SEPTEMBER 28, 19417

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Coaches, Writers

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BY LEO FISCHER.

An all-America board of sports
sditors, basketball writers and
basketball coaches,’ covering the
United States from coast to coast,
will select the college squad which
will take part in the second
presentation of the All-Star cage
classic at the Chicago Stadium on
Friday night, November 28.

The Writers and coaches whose
names are announced today cover
every recognized collegiate confer-
ence and have seen every notable
cage star in action. Their task
will be to select the eighteen great-
est players of the past season
whose collegiate competition has
come to a close.

Each of the members of the
committee will submit a prelimi-
nary list of the outstanding cagers
from his section, without regard
to. positions. ‘Later these lists will
be tabulated and gradually sifted
down to the final squad.

SOMETHING TO EQUAL.

“The experts have something to
shoot at if they intend to equal
the well-balanced» aggregation
chosen by the all-America board
last year. That team won a sen-
sational 44-42 victory over the
Harlem Globe Trotters in overtime
to send a capacity crowd of around
22,000 away from the stadium in
a state of hysterics.

The extent to which the board
covers the country means that the
lesser-publicized stars have as
much chance as the cagers who
have grabbed headlines through-
out their careers. For instance,
last year, two of the standout
players on the All-Stars were Ed
Sadowski from Seton Hall College,
Orange,.N. J., and Chet Jaworski
from. Rhode Island State—two
boys who were chosen for ability
and not publicity.

PLENTY OF STARS.

That doesn’t mean, of course,
that the well-known cagers weren’t
good, too. Ralph Vaughn of South-
ern California and Bill Hapac of
Illinois probably topped the na-
tion in sports pages, and those
who saw them in action during
the all-star game know how well
they lived up to every bit of ad-
vance build-up.

Nominations already are com-
ing in, even though these lists
heven’t been officially opened.
From this section, principal candi-
dates are Gene Englund of Wis-
Consin and Joe Stampf of Chi-
cago, who fought it out for Big
Ten scoring honors, and Ed Riska,
big Notre Dame ace.

Gus Broberg of Dartmouth, Si
Lobello of Long Island, Frank
Baumholz of Ohio U., Ossie
Schechtman of Long Island, Jack
Garfinkel of St. John’s and a few
others are getting much support
from the Eastern sector, which is
quite confident of placing all these
boys on the squad.

DETROIT TO BE FOE.

Opposition for the all-stars this
‘Season will be provided by the
winner of the world championship
tournament in March—the spec-
tacular Detroit Eagles. In win-
ning that title, the Detroiters over-
came odds of about 1,000-to-1, up-
setting on successive nights such
great clubs as the Indianapolis
Kautsks, the Harlem Globe Trot-
ters, the New York Renaissance
and the Oshkosh All-Stars. Every
contest was an uphill fight, too.

The game is again under the
sponsorship of the Herald-Ameri-
can, and will be offered to fans
tat prices which bring it within
teach of all. Tickets will range
from 55 cents to $3.30. Mail
orders are now being accepted.
‘Write to Basketball Ticket Office,
Hearst Square, 326 W. Madison
st., Chicago. Enclose check or
money-order and specify the type
of ticket desired. Loop box-offices
will open this week.

Cole Lenzi Elevens
Open Season Today

The Cole Lenzi All Suburbans
of La Grange open their football
season against Alderman Kells’
releven today at the Cole Lenzi
‘Recreation Field in La Grange.
‘The game will start at 2:30 p. m.

Coach Clint Osborne, former
coach of the La Grange All Sub-
urbagis, announced this will be
the’ first of a series. of contests

College

Aces for Classic

All-America
Cage Board

Edward W. Cochrane,
Herald-American.

Leo Fischer,
American.

R. -C. Stedler,
News.
G. H. Scherwitz,
(Texas) Light.
Harry Keck, Pittsburgh Sun-Tele-
graph.

Rodger Pippen, Baltimore News-
Post.

Sec Taylor, Des Moines
Register-Tribune.

Jere R. Hayes, Dallas
Times-Herald.

Parke Carroll, Kansas City (Mo.)
Journal-Post.

Matt Jackson, Rochester (N. Y.)
Times-Union.

Ed Bang, Cleveland (O.) News.

