Show Claims Russell and Schalk Greatest Battery of Recruits Chicago July Juh 5 If 1 If this season brings nothing else In ill the tile WR way of or glory to tt the White It will at least allow them theta the tile er credit of oC having acquired d the dlO greatest young oung buttery butter that ever broke in on nn nfl any major lea league uc team nt at the same time In Tex Russell and Ha Ray Itay chall Manager Callahan has the prize pair lair of youngsters of the tho season season sea sea- son beyond question Dop may chall challenge Schalk on behalf of Catcher Cutcher of or tho the Athletics Ath Ath- and there be bo those mn may daring enough to challenge Russell in behalf of of- some star recruit of oC the slab who has m met t their fancy but DO none no will bo be beable ablo able to name a pair of battery batter men on the same samo team In anywhere near the same class the White Sox stars ady have shown Never Xe having seen work behind be behind be- be hind the b bat t 1 am unable to form an any opinion of or the relative merits of the two kid Idd backstops but am am certain of ot otone one thing If he is a 0 better catcher than Schalk then Is a helo a catcher has it on Schalk in batting but has caught In only a n com com- small mall number of at games while Schalk has hns been In there da day dav alter arter cla day batting against all l kinds of at pitching In Rn any other department of oC I the game It Is difficult to see how can surpass Schalk S III I Faults Yield to T Dt The Sox Sex youngster had lied a few faults when ho was tried out late lato in the season season sea sea- season son of ot 1912 but Gleason and Billy built Sullivan an van took him himin in hand and in a few weeks corrected his weaknesses es which were altogether due to lack of ence Active as a a. cat and possess possessed d of oC keen keon in Instinctive Intelligence Schalk was quick to grasp every new Idea and toda today with less than one seasons season's ex ox- ox In fast company he is nearly nearh u finished hecl catcher CatchIer Ho He Is active alert andl in every fiber tiber He can handle handlo ever every kind of ot pitching and ancl always Is helping out his pitcher Ho Is death to anything in the wa way of foul flies that can be he reached watches base runners like a cat watches a mouse and seldom falls tails to nail them if IC he ho is Js gl given gln n the thc ball in time When chalk Schalk was spiked b by Olson In a double pla play at the plate which saved a game Jame In Cleveland on the wa way back from tram the cast east Manager Callahan wanted to substitute substitute- Kuhn as ns there was only one more man to get out and Schalk challe was cut on the knee and on tho the middle finger o of his throwing hand Schalk refused to tr get out of oC harness Shaking the blood oft off his finger ho sputtered I I don dont don't t want to get out Im I'm Im I'm all right I wont won't get oct out And he didn't al although although although al- al though it required sev several minutes to patch him up n a Yon Young YannI rip Iron Sinn Man Russell up to date hns has pitched l more Innings than any other In the Ute American h league lIe lIu not only has taken his turn with the Ule regulars on the thc slab Iab since carl early In the tho season season but buthe buthe buthe he has developed Into one of oC the tho best rend rescuers of sick games that tho the Sox have Vc had and considering the fact tile the they have llave had Walsh alah for that work for tor several years ears that is sa saying Ing a lot Russell Rus itus- sell requires s a little time to warm up and when ho he does docs go to the slab slob no matter what the situation ma may be he picks up the game with all tho the confidence confidence conti- conti dence of a n veteran and pitches like one Ho He dos does not get lila his confidence nce from rom roman an any run of ot luck for he ho has been beaten out of games game rep repeatedly by tough luck It Is all In a days day's work with Russell Hussell and ho he Is not afraid ld of oC Cobb or Jackson in an any pinch j Russell is a big husky young man manfrom manfrom manfrom from Texas with lots of ot years before beCore him He came in with only the rudiments rudiments rudiments rudi rudi- ments of at pitching In his head never nOYer having haYinG been taught much that he dill ditl not pick up But he had hada a lot of oC speed and ancl stuff and proved pro as apt a pupil as 08 Schalk In tho the matt matter r of picking up pointers from veterans He does not use the tue broad sweeping curve of oC tho the usual left left-hander although he has a n. good sharp break brenk to his bender It ismore ismore Is Ismore more like the stuff Rube Waddell us used d to pitch than anything that has been delivered by a a. southpaw since Rubes Rube's da day Jn lie De Hurt li L by Overwork Russell is so willing that there is dnn danger r of overworking o him and there there- thereby b by shortening his career by Injuring his arm W We hR have have-a a living lI and striking ex example example example ex- ex ample of oC what overwork can n and Will ivIll do clo in Hd ld Walsh who has been of or slight service to the White hi to Sox this year car as he cannot get Jet the the muscles muscles of his Ills arm to respond in the old way a to the commands commands com corn mands mantis of or his will Walsh has hall not been able ablo to get up anywhere near his old old- time speed cl and ancl that fact has haN bothered him Ho Ito has had halt to depend more more moreon on on his and to develop a slow laz lazy I curve cune which has hat fooled tooled man many of his opponents who never thought he had It In his hll r repertoire p Manager Inna el Callahan and Walsh both expect hot weather veather to bring out all the old strength of or Walsh's arm and the truth or or Co falsity Is It of their belief soon will be demonstrated for we have hn been having hot weather enough Without Walsh in form torm there ther I isn't nt a I chance chanco tOI for tho lie tho White Sox to cop cop cop-a a high position this tiliS season as aI the team is goIng goIng going go- go Ing now It looks like bad business therefore to take a n chance at nt hurting a great pitcher such as Russell I prom prom- rom rom- to become by overworking him In a lost cause Thu The better wa way would bo be to take lake chances this tIlls year on other pitchers pitchers' going through and nursing Russell for fOl the season when hen he will wUI have c a n pennant winning team to work With P |