Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-06
BUBBLE BREAKS AND
MACK TAKES ACTION
Connie Promises Changes
at Shibe Park Many
Ne,U Recruits to Get a
Tryout From No,U on
NO Word FROM DUCAN
BY EDWIN j. POLLOCK

4 NON II Math mas Stoppeu piasihs
~ forlorn hope. A quarter hundred
victories in eighty nine starts have con-
vinced him that his ball club wont do.
Fans were sure of this fact some time
ago and critics were further impressed
with it shortly after the campaigning
began. but not Connie. For weeks he
has held on to the hope that his athletes
would show him the stuff he believed
them to possess. Now he knows they
don't possess it.
The dream bubble has broken and the
dream man has turned into man OF
action. Connie Mack is aggressive
His first step will be tryout OF hocK
of recruits between now and the time
the season ends. The tall traveller must
have seen lot of things on his last Vlsit
to the inland points.
Every now and then the S wouiu
flare up and look like regular pail clup.
Then they would lapse again in that
state that has placed them under lock
and key in the cellar. Mack believed ne
really had a regular club at the begin
ming of the season and these occasional
outbursts famed the flame in his dream
nine a little brighter when it was glow
ing almost to ashes. But the smoke IS
over, the bubble is busted. Connie sees
the light.
CONNIE would have nothing to say
~ about the trip that kept him out OF
our town for almost week. lie re-
fused to give any names of players ne
saw md signed, but admitted that he
had a number in tow. Mack IS truly
the sphinx of the Shibe stadium.
''There's nothing to be said about
the trin " said Mack. "But l will say
that there will be a lot of new faces
at Shibc Park. From now on we are
going to try out number OF ball
players. 1t will not be matter OF
waiting until the little league seasons
are over. We will start to give inc
new talent the once-ovcr right away.
The lean leader added that all his
pitchers were ready for duty, which
means that Win Noyes may swing into
action any one of these fair days. Scott
Perry, who has been ailing with sore
throat has been scratched from the
hospital list and is ready to start
against the White Sox in the double
header today.
1t was believed that Mack would have
further word from Joe Dugan by this
time, but he said that he had not heard
anything from the New Haven short
stop. Apparently Joseph intends to
take a long rest at his home.
TID GLEASON is always tickled to
N come to our city. Not only is 1t
his native town, but he always receives
courteous treatment at Shibe Park. The
Kid is longing for such reception
right now. The White Sox need it.
The Chicago clubbers have not been
going very we'll Of late and Gleason ex :
meets to get them on the winning road
here. There's many club started in
the right direction by our AS. The
Sox have dropped seven of their last
twelve contests, which is no way for q
ball club with pennant aspirations to
act.
The Gleason gang lost its last home
game before starting on the road and
4 then three out Of four were taken away
by the Browns. The Yanks were tum-
bled in three of their four games with
the Sox, but Gleason struck a snag in
Boston, where two out of three games
were snatched by Babe Ruth and his
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