Evening star., 1933-03-21
0NLYFVE IN SQUAD. ;
.UNTR|ED IN BIG TIME
0utfield Totally Devoid Of ;
Rookies-HaIf of Men in
Camp Are Pitchers.
y q Stan Correspondent Of The Star.

NASADENA, Calf, March al
r The Chicago White Sox ap-
i parently have secured the ,
minor leagues and come up
with the verdict that there are
few available youngsters there
who might help them. At least
they went into camp this Spring
with the slimmest assortment of
untried youth they've had in per-
haps the last dozen years, or even
since the collapse that followed
the black scourge of 1919.
OF the 80 athletes on the SPRING
feeding list, there are only five who
haven't tossed base ball around In q
major league game at some time or
other. And that's quite record for
any team, and especially the Sox, who
have grabbed them fast and often in
the last several years in hope of find
ing somebody who might be of use.
The idea may be that the Sox man
agement has given up hope Of building
winning team out Of untried youth.
Connie Mack tried 1t for eight or nine
years and couldn't make it go. So
Owner Comiskey may have reached the
same conclusion.
A NYWAY, the main reliance this
"A season is going to be placed on men
who have been through big league
hre. That was the principal reason he
stepped out last Fall and laid q large
COB OF money on the line for Al SIM
mons, Jimmy Dykes and Mule Haas
Of the Athletics. If they can't help
yarlk the Sox out Of the doldrums there
isn't much use trying further.
OF the youngsters in camp at Pasa-
dena, the majority are pitchers. One Is
Carl Boone, free agent who halls
from Ohio and was brought along on
the Recommendation that he has some
good pitching stuff in him. Another Is
Clarence Fieber, q gangling 19-year-old
southpaw. who was picked up from a
college campus in San Francisco last
year, brought up for a brief trial and Z
sent out to Oakland for some schooling.
The other recruit throwers are Fabian
Kowalik, who also had brief trial last
Fall; John Wilson from Buffalo and
George Murray, who was bought from
Dallas. All three throw right handed.
Murray has the best record of any Of
the recruits. having blown himself to
% victories and 13 defeats in the Texas
League last season, which is quite bit
OF pitching in any league.
THERE are exactly IS hurlers In the
L Sox camp, and all the others be-
sides those mentioned have had
4 IN 4 @f
The 10 belong to old Red Faber, who.
Like the noted brook, goes on and on.
Besides the veteran Red, there are
Ted Lyons, Sam Jones, Milt CASTOR, Vic
Frasier. Joe HcTng, Paul Gregory, Chad
Kimsey, Ed Walsh, jr., and Ed Durham.
Even If the five youngsters don't show
enough for retention, Manager Fonseca
should not find much pitching worry
with layout Of veterans like that.
Gregory really comes under the head
ing OF q youngster. and apparently an
exceedingly talented one at that. He
Is tall, slim Highlander who won
5 games and lost with the Sox last
season, despite illness that handicapped
variety Of fooling stuff for a young
finger and Fonseca hopes to develop
him into star.
There is only one new young face In
the infield and there's only a slim hope
that this one will be around very long.
It belongs to Joe Chamberlin, a 6-foot
3-inch shortstop who was with Waterloo
last season. The other infielders are
F'onseca, Jack Hayes, Hal Rhyme, Jimmy
Dykes and Luke Appling, and all Of
them are likely to be retained.
THE Sox haven't a single youngster
1 trying to win q Job in the out.
field. which Is another unusual
situation for a big league team. In
fact, they have only five outfielders, all
Of whom probably will have to be kept
from necessity. They are Simmons.
Haas, Elias Funk, Red Kress and Evar
Swanson. Simmons. Haas and Funk
probably will have first call as regulars.
Swanson is the youngest of the lot, but
he was up with the Sox part of last
season and once was with the Reds.
He's q speed marvel ON the bases and
afleld
Billy Sullivan rates as a youngster,
but he also was with the Sox most of
last year. He's going to try to follow
IN the foot steps of his illustrious dad
and try to become q catcher. but the
opinion seems to be he'll wind up at
first base. There's q kid catcher in
camp named Fred Bergmann. who
made quite record as a high school
backstop In Chicago a few years ago,
but he's hardly expected to be ripe yet
for the major league racket.