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Show ED WALSH DOES WELL AS WHITE SOX COACH Has Just the Temperament Needed as Gleason's Aid in Teaching Young Stars. Ed Walsh is making good on his Job as coach of the White Sox. When the Moose returned to his old boss, C. A. Comiskey, this spring, after an absence ab-sence of ten years, many were the surmises sur-mises as to what the great spitball pitcher of other days would do as aid to Kid Gleason. Some fear was expressed that Big Ed would do too much strutting and too little else, but Walsh was smart enough to know that if he made a success suc-cess in the new role of coach he would have to forget how big a factor he wcs on the diamond fifteen years ago. The big fellow, as fine a looking athlete today to-day as he ever was, took his new job seriously, and learning Gleason's system sys-tem after a few pointers from the Kid, buckled down to business and taught the young pitchers what he knew from the moment the battery men arrived at camp. He has been keeping up this instruction ever since. Walsh has gone on hikes with the pitchers, catchers and fielders over rough country roads, through fields and over fences and has always set the pace. He loves the open, loves the company of young fellows and above all he Is a bug on baseball. But let some one in a party of fans or the players themselves around the hotel at night ask Walsh something about himself and his unequaled record for games won In a single season and he will turn the conversation into other channels. "Forget it," is his only warning that the past, so far as he Is concerned, is dead and buried. |
