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Show CELEBRATES THIRTY-FIFTH THIRTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY Captain of Chicago White Sox Observes Birthday. Ec'die Collina Was Picked Up by the Philadelphia Athletics in 1906 S'.ill Playing Wonderful Game at the Keystone Sack, Eddie Collins, second baseman and captain of the Chicago White Sox, one of the greatest stars ever in baseball, celebrated his birthday recently. "Captain Eddie" was thirty-five years old, or more appropriately, young. In the fifteenth year of his long and honorable major league career, ca-reer, he is going as strong as he was in the firt, or the fifth, or the tenth, and It can't be safely predicted how sfz W j many more years he will be playing his old, steady, wonderful game around the keystone sack, at bat and on the paths. . Edward' Trowbridge Collins was born at Millerton, N. J., May 2, 18,87, and played his first baseball, aside from that with other small urchins, on the town common in 1004, with the Columbia university team at New York. He was a college player in 1!X)5 and lOOO, and in 1006 be was picked up by the Philadelphia American Ameri-can league club. In that first year he used the name of "Eddie Sullivan," because be-cause as a college player he could not participate in organized baseball find retain his amateur standing. When Collins first went to Philadelphia Philadel-phia he was tried out at short and third base, and the ensuing year he played shortstop. In 1008, with the Athletics, he alternated at second base, third base and shortstop in 102 games, and hit for an average of .273, his lowest low-est average since he entered the ranks of organized basebH. j The White Sox captain has been In sfx vvorld's series, has stolen more liases than any other world's series- j. player, and his work in those classics probably outshone that of any other individual. Collins came to Chicago in 1014 by transfer, the So paying a reported $"0,000 for him. The Sox infield leader Is a resident of a Philadelphia suburb. He lias two sons, one four and the other ten years of age. Eddie's latest hobby is radio. |