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Show FORMER COASTER MAKES GOOD SEATTLE STAR HAS ODD STORY - --r. ' ' - .. . . "8TUBBY" MACK. By Billy Evans i CHtCAOO; Oct. 11. Turn the apot'lltht on "Btubby" Mack, the Chicago Whltei H' latest pitching recruit to make ( good. I lege. Oakland, which has given to the major leiigu'-a such ritHrs as Harry Hooper. Hoop-er. I Hi f f v I.e w la, I u t cii I .eotiard. 1 -ouiae ;uito. besiuea many other big leugue ceinrif leu. Hiitces as a college pitcher canted ("Htubhy" to take a whirl In lh minora. TRIED THE MINORS. ljim year he waa with Calgary, In th Western Canada league. Thi year he went to Seattle, of tha Vaciflc Coaat leaarue. Report hat It that Chicago gava ntcher Ferdy Scupp and 15. AyO for Mack. The latter came h ah but his work In hla first starts mad It look as if he were - worth It. ' Mack is a right-hander. He measures about lx feft and weighs around 10 pounds. He has good speed and an excellent ex-cellent curve. If he cornea through as Robertson. Lverette and Biankenship did. the White Hm will atart VjU with a fotmidable pitching etff. During hit major league debut at Beaton Bea-ton August 1 Mack lut a well pitched game i to 1. "r six Innings he was oti the way to a hutout. when loss of control con-trol proved his undoing. On week later he mad bta second start against Washington, and shut out the National I to 0, allowing only five hltt. 1'retty fair getaway for a 2: -year -old recruit t , There tw hit pf wpnrt romanf III the rise of ,,ritulby" Mack to the ambition of every youngster who can play bail th major ItMtKuea. SEVEN YEARS AGO. Seven year ago the Chicago Whit Hox played an exhibition game at Man jHego, Cal. Thy trained on the coat that year 11 and aa there was in exposition nt San Diego. H offered a lucrative lu-crative field for this exhibition. In th couree of th H.in llego game a llttl Mexican' boy aneaked along the White Sox bench, tucked Ray rk-hnlk's favorite catchltig mttt under his blouse and started for th Mexican quarter of the town. "Htubby" -Mack, then a youngster of ir, aaw the theft and gave chase. After catching the fugitive it was necessary for "Htubby to dlspkav bis flattc. superiority, su-periority, hefor he regained possession of th glove. When he returned the glove to rUhslk, he was presented with four new bails and an old glove for hla honesty. STILL WEARS OLOVE. JT still uses the glov. Seven years later Mack made hla de-hut de-hut aa a major league pitcher with Xrhalk as his battery partner. It sounds like a baseball fairy tale, hut It' plain fact and Just goes to prov that truth often Is stranger than fiction. M'l.-k 1 a rm-M'-t of St Mury's col- |