The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-21

lation out of the fact that they are still some two hundred points out in the lead and that Boston and Brook lyn will furnish the greater part of the attack against them for the next two weeks.
 There was no mere luck or horse- shoes attached to the victories of the Pirates over the Giants in the last series at the Polo Grounds. The plain unvarnished facts are that the Cor sairs are hitting second to none in the league and the pitching staff, which when 1t is right is about on a par with any on the circuit, is just rounding into form.
 Separated by the Giants unusually large lead the Pirates will hardly reach out and get the pennant in this year of 1912. but if the season was just starting with the Giants and Pi- rates in their present form, Fred Clarke would seriously threaten Mc- Graw.
 Iris Speaker, the agile Red sox outf1e1der, continues to hold a safe lead over Ty Cobb in the race for bat ting honors in the American league. Speaker is natural hitter and ball player, and having struck his stride in earnest all pitchers look pretty
 
 compiled four hits out of five times up against Ed Walsh in the last en- gagement with the White Sox, that be- ing one-third of all the hits made off the big spitballer by the Boston club.
 The showing of Hughey Jennings Tigers this season has brought the Detroit fans to the conclusion that the once great machine has gone the way of all championship teams. Certain 1y, the club has failed to respopd to all of the efforts of Jennings to put pite the fact that the makeup is much the same as in former years, when it boasted of some prowess, and that Ty Cobb and Sam Crawford are still there intact and aggressive.
 Eddie Collins has fallen into the ways of Hans Wagner, which is to say that his work around the midsec- tion of the infield is losing some of it's spectacular adornment. Eddie new more and the fans in Detroit recent ly mentioned the matter. The fact is that Eddie doesn't have to do the spectacular thing now. He has reach ed the stage where, like his old friend Honus, he can judge the batters so we'll that he can place himself for the batters.
 It was an unkind schedule commit tee that arranged for the more or less tottering Yankees, fresh from, a poor showing on the road, to go against the leading Red Sox They can't hope to do much against the team that just cleaned up with the White Sox. But the Yankees have been doing strange things this season. Their forte has been to beat the best ones and take a beating from the clubs they have a raa soma hla right fn trOIlnce
 Monte Cross is one of the old tim CTS who think that baseball has inn proved in recent years. Cross gave 1t as his opinion recently that the inside baseball played these days required much faster thinking than the game he used to play and that spitball pitch ing had added great deal to the science of the sport.
 In compiling four straight victories over the Cardinals Manager Dahlen discovered that his youngsters who have been warming the bench for the greater part of the season are the real life of the team. Cutshaw play ed second base in manner to make the veteran ahn Hummel think about his job. Dale also played a good game, and it is the opinion of those who watched the youngsters in that series that if given a chance to play regularly they would soon put some much-needed speed into the Dodgers. falls like the temperature of a. change