Show 00 COLLINS IN I fiRST YEAR Sox Infielder Hopes to Turn Turf Out Scrappy Club NEW lEW YORK April 4 11 tA 11 11 1 1 Eddie Colllns Collins veteran Infielder of the Chicago White While Sox starts start his first season sealon as al a major league man man- manager manager ager when the curtain rises on the 1925 season tomorrow lie He will take his plate place pla e along side of ot Sis Sis- Sis Sis-ler Harris Bancroft Speaker and Cobb as nil a praying playing manager r direct direct- directing directing In ing his team from his hll keystone position In the Infield To Collins Colllns fall falls I the assignment ot of welding together a team that has tha-has haa ha not yet fully recovered from the effects effect of the disastrous scan scan- scandal scandal dal of 1919 when the White Sox ranks were tre rent by the contaminating Ung Influences of big gamblers His Ills task Is a gigantic one an acid test lest for a personality of the call cali caliber ber of Collins Colllns Previously Collins Colllns had turned deaf cars to all overtures made to elevate him to a managerial role ut with the death of ot i- i rank Chance and the retirement of Johnny ers Ev-ers Ev By ers erg Colllns Collins consented cons l to accept the task wholly as an experiment tosea to see whether the managerial duties would Interfere with willi his ability as a b 4 The ThO Chicago White Sox will bethe bo be bothe bethe the only team In the big leagues to start the season with a new guiding hand Jack Hendricks manager of the Cincinnati Reds really had his first taste of big eague piloting last season when he assumed charge of the thc Reds upon the death of ot Pat Moran when the Reds nt-ds were undergoing their train train- training training ing activities under Southern skies nn An |