The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-12-24
GLEASON TO PILOT
WHITE SOX during
TRAINING SEASON
Signs Point to Very Lively
Times at PasO Robes
When Recruits
Arrive

Chicago, December 2S-Kid Gleason will
be some gazabo at Paso Robes next
spring, where he will direct the whole
show. for no one else dares butt in on
the kid.
Judging by the experience of ball play
ers last season, the athletes under Glea-
sons care will have no picnic. The rou-
tine, if things go along true to form. will
be early hours, up with the sun and
plenty of work for everybody.
Comiskey and Callahan knew the man.
ner of man they were leaving in COM
mand when they went on that long worlG
tour and 1t is putting it mildly to say
Gleason has their well wishes and az
prevail in anything he may plan or do to
condition the athletes.
There will be no dilydallying or loafing
at Paso Robes and no flimsy alibis Will
go with the general of Comiskey's Forces
at the California health resort. The ball
players who accompany Gleason know
what is in store for them. The ones on
the world tour probably will invent some
excuse to delay their arrival for fear
Gleason, with his iron clad training trip
rules, may get them if they don't watch
out
Training trip plans for the Sox include
a strenuous routine. according to informa-
ton oivulged by Secretary Grabinger, at
the southside park, which looks deserted
these days. All the signs point to a lively
time at Paso Robes when the Sox hope
fus arrive upon the scene of their train
ing activities under the protecting wing of
Calahan's famous aid de camp.
No Rest for the Weary
The routine of Gardiner may be an
nounced with the best of intentions as to
its genuinenessf but any one who knows
Gleason may we'll imagine the feelings of
Ping Bodie, Joe Berger and some other
celebrities as they contemplate the siege
of training under the assistant manager
of the Sox, who seems to have discovered
the much sought elixir of youth. There
certainly will be no rest for the weary
when the long grind sets in.
Gleason believes that one must exercise
In strenuous fashion to condition himself
for hard campaign, and the assistant
manager of the White Sox is thinking,
wondering, scheming and dreaming of the
time when the emblem of worlds cham
I,ons will be floating from the fiagpole
at Comiskey park. He believes this can
be accomplished only through unremitting
endeavor. and there will be no picnics for
the Sox at Paso Robles-not if Gleason
can help IL.
There will be no sinecures for Bodie,
Collins, Fourier, ct al, and if the globe
HrOtterS arrive IN ll1fle TOT u rev udNS III
camp they will be shown no elemency If
Gleason has his way. and he usually does.
Buck Weaver and Joe Benz will have to
ShoN ~. kid" that they are fright
and even Callahan may have to brush up
on the B C's of the game, just to prove
TO Gleason's satisfaction that he has not
gone stale. Jimmy Sc&t' too. will not be
exempt from a tryout,Sas Scotty is an ini-
portant factor in Geasons scheme to
upset Connie Mack's plans in 1914.
Gleason's speciality is conditioning
pitchers. and in this he is an adept.
There is not wiser trainer in the busl-
ness in the advanced art of putting hurleYs
IN condition for a big league season.
When the statistcian announced the
pitching averages of the American league
recently he unwittingly paid a great trh
ute to Gleason. His averages told the
tale of the Sox superiority in the pitching
department. 1t showed that the White
Sox had by far the best pitching staff in
the American league in 1913 in the per-
sens of Scott. Russell and Cicotte, and
Gleason had the honor of having all three
of these men on his squad last spring.