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Show Chicago, 1917 American League Champions r CLARENCE ROWLAND came to the Chicago White Sox as manager three years ago. He succeeded James Callahan. Calla-han. Burins his first season, as pilot for Comiskey's club, he finished third: last season his team won sixteen straight names toward the end of the season, but failed to overtake Boston by two games. v This sef-,on Rowland, although under some severe handicaps, reached the final drive with only one cripple. Weaver, third baseman. Rowland was born at Platt-viile. Platt-viile. Wis.. Feb. 12, l ST9. He began his baseball career In 1003 as a catcher with the Dubuque, Iowa, team of the Three-t league. Later he went to Peoria, where he piloted a pennant winner. He then came to the Chicago Americans. Although Al-though he wears a uniform, he does not take an active part in the games aside from coaching. He bats and throws right-handed, is five feet nine inches tail and weighs -HiS pounds. Rowland is a calm leader on the field, and seldom ."pans" a player for an error. Instead he "jollies" his men, and this method has won him the admiration of the players. i i He is married and resides In Chicago. t Lowland is a good Judge of young players. Af several of the men on the present . Chicago team were recommended to Comiskey Co-miskey by Rowland, while the latter was in t lie minor league. . When Rowland broke into baseball, the first club he played with did not have a suit small enough and the pants slid down to his ankies. Thereupon he was nicknamed "pants," and this name has stuck to Rowland ever since. WILLIAM ("KID") GLEASON, coach of the White Sox, has been in the major leagues for thirty years. Gleason, who was born October 26, 1305. at Camden, N. .1., began his baseball career in at Williamsport, Pa. He was with the Chicago Chi-cago Americans for a time under Man- -y ager Callahan, and when Rowland needed need-ed an assistant President Comtskey reengaged re-engaged Gleason. Although he is old enough to be the father of most of the players, he is active and as handy with boxing gloves as any man on the team. He. weighs 173 pounds and is five feet seven- and one-quartur inches tall. He is married and lives In Philadelphia, Pa. This ia his fifth year with the Chicago k club. Gleason was a member of the fa-mous fa-mous Baltimore Orioles and Is a master of the, art of handling players and keeping keep-ing them in training. He bats and throws right-handed. EDWARD V. CICOTTE, pitcher, was born in Detroit, June 1ft, 1SS4, and began professional baseball in 1004 at Sault Ste. Marie. Mich." Cicotte has had a varied $ career. He was a member of the Detroit Americans, having gone there with Ty Cobb from the Augusta. Ga.. club of the Southern association. He was sent back and later became a member of the Boston Americans. He was released by Boston to the Chicago White Sox about six years ago. He. bats and throws right-handed. Cicotte is married and resides in Detroit. This season has been the best of his ca-i ca-i reer and he is the leading pitcher of the league, rated on earned runs per game. He has mastered a delivery dubbed the "shine hall," which, although a myth, ap-' ap-' parent ly, was declared legal by the Airier - I ican league. However, his great work lias not all been attributed to the "shine boll," as he uses an assortment of curves. ' All told he has been In the major leagues ' for ten vears. He weighs 160 pounds and la five feet eight inches taJl. 'J. URBAN (RED) FAB ER, pitcher, better V- known as "Red." is one of Manager Rowland's Row-land's discoveries, lie was born September Septem-ber 6, US 8. at Cascade, Iowa, where he now resides. He began his baseball career ca-reer under Rowland at Dubuque, Iowa, in 13 oft, and came to the Chicago Americans .our years ago. lie hats either right or left-handed, but. pitches right-handed. He has an assortment of curves and a Ercwid "spit hall" delivery. He is rated as one of the best right-hand pitchers in the league. "Red" Is six feet tall and weighs 175 pounds. He is not married. Fa her got a late start this season owing to illness and this kept the club down in the race for some time. When he re- covered he took his regular turn on the mound and has been winning consistently. ALBERT E. (REB) RUSSELL, pitcher, known around the American league circuit cir-cuit a st "Reb." was horn March 12, 1SS! at Jackson, Miss., and began his baseball base-ball career at Bonham. Tox., in 1012. He is a. left-handed pitcher and batter and has been in 1 he major league four years, a.lwavs