New Britain herald., 1919-10-01
CHICAGO TEAM IS
 GOOD COMBINATION
Real Ability to Play Is Coupled
 With Team Work

Chicago, Oct. Real baseball
 backed by real teamwork; that is what experts on the national game see behind the 1919 American league pennant victory of the Chicago White Sox, who today are awaiting a chance to demonstrate their baseball ability against the National league con- tenders for the world flag. But team
 work is not the only thing, they say, that has brought about winning ag- gregation.
 They point to Eddie Ctcotte, with his famous knuckle and shine ball. as a big reason alone for the position
 of Comiskey's mighty baseball ma
 chine. He is declared to be the
 pitching marvel of modern baseball,
 winning something like 30 games this season. Without him, they say, the
 White SoX's chances would not have
 been so bright.
 Of course 8 pitcher cannot do it all, experts declare in naming Catcher
 Ray Schalk as another reason for the
 victorious work of the White SoX. He, they contend, has had much to do with turning many a defeat into vic- tory by his quick headWork, for which
 he has been noted since his leap from the minors, to the Chicago club eight years a@o.
 But the man named as the person chiefly responsible for the success of the White Sox is Manager William
 ''Kid'' Gleason. who has batted for perfect average as leader of a gather ing of temperam ental athletes. One
 baseball critic in calling attention to his work said: Gleason has built to almost base ball perfection the team that stands
 as the American leagues best; he has overcome obstacles that the mere fan would shudder even to think of, and he has displayed a genius to which White Sox packers do not hesitate to point
 Many times the manager has been accused of overworking Cicotte and
 Williams, his leading aces, but when the regular fan stops to think about
 those working in the bull pen almost
 every day, he comes to realize that
 Cicotte and Williams are conspicuous
 by their absence. Only once this sea-
 son was Cicotte sent to the bull pen
 to warm up for five minutes before
 he went in and finished a, game.
 Williams was sent to the bull pen only i a few times. Tn this way Gleason did not overwork his leading. twirlers, as many fans have been led to think. Other reasons for the victory are enumerated by these same critics of the game. They include, Charles Risberg, surprise inf1elder of 1919;
 Lefty Williams who has been talk ing his regular turn with Cicotte, and delivering the goods being the best southpaw in the American league; and Eddie Collins, playing in the best form of his long baseball career. Tn addition there is Joe Jackson, fielding
 as he never did before, and hitting i the ball on the nose, until he is f1irt- 1 ing with the top of the American i league batters; George Buck" { Weaver, one of the most daring base l! ball players in the game, with his pep and dash; "Nemo'' Liebold,
 "Chick" Gandil, Happy Felsch, Ed
 die Murphy, John Collins, and Dick
 Kerr, the diminutive pitcher who
 toward the close of the season, had | developed to the point where he be- 1 came an ace. Kerr is one of the gamest pitchers in the league, and
 there seems to be nothing in a ball game that he cannot do well.