Show T First Pale Sox Surge Won Pennant I By GRANTLAND RICE The new White Sox which the wearers of the Pale Hose started some time recalled again the first White Sox rally which i won a pennant and later a world series ik j J f ine as well as consistent py- Rice manager Paul who has turned in an amazing whatever happens later At the time of the first White Sox we were toiling in the Cleveland vineyard where Larry Lajoie was in Late in July or early Cleveland had a good chance to win the The White Sox Wonders were in seventh and rapidly going Then suddenly it began to The helpless Sox began to win game after until they had won 19 in a row and moved into first place How did this happen so In the first they had a grand catcher Billy In the second place they had a fine pitching staff headed by Big Ed Doc White and Nick The Sox couldn't hit but they had a strong defensive with Jiggs Frank George Rone in the infield and a good outfield built around Fielder The ballplayer who actually led the White Sox insurrection was Jiggs the fiery Irishman playing He not only handled the bag but he was the flaming spirit of the If any one of his fellow players started loafing or not giving his entire Donahue would threaten to brain He rode the team with savage and untiring That Sox rally won the 1906 pennant although Cleveland had a great with seven or eight hitters and a fine pitching staff that had Addie William Otto Dusty Earl Moore and But this which Bill Cotton Turner and Claude Rossman on the field couldn't quite meet that wild Sox The World Series Upset The White Sox carried their rush on through the world where they were not given a faint The Cubs had just won the National league pennant with victorious They had the brilliant Johnny Kling back of the Three-Finger Ed Jack and others in the Tinker and in the plus a star They looked But what the populace at large overlooked was the Sox pitching Ed Walsh was just coming into his own as the greatest star of all Two years later he won 40 games and saved 12 working In 60 games that Doc White was the sole Ty Cobb Nick Altrock was another There was one funny development as the series There was a big Irishman named Fog Finnegan who had been a hot Cub Fog worked in a saloon on the West Side near the ball Most of the players or many of them were his Just before the first game Fog stood up and hundred dollars on the West There were no So Finnegan tried hundred dollars on the West Still no Then the batteries were For the West Side Reulbach and For the South Side Walsh and Fog Finnegan swallowed leaped again to his and called hundred on the South Side them's the It has been a long time since the White Sox have had the chance to wipe out that 1919 where the white suddenly changed to They have been shooting at a now a matter of 32 The Other DiMaggio More than a few pieces for newspapers and magazines have been written about Lou Gehrig's long span under Babe Ruth's gigantic Big Lou of Columbia and the Yankees drew more than normal cheering during his brilliant but no one can doubt that his partnership with Ruth was on the junior There was only one Babe In the same there is no questioning the fact that a better than fair player is known as No one can doubt that as good as he isn't quite another Dom is about 30 or 35 points back of his older brother when It comes to his lifetime batting But Dom is just about as good an outfielder as Joe or anyone The two and Terry Moore are the best I've seen since Tris and all three are up around the Speaker |