Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-12-23
EDDIE COLLINS
BRINGS HOPE TO
WHITE SOX FANS
Good Second Baseman Was
One Thing Needed to Make
South SiderS Formidable
tBylAtest NALL

SItISASOF tll.-EQule OOlilnS may
make pennant eontending team for
Comiskey's White Sox. Better sim.
Collins will give the south side fans
a chance to hope for better things.
The deal that brings Collins to Chi.
eago is the most far reaching in Com
isSey's eyentful career. Collins be.
yond doubt Is the greatest infielder in.
the world today. He has everything
the White Sox needed to make them
formidable and he fills yawning gap
in the club. .e,~.... So
Collins May BE Manager.
T Collins may become playing mana
ger of the White Sox to succeed Jim.
my Callahan, but President Comiskeg
has made no announcement TO that
effect It Is known that the old Rom
an prefers leader actively In tho
game to q bench manager. When,
Callahan was appointed he was stu
considered good player by the owner
of the Sox.
The White Sox last season needed
better team play, stronger batting, q
more experienced fielding combination
and more speed. Eddie Collins viii
bring to the club all these factors.
Will Help Buck Weaver.
Capt Buck Weaver now viii have q
distinguished side kick. who undouht-
eddy viii make the Sox shortfielder D
greater asset to the club. Collins win
serve to bring to light the varied tai
ents Of the Sox captain. whose real
ability has not been appreciated. Col
Inns and Weaver around second base
make such a pair as Ferris and Par,
ent. Tinker and EYers and Eyers and
Maranyille, and other great infield
combinations made famous In the big
leagues.
One simply has to hand II to the Old.
Roman for putting over the unexpect.
ed. When Walter Johnson, greatest
of all pitchers, went to the Chifeds,
fans declared the deal meant body
blow to organized baseball and hard.
jolt to the White Sox.
collins Needed BY the sox. sns
Then Comiskey, who had stood for
war, went out and signed the greatett
inflelder in the world. as counter
rave. IncidentIy the Sox magnate
p,H over the greatest play OF his ear.
eer and made baseball club for tie
! south side. Collins ID just the player
needed by Comiskey to make win
Aing combination. There was just
enough talent in the Sox to make q
good club with such star infielder,
and Comiskey has gone out and puf..
chased what he wanted at figure
that might stagger the fans II they
knew the facts.
,tob ufoH q hall club and
knowing the conditions surrounding
). Collins, he knew he had chance 90
land big game down east. II was tlIs
most profitable trip comiskey ever
made to New York.
Collins Saved From Feds.
The acquisition Of Collins by the
Sox Is stragetic move by the Ameri-
can league. 1t probably was known
that Collins was headed toward the
Federal league. The powers OF the
game figured that Collins must be saw
ed from the outlaws and bids for the
infielder were probably asked by Mack.
Such being the case II Is not surpris-
ing that Comiskey should draw the
prize.
why should Mac dispose OF his
greatest playerg' fans may ask. the
answer is manifest The federal lea
guers had offered the great infieIder
more than Mack was willing to pay
him. There was no alternative for the
! manager Of the Athletics than to sell
| him to the American league associates
to save Collins from following Bender
and Plank to the Federal league.
Mack to Get Sox Pitchers.
Mack could not well afford to sell
Collins to an American league owner
for cash alone. The Athletics are IN
need Of pitchers and the White Sox
are well stocked with star hurlers-
The fact Mack win get some otst1e
Sox pitchers viii serve to placate the
angry fans of Philadelphia for the less
OF Collins. OF course, Mack has A
excellent alibi for the folks at home,
in that he secured q great pitcher o.
two for nothing, inasmuch as Collins
was probably headed toward the Fed
eral league.
Eddie Collins stood next Ty Cobb N
batting in the American league u
1914. Only one player, Fritz Maisel
of New York, was faster on the paths.
and in fielding his position be had
no equal in the league.