Dick McGeorge, Toledo (O.) Blade.

Bob Hooey, Columbus (O.) State
Journal.

Jack Conway, Boston (Mass.) Rec-
ord-American.

Dan Parker, New York Mirror.

C. L. Parsons, Denver (Colo.) Post.

Arnold Lieberman, Los Angeles
News Service.

Emmons Byrne, Oakland (Cal.)
Post-Enquirer. ;
Jack McDonald, San Francisco

_Call-Bulletin,

Frederick Ware, Omaha World-
Herald.

Bus Ham, Oklahoma City Okla-

homan.

Max Kase, New York Journal-

American. ‘

Gilbert Labudde, Oshkosh (Wis.)

Daily Northwestern.

Everett Clay, Miami (Fla.) World-

Herald.

Ben Tenny, Fort Wayne

News-Sentinel.

Ed Danforth, Atlanta Journal.

Ed Skiddy, Syracuse (N. Y.) Jour-

nal-Herald.

George T. Davis, Los Angeles Her-

ald-Express,

Dick Walsh, Albany

Times-Union,

Louis P. McNeely, Louisville (Ky.)

Courier-Journal.

Dick Cullum, Minneapolis Times-

Tribune.

Dudley Greer, Nashville (Tenn.)

Banner.

Leo MacDonnell, Detroit (Mich.)

Times.

Royal Brougham, Seattle (Wash.),

Post-Intelligencer.

Jim Schlemmer, Akron (O.), Bea-

con-Journal.

Stoney McGlinn, Milwaukee Sen-'

tinel. é

Dick Jarvis, Sheboygan (Wis.),

Press. f

George Beahon, Rochester Demo-

crat and Chronicle.

Al Santore, Los Angeles Examiner.

COACHES.

Phog Allen, University of Kansas.

M. J. Trautwein, Ohio University.

Herold High, Southwestern Col-

ege.

Osborne Cowles, Dartmouth Col-

lege. i

Byron Brannan, Rice Institute.

Paul Hinkle, Butler University.

Bruce Drake, University of Okla-

homa.

Joe Lapchick, St. Johns Univer-

sity.

W. F. Lang, University of North

Carolina.

Jack Gray, University of Texas.

A. F, Rupp, Kentucky University.

C. S. Hickey, Creighton University.

L. B. Menze, Iowa State College.

Nels Norgren, University of Chi-

cago.

Charles Davies, Duquesne Univer-

sity.

Chicago

Chicago Herald-

Buffalo (N. Y.)

San Antonio

(Iowa)

(Texas)

(Ind.)

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Harold Foster, University of Wis-
consin.

John “Honey” Russell, Seton Hall
College.

Nat Holman, City College of New
York.

Chuck Taylor, All-America Board.
Bill Chandler, Marquette U.
Blair Gullion, Cornell U.

Clair Bee, Long Island University.
Forrest Cox, University of Colo-

 

to be played every Sunday at the
home field.

rado.
Doug Mills, University of Tlinois.

 

and the world’s champion Detroi
The game.is to be staged at
night, November 28.

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CHICAGO SUNDAY HERALD-AMERICAN --- A PAPER FOR PEOPLE WHO THINK

PART TWO—PAGE FIVE.

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High school football in the Chicago area has reached mid-sea-
son proportions, with numerous contests being staged each week-end.

  

AROUND THE END FOR A PREP GAME GAIN _

Here is.a flash from the Amundsen-Sullivan contest, showing Bill
Chandler of Amundsen as he skirts the end for a 12-yard gain.

 

  

CATHOLIC PREP.
ELEVENS HOLD
TEST BATTLES

Final practice game action is
on tap for five of tHe Catholic
High School League teams this
afternoon in an attempt to smooth
down those rough edges and have
everything shipshape for the
league opening next Sunday, after-

 

*|noon.

St. George of Evanston, one of
the threats of the South Sectiori
moves into Loyola Field to temper
its forward wall and allow the

Prep Grid Card ~

Marquette High vs. St. Ignatius, «at

Twelfth and Central, 2:15 P m.
St. George at Loyola, Sheridan road and
Loyola ay., 2:15 p. m. Eee
a Salle vs. Central Catholic, “at
Hammond, Ind., 2:15 p.m.
Mount Carmel vs. Dowling, -at ‘Des
Moines, Ta.

backfield to gain added experi-
ence. All this should be accom-
plished while the Dragons pile
up a victory over the lighter Loy- ~
ola team. x

LEAGUE SHUFFLED.

