Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-09-29
EDwARD TROWBRIDGE COLLINS

/ for It was I'm that position that real
/ ball player was needed 10 make the
White Sox pennant winners. Collins is
I product OF Connie Mack's method
of developing colegians. lie was cap
tain and second baseman Of Columbia
nversityis team in 1906. Connie Mack
signed him I'm 1907 and played his first
year under the name OF Sullivan in
order TO escape ineligibllity at Column
bia He was recognized however, and
began TO play under his own name
lie became a regular with the Athletics
I'M 1908 Late in 1914 he was sold TO
the White Sox.
SWEDE RISBERG-It isn't hard to
figure out how this long, lanky in
fielder became endowed with the SO
briquet under which he has won a
place in the American league. lie sim
ply is and that settles IT, Although a
youngster, Risberg is expected by
Charles Comiskey to prove his worlds |
series star. He is a long htter-one
who is likely TO kick anybody's ball |
game all over the field at an uneX-
pected moment He is a good fielder
and is steadily progressing as a level |
headed young man under the wise tu-
iclage OF Eddie Collins and Buck
Weaver. He came from the Pacific
Coast League last spring.
GEORGE d. WEAVER-Like many
stars now in the majors. Buck first
played professional baseball in the
Southern Michigan league The rec
/ ords don't show where he learned his
repartee but he is called a star at
that as we'll as Unfolding He was with
Saginaw IN 1910 and was sent from
there TO the Connecticut league. Later
in the same year he was with York
In the Tri-Siate league and was sold
to Chicago in 1911 lie wasn't quite
ready for the American league, how
! ever. and was sent TO San Francisco.
where he stayed a year, returning TO
the White son Weaver is wonderful
fielder and remarkably fast think
er. His only tendency towards weak
ness is a habit OF cumming things
up at times with a wild throw.
JOHN +. COLLINS-Haverhn gave
shane his start as a bail player I'm
1907, In 1909 he was with Springfield
in the Connecticut league and was sold
to Chicago in that year. He has been
a consistent, timely hitter and a good
base runner.
HARRY LIEBOLD-NIilwauke nrst
saw Memo as an outfelder in 1911,
and he was sold TO Cleveland in 1913.
Chicago got him by the waiver route
iently around the .2jO mark. 10 isl
probable he will be given the left field
assignment for the worlds series He
throws left-handed, but bats. right
handed
OSCAR FEISCH-Connie Mack has
called Happy the best outnelder in the
game-merely as a fielder Others have
declared he will be the most trouble
some Of the White Sox when he comes
TO busting base hits on the Giant pitt
cheers. Whether Fesch will live up
TO these predictions or not the fact
remains that he is one OF the prnci- |
pal cogs in Clarence Bowands PEN
nant machine. Fond du Lac gave him |
start as a professional i'm 1913 and !
he was sold 70 Milwaukee in the same |
year. Chicago bought him in 1914 and |
he reported in 1918. lie has hit better |
than 800 for the Sox this year, top |
ping Joe Jackson and Eddie Collins.
dOskPH JACKSON Through habits !
,ual are declared TO be Just a bit bad |
ior an athlete. jackson hasn't been
nl'thg near his normal gait fon the |
ooN' but still is cracking them al an |
average that would be Welcomed nv |
INC majority Of big league out0elders
lie mas been smashing them ON tbc
handle here ~ late and is s,ooSn,.
approaching 800 average. loo ~ ,,,as |
4. one or me first stars 20 feel mo l,ro
OF Jomiskey's pOcketbook when ha
chicago magnate determined to ,,,.o
Chicago q pennant winner. He Wont ~
the SOX from Cleveland where no ma
been since 1911. Greenvile. Of Tho Son,p
l. Carolina League, gave him his FIRST ioh
III In 1908 and he was sold 10 philadei-
10 phia in the American league the same
10 year He had two years wiping tbe
4 dust of the Philadelphia bench ana
u then was sent 90 Savannah, who sem
3 him back to the Athletics i'm 1909
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