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kwjjsgptfjp umpiring team. Quigley, a young man, is improving and has many of the mannerisms of Klem, -with the tetter's good judgment But for the rest of the staff there cannot be many boosts. The exhibition of Byrdn-and Orth here in the New York series was about as bad as could be imagined. They were indecisive, seemed to be guessing a greater part of the time, and had absolutely no control of the athletes. The American league system of choosing the new umpires from vet eran players seems to be more of a success than the National plan. Hank OTJay is idle at the present time and it is believed he would welcome a chance to don the mask and chest protector again. And Hank is a good umpire, despite the fact he once man aged the Reds. Any gent who comes downtown without his auto full would go to the Vail game on a pass and root against the home team. Joe Tinker has his Whales in Buf falo today to ope'n the second inva sion of the eastern cities of the Fed eral league. Sixteen gamesarebooked for the jaunt and a much better show ing must be made immediately if the North Siders are to remain in the pennant race. Kansas City has a four and a half game lead, and the Stovall crew shows no signs of let ting up in its determined attack. Prepared for all emergencies, Tinker has every man on the pay roll with him. He plans to give Dave Black, the young southpaw, lots of work in the east In his last few games Black has been a good pitch er and would have won some of his' games if he had been properly sup ported. He pitched well enough to beat Kansas City, but errors tossed off the combat. McConnell is right and so are Brown and Hendrix. Rankin John son is certainly due to chuck a few good innings. From now on warm weather should be encountered and he win have no excuses. Prender gast has done better work than any of the flingers, despite the fact he was not heralded as a star at the start of the season. Beck must still fight with Jackson for the first base position. Fred has been hitting punkly all year and a rest might do him good. Joe will con tinue to hold down the shortstopping job, figuring that his steadiness is a greater asset than Smith's erratic speed. We are watching for the bug who will take a ball and a mashie and play his way down town. Manager Rowland of the Sox is not satisfied with the defensive play of his revamped team. Fournier is not a major league first baseman and his mistakes have cost at least one game . on the trip. Further changes are in order and will be made probably be fore the team leaves Washington. It is likely that Jack will go back to the outfield, Brief will return to first base and the third basing will he between Bonny Roth and Russell Blackburne. Roth is not a good third baseman, but his batting is valuable. Since going to the difficult corner Blackburne has played a bang up fielding game, but has been incon sistent with the war club. Either of these two fellows is an improvement over Jimmy Breton. The team as at present constituted carries a powerful wallop, a trifle more than is needed with the sterling box corps that hurls for Rowland. The manager may, decide that he can sacrifice a trifle" of the batting strength in favor of tight fielding. The Cobb-Crawford-Veach com bination of the Tigers is a much her alded trio, but the Fournier, Eddie apd John Collins threesome must not be overlooked. Bunched in the bat ting order they present a formidable front to any pitcher. Yesterday they slapped nine hits in eleven times at bat, John getting three in five, Jack four in four and Eddie two in two. tocal condition? would be soft f9T