, Coach Ed Norton has a fast,
heavy eleven this season, but thé
unfortunate break in the switch-
ing from the North to the South
Section may keep St. George from
a sectional title. Last year, the
Evanston team finished second to
De Paul in the Northyand since
Wally McGovern lost his entire
team by graduation, St. George
loomed in the division. ~
Along came the _ traditional
switch of two teams in each Sec-
tion, and St. George will find it+
self campaigning in the South
Side grid affairs this year against
such powerful contingents as St.
Leo, 1940 Catholic champions, and
Mount Carmel, the runner-up
eleven last season.

As if in revenge for this treat-
ment, the Dragons walloped De
Paul last Sunday afternoon 26 to
7 and plan on slamming Loyola

 

 

Ninety-six of the nation’s best
amateur bicycle riders will com-
pete in the fifteenth annual Elgin
to Chicago road race this after-
noon, under the auspices of the
George F. Barrett Athletic Club.
The race, a handicap event,
will start at 1 p. m. from High-
land ay., Elgin, continue through
Dundee, Algonquin, Fox River
Grove, Barrington, Palatine, Ar-
lington Heights, Mount Prospect.
Bensenville, Maywood, Forest
Park, Berwyn and Cicero,
finish at the Barrett A. C., 2150
Damen ay.

Among the fifteen scratch rid-
ers are Marvin Thompson, Barrett

 

Carfagnini,
ganization, national champ of
1940. Gunther Leuschen, last
year’s winner, will start with
twenty-five others with a nine-
minute handicap. Twenty-seven
have been given fifteen-minute
starts and twenty-nine others a
twenty-one-minute handicap.

Fourteen clubs are represented,
including Salt Lake City, St.
Louis,
and Kenosha, Wis., with the Bar-
rett A. C. leading in entries with
twenty-one. The CYO has four-
teen and the Edison Park Wheel-
man, thirteen,

The entry:
SCRATCH.
Marvin. Thompson, Sears Taylor, Bill
Jacoby, Joe Koukl, Jim Drake, Barrett
A. Ci; Carfagnini, Frank Bina, Bill

Johnson, Evo Passagleo, Erwin Pesek and
Fred Pesek, C. Y. .; Wendell Rollins,
Salt Lake City Wheelmen; Mike Abt, Har-
vard, Ill.; Joe Stipts, Mazzina Cycling
Club, and Bill Kuehn, unattached.

_. NINE-MINUTE HANDICAP.

Billy Sullivan, Olympic C. C.; Gunther
Leuschen, Bob Jackson and Frank Smith,
Edison Park Wheelmen; Don _ Hyerdell,
George Spalten, Chuck Edwards, Frank
Brilando, George Amundsen and Ralph

George Keogan, Notre Dame Lehnhardt, Barrett A. C.; Jonn Cereps,
‘ a Bob Amacker, Bill Demk

A. J. ‘Robinson, Bradley * Uni-|snannom, CY. 0.; cal sti, Meee

versity. e Carne oneal epee poward) Iil.; Carl

us¢hak, Racine, S.; Chet Seroks, Ke-

Arthur Lonborg, Northwestern|nosha, Wis.; Chris Finkenkeller and’ Dick

University. Olds, St. Louis C. C.; Roy Dietsch, Bill

Lange and Buddy Hdsell, Century Club,
St. Louis, and Greg Smith and Dick Sor-
unattached.

15-MINUTE HANDICAP.

Tom Hughes, C. Y. 0.; Al Descamps and
Sune Bergman, Descamp C. C.; Bob Daly.
Charles Busch, Jack Cole, Don Hurst, Ted
Ernst, Bill Broscavak and John Sullivan,
Edison Park Wheelmen; i

enson,

Peterson, Bill Lehnhardt, Bill Carnduff,
Clarence Koukl, A. Peterson and John
Nergard, Barrett A. C.; Joe Gaspari,

-_C.; Jim Vrtis, Berwyn, IIl.;
Pi Vise and Al Becker, Belgian-
American A. C.; George Adams and Roger
Schultz, Arrow C. C.; Andy Baum, Cen-
tury Club, St. Louis, and Heinz Richter,
Jack Schmitz and Joe Tittle, unattached.