having ben a member of the Chicago Chi-cago club. This season when "Reb" re-' re-' ported for training his left arm was crooked. A specialist advised him to keep pitching and the crook would work out. Russell" labored hard and. although the crook dirt not leave him, he has been effective. ef-fective. Russell is one of the best batting bat-ting pitchers in the league. He is five feet eleven inches tall and weighs 19 pounds He Is married and lives in ln-4 ln-4 dinnapolis. Ind. before -om!ng to Chicago Chi-cago Russell was a member of the Wichita, Kan., team of the Western league. DAVE DANFORTH, pitcher, is known as the "Ed" Walsh of the lfil? Chicago ciub Danforth gained this distinction i when called upon many times this sea- i son to save games apparently lost. Sev- i . "" oral times he went In with none out and v" the napes filled and yet won. He uses the same delivery and displays the samn cunning -is F-ddle Cicotte. hut throws and bnts left-handed. Danforth is six feet tall and weighs 170 pounds. He was born at Granger. Tox., March 7. 190, and be-e-'Ui hi baseball career at Philadelphia in 1311 He has had three years of major l Irague experience, the last two years of L which have been with Chicago. He is m-irried and regies in Granger Tex. He Nfrwns obtained bv Chicago from the Lou Is --ille American associa Hon club. CLAUDE WILLIAMS, pitcher., is another an-other left-handed t wirier. He was born March 0 13, at Aurora, Mo., and broke into baseball in UM'J at Nashville. Tenu. He hi been In the major leagues for two vears' having been a member of (ho Chi-w Chi-w ra-o''club riming that period. He Is one nfthe moot effective southpaws in the Lxu Mo bats right-handed. He Is banned and lives r Sprln.iield Mo Williams Is u-ot s2 im'hes tall and wei'-hs t0 pounds. "Lefty" camo to the Chicago club from the Salt Lake team of the pacific Coast league. JOE BENZ. pitcher, known as Rhtzen Ioe " was born in New Alsace. Ind.. .Tan-in .Tan-in r'v 21 1 s S C . and made his baseball debut a Clarksburg. W. V.. in Hens went into the major seven years a eo. p0 became a member of the t hioago b b Mo is G foot I inch tai. weighs 104 nomuls' bats and throws right-handed, is married and cellos in Chicago. III. Penz 'hV iln excellent record, but this season he has been unsuccessful in most of his y starts. MELVIN WOLFGANG. pitcher, haft been a member of the Chicago club for our vears. This Is the length of lis n-aTor league career also. Wolfgang has done mile work in the regular champion-i.bin champion-i.bin irimos. but his work in butMnn prac-'shocn prac-'shocn a aront help to the team, in' nr ieti-e Wolfgang: works as hard j 'I though he was In a regular came, and i- :hW has had a tendency to sharpen the I bitting eves of the players. He came to I Ohlca-'o from Lowell. Mass. He hats and 1 throw right-handed. He was born March "0 ISaU. at Albany. N. v.. and V In' VUW he started his baseball career in his home town. He invul re- I,, the city of his biito. ol.ganc r f00t 7 inches tall and weighs 160 pOilIldS. . JAMES SCOTT, pitcher (eligible, but will mu participate is a tall rangy right-hander, who. when "ght wasj one of the best pitchers ni the league. He le i thc ciub the tirst part ot sCp- j tomber to join the officers; reserve train- ing corps at Presidio, ovib. but the players have voted him a full share of the I world's series money. S-cott was with the riub longer than any other player, having eome to Comiskey 'nine years ago from the Wichita, Kan.. Western league club. "Death Vallev Jim." as he was known, was born In 1SS8. He batted and threw right-handed. He began playing in Lander, Wyo.. his home town. He is now at the officers' training camp, San Francisco. . RAY SCHALK, catcher, is the first-string first-string receiver of the White Sox. He has participated in almost every game this season, and is said by some critics to be the best catcher in the American league. He Is a hard worker, a good general and judge of plays, and his work in steadying steady-ing pitchers and infielders has earned him much praise. He is said to be the "big spoke" in the Rowland machine, and when he is out of the game is sorely missed. His first baseball engagement was as a member of the Taylorsville, III., team. Later he went toMilwaukee, from which ciub he broke into,, the major league as a member of the Chicago club six years ago. He was born at Harvey, III., August 12. 