Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-09-16
WHITE SOX IN
 r LAST BIG DRIVE

l ChlcagO, lll., sept. 1o.--fOllOWlng tomorrow's game with the laugh-pro- voking Browns, the Chicago White Sox will depart for the East to wind up the regular season of 1917.
 In the minds of the Rowland outfit an American league pennant and worlds championship emblem will be harvested and stored in the Sox home lot before the first heavy frost. Every member of the Sox family, from Own CT Comiskey to the bat boy. is ready to admit that the White Hose war riors are the greatest pastimers on | earth. And what's more, they're go- 1 ing to prove it.
 Philadelphia is to be the first stop ping-place for the Sox, who evidently are figuring on a soft getaway in the | three-game series which is to start l next Tuesday. But great expectations are not always realized. In their own yard the Mackmen may show their
 teeth when the Sox appear. It is re- membered that during the last so-
 iourn of the Chicagoans in Philly they
 were treated to full-grOwn surprise.
 The Mackmen went right after the
 Sox and came very near making a
 grand slam.
 From the Quaker City the Sox will
 move on to Boston, where considera-
 ble fireworks is supposed to be all lset up and ready for the torch. The
 three games to be played between the lIair of Socks will most likely prove
 to be the grand finale of the season. | %ho D0x lmanding lead at this time, or if the
 distance between the two teams has
 been shortened, in either case it vii
 be up to the Red Sox to cut loose
 and perform their best. No matter Iwhat the relative standing, the Bar Erys will have to put up a real battle in order to make better showing il the games played during the seasol with the White Sox. Up to the pres ent Boston has only victories to he credit as against II for Chicago.
 | When the gay doings in the Hul
 are over the iComiskey battalion vii hit the trail for Washington. In tn national capital the White Hose con fidently expect to partake of whippe | cream pie. If they haven't clinche
 matters before their arrival in Wash
 ington they expect to finish matter there by devouring the Senators fo three games. And then on to Ne, York for the windup of the season. Should Clark Griffith's charges re
 fuse to play dead at the command ( the Sox, there will still be left tn ) Yankees for the Comiskey men | ) bounce upon. Like the Browns, tn Yankees are especially loved by tn
 White Sox. The Sox patiently traine
 the Tanks all season. the forme
 "Wild Bills" having become so tan
 that the Sox have little trouble making them take the leaps.
 l Whether they win the pennant ( z not, the brilliant pastiming of the Sc this season will stand as tribute
 the guiding hand of Manager Clarene
 Rowland. Incidentally, the team , marvellous success crosses the man l big league critics who have persiste in calling Rowland "a bush leagu pilot" ever since he took charge the Sox in 1915. The White Sox leader has demol I strated that minor league manage U as we'll as minor league players ca . make good in the big show. Befo1 taking charge of the Chicago outf
 Rowland was manager of the Peor
 Three-Eye league team. AS a mint
 league pilot he was particularly SUI
 cessful in developing young player
 several of whom have since becon !, big league stars.
 I. Up to the time he signed his col T tract with Comiskey Rowland was t ! tally without experience in big leag, o' pastiming. The average fan in majt
 league town has probably attende r more major league games than Roy n land had seen in his whole life.
 II Comiskey picked Rowland to les =, the Sox and felt sure he had made tl M right choice. The results show wh
 most people already knew-that i
 hard to fool "the Old Roman" in an r thing pertaining to baseball.