21-MINUTE HANDICAP.
Russell Geiger, Sprocketts C. C.; Art
and Bill

son, Frank Schott and Frank Abbott, Ed-
ison Park Wheelmen; Don Griffee and
Bob Farbin, Barrett A. C.; D:
George Hensel and Valere Va
Descamps ?

ick Hansen,
n De Velde,

. §; Paul Auch, Cycleers;
Earl Eastherton, Century Club, St. Louis,
and Bruce Michael, Chris Klein, Ed Ul-
bricht, Howard Raubolt, Dan Smith, Ralph
Mizar, V._N. Nelson, George Goble, Jack
de Vise, W. H. Grotjahn, Charles Vills-
brazo, George Johnson and Walt Soren-
son, unattached.

McMillen Will Be
Speaker Dee. 18

BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Sept. 27.
—Bo McMillin, Indiana’s head
football coach, will speak before
the Fort Wayne, Ind., Engineers’
Club December 18. The Crimson
coach will discuss “Football En-

 

 

gineering.”

and):

A. C., national champion, and Ed|¢
Catholic Youth Or-|#

Harvard Ill, and Racine].

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IRWIN PESEK.

BBY.9. TENNIS
FINALS TODAY

The B’nai B'rith Youth Organ-

fr'|ization will climax its third annual

citywide tennis competition to-
day at Columbus Park, Central av.
and Lexington st., starting at 10
Baeony

Championships in the men’s in-
termediate and open divisions will

Run ienh Ags Cae
ade, - 0.; Mike Noretti, Charle i
ander, Charles’ Spalten, Vern “Alfred. be decided today. As ‘an added

attraction, Seymour Greenberg, of
Northwestern, Big Ten tennis
champion, will perform in singles
and doubles exhibition matches.

Benny Migdow will try for his
second successive B. B. Y. O. open
division championship when he
meets the winner of the Frank
Norian-Ben Fox semi-final. The
intermediate division semi-final
will bring together Marvin Gar-
field and Nat Glickman, with the
vinner meeting Robert Fine for the
title.

KERR LEAVES COLGATE?

Rumors floated about the East
that Andy Kerr intended to step
down as coach of Colgate’s foot-
ball team, but the veteran mentor
denied the report entirely.

 

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AT GREEN BAY

_|Packers and the Chicago Bears
- |will meet here tomorrow afternoon.

“|have been playing the exhibition

‘jcontest. The Packers are in first

_|for the Pack.

lis a tackle from Virginia who was

jis a halfback from Gonzaga who

. |has had all week to do it, he still

30,000 TO SEE
BEARS, PACKERS

 

GREEN BAY, Wis., Sept. 27.—
Before a sell-out crowd of ap-
proximately 30,000, the Green Bay

It is the opening league game
of the season for the Bears, who

circuit since the College All-Star

place in the western division of
the loop with two wins and no
defeats.

No rookies were named to start
for the Chicago Bears against the
Green Back Packers today at
Green Bay, in what will be the
1941 debut of the champs and
the third game on the schedule

However, Coach Curly Lambeau
named Lee McLaughlin and Tony
Canadeo, two of his newcomers,
to open the contest. The former

shifted to guard, and the latter

starred against Detroit and Cleve-
land.

Against the Lions and Rams the
Packers scored 47 points to 7 by
the opposition, which is something
of a search warrant for the Bears.
It will be remembered that last
year the Bears started their pen-
nant jaunt with a startling 41
to 10 victory over the Wisconsin
Tribe, the worst defeat adminis-
tered to*either club since they
began the series in 1921.

Halas doesn’t expect a repeti-
tion of that rout. Quite the con-
trary, he is worried plenty. So
much so, in fact, that while he

hadn’t made up his mind tonight
who would be clipped from the
squad to bring it down to the
regulation thirty-three.

Since the rivals have been play-
ing, the Bears have won twenty-
two, lost eighteen and tied four,
scoring 469 points to 403 by the
Pack.

Tomorrow’s game, as usual the
past few years, is a sellout, and
the Packer management has issued
a warning to optimistic fans to
refrain from trying to gain ad-
mittance unless they have ducats
in hand.

