The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-18
JACK BARRY 0F RED SOx FAME
 OWNS GARAGE

Boston Aug. 1S-"Soft picking fo the veteran Jack Berry. From tn, midst of a strenuous major league campaign to a bountiful berry pas ture in a favored part of Worcester county is a mighty long jump. Yet here we find the veteran of a decade of hard major league struggles spending a leisure hour now and then.
 Out of Bans Clutches.
 'I guess I've had my ill of worlds series pies' grinned Jack. "Tve cut good many of them. If I'm lucky today we'll have a Dlueberry pie to cut for tomorrow. And there won't be any emblems to lose in any event. Big Van can't deprive me of the briers and tears I'm liable to carry away before I pick my allotted three quarts"
 For the first time since he left Holy Cross over 10 years ago to enter 1 the athletic field and began h.s de- velopment into the greatest short fielder of the decade Jack Barry | knows what it is to have a holiday in the summer time. No morning | practice for him these days. No worrying over lineups in the after noon no batting drill and above aIl no "temperamental'' pitcher to con- slider. Jack can fill his pail three | times with carelessness and aban- don. A few weeks ago he couldn't begin to fill the demands and eXac- | tions of a certain twirIer whose oe- parture from the fold has brought 1 peace once more to the Red Sox | ranks.
 Anyone would think that Jack would naturally miss the warfare of | the diamond-the heat and the perils, | the strenuous rivalry, and now and | then the strains and broken bones | that have crippled him more than once when the heat of the battle was on.
 Perhaps he does at times. Maybe I now and then he feels a bit regretful when he reads the morning box score and sees that his name no longer is listed in the lineup of a great az | gregation. But the longing for the old days is only momentary.
 The change has benefited Jack greatly. Some few weeks since when he left the Red Sox so suddenly, Barry was almost a nervous wreck. An unsuccessful season, the lack of har-
 
 | bitterness engendered by factional troubles had just about taken all the 1 pep and ambition out of one of the | greatest players in the game. Today he is 10 pounds heavier, the picture l of health, and once more getting some good out of life in the good old summer time"
 As proprietor of a flourishing gar ] age. the Worcester agent of a popular | auton obile concern. Jack is raking in the shekels and now hasn't a care in | the world. He has IS assistants in | this Worcester enterprise, and | though business is flourishing he can | get off at any old hour to entertain friends or take hike into the woods | or nearby fishing resorts.
 Anyone who thinks that a star | player can not make a good living off 1 the diamond had better run up to the heart of the Commonwealth and have a talk with Jack. A look about Bar rvs garage, a veritable hive of indus try, will soon convince him to the contrary. The Red Sox paid Worces- ter Jack fat salary, yet he doesn't ro!-s it now.
 In spite of his devotion to business | and his absence from the pennant drive, Jack has by no means lost in 1 terest in the American league race | He is watching developments closely and every defeat the Red Sox sustain hurts him still.
 The former Boston manager real l iZes that the Red Sox have not the ! ghost of a show for the bunting; that | they may not even finish in the first i division. But he points to the fact | that they are playing championship i hall right now and that had they l started this gait two months back i they would be in the running as they i had been for 10 days back Jack, however, figures that the 1 winners of the American league pen l nant will be Kid Gleason's White Sox. In spite of the belief that Gleason 8 pitchers are cracking from over work, the Red Sox veteran believes that Chicago has the smoothest playing outfit of any of the American league contcnders, and that while the Tigers may have the heavier punch, the Chicago outfit is easily the more finished team.
 ''The White Sox have brains in plenty, sufficient speed and punch furnished by Weaver, Jackson, Eddie Collins. Felsch and Schalk that will prove strong enough to carry them through.
 'I don't consider New York in the race any more. The St. Louis Browns are a good first division finisher to my mind, but that lets this aggregation
 out.
 Cleveland may be dangerous to the very end, but after all. if will be the White Sox and the Tigers that will really fight it cat, and in a drive to the windup I believe that the brains and the smoother finish of the Chl- cagoans will let them carry away the