Evening star., 1927-05-25
YANKS CONTINUE AT PACE
ESTABLISHED LAST SPRING
Cehrig's Play Feature of Western Tour-Browns
Stage Strong Rally-Pirates Take Brace and
Cards Slump in National League.

the ball. with Ring Miller starring in
the role Of leading whaler. The In
dams still are having their ups and
downs. but on the whole are playing
better ball Eichrodt finally has been
| selected as Speakers successor in cen
ter field while Fonseca has taken
| Spurgeon's job at second. The latter
| was not hitting his weight when
| benched. The Boston Red SoX did far
| better in the West than any one had
! any reasons to suppose and now are
! giving all comers some kind of an
argument.
| In my National League pennant
! chances percentage / still put Pitts
| burgh in first place with slightly
| better percentage than New York.
! This week I have advanced the
| Giants to second place with .525, five
points less than Pittsburgh. ST. Louis
! has been dropped to third with 500.
| the Cubs following with .450. The
| Cubs were my original selection for
| second place. and they still may finish
that high.
Kremer's Injury Blow TO Bucs.
Pittsburgh receive a tough blow
when Ray kremer. star pitcher of the
Buccaneers, injured his right knee in
game in Brooklyn. an injury which
will keep him out of the lineup for
another week at least. At the time
that Kremer was injured, he had won
six out of eight games and was
Donnie Bush's only dependable
pitcher.
On the whole. the Pirate pitching
has been better. Carmen Hill pitched
three-hit game in Brooklyn. but lost
a 2-to-1 pitching duel to DazZy Vance.
Aldridge won and completed his first
game of the season in the New York
series. but 13 Pirate runs made it
easy for him.
Shifting Grantham to second and
playing old Joe Harris at first has
proved to be a wise move by Bush.
Harris is slow. but he still packs a
lot of dynamite in his bat. and un-
questionably has put another danger
Gus bludgeon into the Pirate batting
order.
The Giants used the Western clubs
to regain the lead. the Cincinnati
Reds being especially fattening TO the
McGraw percentage. The New York
team continues to bounce hits all
around the arena. with young Eddie
Farrell and George Harper clubbing it
out with Hornsby. If the Giants are
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pated. this pair is one of the reasons
Jackson's injury proved no handicap
and certainly Pep Young could have
hit no harder than Harper. McGraw
now is contemplating a move to send
Lindstrom to the outfield, so as to
utilize both Farrell and Jackson in
the infield.
Cardinals Sag i'm East.
The Cardinals went through a rather
sour Eastern trip, losing games right
and left. The ST. Louis famed pitch
ing staff did not do so well on the
Eastern front and the Cards hitting
also slumped off considerably. AS pre-
dicted last week. O'Farrell's Irregular
appearance behind the bat also is
bound to injure the teams chances, as
Snyder is only a shell of the Snyder
who was McGraw's catching main.
stay on his Giant champions of 1921,
1922. 1928 and 1924.
The Cards get back on their Sports.
mans Park green with the Reds next
Monday, when victories again should
come faster. O'Farrell has a good
team, and one which is bound to
stick in the race all year
Despite his continued experiments
at third base. where Stephenson,
Freigau, Wilke and Beck already
have tried their luck. Mccarthy again
is showing a lot of stuff with his Cubs.
I'll admit they don't look like much