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MJipiilWFJt!1- VJiJJJIilPAlJiL.ll Betting on th'e series is about even, with a few partisans willing to give odds on the Sox. Cub enthusiasts, remembering last year's disaster, are more cautious. Honor to Hans Wagner, the Ger man Pirate, theljrealest batter base ball has ever seen, or probably will see under the present system. When Hans got his second hit off Humphries yesterday in the Cub Pittsburgh game he pulled his batting average up to .300 for the seven teenth consecutive season, a record never before equaled. Wagner started his big league ca reer away back in 1897 with Louis ville, under Barney Dreyfuss, for whom he has played continuously since. The first mention of Wagner in the records is in connection with an average of .344. Prom then until the present date he has never fallen below the .300 mark. His second year was his poorest performance, his standing being .305. Hans reach ed high-water mark in 1900 with a percentage of .380, figures he has been unable to touch Bince. Since 1900 Wagner's lowest record was .320, collected in1910. He ral lied in 1911 with .334 and dropped ten points below that last season. Hans had trouble at the start of the present campaign, and kept below the .300 line. He hit with his former vigor, but the ball always traveled to a waiting fielder. As the season pro gressed he began getting his drives safe, and though the pull has been hard, he landed in the circle yester day. Larry Lajoie is the only man who even approaches Wagner, but the Big Nap had a break of a couple of sea sons. Cobb, Jackson, Speaker and some of the newer stars have regis tered records much higher than Wag ner's for individual years, but the test of their worth, as compared to the Dutchman, will come as they travel along the trail. Can they stick above .300 for seventeen years in a row? Will their marvelous eyes and high- j strung nerves stand the strain of nearly a score of campaigns? It is highly improbable. There is but one Wagner. Mosely, a recruit, held the Mack men to four hits while the Red Sox mauled Shawkey ten times. Hooper cracked three hits. Another win for Walter Johnson. He held the Yanks to four singles and struck out seven. Ainsmith got a homer and double and Milan spiked a triple and two singles off the Yank boxmen. The Giants got 16 hits andMar quard .held the Dodgers to half that number. Doyle got a single, double and triple; Herzog a double and two singles. Harry Davis, Athletic coach, was in the grandstand to get a line on the Giants. Harry was not pleased over the power of the Giant attack. Cravath and Schmidt got two hits in each game of the Philly-BostOn double-header. Chalmers pitched fine ball for the Phils in the opener. Dooin used 15 players to cop the second. Arthur Devlin, former star third baseman of the Giants, has signed to manage Oakland of the Pacific Coast League. He will take charge Oct 15. New York won "the toss at the meeting of the National Commission in Philadelphia yesterday, and the first game of the 1913 world's cham pionship series will be played at the. Polo grounds Tuesday, Oct. 7. This is the third consecutive year that the New Yorkers have won the privilege of staging the first game, and on the two former occasions they were trim mer for the championship. Pood for dope-eaters. . A William Klem and Charles Rfgler M were named as the National League umpires ana Tom uonnony ana jacK - Egan as the American arbiters. One new ruling is" that in case of a tie game the contest will not be played off the next day in the city in which the tie occurred, but will be transferred according to the sched ule. In case of postponement the teams will remain in the city where