The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-06-26

Cards. They may have lost their slight
| advantage ere this, however. The Super
bas are not taken seriously in the Western
portion of the circuit. They are a great
improvement over any Brooklyn team for
years, but the mere saying so doesn't give
them the class to be where they are.
The Cubs are worrying along in the first
division and will probably be able to stick
there. They leave for their second trip
July 9th. Uutil then they should fatten
their averages considerably at the expense
| OF the Cards, Reds and Pirates. On open
dates Manager Evers goes out and watches
the Federals, presumably on the outlook
for talent. Evers has adopted system
| with Heinie Zimmerman, Cub slugger.
Zim has penchant for getting into wordy
arguments with the jumps wherein he of
course, usually gets canned. Now, when
| ever he starts an argument, Evers beats the
umpire to it and himself ties can to Zim.
Ibis system has the advantage of allowing
Tim to appear in the game next day,
whereas if the umpire does the canning it is
generally for longer term.
Boston came through its western trip
with the best record for long time. Only
| the Giants and Pills made a better one.
In fact the Braves were lowering perilously
near last place when they started, but when
| they went home had nosed the Pirates out
OF fifth position. Stallings has certainly
braced the team up and it is up to the Hub
fans to show substantial encouragement
The Pirates have not shown anything
out OF their usual offerings this week. Bos-
ton trimmed them handily, but the Pirates
awoke long enough to grab one game from
| the Giants, before leaving for Cincinnati.
Catchers Kelly and Simon are on the re-
| pair list having sustained injuries and this
threw the burden wholly on Gibson, who
is just out of splints. They have obtained
| the services of Coleman, of Davenport.
Ia, to fill the breach.
The Cardinals continue to fritter games
away by poor pitching. Two recuits,
Griner and Perritt, are their only winning
slabmen. 1t is said Higgins is tying to
secure Cy Morgan from Kansas City. Cy
| is having comeback season in the minors
| but it is doubtful if he could fool the
major batsmen very long.
Connie Mack should have some fame as
| a prophet. Right at the start of the season,
mind you, he opined that the Athletics
| would win in canter and 10 and behold
they are doing that very thing. Of course,
| there is Cleveland not over five or six games
behind but that is a good safe margin.
The Athletics are now on their second trip
| and will not return home until the latter
part of July.
| Cleveland is still pounding away at all
opposition and it is good to behold the
Maps fighting tooth and nail fashion. The
old listless stuff has all been cut out. The
club met stiff resistance at Boston but
managed to split even in spite of the rough
stuff sprung by the Red Sox. The Boston
men had not forgotten the first mauling
they received when in Cleveland, and they
took ample revenge by blocking off the
Cleveland runners. Chapman, the star
shortstop, was badly spiked by Carrigan.
Olson was spiked by Engle, and Lajoe was
nearly put out of business by Joe Wood
who hit him with pitched ball.
Washington is scrapping along gamely,
| but Griffith has about given up hopes of
pennant. Instead he will be we'll satisfied
to finish one, two, three, and probably
four. The fans are supporting the team in
good style and Walter Johnson seems to
have got going again, that is, if he ever
stopped. He won game against Detroit
the other day 80, when his own team only
got one hit. That was three ply bingle
delivered by Gandel just after two of his
compatriots had been given passes De-
| troit was able to collect but two hits during
the game.
Hal Chase seems to be doing better work
for the White Sox than for some time
past. His batting is hard and timely and
as fielding first baseman he has no superior.
The Sox are just staying in the first divi-
sion. Ping Bodie is delivering some of
those famous fence busting wallops nova
days. Russell and Schalk are the winning