It remains a toss-up between the
Athletics and the White Sox for sec
ond place. The White Sox have more
good pitchers and a stronger offense
than Mack, but the Chicago team has
lacked consistency'. It is a million
dollar team one glnyv- and, a. team of
duhs the next. But when It is re
called that the White Sox were tail
anders in 1924, it is quite a feather
in Eddie Collins’ cap to have the club
in the race two years later.
Cincinnati is not a great team, and
If it does win it will be because of
Pittsburgh's breakdown. Nevertheless,
the Reds deserve great credit for the
light which they are waging and the,
punch that they have developed Jid
they boom along. Leading their
league in batting with their shortstop
hitting .188, is a trick in itseltr
Cincinnati owes much of ifs recent
success to the fine comeback mad*
by Carl Mays, the fgHier Jfoubk*
some Yankee. Hendricks psts on the
point of letting out Mgy* When the
Reds were slumping?-' through the
East a month ago., As I get it, Carl
had some trouble with Hendricks ask
would have been waived out, had not
Pittsburgh held up walyers. Anyway,
Cincinnati retains Can, and he has
beep winning ever since. Donohue,
Rlxey and Mays recently have been
steady winners, though Luque is not
the Ditcher he was.
Tne Pirates have regained some of
the ground lost during that late June
losing streak of seven straight,
though the champions are not playing
the, ball that boosters of the cfilb
think it is capable of. This is the sea
son of the year when I looked for the
Pirates to show most of their smoke.
