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did not do a wealthy job of clouting this spring, as the averages show. The temporary loss of Zeider to the Yanks is a misfortune, but ap parently Chance has' no redress, though he declares he will take the matter to the league heads. Larry Chappelle again failed to show on the South Side. But he still continues his long distance writing on "How I Broke Into the Big Leagues.", Manager Callahan doesn't care how much Larry writes about his promotion, but he wishes he'd hurry and do some of the "breaking in." The strain of winning one game in a row was too much for the Cubs, who dropped the last game of the series to Brooklyn. It is probably wrong to say they dropped the game. They tossed it away. For the third 'time on the present Eastern trip Jim Lavender was the victim of the men who claim to be his friends. Twice in New York Lav ender pitched good ball, though the box score in the second affair did not show it. Remember that he was a whale until his support kicked his props away. Nine hits were made off him in eleven innings by the Dodgers yes terday. This does not look like a swell job, when you consider that Allen and Wagner paused the Cubs with half a dozen blows, but in the first ten in nings Brooklyn could only get that number off our pitcher. He weak ened in the eleventh for three straight hits, good for the winning run, but had previously given his team every chance in the world to win. To show what he could do with good support, Lavender held the Dodgers io one run in the first seven innings. Roger Bresnahan, the guy who stabbed Jim in the back in the eighth, was of great assistance to him earlier in the game, busting a double steal in the third when the Dodgers got their first run. It was a swell piece of work by Evers. and the Harp, and Roger's eighth-inning crime came as an unpleasant sur prise to Lavender. He though Bres was his friend. Here's the act: Moran singled and Cutshaw walk ed. Meyer forced Cutshaw and Moran went to third. On an attempt ed double steal Bresnahan pegged to center field, Moran scored and Meyer loped to third. A single tied the score. On the last Eastern trip, when the Cubs won four games out of 15 play ed, the excuse for the poor showing was porous pitching. Even now some of the dopesters are attempting to ex plain the poor showing on the pres ent trip with the same alibi. This is unfair to the hurling staff, which has been doing its share of the work. . Pierce and Cheney are the only ones who have started games and been treated with excessive rudeness so long as their support remained good, and Cheney did manage to win his bout. Lavender has made three starts and in the first one in New York and the last in Brooklyn did excellent work. A combination of errors in the eighth inning of the New York horror pulled the ground from beneath his feet when the game was apparently safe. Disgruntled fans must look for something besides punk pitching to explain the late defeats. A five-game series is started in Boston today. Taking three out of the quintet will go a long way toward' re-establishing the credit Of the Cubs. The Boston Red Sox won their first game under Bill Carrigan, out slugging Detroit. Collins and Bedient and Williett and House were jolted severely. Speaker, Carrigan, Gainer, Mortality and High each clubbed three singles. Hooper and Lewis each cracked a double and single. Carrigan shook up his batting order, placing Engle at the headof the list. Joe Boehling, Clark" Griffith's young southpaw, failed in his effort to win ten straight games, but Wash ington saved him a defeat by a ninth inning rally, Chick Candil stealing