Hawthornes in
Benelit | Tilt

Ozzie Simmons’ Beutner Panth-
ers will inaugurate the football
season in Weber Park, Wellington
and Ashland this afternoon when
they take the field in a benefit,
tilt against the Hawthorne A. A.,
defending Greater Chicago league
champs.

The Panthers will feature a fast
running attack built around Willie
Calhoun, Henry Preston and Harry
Adams, former Wendell Phillips
stars. Don Brown is expected to
shine for Hawthorne. The kickoff
is at 2:15. i

St. Barts tackle the Forty-sec-
ond St. Lounge in a4 warm-up tilt

 

 

 

 

BY BROOKS LAKE.

Hunting deer with bow and
arrow ... long a cherished dream
of hundreds of Chicago archers,
but financially beyond the reach
of most ... may be enjoyed by
many of these sportsmen next
week when a Robin Hood Special
to Wisconsin’s famed Sherwood
Forest will be offered by the
Milwaukee Road with the sanc-
tion and co-operation of the city’s
various archery clubs.
Air conditioned coaches for Illi-
nois archers will be attached to
the streamliner Chippewa leaving
Chicago next Friday at 12:50 p.m.
standard time! The party will
arrive early that evening at Wau-
saukee, Wis., where a program
has been planned under the direc-
tion of Jack (“Little John”) Boyle,
secretary-manager of the Mari-
nette County Outdoor Recreation
Association; R. L. Barron of Wau-
saukee and Badger archers’ or-
ganizations,

LICENSES AT $5 LOW.

Wisconsin’s special archery sea-
son for deer opens at sunrise Sat-
urday and visiting huntsmen may
procure the new low rate license
at the Wausaukee Forest Ranger

Station. This year the non-resi-
dent license fee for bow-and-
arrow deer hunters has been

slashed from $50.to only $5.

A banquet, at which booya will
be the principal dish, will be
given for the visiting bowmen Fri-
day evening at Wausaukee. This
will be followed by an archers’
ball, at which Marinette County’s
prettiest girls will vie for the
honor of being chosen to repre-
sent Maid Marion.

The modern Maid Marion will
preside over the deer hunt and
pow-wow in nearby Sherwood For-
est, which will occupy all day Sat-
urday and Sunday morning. Sher-
wood Forest, seventy acres of vir-
gin woodland, is one of the Badger
state’s most beautiful wilderness
spots.

DEERS ABUNDANT.

Archer Boyle reports that deer
are unusually abundant this Fall
in Marinette County, where at the
opening of the state’s first arch-
ery season two years ago we per-
sonally counted eighty-six deer in
one evening.

Special low, all-expense rates
have been arranged by the Mil-
waukee Road. Details may be ob-
tained or reservations made
through either Victor L. Hitzfeld,
assistant general agent of the Mil-
waukee Road, Room 711, 100 W.
Monroe st., telephone Central
7600, or The MHerald-American
Travel Bureau, 328 W. Madison
st., phone Andover 1234.

Eye Jumping Races
for New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 27.—
(I.N.S.)—Officals of the Fair
Grounds, one of the nation’s old-
est and most colorful racing
plants, are considering construc-
tion of a steeplechase course. The
Fair Grounds will be reopened
Christmas for forty days of racing

 

at 1:00 o’clock,

for the first time in three years.

Archers to Hunt
Deer This Week

 

Rogers to Wear

Frutig’s Number

ANN ARBOR, Sept. 27.—In
the reassignment of numbers
of Michigan football players
under the new simplified sys-
tem, designed to help the
spectators identify men ac-
cording to positions they play,
Joe Rogers, senior end, was
given the same number worn
a year ago by Ed Frutig, 87.
Rogers and Frutig were the
starting ends in 1940 and
Rogers hopes that the new
number will add to his ef-
fectiveness in the current
season.

HUNTERS TO AID
IN DUCKS WEEK

With Ducks Unlimited Week
opening tomorrow, the most un-
usual “bank” ever to make its
appearance in sportsdom is in evi-
dence at numerous gun clubs,
country clubs, and other meccas
of hunting enthusiasts.

