New Britain herald., 1930-03-29
JEFFRlES
By WILLIAM BRAUCHER
(NEA Service Sports Editor)

(NEA ScrNlCc sports EqltOf)
 San Antonio, Texas, March D. Kid Gleason used to have a ball team in Chicago that was hard 10 beat. But in, the years that have passed since Gandil and Risbcrg and Fclsch and Jackson and the others con- spircd to deceive. the Chicago White SoN have fallen into decay.
 Today, l watched q team here in the rebuilding. A new team. full of new fire and life. The Chicago White SoX were battling the Giants in spring training camp, but for all the ardor of their playing, this might have been the world series.
 "The spirit" Donie Bush told me, lis the best that l ever saw on any ball club.
 This team finished next 10 las | last year. They battcd seventh and | ficldcd fourth. But we have made some very important changes. We | have added power and pitching. Givc us the same defense we had last year, or q little better and we're on the way up
 Smack Elm SmCad in Left Bush, to begin with. has added an important sluggcr, Il natural hit ter, in Smcad Jollcy, bought from the coast league. Jollcy will start in left, with Reynolds in center and Watwood in right. Jollcy batted .3S7 last year; Reynolds hit .5l7 and | Watwood .3o2. Besides, there is Jim | Moore, a young man from Dallas who pounded Texas league pitching | for an aycrag~ of .364 last season dcncc and .366 for Portland las year, is another outfeld candidate Alex Metzlcr. whose hitting fell of last year, is the holdovcr.
 In the infeld, at first base, wher' we should properly begin just to b.
 formal, is C. Arthur Shires of whom you may have heard something be
 fore now. Arthur bats in tn
 American league better than he di
 in the caulifower league, as hi
 mark of .512 for last year reveals
 John Clancy is the undcrstudy.
 Cisscll Improved at Second
 Bush has decided to start Cisse
 at second, believing his playing wi
 be improved there. The cxpensiv
 young man from Portland shove
 improvement last year over his frs
 year, and looks even better yet thi
 season.
 A fight is on for the shortstop jol Hunnefield may start. But Bush
 fond of Ernie Smith, the boy fror
 Birmingham, who smacked Southcr
 league pitching for a mark of 80
 Irving Jeffries, Dallas, will be til regular shortstop of the White So. Hc played at both third and shor last year, had good fielding mari
 and batted .305.
 At third is another cXpcnsil , young man. Willie Kamm. who co $100,O00 seven years ago. There no indication that Willie will be di } placed this year. He hasn't carne that $1O0.0 900 worth just yet ar Donic wants to give him every ol
 portunity to do so. Kamm has ha , one 300 year since coming 10 Il majors, however, and you never @ $ tell when ne is likely to surpri . you with another one.
 All in All, Sox May Surprise t1 l balanced infield, with enough hittil
 power. together with what the ou field ought 10 hit, 10 lift the SoN least two notches in the Amcric; ' league race. That is, providing t' U club gets the pitching-and it loo ! as though it should.
 , The pitching of Fabcr. Thom;
 Lyons, Young Ed Walsh and II;
 Mckain is finding competition amo :. as nice q set of young pitchers
 seen in any of the big league cam L. A big long drink-of-watcr of G southpaw, Cecil Pat Caraway, loo n promising. Another who seems su ' 10 stick is Vic Frasier from Dallas
 right handler who injured his hip [ practice the other day, but is sho s ing signs of recovery.
 ,t Ted I}lankcnship gives eve n promise of coming to life. No ( e cision has been made as yet {. Grady Adkins, who had dis; ,- trous year. or Rubber Arm Conn l. lv. Robert Garland, from Jopl
 had a good record last year, and m
 be given q taste of big loagur thu r der. Frank Henry. formerly of
 Giants, and Robert Wicland, W