Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-02-23 | Page 8 | White Sox Barely Touched by War

WHITE SOX BARElY TOUCHED BY BYAR WAR As AI tho the baseball season nears it it becomes be- be tomes comes more and more apparent that the White Sox will have more than an even I chance to finish on tho the top of the heap leap next fall Of Ot all the clubs in the American league the White Sox alone ahone have been scarcely touched by the war while the other seven have been more or less disrupted by the I enlistment or drafting of essential play play- ers era About all Clarence Rowland has to fear at this time is that his star pitcher Red Faber will wil be called into service Faber is unmarried ed and has been placed in class 1 A. A He has stated that he will not ask askI exemption I Rowlands Rowland's big problem last year ear was i his Pitching Pitching- staff shUt Outside of CIcotte find and nd Faber he ha had no consistently reliable I nu pitchers r Williams an and l Danforth were about his hi i best bets and they perhaps will be able to como through with some good I pitching this Russell and Benz are about through Should Faber enter ter the army Rowland will have the Job of finding another good pitcher r to n take his place Paul Musser I iron man of ot tho the Western Vestern league will Start the season with the hi Sox but his suc- suc cess as a major leaguer is ls Problematical I Otherwise the e team itam R Rowland Wa d will place on th the fi f field is the same that defeated the Giants in the world series last fall talL The Ind Indians ans and Red Sox chief contenders con conw I tenders iS with the he White Sox ox last las year After are AU both the tile h pretty Indians y hard wt lilt by fey th the war had solved their big iI problem mw by Pc putting Harris at first b base base J ri I Harris i wail caught t in the e a draft rl and I Cleveland faces the Proposition of ot find find- log Ing another first baseman The Indian pitching staff is badly crippled b by the I los loss ot of Ed I The lIed So Sox Sox-m T must st either make malte Stuffy Stuff McInnis Into a second baseman or find someone who will be suitable on the keystone keystone key key- stone sack as both Barry and J are ae In 1 war service Third r base also presents e a problem I for Boston since Gardiner dr has been sent to