The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-08-14
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BY "A Fan.

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| The Cleveland club has purchas.
ed Elmer Smith, outfelder, from
Duluth. Smith will report Aug
ust oath.
New players are reporting in
clusters to some of the major lea
que teams-notably Washington and
New York in the American Lea
| que.
/ Jack Coombs has reported to the
Athletics and expects to be in
shape to work by September LIST.
The Giants have not met with
quite as much success on this trip
as they did on the one previous,
At Chicago an even split was the
best they could do. Pittsburg nick
ed them for two out of three, and
Friday Cincinnati beat them rs.
st. Louis also grabbed one. Yes
terday they returned to the Polo
grounds to open three game SER
les with the Cardinals. Their lead
over the Phillies at this writing is
just five games and these two teams
have six more games to play. The
next series of three games will be
played in Philadelphia August 28-
30th. and should be very interesting
provided the teams retain their rel
alive standings until that time.
You never can tell'' about base
ball and the Giants have not yet
cinched the pennant.
From an Indifferent road team the
Phillies have developed into first
class one. In the four western
cities of the circuit they played six
teen games, winning twelve and
losing four. By so doing they have
not only aroused enthusiasm at
home, but trimmed down the Gil
ants lead. Dooin's men certainly
did some mighty slugging on this
trip. Week of July 28-Aug. 4th
they earned IS hits which were
productive of "A runs. Among tie
collection were 6 two base hits, 9
good for three bases and home
runs. These five were divided up
between Cravath and Becker with
two each. and Luderus. August
End, Cravath in four times at bat in
Cincinnati got double, triple and
home run. His total on the latter
now stands at ID. In a Singing
match Friday the Phf1s beat the
Cubs 1873. They are now engaged
in a series with Cincinnati on their
home grounds.
The Pirates nosed the Cubs out
of third place during their stay at
home, besides getting some slight
revenge on the Giants. They also
found easy going with Brooklyn
and Boston: Now they move into
the territory of the enemy and will
do very well indeed to duplicate
their record made on the former
trip. At that time they took three
out of four from Philadelphia just
after the latter had been badly NAL
treated at the hands of Brooklyn
and New York. Just now, at the
rate the Phils are going, it would
indicate that surprise is in store
for the Pirates. 1t is said that
Manager Clark is searching vigor-
ously for brace of hard hitting
outfelders and would not be averse
to trade IN order to secure them.
President Murphy, of the Cubs,
denies that he intends to depose
Johnnie Evers as manager and ap-
plauds the latters war-like attitude
toward both players and umpires.
We suspect Mr.. Murphy of being
real clever at getting his share of
space in the prints. Ever's latest
row was with Tommy Leach, mid
lget outfielder. but then Evers is no
giant either. Zimmerman is again
in the game and is hitting the pill
hard and often. Archer got back
just in time to have foul tip re-
move the nail from one of his fing-
ers and will not be able to resume
catching for a week or so.
Cincinnati with quite collection
of cripples and few absentees has
managed to do pretty well while at
home. Rube Benton, has been sus-
pended without pay for the balance
of the season following his motor