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Show PLAYERS OF MAJOR LEAGUE TEAMS ARE QUICK TO SENSE WEAKNESS OF RIVAL CLUBS Schalk Proves Big Aid to the White Sox in 1919 Pennant Race and Is Now Back at His Former Capers; Chadwick Cites Other Instances.- I BY GEORGE CHADWICK I Special Correspondent o,f The standard stand-ard -Kxn miner. ((Copyright 1922. bj The Standard-Examiner Standard-Examiner i NEW YORK, July 8. Players of major leagues are qulckei to sense 'the weakness of teams against which they compete than mangers or owners. They discuss among themselves the shortcomings of other players, but very rarely will they talk to outsiders. I For the definition of outsiders m- elUde the puhll- g.-nerally and baseball base-ball Ctitli a However, to some writers I players certain of them tell everything every-thing they know In the most stralght-! stralght-! forward manner. That Is almost Invariably In-variably the result of person. friend - shin K lii l H 1 : a member of the Washington Washing-ton club, a player of experience aaiJ Chicago would win the American league pennant. "Schalk. " he said -Schalk Is the Chicago catrher still ' has got the pitchers on thnt team so they ran si alp the Indian on a copper I penny. Neer saw Such placing of i pitching in my life." Perhaps that Is whal .- halk is do-l ing now. He is hack again with the 9 OX and playing ball as well as he ever did At h ast the players will tell you i so. Ask those who have faced the Chicago team since the White Sox began be-gan to climb, who Is responsible fori It If thre Is some old chap who has been In the league for some time who will concede any opinion, )t is fair enough to venture that he will tell i you that Schalk has dom it with his way of making pitcheis find the mark. sCHAIlv A WIZARD. Mechanically there are catchers In, baseball as perfect as Schalk but they ( can't influence pitchers as Schalk can.' The harmony chord between pitcher, and catcher Is one of the odd things about baseball that anyone has ex-, plained Waddell was probably the most erratic left hand pitcher who ever lived S. no ,,f the best catchers of! the country tried to handle him nndj couldn't. Give him Schrcckenghost, a catch' r who was full-, as cranky as iddelt, and tho left handed Rube could pitch anything and no one could I hit him Catchers, according to some of the ball players of the American league, lare going to decide the race in that league. That's a new angle and It Is I not half bad, Most of the fans have jbcen told that It Is pitchers or the batters bat-ters who are going to win pennants (two old grizzle tops on the Boston lAmericans grizzled in a baseball way venture the belief that it IS the catchers A wise and ancient Infielder on the Athletics says it Is the catchers who are going to do 11 Keen old ball players those They have been through HH I the mill and have been on some cham- E iplonshlp teams themselves and know 'LiB what catchers can do. Yet at that it jH is a radical departure to hear ball ff playenj como out in meeting and vote LjBl the catcher the blue ribbon. BLnH One Boston player, who may be s LiHbjI manager himself in tho future, said IBl "CHANG MISSFD The Yankees better hurry up and J get Schang back. If he were out for the remainder of the season they 'could take their four million dollar ijB 'pitching staff and Junk it Let that particular team go without gocd catch- ling and it won't win pennants. "The fight for the AniriH-.m league 'race is between Severoid of St. Louis. iH ami Schang of New York, and every- ijH One of them i.s a catcher. Cy Perkins LH pf the Athletics would be in it if the LBS Athletics had a little speed. They're H running into Charley horses on that LHRl team. The old fellov.a are about play- iKS ed out with what they have had to H8 date and the kids aren't as fast as H they should be. Catchers never are HB going to put us in and they couldn't LR i i as they need more to work with. eRj Plcinlch doc-, pretty well in Wash- LLw Ington, but he won't be In the fight at Kl tin finish, arid Steve O'Neill of Cleve- land would surely be im It if they could 'KSk inlei t some worn-out arm cure into jKj those Cleveland pitchers. He's got a HS lot of smart pitchers but they're too LB h.-n Schang went out of the game HEi vou noti' e th.- Yankees began to back BR up dldn t vou? Maybe they were LM backing up before but the.y backed up eHi worse. He can steady that team. Put R , kid catcher in thero and that smart Kt bunch of Yankee pitchers will do as I I they all-flrcd please. They don't think a kid knows anything. Even the kid- R dest kid of 'em all. young Hoyt, PSK lias to take on awful hold on himself Bjj to b. what Schang tells him to do. H I "This Schalk has got Faber doing HS IkVetter than at any time this season and HE ,he is the best pitcher Chicago had. HE Hes got this Schupp so he's lasting pr tty nearly a whole game and If H2 St hupp gets back to his nino Inning HEF status again, none of them will beat LB& him and he Is making a winner of mK& young I.everette, who has already put K up five or six victories with few lick- ings. Johnny Basaler of the Detroits I has been do'lng the same thing. If i -ebb would let him alone he'd do bet- MD ter Sevcreld Is no slouch with St HH I Louis. If tho Browns could get Stevo Mma O'Neill away from Clevelnnd the mBfc J inks might as Well hang up the old flintlock right now. Tho trouble is 'folks don t give these catchers half the show they should' lm |