The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-09-08
GLEASON'S MEN
NEED MORE PEP
This Is Only Feature
Lacking To the
White Sox.
Kid Gleason has got a nice assert

Kid Gleason has got nice assert
ment OF foolers, all right.
Every day he shooLs a fresh one
at the opposing big berthas.
The hillock Is his chief strategic
point OF attack just now and he's
raking the Iielus with desultory
There's Eddie Cicotte, who had
to learn to speak his piece all over
again; Urban Faber. the man
VINO came back and the two lett
les" Claudius Williams and Midget
Dicky Kerr, who have never been
Tiey joked the Kid into quiet
submission early last spring. they
said a lot OF mean things about
his ball club, which flivved before
the Red assault. His 1920 chance
tor a seat on the fall circus bench
wasn't worth the postage, they
opined.
Sherlock Holmes investigation
dopes him as making an eyelash
finish as a sure second and a pos
sible first again.
rhe time draweth nigh for the
showdown.
Faber finally got started. He's
got all the cracked glass out OF his
wing and is flinging some nasty
pitching up to the plate again.
Yes. the Yankees will admit thai.
Urban made them eat humble pie
at Comiskey park during their last
un.triumphal tour of the west.
Old Man Ed CiCotte nearly fiz-
zled this year because the powers
that be said his sinner was
naughty habit and the batte"s
didn't like 1t. Consequently he
had to learn how to stagger along
on A, B, c stuff. But Eds got
sense. He spelled few words
wrong at the beginning, but now
he's back at the head or the class.
Williams and Kerr-there isn't
pair of left.hand servers like
them In the business.
If Cleveland had two such mid
gets she'd already have that $4,000
press box built and vanished for
the world series scribes to scratch
In this fall.
If thcy were on New York's pay
roll the colonies wouldn't be hav.
ing chllls and the heartburn.
Look these Pale Hose over care
fully, folks, and decide whether you
like them or not for the favoritas.
The only holes in the team are
first base and shortstop. Both Of
these positions could be improved
on.
But as for the rest OF them, the
calipers reveal that there is but
one Buck Weaver in the Johnson
apple patch. The only time Eddie
Collins isn't just about the cream
of all second sackers now perform
ing is during the six months when
the baseball is moth ball. A
jewelers. scales wont bulge either
way with Schalk OF Chicago and
O'Neill Of the Indians. They're both
18.carat rocks.
If you wanted to pick q choice
outfield Of the whole American
league you'd have to make 1t read
unit even Miller Higgins him
self admits that the White Sox out
field combination Is a wee bit bet.
ter than his slap.stickers.
With a four.man pitching star
that is joking the other clubs out
OF ball games regularly, the Kid
| isn't worried shilling's worth.
Compared to the Indians two.man
stan the Gleasonites draw down
the shade. The SoX are smarter
and faster than the big.bertha Yam.
KEGS which New York Is crazy
sox Weakness.
But here's the weakness Of the
Pale Hose athletes. They aren't
pennant.hungry. Chicago's had
seyeral Of them In her day, The
sox can't get excited about the
present race. They aren't swapping sEEt