Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1917 — ROWLAND HAS COMPACT CLUB [ARTICLE]

ROWLAND HAS COMPACT CLUB

Manager of White Sox Gives His Reasons for Success of Team—Men Are Not Hitting.

Clarence Rowland, manager of the White Sox, says his team is not hitting, but that good pitching, tidy fielding and “getting the breaks” are the reasons for his success. “We have a compact club," explained Rowland the? other day, but that is no enlightenment to the host of laymen who go to ball games, for he didn’t explain what a “compact” club is. ■ •