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Show BACKBONE OF THE PIRATES I .' .;. 4N' v l-.?';.; , . r17-,s n I-V H0NU8 WAGNER. It In hot iilfilrult to trnr the r'i-'-lit Kniidi-rful lnm by tho I'tttMburtt ctminplnn to I he "rinitnlltiK lo" of tht vt'trrum on the tonin. " ji x ,r, t'lurko utiil Jafuch arc iiuiin,iitl,nul)ly ttio Unckbone of the rnmlilimtlnn, and while thopp thrno Htnm were nut of their tttrlde the club rontlniu'd In the rut. Th7 mrv koIX Htte nuid now, howrver, nd turnlim the IhukIi on the crltlci who declnrid fn tntdiinaiion that the were all Id. It la doubtful If any mm of the three ever played bettirj hull than at piea.-nt, and therein la found the real aeiret nf I'lttahurf l apurt toward the top of the ladder. The work of Wanner. In pnrtlrulir, la the rauae of no little elitliualaam. The bin fellow la atliiKlliK the bill nxaln In the alyle that made him the batting wonder of the age In hi beat dnyi. Ho la comfortably over the auo mark raw now and la atlll cllunv Inc. |