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