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it may be said that the Sox are in perfect condition. The team is intact as it will start the season. The pitchers are right up to the last notch of twirling form. Red Fa ber, Lefty Williams and Jim Scott have each gone a full nine innings against a good ball club and each has exhibited excellent form. Wil liams yesterday held Houston to three hits and the Sox won, 4 to 1. April 11 the South Siders should be ready for the best start they have ever made. They will be right phys ically and can gradually work into full swing for. a drive through the middle months of the campaign. ' In former seasons the Sox tried the same stunt the Cubs ha,ve at tempted this season and found it fa tal They profited by the lesson and the results were there for every one to see. But evidently the North Sid ers haven't read the signs properly. John McCraw has signed a new contract to manage the Giants for five years, disposing of the probabil ity that he would direct the White Sox in 1918. His salary and the stock allotted him will give him an income fom the club in the neighborhood of $50,000. Miscellaneous Scores Brooklyn 11, Red Sox 2. Washington 5, Cincinnati 1. West Sides 1, Union Giants 0. Basketball Scores McHale 24, Perez 8. ' Aquinas 26, Neri 10. De Soto 36, Barry 21. " " , Soccer Scores Joliet" 6, McDuffs 1. Harvey 2, Pullman 1. Corinthians 3, Pullman Pros.s 3. Swed.-Amer. 5, Bricklayers 1. Cal. Park 8, Chi. Hungarians 0. Atlas 6, Union 2. St. George 2, Chi. Jewish Club 0. Lake Forest 6, Columbia 0. 1 Int Harvesters 2, Fram 2. A. Rodee of Milwaukee knocked 697 pins to take second place in the singles of the A. B. C. bowling tour nament at .Grand Rapids and took ; third place in the all-events with 1,934. St. Dominies scored its second straight win in the finals of the Chi cago Catholic Indoor league, defeat ing Nativity, 6 to 3. M. G. Ketchum and Hal Gifford won the all-comers' indoor tennis doubles championship at the munici pal pier by defeating Kinsel and Hol brook, 4-6, 6-4, 6-1, 6-3. Freddie Anderson of Portland, Ore., brother of the famous "Bud" Ander- ' son, who set the fistic world afire some years ago, has started out to win the lightweight championship for the Anderson family. - "Bud" Anderson traveled far in the pugilistic world. He beat all comers until he ran up against Leach