The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-10
GREAT IS COMISKEY
 WHITE S0X LEADER

Writing in the American Magazine for the present month. Hugh s. Full lerton gives a fine sketch of Charles A; Comiskey. manager of the Chicago White Sox. in the department of "In- teresting People, in that periodical. In part. MT. Fullerton writes:
 Children said a Chicago school teacher. who was the first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen?'
 'Comiskey!' shouted every boy in the class.
 ''Coniskey is the best known man in Chicago. For ten years he has been standing on the lake shore heav- ing loaves of bread on to the water and getting back bakeries. He gives and throws away more money than any man in the city, and it comes back faster than he can lose it. He knows almost everyone, and almost all the others know him. Once the political bosses pleaded with him to accept the nomination for the Mayor atty and save the ticket.
 I've got one game said Comis key. I'll stick to that
 His game is baseball He started playing 1t on the prairies around Chi cago. never has left the game. has through it. He has won more cham pionships than any men ever did. and he has made his White Sox the most Loyalty supported team in the coun- try.
 '.Comiskey played ball as a boy in Chicago and the small cities surround ing 1t. went to Dubuque. then to St. Louis. where he led the famous Browns to four championships. He was the great inventive genius of his day on the diamond and evolved scores of plays now in constant use. ~E IL ~1 volt of the players in 1s9O and as leader of the Brotherhood came home to Chicago. His life ambition was to lead a Chicago team. In the sec ond year of the revolt of the players, Comiskey, more than anyone else. held them together to the final collapse He was banished from Chicago-and when he was sent away he predicted he would return and own a club. He went to Cincinnati as manager for J. T. Brush. There his genius for poli- tics asserted itself. First. he elected B. B. Johnson, Cincinnati sporting writer, bitter foe of Brush. presi- dent of the Western League. in which Brush owned the Indianapolis club, even casting Brush's own clubs vote for Brush's enemy.
 '~Then Comiskey secured his release club in the Western League. already being in position to dictate the poli cies of that league. In three years Comfskey was ready to come home. He placed a Western League club in Chicago in spite of the protests of the National League and precipitated disastrous baseball war. He led the move that transformed the Western into the American League. raided the National League clubs and took two thirds of it's star players. After two years of desperate warfare. which cost the club owners millions of dol lars. the National League surrendered and made peace. allowing the Ameri- can League to retain the territory and the players it had seized and recog- nized it as a major league Comis- key won championships in the Ameri- can League and one worlds cham pionship.
 ''The spring training trips of the White Sox are wonderful junkets to California. Mexico. CT somewhere far off and alleged to be warm. He car ries his players and friends in special trains. His promise to his men is that if they win another pennant they shall train in Ireland the following spring which would be like going home to most of them.''