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Show RAY SCHALK S THOUSAND GAMES White Sox Backstop Works in Record Number of Contests ButNot as Reciver in ri 1RD M i MERRY, i stun Special. CHICAGO. July 4. Kay Schalk, White Sox ilen -r. ha 1m-h m more than 1,000 game a But has Bcnulk caught l.OOn Karnes? Dopesters, tans and statistical Ilenda would like t" kmv. it isn't every big league catcher who aOCOmplianes thai teat. A hundred game's n season is pretty good for a i.ai KStop. A II Hid, . I K iiae a year lor six c.im Is a real recoro. orla's Ree u u. Schalk act a record Iiku that Lost year wnch he comidcud his sixth consecutive con-secutive year heii.nd the bat for the White Sox with ItlOre tlian lOO games a year. it was .a norld'j record, smashing the mark set by ;- r- Dli.'son ct iIt-I'ntsburg iIt-I'ntsburg Pirates. Gibaun utU not set his figures Irt consecutive years. Didn't Catch All. a thousand gamej for Schalk includes in-cludes some in whlqh no went to hat tor i. tlx rs, in which he went In to run lor sor.iobody and siolc a base or scored a run, or in which he started and got hurt and went ui. The day Schalk played his one-thou-sendU) KJinie was June 4. "Doc" w hit, . veteran pitcher, formerly with the lute s.i, .hi. i no pltcni'd tne Ur3t gaine bchalk play, u m here, was present for tne U.St time in a loig v. In le. the White Sox lost Sohalk's first game and his onfi-lhuusandtli game, id 'a a Ughtwdgiiu Schalk. spll il IUS Slight build ahd lignt weight, keeps up his wonder- .nl speed. He tiu proved that a b.q league catcher QOesn't need brawn aa ven rm braius llto t.. pes such us Llresiiab.au. Gibson. KIihk' rnl M-er.. lie s 28, 5 feet 8. weigns 140 pounds, .onus from Litchfield, lit.', and has been married four years. He began as a printer's devil. lie flm piaed in lull with the Toylor-ville Toylor-ville club of me illinois-ltiasourl league, which sold him to slilwaukee fo. i.50. In ISlS Milwaukee sold him to the White for players and cash ap-ii ap-ii mating 1 3 ."" I ' r ' ! - -1 Say Schalk jjBBBIHB The sirain r sotoattlng there b li nd the bat day after hw la bcfetnnlng In tell un Cm 'la M. , l In i .I i ,i ii.dn i .i i.i i euUlirr ol th W llllc Si Deep furvowod lines '.iu, plalnlj abpal hi cm s Bui his game is just n, good as ever, He Is one or the ii reaaons whj the Sos are liol oontohders for ll e mini, j (his fail, llaj played In his one thousandth game on June 4 for the s. but he bus noi worked behind (bet but in nil of them ilv shuul ! r aeli the giwtl Of "eat' lUng l000 gampfl" f r the Su early In Jul. |