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Show uu White Sox Have Practically Same Veterans in Harness CHICAGO. Sept. 25 When "Kid" Oleason succeeded f'larence Rowland ' as manager of the Chicago Americans ana started ihe 1919 season with the same lineup that finished Blxlh in the 1918 pennant race after winning Uk world's championship in 1917, few baseball experts ligured that the White Sox would win the American 1 league flag this season. But that is what has happened and the "wise ones" are offering all sort- I of reasons foi the startling reversal j of form They say that playing under a new leader was a contributing factor, fac-tor, but all agree that perhaps the! main one was that the players .'urn ! solves entered the game this season wit ha renewed confidence following the termination of the world war. Last season a majoiity of the White Sox were expecting to be called into mili-j tary service anv day, and this with the classification of baseball a "non-essential," "non-essential," was a disturbing situation The 1918 White Sox was a team I grinding over the pennant road minus! some of its main cogs. Joe Jackson, the club's leading batter this season, went into the Bhipyards after baiting j 354 for seven games; Outfielder Pelscb quit the club after playing In fifty-three games; Pitcher Faber enlist, en-list, id in the navy after winning live of six games, while Pitcher Claude Williams went to work in ihe ship yards when he had won six and lest four games. The loss of tiiese four players proved a staggering blow. Added to this loss. Eddie Cicotte, Lhi veteran right-handed and leading pitcher in 1917, was in a slump during dur-ing the entire season, winning only twelve games and losing nineteen. Rut i I it was a different Cicotte this season. His remarkable comeback has been one of the secsalions of the yeai and I his effective pitching is one of ihe chief reasons why the White Sox finished fin-ished nut in front I That the White Sox will have pra 'ticallv a veteran lineup when the ciub Jtniers the baseball classic againsl Cincinnati is shown by the foil winr; 'comparison of the 1917 and Z9VJ lineups line-ups 1917 1910. , Li.-bold If Lieboldl McMullih 3b Weaver! E. Collins 2b E Collins ; Jackson If Jackson Folsch cf Felsch Candil lb Candil j Weaver ss Iiisbcrgl Schalk c Schalk Risberg was with the club in 1917.1 hut was benched by Manager Rowland for the world's series owing to his erratic er-ratic playing |