The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-04-27
LEAGUE LEADERS HERE
NTH MANAGER CALLAHAN
AND COACH KID GLEASON
Position of White Sox in Per-
centage Column Ascribed
To New Generals
n(cINTYRE MAY PLAY HERE
Tiger Fans Are Anxious To See
Matty, Former Tiger,
Again
(cINTYRE MAY PLAY HERE
BY RALPH L. YoNKER.

The leaders of the American league
are here today to start a four-gamt
series against the near-cellarites. Once
that would have meant the Tigers OF
<he Athletics play the Senators or tn
+ Bfowns. Now II means that the White
Sox meet the Tigers.
With the Sox are the men who art
being given most of the credit for the
VINTAGE point that the Chicagoans
have just now in tip-topping the per
centage column with eight games wor
and two lost. These men are the
comeback, Manager Jimmy Callahan
who succeeded Hugh DUFFY as boss OF
the Chicagoans, and Kid Gleason, the
~ veteran who Is coaching the Comiskey
MIN.
Both men are unique in baseball.
Callahan, manager OF the Sox ten
WARS ago. and then a semi-pro player
AID manager for a number of years,
ripped back into the big tent in 1911
5 ed made good with such vengeance
that he was counted a star When 1t
was found that Hugh Duffy wouldn'
do for manager in 1912, Jimmy was
At once picked for the position.
but unique as is Cal, Kid Gleason Is
more so.
II was up TO Gleason to reconstruct
the White Sox Old time players have
been carried by big league clubs and
are being carried now, but not for the
same purpose as Gleason. The Tigers
have two of them, Joe Sngden and Jim
Mcclure, but both Of these men were
catchers and are used now mostly for
aid In developing the youngsters In the
battery department.
Gleason is an old pitcher and infeld-
er who gets right out on the field and
plays I'm practice with the young in
f.elders. showing them exactly what to
ID He is old, but his, friends assert
that II he would wear glasses while
paying he would be a menace to some
in1belder's job right now. While with
the Philadelphia Nationals his sight
went back on him some and he wasn't
as accurate In judging ground balls as
he had been.
-Four battles of brains and pepper
are scheduled for the Tiger-Sox series.
Doth Gleason and Callahan are putting
on kinds of ginger and fight into their
prpteges. according to every report.
That there is any trouble, as II was
predicted there would be. between
Manager Callahan and Captain Lord is
denied AS for pulling for the Sox,
4verybody's doin' it, they say.
With both teams going well, there
ought to be all kinds of strategy and
dash during the Sox series. Kid Glea
son, Of the Jennings McGraw school OF
baseball fiends, has the curriculum OF
this Institution so deeply instilled into
him that he can give the college yell
backward
He and Hughie we're with the Balti-
more Orioles together when they con-
tended with New York in 1894 and
cleveland In 1895 for the worlds cham
pionship. The first year Gleason was
pitching; the second, he played second
base.
The fans are anxious to see Matty
Mcintyre, the former Tiger outfelder,
who went from us directly to the Sox
Matty's place thus far this season has
been taken by Collins, youngster,
who has been going so well that 1t Is
limited that Matty is getting little
skeered OF his job.
Matty hung outside the Callahan
threshold for some time this spring
before deciding to accept the official
Comiskey admission ticket at the price
named. AS is usual. the differences
between, owner and player were set
tied so that Matty was with the club
at the beginning OF the season.
That he is not beaten out OF his jot
Is indicated by Manager Galatians an
rouncement that he will probably play
here during the series. Jimmy pro
tects himself by saying that he can
not guarantee that Matty will be Oh
duty, but he thinks that he will.
Matty hit .295 with the Tigers IL
1908, .244 in 1909 and 236 In 1910. a
which juncture Manager Jennings
thought II best to let him go. So he
went to the White Sox where he pelt
ed for 1928. not bad average with the
willow for anybody.
The offlcial reason Zone OF them)
given for Matty's good behavior since
with the Sox is this. Every team II
the league lunches their southpaw
hurting opposition for the Tigers. Tn,
1tGady diet OF IL that they have beer
ee(ting thus far this year is witness
They collect the bitterness OF theil
Iefthanded pitching and hurl It at the
IIKes with the strenuous spirit of /
president or expires.
Natty was never topnotch agains
kIs portside stun and so he wasn't a
biz best against the Tiger opposition
when he joined the Sox he found mos
of the pitching TO be from the righ
eIde. which he has the ability properl,
q punish.
something more on this man Gala
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