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Cravath is the real come-back of the year. He was not touted to per form as brightly as Otis Clymer, but has far surpassed his former mate on the Minneapolis- team. One slump threatened to tumble him down the percentage column, but the s'iver-tip rallied, and is busting his way through the defense of the best pitch srs. Speaking of home runs, and every one likes to, our own Vic Saier is worth some little consideration. He ait the right field scoreboard twice yesterday with line drives, but was unfortunate enough not to have the second slam go for the circuit. Schul te was oa base at the time, the in ning was the tenth, and tile score was tied. So when Frank crossed the pan the game was over. Vic was credited with a double. Three important predictions in re gard to the West Siders have gone astray. First, Charles Webb Murphy pre dicted his team would cop 18 straight games, and. would win the pennant with a twenty-game margin over the poor unnamed dubs who were to wal low along in Second place, C. Webb pulled an awful flivver on this one. He is in danger of being drafted by the weather bureau. Second, some of the wise ones said John Bvers would not be manager after July 4. John is still known as manager, whether his authority has been abbreviated or not. Third, other wise ones predicted that Al Bridwell would be unable to stand the wear and tear of a major league campaign and would give out before the halfway post was reached. Wrong for the third time. Al is playing a fine, bang-up game of ball, about as nifty as any short stop in the league. Fletcher of the Giants and Joe Tinker of the Reds, whose place Al took, are ahead of him in the batting averages, but neither of them is delivering more timely bingles than the local short-fielden Bridwell's poling mark is close to .300. When the last figures were given out he was going at the rate of .286, and since then he has im proved with a bound. His fielding around the territory between second and third is nothing short of sen sational. Predictions that he would not last the season out were based on the supposed weakness of his legs, but the props are doing their duty nobly. Bridwell and Bvers play well to gether around the keystone. They are two of the best men in the busi ness at tagging baserunners, and the e&se with which they handle this de partment of their business helps their defensive work. Each man can get to the bag with such speed that he seldom starts to cover the sack, in case of an attempted steal, until the ball is in the catcher's hands. This prevents the enemy playing the hit-and-run game with any degree of success. The men are left in position while the batter is dangerous, and can snag the ball if he attempts to shoot it through their positions. Cy Williams got but one hit in four attempts yesterday, but it was a crashing double to left that scored Evers with the tieing run in the eighth inning. There was no fatal results from the collision between Larry Chappell and Jack Collins while chasing Clyde Milan's fly in the second inning at Washington yesterday, but the acci dent did uncover a woeful lack of teamwork among the Sox players. The fly was a small one back of second base, but in Chappell's terri tory. He and Collins both dashed for the pill. A crash was inevitable, yet there seemed to be no one on the infield to direct the play and call the name of the man to make the catch. The bungle cost two runs, a small matter. It might have cost the serv ices of one or both of the players for some time, or even resulted in permanent injury. A similar evidence of lack of team- MaoaiiHiiaii