Show I i iWHO'S IWHO'S WHO'S WHO IN WORLDS WORLD'S SERIES I JOSEPH JACKSON I I White Sox Outfielder I L nun I I I i I OR the tue first time in seven years ears F FOR a as a major league er Shoeless Joe J Jackson cyson has hall failed this tills season to 10 rank rani with the hitters n the American m league ue i Up II I H. H tl- tl tin tin tim the White hite Sox swung tnt into t the a home sr in their rac f. f for fr forthe r the pennant Jacksons Jackson's average ranged around but regardless of oC whether or not he reaches the mark before LeCore the season closes his lois hitting this season cannot be for he has delivered countless times limes in the pinches and after all that is what counts the most Jacksons Jackson's batting endeavors since he hI first became a major league fixture with tle the Cleveland club in 1911 have been I brilliant but ng to him The lowest average he lie has ever turned In InI prior to this year ear was in 1916 1915 and find I for three successive seasons from 1911 to 1913 he lie made male hot races for the batI batting batting bat bat- I ting championship of his league only to be beaten out by Ty Cobb the great Georgian Jackson Jaclson is on one of the few players inthe inthe in inthe I the majors toda today who has batted better belter than In 1911 he turned In n a final runs finalI average of against st f for C Cobb af lt 3 I The following 10 year e he hoe b- b batted d and i I Cobb wound up with In 1913 he hoe I hit bit against for Cobb the Georgia Geor Geor- gia gla Peach It has always been the same I stor story story story-no no no matter how hard hoard Jackson hit hitI I tho the hall ball his lois rival from Georgia walloped it just lust a little harder hoarder Jackson is now 30 0 years carS old some eight months younger than Cobb and andali andas tm as great ball players go he hoe has at least five years ears more before him as a major leaguer His batting average this year ear cannot be taken as an indication that behas he be I has gone back It I Is a a. safe bet that be before before before be- be fore ho he hangs up his lois spikes he lie will rank rani among the hitters several times more giore I Like Cobb Shoeless Joe Is a South South- erner He was nas born at Brandon Mills l I S. S C. C July 16 1187 and he Ite first came Into notice as a pla player lr with the GreenI Greenville Green Green- I ville vl town team a semiprofessional club In ito Tue following year ho hoe was I signed by the team teano of the Carolina Carolina Caro Caro- lina hina association and in seven eighty I games gaines he turned in a slugging average of or Up to the season of 1911 when he hoe came tame cameto tameto I to the majors to stay he played with several minor league teams and was tried I out twice by bv the Athletics and once b by Cleveland In his hots last year ear In the minors at New Orleans in 1910 he hoe batted I and anti he is one of the ver very few players ers who has Ions come conic up to the majors and succeeded succeeded suc sue In turning in a better batting average his first year up than he hoe load had I made marle in ito the minor le leagues I I Always rated as one of the greatest players in the big leagues jacKson JacIson was I sought by many managers ers who tried to purchase him fr from m the Cleveland club But Hut Charley Somers former owner of I the Indians would not part with his star Finally when Somers suffered a a. severe I financial setback he was forced to sell Jackson and the player went to the White Sox in n August u 1915 in a deal i t I it gl pf that involved n e em m more than an Play Play- Players ers Roth and Klepfer were turned over overto overto overto to Cleveland for Jackson and it is said saidI I that Comiske e laid haiti out at least in cold cash to 10 complete the deal |