lee they are In the race. Babo Ls their inspiration. The white B iX intlnus to revnlvs around that great star, Eddie Collins. HI who Is backed up by such leaders as' ' Bavi joo -1 H 1 bit 1, a i.ip feature, but the "shoeless wonder" Is not a mag-nsa mag-nsa that Ruth anel Speaker are. TU'r The two Philadelphia clubs have be.-n eating humble pie In the cellar for ever so long beeauso of the lack LH of any great stars to follow. LH |