The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1920-03-20
UNDER The CUEE.

DEATH, and must have faucet in
the heel of their boots.
The "wise BIRDS of State Street
are coming home from Hot Springs.
The National game, african Col"
as she is played there is singer.
Ask Mr.. Horne, HE KNOWS.
Startling as it may seem, someone
has hurled monkey wrench into the
perfectly adjusted White Sox Ma
chine, completely cluttering the
works. The White Sox, the last ball
club to leave for the training camp
have more "hold-outs' or stay
outs" as you like it, than all of the
ball clubs in the big show. Buck
Weaver, Chick Gandel Charlie Ris-
berg, Fred. McMullin, Winoyes, Ted
Jordan, who is slated to take Gandels'
place should Gandel stay out, Gen.
Joseph f. Jackson, hitter extraodi-
nary. Any two of these players vii
weaken the ball club Three of them
would be a real "wrecking crew. in
the wrong place. Eddie Collins has
been given permission to come to the
camp later. You know that Lincoln
said that you can fool some of the
people -, oh, you know the rest.
We are acting more like them
every day. Rube Foster our pet
magnate, amt doing so well. Francis.
our peerless third sackcr, Whitworth,
the best colored pitcher pitching
baseball to-day, a man who is cool,
calm. and deliberate under all con-
ditions. The Grape Vine Telegraph
says in its weekly report that Charles
ton and Barber will not be amongst
those present when the men gather
here to train. Some one has dropped
a cold chisel in the perfectly oiled
machine of Mr. Foster. Now the
gears are all stripped n everything
Well, this won't hurt the pastime
any. Fosters Ball Club has always
faster and better-handled ball club
than the teams that he has met,
with the exception of one or two
ball clubs that we could mention.
The public goes to the ball park,
knowing that RUDE can win in any
inning nc may choose. The public
loves "A contest where the clubs are
80 evenly matched that the advant-
age, if any, is the handling of the
plays and players, where the brains
of the managers are given a chance
to work out the finer points of base
ball. When the team swings into the
eight inning of the ball game, when
u man has not reached third, then
the redblooded fan gets Interested;
blood surges thru your veins; you
yell advice to the players. to the
manager; you scare the handsome
by discussing point in play with
her, tshc thinks you're fresh) when
YOU are ready TO lick the man in the
box in front of you because he has
an opinion of his own; you fall out
with your lifelong friend; you de-
eide To knock his block off as soon
~ your favoritc pitcher gets out of
The hole he's in. The teams swing
into the ninth inning. The score is
nothing to nothing. The home team
goes to the bat. The visiting pitcher
s nervous, he is overanxious to win.
The first man at bat is hit by a
pitched ball. There's one ON. The
next hitter hits long fly to center.
The fielder races over, gets set for
the catch, looscs the ball in the sun,
and il drops at his feet. Ten thou
sands maniacs rise 30 their feet, blood
turging, veins standing out on their
foreheads like whip words-every
person in the ball park is running
with the base runner as he runs step
for step, breathing hard as the run
ncr slides into third just as the ball
is received. 1t is close decision.
The runner is declared safe. A rush
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A heated argument. The umpire
waves the managers aside and you
are returned to earth by the fan be-
hind you asking in a kidding man
ncr, if you don't want his chair to
stand on. You sit down ashamed of
Yourself. You remember you have
been standing since the ball was hit.
And the game proceeds. The visiting
,'chcr '"irds no and pitches. It's
q ball. A.ahei az attemp' to stcodv
himself. He throws second ball.
You say to the brown, Hes Wild
She whispers to her girl friend, The
pitcher is not the only wild thing
in the ball lot
His team mates beg, advise, curse
him. The pitcher determines not to
walk the hitter The home team man.
aper calls he batter out Of the box
has a hurried whispered converse
ton. The pitcher winds up, takes
look at the runner on third. TO-