Show PAUL MUSSER WILL i STRENGTHEN WHITE HITE SOX CHANCES TOI 10 GET M 1918 8 TITLE I IFor For Former er Teammate of Urban j Faber Has Worked Hard i to Get on n Top of Ladder Ladder i i By H. H C. C Hamilton United Press Staff Stat Correspondent NEW EW YORK April 27 The The addition of cit I one good pitcher to the tho hurling corps u the thc Chicago White Sox makes the worlds world's championship baseball club loom nore stron strongly ly than ever as the 1918 champlon cham- cham I plon of or the American league Paul Mussers Musser's trials and tribulations in re repeated repeated re- re efforts to reach the heights re-j re of or seem to have ended and he ho appears to have made the White I Sox pitching staff as strong as the inner and aad o iter defenses of or this really great I baseball club time was when Paul Musser lusser and Urban ber ml minor or it together in Des I Morne IA lar f formed one of or the strongest Bitching combinations ai that I t the Western I If league ever has gazed upon Faber a un- un f 3 2 b Is drafted will wilt be with the White Ox again this year ear and this pair of or I s l. backed up b by Eddie Cicotte Reb i and the rest of or the Sox start staff I bould again form a team of greatness greatness greatness' the pitching box r 1 J has been foiled rolled in Il t to break into big league doings And d a each ach time he has been shunted back Vo 0 Frank Isbell the old bald eagle eale of or the Western league who has hal developed so many Many tar star pitchers he has ceased to cia em cm Washington took Musser Husser up p and jAvo him a thorough trial a but the J young oung- et star ter e was so 50 ot wild rl there wasn't a chance r for fr r him fo so back he went ent He lie made another another an an- other trip to Washington ton with the same and then Isbell Ishell unloaded his great greatS S on Indianapolis And even there ere he lie couldn't stick He ito had to beat sK t back ck to Des Moines But ut this time it appears It will take S 5 lat tu year was in st the something m Western fe of cit al an league a iron mI man He Ha pitched DItched far more games than any of his club members and his percentage of or orIc vieS vie vie- S and losses looms among a lot of or bod Od youngsters and veterans who ert terl the Western last summer He lie is a a. fod artist allows few rew hits in his and If It he has gained the proper he will be a a. dependable pitcher I for the Sox o c e certainly should be able to do Her better than either Williams Williams- or Danforth j l Ip took the pair pall of these handed left birds lg win a ball game last a summer for r al- al rM bloat II Invariably a when h one es started he rh h hadt had d t to be lifted when signs si of or weakness With Ith Faber Russell and Cicotte tA carry the heavy heRVY end of or the w work ork and rUh Musser allowed time to go along long I easily he should rou round into confident win win- nina form torm for the Sox late te in the season eason win win-I J ve heu youth and vigor will count for more than ban in the early tl days Ja s I |