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Show REGARD REYNOLDS FASTEST RUNNER Chicago Star Is Also One of League's Hardest Hitters. He hails from Rattlesnake ranch, does Carl N. Reynolds, White Sox outfielder, out-fielder, who, Chicago fans think, Is the fastest thing in spiked shoes in the American league. Boston rooters declare de-clare that Jack Rothrock, the Red Sox utility player, Is faster. Not much choice between them. Perhaps a race will be arranged for them next season. Anyway, Reynolds calls Rattlesnake ranch his home, the ranch acquiring its name because it also is the residence resi-dence of sundry thousands of rattlers. Perhaps if Carl had gone In for high or broad jumping at college, he would have won national honors, since he has had plenty of practice in dodging that particular brand of snakes who have a sportsmanlike system of telling you when they are going to strike, writes Jack Bolton in the Louisville Courier-Journal. Rattlesnake ranch Is 62 miles out from Del Rio, the nearest town, and Del Rio is 200 miles from San Antonio, An-tonio, so now you know just how far out in the country Carl resides. Said ranch, by the way, is given over to sheep, Carl and hl3 father having about 3,000 on their range now, about half as many as they used to run. The wild western stories tell you that the average plainsman is bow-legged bow-legged from riding horseback, but after you take one look at Carl, who has been riding for the last 15 years, you know you cannot believe all you read. "Suppose you carry two guns when down home on the ranch?" Carl was asked. "Only to kill snakes," was the reply. re-ply. "And I'm not as good with the six gun as with the rifle. Went down in old Mexico hunting three years ago and some Mexican rurales decided we were baMdits or something else. Anyway, they took a few shots at us and we recrossed the Rio Grande in nothing flat." It was when Reynolds was winning letters in fo.ir sports at Southwestern university that a White Sox scout lamped him in 1927 and placed him with the Palestine club of the Lone Star league. All Carl did was to lead the league in batting with ' a mark of .376 and in base running with 32 stolen sacks. Might have done better, but played only 124 games. Then . he came up to Chicago and played in the first big league game he ever saw. Batted only .214 in hts 14 games with the Sox in '27, but he displayed so much rough talent that Charles Comiskey and his lieutenants just about decided he would be a regular reg-ular in 1928, and he was, although being kept out of about 60 games by injuries. At that, he batted .332, topping such redoubtable batsmen as Harry Heil-matm, Heil-matm, Eing Miller, Sam Rice, Joe Sewell, Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb and Earle Combe. In fact, there were only five American league batters who batted better. What a sensation he should be this year with his tremendous power as a batsman and his terrific speed on the paths. |