CUBS WIN SPORTING DOPE WHIT'SOX LOSE

Cubs Trim Chattanooga Team White Sox Fall Before -East- erly Pierce Pitches Good Game. Strong with Bat.

, With perfect weather and a gingery An eighth-innin- g rally by the Los bunch of ball tossers behind theim Angeles Coast Leaguers yesterday put Sputhpaw Pierce and Charley Smith the White Sox on the wrong end. of a 4 to 3 score. KidSmith, whose real twiriedEver's Cubs-t- nifty 5 to a name is Clarence, was the goat. After 1 victory over Kid Elberfeld's Chat-tanoo- ga Veteran .White' had twirled five in- Southern Leaguers at Chat- nings, the score stood 2 to 1 in the tanooga yesterday. Sox' favor, and Acting, Lord The Cubs, who has been decorat- decided to give Smith of Southern League ing hotel corridors for the past five fame a chance. His chance days, at mercy of the wasrshort lived, however. The Angels the weather nicked 5 man, were'not, called out for morning him for hits and three runs in two-thir- practice and in the afternoon spilled 'two and innings. a clever outlay of flashy plays. Pierce Frank X,ange was picked as res- cuer. He didn't fit. The Los Angeles waS the hero of the day. But for his swatters muff of a sizzling grounder in the managed to slip two runs over on him in" the eighth inning, fifth, wojuMi Elber- -' he have held the which feld gang hitless. Cotter was on the' was enough to cop the battle. receiving Easterly rapped out a. and end for Pierce. three singles. Rath, Charley Smith allowed, four hits in Lord, Mattick, , Borton, White and Smith each landed the final four innings of the-- affray. a one Alike Heckinger stored his slants. baseivJMaggert, Los Angeles' The lone Chattanooga tally came center fileder, slammed out a homer, and To'zer, did in the sixth on a walk, a wild peg who a share of the and a . twirled for the Angels, is credited with a three bagger. The Sox tal- --The Cubs had no trouble solving lies came in the first, second and the slants of a young named eighth Starke. In the third and fifth innings innings. The Angels scored in six hits netted a quartet of runs. the second", sixth and eighth. The Sox will tackle the Los Angeles Pierce scored first-Cu- the . bunch again In the eighth inning a'spitball ar- today. - Rumors say named s that Ernie Johnson tist Ware place Angeles on the slab and was touched for two would be sold to. Los to take the. place of Joe Berger. It was stat- hits, which,- - with a wild pitch, g'ave the Cubs the tally ed that the only thing that stood in final of the game. way not Ware is minus the first joint of the the was the fact that all first two fingers on his right hand the' clubs of the American League .and his jumpy slants baffled the big had waived. leaguers. Drops of snow and water, flood , Of the Cub's nine hits, Mitchell and baseball 'fields with slosh, which JSaier got . two apiece and tHymer, makes the baseball fans all sore and Scbulte, Zimmerman, Evers and Cot- spoil the game, by gosh. ter one. Bridwell, Evers and'Saier-.pulled- , The Athletic Association a neat idouble play; A small swimmers meet the "Yale water crew crowd of fans watched the game. The. tonight at. the C: A. A. tank.- - Yale 4 Cub3 Jeft'for Memphis -- last night. men have met defeat only once thia Two game will be played with thf season. Theywon the Eastern In- "Memphis men tercollegiate