1S92; is married and lives at Litchfield, ni. He is 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighs 150 pounds. He bats and throws right-handed. BYRD LYNN, catcher, is playing his second year with the Chicago club. He is an understudy to Schalk in the catching catch-ing department. He bats and throws right-handed. Lynn was born March 13, 1S91. at Unionville, 111., where he now lives. He is married. He began baseball base-ball in 1913 at Sacramento, Cal., and later went to Salt Lake, from which team he came to Chicago. Lynn is 5 feet 11 3 inches tall and weighs 170 pounds. JOSEPH JENKINS, third catcher, also bats and throws right-handed. He is single. sin-gle. He was born October 12, 1891, at Shelbyville. Tenn., and started his baseball base-ball career in 1013 at Memphis, Tenn. He has been two years in the major leagues. Jenkins came to the Chicago club from Houston and is playing life first year with Comiskey's team. He is 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighs 175 pounds. His home is in Hanford, Cal. ARNOLD (CHICK) GAND1L, first baseman, was born in St. Paul, Minn., January 19. 1SS9, and started baseball as j a profession in 190$ at Shreveport. He lias been in the American league seven years. He played a year for Chicago, but was later released. He then played with Washington and later went to Cleveland. At' the start of the present season Jack I Ness, upon whom Comiskey had relied for 1 first base, could not agree On terms with I the boss of the White Sox. At that time ' Candil, who was the property of the ! Cleveland Americans, had not reported, j Cleveland was willing to let Gandil go I and Comiskey purchased his contract. Gandil has fielded well and his batting has been better than the average. He bats and throws right-handed. He is 6 feet 2 Inches tall, weighs 196 pounds, is married and lives in Chicago. ROBERT HASBROOK, first baseman, is playing his first year with Chicago. He was signed by Comiskey last fall, but was sent to the Muscatine. Iowa, Central association club. He was recalled toward the close of the season. Hasbrook is a first baseman, and bats and throws right-handed. right-handed. He was born in Grundy Center, Iowa. November 21, 1893, and started in baseball at Oshkosh in 1913. He is 6 feet 1 lz inches tall, weighs 1S5 pounds, is single sin-gle and lives in Muscatine, Iowa. THEODORE JOURDAN, first baseman, was born September 5, 1S95, at New Orleans, Or-leans, and began his ba'sebal! career in 1915 at Austin, Texas. "Ted" was obtained ob-tained by Chicago from the St. Joseph club of the Western league and is playing play-ing his first year in the majors. He is left-handed. He is 6 feet tall and weighs ITS pounds: is unmarried and resides in New Orleans. 1 EDWARD T. COLLINS, second baseman, base-man, is one of the leading ball players in the country ia in his fifth . world's series and completing his eleventh major league season. This year Collins did not get started well, but toward the middle or' the season began to show his old-time ability. He was a member of the Philadelphia Phila-delphia Athletics, and his work at that time was far superior to other second basemen in the league. Collins went to the Athletics in 1906 from Columbia university uni-versity and was one of the star members mem-bers of Connie Mack's "$100,000 infield." When Mack started rebuilding his team three years ago Collins was sold to the Chicago team. He was born at Millerton. X. V.. May 2. 1SS7. He is 0 feet 9 inches tall, weighs 164 pounds, is married and lives in Lansdowne, Pa. CHARLES A. RISBERG, shortstop, alias "The Swede." has been the missing link which has made it possible for Chicago Chi-cago to win the American league pennant. pen-nant. After Weaver was moved to third base the' shortstop position was the weak snot on the team until Risberg arrived. Risberg has a powerful arm and is a dangerous dan-gerous batter. He bats and throws right-handed. right-handed. This is his first year in the "major "ma-jor leagues. He was obtained by Chicago from the Vernon, Cal., club of the Pacific. Coast league. He began his baseball career with Ogden, Utah, in 191C. Me is 6 feet tall, weighs 170 pounds and is a fast fielder and runner. He was born in San Francisco, Cal.. October 13, 1S94, is married and lives in San Francisco. GEORGE WEAVER, third base, has a reputation as a daring player. "Buck" plays third base and his fighting spirit has been an asset to the club. Weaver broke a finger In a game at Washington Washing-ton toward the close of the season, when Ainsmith slid into the bag, and was out of th lineup for some time. He was born August IS, ISfl. at Stowe. Pa., and began playing in 1910 at Northampton, Mass. He came to Chicago from San 1 Francisco six years ago. He bats right Or left-handed and throws with the right. He is exceptionally fast on the bases and I a dangerous man nt bat in the pineh. He I Is f. feet 103t inches tall, weighs IfiS pounds, is married and lives In Chicago. 