Show White Sox in Top Spot e After Year Two-Year Quest erL all il L t I IBy By WILLIAM WEEKES IB iii Cot nf Associated Press Sports Writer 9 redo CHICAGO May 7 Those 7 Those wild eyed citizens riding on south ut aM b st st. bound Chicago street cars and elevated trains these afternoons are I not escaped lunatics They arc are just White Sox baseball fans r Their White Sox were leading the American league Tuesday for Tuesday for the first time since the third day of the 1033 1933 season A lot of the citizens silent since the club became chronically chronically chronically chron chron- addicted to lower second division division divi divi- sion berths have started talking about how tough it will be to ge get Jimmy Dykes' Dykes team out of first firs place The citizens may be bc wild-eyed wild anc and the Sox Soc themselves a trifle excited but th theman most vitali vitally concerned Owner J. J T. T Louis Comiskey is taking It all aU very calmly Owner Feels Natural For the first time in ten years I feel Ceel perfectly natural about the club he said I OIl never got used to seeing the White Sox In the secom second division So being up there just makes me feel teel perfectly natural Since 1925 Comiskey and his fa father father fa- fa ther the late Charles Albert Comiskey Comiskey Comis Comis- kc key before him reaped nothing but disappointment from the White Sox The Tho last contender the 11 1925 25 club fell apart when Manager Eddie Collins Cobbins Collins Col Cob lins bins stepped on a baseball The mishap mishap mishap mis mis- hap caused an Injury which took Collins from tho the lineup resulting in a large barge White Sox Last season established an all- all time low in White Sox fortunes for tor they never got out of or last place Tuesday they led the Cleveland Indians by a half-game half led the league In fielding with a percentage of or and ranked second to Philadelphia philadelphia Phila delphia in team batting with 2 to for the Athletics Rookie Leads Pitchers A recruit right hander John Whitehead from Dallas Texas was the leading pitcher with four tour straight victories Zeke Bonura was the leading scorer with 19 runs and was tied with Jimmy Foxx Fox of th the Athletics in home runs rung at six each Vernon George Washington ton had the most doubles seven Jack Hayes Hayos had 23 hits to share honors with Foxx and Bob John Johnson on of ot the Athletics and Rip Radcliff's three e triples gave him a tie with Foxx and Joe Cronin of Boston All of or which are reasons why the citizens heading south on the street streetcars streetcars streetcars cars and elevated trains are wild wild- eyed these att afternoons |