Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 181, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1911 — IS SURE OF CHAMPIONSHIP [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IS SURE OF CHAMPIONSHIP

]Eddle Collins Says Detroit Has But One Pitcher, and Does Not Fear Tigers In Pennant Race.

i List to a few optimistic prophecies [from one Eddie Trowbridge Collins. Edward- is not one of those given to cerise touches of prophetic language, but he says that the pennant for 1911 jis nailed down for the world’s champions. Not a team, Detroit, or any-

body else in the American league, can Eddie see has a thing on the Champs. ‘1 don’t like to appear foolish with a lot of talk about the race,” shot forth the great midget, "but I want to go on record as saying that we will jam down that pennant as sure as shooting. If our pitchers had been working we would have a lead now that would help a lot. "Detroit Is the team that we will have to beat. We’ll do It. It hasn’t a man' who looks like a twirler except George Mullin, and it can’t work him every day. By the first of September we’ll have the grand old rag mortgaged, and don’t forget It It la going to be no runaway race, of course, as we have a late start. But iwe will win as sure as the sqn shines. There will be nothing to it"

Pitcher George Mullin.