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Show ICOMISKEY AFTER GREAT BATSMAN President Comlakey of th" Chicago White Sox shares the opinion i his manager that his baseball players Have a good fighting chance to iand the pennant Id the American league J in 1913 One great batsman v 7 at what Callahan Cal-lahan sought, around which u build a formidable attack, and he Is hoping tbo club possesses such a player lu the person of Borton, the strapping first baseman who made the Critics watch him in two leagues last season sea-son Borton was the practical bat-1 bat-1 ting leader of tho Western league ! and after coming to thi While Sox ; edged Into fame with the ' big three" 1 Cobb, Jackson and Speaker. At the recent American league meeting then- was no gossip 01 swap-, swap-, ping Borton for Jackson, Cobb, Craw -I ford or any other player, for the stm-I stm-I pic reason that Borton is not for sale or ir.id.- under any consideration. It I would be an Imposing array of tal-enl tal-enl to pry the south side owner and his manager away from thts promising promis-ing first sacker, who managed to bai a few points ahead of Larry Iijoie, I Cleveland's veteran sludger. Manager Callahan believe he has rtne of the fastest infields in baseball base-ball There Is no quartet In the league that has an thing in a fielding field-ing way on the Ze ider-Rath -Weave r-Borton r-Borton combination, and this Includes Connie Mack's prize inner works, heralded her-alded throughout the big circuits as about the fastest set that ever came down the pike 1 The Mack combination, with Baker and Collins in the lineup, has the edge on the White Sox inrield in batting but the figures show that Borton out-hatted out-hatted I 9th these hitting wonders of the White Elephants, although he appeared ap-peared in only 31 games. Rath, ow. Ing to his abllit) as n waiter .it bai and his wonderful fielding, and Zei-der'l Zei-der'l speed od the beaten paths, boots the Infield of Comlskey Manager Callahan is not worrying about his outer work.;, either He has seven outfielders from whom to pick three regulars Hattick, iud, Bodle, Collins, two recruits and himself. Five of these ere batters capable of hitting around 280. 1 00 |