It is the novel “Duk-A-Nikel”
can, and in scope it is a national
banking institution through which
hunters of America make con-
tributions to aid the highly suc-
cessful work, being carried on by
Ducks Unlimited, Inc., to increase
and perpetuate the duck supply
each season.
Featuring Ducks Unlimited
Week is the two-day trap and
skeet tournament set next Satur-
day and Sunday at the Lincoln
Park Gun Club. Duck hunters
and trap skeet devotees will rally
at this get-together. Trophies
and numerous prizes are slated,
and William R. O'Donnell, city
chairman of Ducks Unlimited, Inc.,
anticipates the biggest field of
competitors ever registered for a
tourney of this nature in Chicago.

The name is derived from the
request made that each hunter
deposit, a nickel in the bank for
every duck he bags.

The Northwest Towns Sports-
men’s Association of Arlington

 

 

 

 

today. Hicks Connolly has per=
haps a lighter team than St.
George, but it is plenty fast and
tricky.

IGNATIUS VS. MARQUETTE,
The only other prep game in
Chicago this afternoon is that of
St. Ignatius which entertains Mar-
quette High of Milwaukee, Wis., at
Twelfth and Central. Coach Ralph
Malliard expects his gridders. will
‘be kept plenty busy with the Mil-
waukeeans, The Wolves have the
lightest backfield in the entire
Catholic loop, but a smooth-click=
ing combination with good reserve
strength. :
De LaSalle of the South section
travels fo Hammond, Ind., to take
on Central Catholic which has al=
ready lost two practice games to
city high school teams. The boys
from St. Leo pummeled them 38
2 pane Fenwick also turned them
ack. ae

CARMEL LOOKS GOOD. ae
Mt.Carmel, which has indicated
that it will be a decided threat in
the South, has traveled all the way
to Des Moines, Ia., to play Dowl-

jing High. The Carmels have won

two practice games against De Paul
and Fenwick. Dowling usually has
a strong contingent and Coach
Wally Fromhart expects his team
to get a good workout regardless
of the final score.

Willman, Andres
in Midget Race

Tony Willman, Duke Nalon’and
Emil Andres, Indianapolis 500-mile
race drivers, and topline midget
pilots, will be among the starters
in the eight-event midget .auto
racing program next Sunday at the
revamped Hammond Speedway, on
U. S. Highway 41. Other big car
drivers who are also big-time midg-
et pilots expected to compete are
tracks. ’

Tony Bettenhausen, Pete Romce-
vich and Myron Fohr. Also listed
to go for the $1,000 in purse money
are Ted Duncan, Ray Richards,
Jimmy Caris, Mike O’Halloran,
Harry Lewis, Shorty Sorenson,
Bob Muhlke, Frank Buraney; Gus
Klingbiel, Johnny Kieweg, Pete
Nielsen, Stan Dylewski and “Wild
Charlie” Sczkendy. Entries close
on Thursday with John Serafin,
13906 Entre avenue, Burnham, Hl.
The card will be the first midget
races held over the altered and
conditioned five-eighth s* mile

ARTIST AND GRIDMAN. .
Virgil Cantini, expected to win a
regular halfback spot on the Car-

 

Heights is host to shooters today
with a special event dedicated to
Ducks Unlimited Week.

negie University eleven this Fall,
transferred to C. T. only because
he wanted a course in -art.-

 

League club which “murdered” its
opposition.

League pennant is nineteen days

1902.

 

BUCS LAST RUNAWAY CHAMPS
Won Flag 19 Days Ahead in 1902

You have to go ’way back thirty-|the Pirates themselves in 1909.
nine years to find a National/But in every case the National

.

League had its traditional Septem-
ber thrills. In no case did the

The all-time record)champion run away from the rest
for early clinching of a NationaJ/of a mediocre lot of contenders.

By the end of August the Pirates

before closing day. The Pittsburgh|were 23 games in front of second
Pirates did it as of September 16,|place, 27% at the season’s close,

October 5. Brooklyn and Boston

Other champs in other years|were the only other clubs ahead
reared higher victory piles thanjof the .500 mark. The Bucs won
the 103 of Fred Clarke's ancient|23 and lost 4 in May, and did not
Buccaneers, the Giants in 1904 andjslacken up much in the stretch,
1905, the Cubs in ’06, '07 and ’10,'18 and 7 in September,