Show I INOT CUBS LINEUP J A NO NOT CHANGED Chance Depends on This 1 Years Champions to Win Next Season I SOX NEED PATCHING UP t SEVERAL OF BEST MEN MAY QUIT THE GAME 5 I BY BV C A HUGHES cubs will play 1 la lathe the game next year with precisely the tl e same lineup they used this year unless some unforeseen accident happens be between between between tween now and the opening of the season s a on F of 1908 Naturally there Is nothing for t r t I Chance to do but bit stand pat His Hie team proved to J pe e the th best so why paint the r lily Illy That mean a sale of a play pla player i i er or two or lr a trade of some kind wont take place but the deals If any are made f wont take away any of the regular players On the other hand of the world seem to require some som patching 1 up and tinkering with before they are ready to take the field to battle for tor the pennant next season In the first place there seems stems to be no doubt of ot Jones Intention to quit the game came He lie made a flatfooted and unqualified declaration declaration declaration to that effect at Jackson Miss lat last spring during the training season and anil never has wavered from his intentions Big Gap Left by Jones l Filling the tile place left by Jones will wID be bea bea a difficult matter No South Side fan I will believe that there ever was any an i manager quite so 80 clever and capable as the wonderful center fielder ills His ab oh absence 1 sence will be a blow for the Sox Ills His astonishing feats tea in center field will willbe willbe Willbe be missed and his superb handling of the ball players will wilt be ml missed and mourned Losing their greatest ball bait player and a 4 I most capable leader is 18 tough luck Per Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps haps Jones successor whoever er he may ma I turn out to be will develop some orne startling genius In the art of ot handling a ball club dab but he has ha a hard row to hoe If IC he ex cx expects expects to equal Jones Tones record In the four seasons that Jones managed the Sox be he finished first once and supplemented that feat teat by b winning the worlds champion champlon championship ship twice he finished third with a chance for first place until the last la t week w of the season the other time he ran see sec second ond To beat that somebody has bas some stiff stitt work cut out for him lain Parent Tower of Strength In some respects the loss of Jone Jones is made up in the acquisition of ot Freddie Preddie Parent In 1904 1901 when the Boston Amen Ameri Americans cans were champions of the world Par Parent Parent Parent ent was looked upon ae as the tle equal of ot an any shortstop many even placing him In a class by himself Since then he has slumped some the reason for that being the fact that for some time he has beet bee in iii bad with the Boston management Parent Is still in n his prime and there is no ilo reason to suppose he hI wont show al ai his old splendor on a team where conditions condi condl conditions are more to his liking For years Comiskey Comiske has been trying to get hold of a hitter who can canhit canhit canhIt hit Parent is the boy all right He hits hit I any kind of pitching and Is a speedy speed and anu an foxy fox blUe base runner The fans tans expect to see Parent pIa short and George Davis DaYI moved over oer to tt second base George Goorge slowed up a great deal last season There Tiu re were two reasonS reason for it though He lie get the tho benefit benent of ot early training in the south oil ott account of not coming to terms with Comiskey until April I 1 by which time the Sox had hal left the southern sun Fun so Sll efficient In put putting putting putting ting a player pla r of Davis age Into shape Then durIng durin the season Davis Dals sprained his ankle badly bad Jones simply had to tn press him into service before his hh ankle ankh was ready read and naturally he was slow In rounding to S Beat Out Hits to Davis Many a hit to deep de p short was beaten out by the foes on account of Davis condition And many s A drive over second base got away from froni him that he be used to eat up In his palmy days das Parent will be able to cover more ground than Davis as he Is younger sed as a second sacker Backer Davis will wilt b t protected by a shorter throw George orge Is I still a a great ball player and good for tor a couple of ot seasons at second At least It would be a miracle if 11 any an minor leaguer could be picked up and show sho the batting 4 and fielding ability that Is still left In Davis Figuring Davis as 3 the second baseman b eman precludes the return of Isbell Izzy has h s bought the Wichita franchise all aU right but hut he cant play with his team unless I Comiskey releases him and all aU other big league clubs waive claim to him The chances are that Isbell will wUl have a ban hanl har time Ume breaking away from fast tast company Should he return that might complicate the Infield tangle Davis might be left lett at short hort and Parent sent to center field to take Jones Tones place That problem wilt mu work Itself Itsel out In due time Pat Dougherty has gone on record a Ill as assaying saying the season of 1907 1007 was his last in baseball and Hahn too said he wan wag through with the game To hear the th Sox Sos talk one would think all aU were going to quit the diamond but most of them will report as us usual In the spring |