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Show i . r- ; Gleason Made One Wreck Winner But He Has Worse One This Year ! ' i i When Kid Gleason gathered hlsi j White Sox machine togcthi-. in the 'sprin? of 1919 he found that it was a wreck, lacked gas, was out of oil and I many of the parts needed replacing. I Other parts were season-checked, for I instance, Chick GandU's knee. I But Glenson overhauled the outfit, land mainly by his own skill and J strategy in shifting hiB gears on dif-j j ferent grades, got the machine in ood running conditioi. It luniberc.l a'.ungl 'through the championship season' on two wheels Cieotte and William'. ; and copped the flag. Then Williaisi and Cieotte had blowouts. Mosi ofj the bearings in the machine sot louse' and there was oven talk thai nume-('buriy nume-('buriy had tinkered with one o" two ;iurts of the motor The Rfici run the ifo. buzz wagon into the scrap heap. Owner Comlskcy has asked Gk-a- son to reassemble the old thing agiin j without buying any new paits j;iul repeat. We admire the Kid, but iu'k ue-lieve ue-lieve he can turn the trick He has added no new material 10 his pitching staff. He hasn't strengthened strength-ened his infield. Buck Weaver and Chick Gandll are holdouts. His outfield's out-field's the same as it was last year,1 and the ouffield can't play the whole game. There you are. j Gleason's best bet In the pitching1 line is little Dick Kerr, who was thei big White Sox hero of the world's I aeries. He has shown that he Is one of the coming great hurlers of the I game. Claude Williams, another lefty, I believes he can show Gleason and the ! fans that his poor work in the big classic last fall was the result of a I blowup, following a gruelling reason., j Maybe. Cieotte. Gleason is sure, was' I off form in the series. But Cieotte i3 getting older and the ban on any type of a freak delivery will handicap him. His shino tall must be discarded. discard-ed. Urban Faber, brilliant star of a few seasons past, hopes to do a come j back. He's uncertain, though. Wilkinson Wil-kinson and Lowdermilk can't be figured fig-ured as reliable. Noyes, obtained from Connie Mack, ought to be one of the Kid's regulars, but can't be figured fig-ured as a brilliant hurler. To fill Chick Gandil's place at first Gleason has Ted Jourdan and Shano Collins. Chick says he is through with the big league game unles3 he gets a mint of money: Which means he's through. Collins can play first In good style, but he isn't a brilliant performer. Eddie Collins will be right there as usual, at second. Nuff said. Swede Risberg has proved his worth at short. Fred McMullin, who starred in his first world's series as understudy for o Kid Gleason, at left, is looking over jiis disrupted squad. Fred McMullia is shown fielding an easy one und Dick Kerr is getting his south wing tuned up. I EucI: "Weaver, probably" will draw Buck's job since Vcaer bucked the traces. demanding more dough which he hasn't been gi-anted. All told, the infield is a fair outfit, but not a steady, money-playing one. j Jackson, Felsch, Leibold and Murphy Mur-phy will form Gleason's outfield quartette again, of course, Leibold and Murphy alternating. On paper the team slacks up a lot weaker than it was the start of the last drive. What is Just as important, the morale, bad enough after the ship yard days preceding the 1919 scramble, scram-ble, is worse than ever. Tho blowup in the big classic last fall, the charges of gambling which gained widespread' circulation, the attitude at-titude some of the players took in the world's series and the general dissension dissen-sion this spring over salary differences has left the morale at zero, or below. If Comiskey demands that Gleason go through the 19 20 melee with this outfit tho Kid will do his darndest. Give him credit But you can't get liquor out of an empty bottle. |