1 FRED M'MULLIN. infielder, who was I born in Scammon, Kan.. October ., IS!)!, and came to Chicago two years ago from the Los Angeles team, filled in at third hase while Weaver's injury was mending. He is a good sacrifice hitter and a steady fielder. McMullin started in baseball in 1912 at Seattle. Wash. He is 5 feet lu1 inches tall and weighs lti; pounds. He is married and lives in Los Angeles. He bats and throws right-handed. ROBERT BYRNE, infielder (eligible, but released), has been in the major leagues for eleven years. He is being , talked of as one of the luckiest players in baseball. Shortly after breaking into the big leagues he was traded to the Pittsburg Nationals. Then they won a pennant and took part in the world's series. se-ries. L-ater he was. sent to the Philadelphia Philadel-phia Nationals, which team won a pennant pen-nant and Byrne again participated in a world's series. This season, when Philadelphia Phila-delphia signed Johnny Evers, Byrne was given his unconditional release. He intended in-tended to retire from baseball, and went to his home in St. Louis. When Weaver was hurt President Comiskey sought Byrne to backstop possible injury to McMullin, Mc-Mullin, and as soon as Byrne reported superstitious fans began to predict a pennant pen-nant for Chicago and another world's e-ries e-ries for Byrne. Bobby was born December Decem-ber 31, 1885, at St. Louis, Mo. He is married. He started in baseball in 1904 at Fort Scott, Kan. He is 5 feet S Inches tall and weighs 150 pounds, JOSEPH JACKSON, left field, is one of Comiskey's great outfielders. He has a strong arm and with it has cut off many a run at the plate. Jackson has been one of the best batters in the league, but this season he did not strike his stride until late in the year. He bats left-handed left-handed and throws right-handed. Jackson Jack-son has been in the major leagues for eight years. He was obtained from the Cleveland club three years ago by Chicago. Chi-cago. He started his baseball days in 190$ at Greenville, S. C, his home city, where he was born on July 16, 1SS7. Jackson Jack-son is 6 feet tall and weighs 175 pounds, j He is married. OSCAR FELSCH, center field, is said by some critics to be as good a fielder as Tris Speaker. This is his third year on the club. He came to Comiskey from Milwaukee. Like Jackson, he is blessed with a powerful arm, and except for Russell Rus-sell has the best batting average on the team. "Happy" got tbe baseball fever In 1913, when he started to play at Fond du Lac, Wis. He is 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighs 175 pounds, is married and lives in Milwaukee, Wis., where he was born, April 7, 1S91. JOHN COLLINS, right field, is the team veteran. He has been in the major leagues for eight years, always as a member of the Chicago club. He alternated alter-nated in right field with Leibold, and occasionally oc-casionally plays center. He also has filled In at first base. "Shano'' was born at Charlestown, Mass., December 4, 1SS5. He started his baseball career at Haverhill, Mass., in 1907. He bats and throws right-handed, right-handed, is 5 feet inches tall, weighs 175 pounds, is married and lives in Pitts-field, Pitts-field, Mass. HARRY LEI BOLD, right field, is the ! "shorty of the club, and Is called : "Nemo." He is only n feet 5 Inches tall, and weighs 154 pounds. "Nemo" alternates alter-nates with John Collins in right field. He was obtained from the Cleveland club three years ago, and has boen in the ' major leagues for five years. He' was born February 17. 1S92, at Butler, Intl., and first played professionally fn 1911 at Milwaukee. He throws right-handed but bats from the first-ba.se side of the pla.te. He waits out a pitcher and makes a. good lead-off man. He is married and lives In Detroit. ! EDWARD MURPHY, outfielder, who I came to the Chicago club three years ago from the Philadelphia Athletics as an outfielder, was beaten out by John Collins Col-lins and Leibold for the regular position in right field, and as a result became a pinch hit tor. Murphy has been in t he American league six years. He started his baseball work in 191 1 at Scran ton. Fa. He is 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighs lfiO pounds. He was born October '2, ISftl, at Hancock, N. Y. He, bats left-handed left-handed and throws right-handed. He is married and lives in Dunmore, Fa. |
