South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-31
Gleason Fails to
n1brOUe Club in
Any Other Place
Several Good Rookie Hurlers
on Roster Third Base
Still In Doubt.

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Improved pitching is the only hope
OF the White Sox in the 1922 Amer
Jean Leauge race. Opt>ide the box
no improvements have been made
and the betterment of the pitching
is problem that viii be solved only
after the championship season is
well under way.
Just now Charles Robertson seems
the best bet of the spring work. lie
is right handler who has been
with the club in 1918 and was sent
to Minneapolis several times only
10 be brought back in the autumn
and shipped out in the spring.
Robertson performed effectively
agGiust the Giants this spring. He
has a lot of STUFF and knows how
to work.
Ion Jose Acosta, sent to the SoX
via the waiver route from the Ath
ledcs, looms good in comparison
with the other Sox Fingers. Acosta
is the Cuban who was with Wash
inston for several seasons. Griffith
has a bug for bis men and worked
the Cuban only occasionally. The
little man seems to have arrived
The third best pitching prospect
is Levcrette. last year with Fort
Smith, Ark. He is "A powerful
youth. a natural bail player. He is
right handler.
Russell Shows stun
John Russell. q powerful left
handler. is considered a regular. He
was with the Sox last season, but
did not take his work seriously.
Russell kept in shape last winter
and worked i'm the California Winter
League. lie is a finished workman
and no doubt will work every fourth
day providing some weakness not
now apparent does not develop.
Shovel Hodge. with his appendix
removed. is an improved hurler He
nav make a erade this season. Ur-
ban Faber is himself after an opera
ton. Dick Kerr is a hOldout, while
wilkinson and McWeeny do not APP
pear to have improved any.
No strength has been added 70 the
mGeld or the outfield. The SOX
management did not seem TO crave
rookie nelders. I'm fact. young ball
players are scarce and the SoN were
unable to make trades or purchases
lin their own league
Last season Urban Faber won %
games with this same club behind
him and ne did not toll the last six
weeks Of the season.
Thi has been pointed out as a
basi, of supposinS that the SoN can
win with good pitching The club
has also outhit the Giants by con-
siderable margin i'm the first five eX-
hiritiou games this spring.
Third Base i'm Doubt
Earl Sheely Will be at first base,
Eddie Collins at second and Ernie
Johnson at short.
Third base is fin doubt. Eddie
Muug3n who played it last year
was holdout and then became sick.
The absence of Mulligan gave
Harvey Mcclellan his chance. He
has always been rated a faShy field
e~. but a weak hitter. I'm the series
with the New York Giants he has
been a regular Babe Ruth. He is
TO start az third.
The outdoId viii no the same as
last yoar-Falk. MOstil, Strunk and
Hooper.
The efficiency of the SoN depends
entirely upon how Russell Hodge
AcoSta and Robertson can pitch
when the league race tiEhtens mp.
Faber is a known quantity. and so
Is Kerr-if ne signs. The SOx may
-.-r
but a careful survey fails 10 hold out
any hopes for first division unless
baseball miracle occurs. There have
been more startling upsets. but they
are rare