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Show UNIQUE RECORD SET BY CATCHER SCHALK Toils in Over 103 Games Each Season for Seven Years. , r Little Backstop of Chicago White Sox Team Is in Class by Himself He Is Light in Weight, but Not Often Injured. Seven years ago Hill (ileason hurst into the private ollices of Charles A. Comiskey, wearing a large smile on his sun-seamed countenance ami grasping firmly by the arm a slight youih. Hill exclaimed: "Say, boss. I've got the greatest young est ichor I ever saw." Mr. Comisky smiled. For years en-thusiaslie en-thusiaslie persons had been lipping him off to "the greatest this" and "the greatest that" who would cause the White Sox to step right out and become be-come world's champions. "Can he en tell Kd Walsh?" the boss inquired. "Say, he can catch any pitcher that ever lived," Gleason responded and he can. When he caught in a recent game Ray Schalk had toiled in over 100 games a season for seven consecutive years, which is a world's record in 4 yUit'"'iSfc? f $ Ray Schalk. backstopping. George Gibson, a husky former Pittsburgh receiver, worked in 100 games for six years, hut not consecutively. con-secutively. Even the great John Kling, who helped the Cubs to pennants, pen-nants, had enough first-class assistance assist-ance that he was behind the bat in a century of contests only two years. Schalk stands in a class by himself in more ways than one. He is the smallest of the star catchers, weighing weigh-ing only about 160 pounds. Yet he seldom is hurt and never seriously. Hts catlike speed keeps him out of harm's way. Because of his fast, snappy throw they early hung on him the nickname f Cracker, referring to the way he whips the ball around. |