Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 223, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1910 — BACKBONE OF THE PIRATES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BACKBONE OF THE PIRATES

It is not difficult to trace the recent wonderful brace by the Pittsburg champions to the “rounding to” of the veterans on the team. Wagner, Clarke and Leach are unquestionably the backbone of the combination, and while those three stars were out of their stride the club continued in the rut They are going like mad now, however, and turning the laugh on the critics who declared in midßeason that they were all In. It is doubtful If any

one of the three ever played better ball than at present, and therein is found the zeal secret of Pittsburg's spurt toward the top of the ladder. The work of Wagner, in particular* is the cause of no little enthusiasm. The big fellow is stinging the balll again In the style that made him the batting wonder of the age In his best days. He is comfortably over the .300 mark row now and Is still climbing.

HONUS WAGNER.