Evening star., 1925-01-04


Collins comes into power, too, just
as his employer. Charley Comiskey.
the Old Roman of base ball, the fight
er who thrashed all kinds of leagues
in his time, finds his star In the as
tendency and finds it possible to die
tate to his league what should be
done, which is a pleasure he had not
enjoyed since some of the players of
his team threw him down in the
world series of 1919.
Evers Is Not Pleased.
With Comiskey to be reckoned
upon, Collins will feel that he has a
big moral force behind him. and very
likely the playing of the Sox will
pick up and the team sw'fll get away
from it's condition of monotone to
one Of aggressiveness and alertness.
As Collins comes in Johnny Evers
goes out. and the veteran National
League player and manager, who has
been in both organizations, is in re-
tirement at Troy, N Y. saying little,
but none too pleased with the deter
mination OF the Chicago club to make
change, as Evers had come to the
conclusion that he was to be carried
on in 1925. He went to Europe with
the SoX and returned with the Sox,
without any definite promise, but he
thought he would not have been ask
ed to go overseas II there had been
any intent to let him go.
Collins has not had managerial ex-
perience. but he has had plenty of
time to look things over. and he
knows about what he will have TO face
In the American League. The style OF
game played by Huggins and Fohl in
the East is self-evident, and so, too.
is that played by Mack The game
played by Harris in 1924 was not
self-eYident, because none OF the
other American League managers
knew what he was likely to play, and
he fooled them.
Sisler may have more success than
he did last year, but he does not seem
10 be on the highway to 1t as the
New Year is ready to look over the
base ball landscape, and Ty Cobb still
is walking the cotton fields of Georgia
looking for a good luck omen and a
Second baseman. Speaker has a team
at cleveland that Will thump the ball
as his team thumped 1t in 1924, but
he can't win a championship in the
American League unless he can pro-
duce more than batters
Most things considered, this should
make the start of Collins easier than
it would be otherwise. He has nothing
10 expect that is different from that
which he has seen in the past and
II Is his part to go on and do the
best that he can with that which
Chicago already has on its pay roll
and what he may be able to pick up.
The ''pickings" look rather scant for
the moment, because there is
nothing available one way or the
other for a team like that of Chi
cago, which needs only a little to
put 1t on its feet, but which is not
likely to amount to much unless it
can find that little.
No Other Changes Due.
There are no managerial changes
IN sight in the photograph gallery
elsewhere. All the American League
managers stay as they were, except
in Chicago, and in the National there
will be the same array of faces there
has been unless Hickey is so tired
from giving lectures that he decides
TO take it easy next Summer.
The four Eastern clubs in the Ma
tional League, oddly enough, will be
handled by four members and former
members OF the Giants. McGraw is
at the head OF them in New York,
and his first aid, Robinson. runs
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Fletcher, runs the Phillies, and an
other shortstop, Bancroft, runs the
BostonS.
Harris is letting Griffith get to-
gether a pitching staff that will try
TO balk the remainder of the Ameri
can League, and the Yanks are ma
ueuvering with Huggins is the pilot
10 get the combination that he wants
10 light into the West Hug again is
figuring that if the Yanks are to win
another pennant it will have to be
the West that will have to take its
fair share of humping as well as
the champions and the Athletics, who,
with ono left-hander, Groves from
Baltimore, may make 1925 the year
which Connie Mack so long has
sought and mourned because he found