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Show Eddie Collins Is Best "Waiter Out" in League Among other records accredited to Eddie Collins, veteran second baseman of the White Sox. Umpires Billy Evans Ev-ans and Clarence Rowland of the Ban Johnson circuit have awarded him the honors for running up the batting count to "two and three" more times than any other player In the major leagues. And still the batting records show-that show-that Collins fanned but eight times In 145 games last season. Rowland recalled the surest Indication Indica-tion of a tlt;ht place when Collins Is at the plate he reaches for the wad of gum on the button of his rap. As a consistent walter-out who rarely rare-ly falls to deliver on the third swing, Collins Is unrivaled in the major leagues, Evans declares. |