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Show TRUTH, AS USUAL, HAS I JT ALL OVER FlCi i -STUBBY" MACK. BY BILLY EVANS. Turn the spotlight on "Stubby" Mack, the Chicago White Sox's latest pitching recruit to make good I During his major league debut at 1 Boston Augus t6, Mack lost a well ;p;'ched gamo 5 to 3. For six Inning ihe was on the way to a shutout, when 1 loss of control proved his undoing One week later he made nia second start against Washington, and s-but out the Nationals 3 to 0, allowing only five hits Pretty fair get away for a 22 year old recruit. There is a bit of sport romance W 'the rise of "Stubby" Mack to the ambition am-bition of every youngster who can play ball the major leagues. SEVEN YEARS AGO. Seven rears ago the Chicago White Sox played an exhibition game at sari Diego, Cal. They trained on the coast that year- 1915 and as there waa :ia exposition at San Dtego. it offered a lucrative flld tor this exhibition. In the course of the San Diego game a little Mexican boy sneaktu along the White Sox bench, tuckeu Ray Schalk's favorite catching mil under his blouse and started for tne Mexican quarter of the tov 11 "Stubbv" Mack, then a youngster or ; 15, saw the theft and gave thus.-. Aft-, er catching the fugitive it was n.v -sar for "Stubby" to display h;y rutic superiority, before he regained p08-,j fusion of the glove. When he re- Sevea year- 1 psj Schalk tfm souuds life a f S J j that trJth of en 1 the mor leg" lttAm ry Hooper. WW 4 bi8 w9twm tijsSJ the 'year Zt oific Coas - ,tJt (J1J Mack -firsts' work in B- j as If hc ere lltV&A Mack la "g asdjS ISO poun -;n( cflrrt JJ an eV 1 VJ3 Blankjnj- P , start 1-J |