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BASEBALL SPORTS OF ALL SORTS BOXING ROWLAND DIVIDES SOX FIRST TEAM MAY STAND By Mark Shields " Tomorrow the White Sox go into combat with alien clubs, .battling teams of the Texas league. Here is the way Manager Rowland has divid ed his forces: Team No. 1 for Ft Worth Eldred, right field; Risberg, shortstop; Col lins, second base; Jackson, left field; Felsch, center field; Gandil, first base; Weaver, third base; Schalk, Mayer and Jenkins, catchers; Rus sell, Scott, Wolfgang, Lyons and Schellenbach, pitchers. Team No. 2 for. Dallas Liebold, center field; McMullin, third base; Haas or J. Collins, left field; Four nier, right field; Hartford, shortstop; Hasbrook, first base; Terry, second base; Gray and Lynn, catchers; Fa ber, Benz, Norman and Ainsworth, "pitchers. Keep an eye on -that first team. Cut out that line-up and the probabili ties are you won't have to buy a score card for the opening game. Every indication is that the team will be so constructed at the start of the flag hunt. Two new names, Eldred and Ris berg, appear, and these youngsters have won their places in the face of the keenest kind of competition. The obstacles Eldred has overcome have been especially large, as Eddie Mur phy and Nema Liebold fought him to a, finish for the right field position. The fact that Eldred is picked with the first team for the exhibition games doesn't make him a sure starter, but he will have to fail much in his work between now and April 11 in order to- be forced on the bench. Murphy and Liebold will undoubt edly be retained, giving the team five -itfielders of more than ordinary .lity. Then Fournier and John Collins must be considered in the pinch-hitting class. It would not' be surprising to see one of these fel lows depart for some other club. Risberg has the call for shortstop, but Terryj and McMullin will be' car ried along through the season. Ris berg is placed second in the batting order, despite an inability to bunt. From now until the opening of the season he will be given diligent drill in that art of advancing the batter. For the past two years the South Siders have been weak in bunting, not more than two men in either sea son having any knack at the suicidal game. Kid GJeason is to handle the sec ond team and Rowlands will pilot the firsts. And that means the fellows with the second team will have no easy time. Gleason is a driver, but he is also fair to his players. He has some good pitchers with his squad, and when they are ready they will be graduated to the first aggregation.- The Kid will also give ' some attention to Hartford, who is a good infield prospect. Pickles Dillhoefer, the young Cub catcher, continues to belt the ball unmercifully against Pacific Coast league pitching.. And pitchers out on the coqst at the present time are no soft assignment for any batter. The fellow who can connect with their deliveries competently at the present time should be fairly suc cessful against the grapeviners in the big show. The coast season opens April 5 and the pitchers are in good condition. They are curving the ball at the present time and throwing'all the shoots that will be encountered in the National league. In a majority of'cases teams on the coast possess two or three pitchers who have seen successful service. in the major leagues. They are past the stage when they would be effec tive in this climate, but out in Cali fornia where they never strike- very