Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1919 — CATCHER RAY SCHALK IS GIVEN LOT OF CREDIT FOR EXCELLENT SHOWING OF SOX [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CATCHER RAY SCHALK IS GIVEN LOT OF CREDIT FOR EXCELLENT SHOWING OF SOX

Chicago baseball commentators are giving a lot of the credit for the present fine showing of the White Sox to Ray Schalk. Naturally, being used to a high-class brand of backstopping from Ray, one doesn’t hear so much about him as when he was breaking in as a new sensation, but George Robbins, in Chicago News, declares he is catching at the “top of his career,” and results seem to indicate it. • The White Sox pitchers are going grandly, and every one knows the secret of a pitcher’s success lies in good handling from the receiving end. Schalk Is catching practically every game his team plays, hitting well over .300 and seems to have lost none of his speed and dash.