The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-05
Kid Gleason Says White
 SOX Have Punch To Win
Chicago Manager Declares His Players Are Smart And He Denies His Pitchers Will Crack
 Before Race Is Over.

Boston, Aug. 5.-Kid Gleason, one of the most aggressive managers in baseball, a shrewd baseball tactician, q veteran of 30 years of baseball strife. now in charge of the Chicago White Sox, and, according to the critics well on his way to the Amert- can League championship, is in town for his second visit of the year. With him of course is the aggregation that are woll out in front in the pennant race. It Is without question the snnoothc@t playing team in the Ameri- can league
 Gleason feels sure that his club is going to win. But he isn't anxious to call the turn ahead of time. Kid is Of the old school, a man who believes In winning games on the diamond in- stead of on pGper. Yet he can't heIp feeling proud of his team, an agsre- Ration that he was chiefly instru- Inerrtaf in moulding together and ne can't be blamed If he tells you con aaeutially that the White Sox are go- ing to win aguin.
 'syVhy shouldn't l win! querleS Gleason. q have Q team that pos seascz, mower. defence, speed and brains, the prime factors in every successful pennant campaign. They
 
 clubs could win because they played amarter baseball. defy you to narne fl club in the game that can snow the White Sox anything when IL eornes to real clever base ball
 C,leason doesn't claim that he IS re- snons,bls for instilling brains into ms outat either. He says that his men arc snreyyd baseball tactictans any way. "You can take a peek ot tNs g. ctybt different 1ineups in the league trsistsd the Kid, and you won't ma any men who can teach anyIhlhs 'O such players as Eddie Collins. f.ay Scbaik. Buck Weaver. Eddie Clco'|o and n dozen other men that cou,1 name. I single these four out PuI Sly 1.oc,usa they are in there every day S,,c,tts if he isn't pitching Is a hrotry e-cntleman to have sittlnS "4IH ,,o,, o, the bench. But you can't over Iool, candil E'e1sch, Jackson ana tht ,ast I've got q mighty smart pail r,,,b teil you. You won't ma .,,.,,,tber machine in either or tle major leagues. -,.., r,,,s
 "t,va got a team that makes runs ,s ,,el1 as hits. My men don't see ,,,on inc bases and stay there- II ,to,. can't get around themselves .,,.,, nave, tea.1-rnates who can heLp ,bcr, have speed to burn- csth +ntrl, of any of the crowd who ia heavy on his feet. And the White Sox arc iust as intelligent in direcths their defence. v-,-
 "sone teams can hit. New forh b,s n powerful attack. But l have ,,o,yerf,,1 attack and defence that IS ,,retty nearly airtight I can reckon on n punch to which Weaver, Joe Jackson. Felsch. Eddie Collins ana Gondu contribute regularly. Ano don't overlook Memo Leibold or John Collins or Ray Schafk either
 "r belteve that Ray Schalk Is with ou. ouestion the cleverest backstop IT either of the major leagues. He IS ar axccptionally brainy player, who car run the team from behind the plate fulIv as well as any manager coulo s,rect it from the bench. He is tho mos, valuable of lieutennnts- A loof or a nod from Schalk means much Any limo I decide to make shif vou can gamble that Schalk feels th' same way do.
 "Sorne few weeks since I wa vorryfnx a bit over the pitchin' nroposftion. Cicotte was turning II b,s wins regularly and Cicotte, to m, ,,ind is the best pitcher in the lan' today Williams was coming throuSl snlendidly, but Faber was bit m certofn at times. I didn't have am aio buch of second string twfrlers ana all that I could hear all over tn rsrcu,t was: '~wait till Gleason nitchers crack" '~weli, they haven cracked vet, ana they are not goin! to. either.