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Show TINKER PUIS STOP TO UMPIRE BAITING Cubs Give Up Their Old Habit; No Dissension in Club. By Tribune .Special Sport Service. NEW YORK, .July 8. Joe Tinker has completed experimenting with his Cub machiho nnd now has it aimed iu the general vicinity of the 191(3 National league pennant. The Cutis sized up as one of the best outfits that has visited Gotham this Beason. Tinker brought them hero just at a time when ho had finishod tinkering tinker-ing with it and had hit upon what lie thinks is the winning combination. The Cubs have a great outfield, a fast infield, in-field, their pitchers aro breezing along quite merrily, and, best of all, the team is lamming the ball to all portions of the playing area and frequently out of it. Sousft's band has nothing on the Cubs when it comes to harmony. The whole crew is working together with a ' 'door-die' ' spirit; they aro fighting every inch of the way, but they are fighting cleanly; they aren't baiting umpires. Tinker's genius as a leader is shown host by the way he has handled Heinie Zimmerman, tho one-timo recalcitrant third .baseman. In other days Heinie was an umpire's nightmare; an unmanageable unman-ageable player, in the opinion of his managers. But under Tinker's leadership leader-ship ho has developed into one of the best behaved and hardest working men in the game. When the Chicago Feds and the Cubs were merged. Tinker promised the Chicago Chi-cago fans that Heinie Zimmerman would be a different person this year; that Hoinie would play the game every dav day with all the skill that is his, and that Heinie would leave the umpires um-pires alone. "If handled right, Hoinie is one of the easiest going players in the game," said Tinker, ''Heinie understands me and .1 understand him. We're going to get nlong nicely. ' ' And they have. Tho way Heinie has acted this year has been one of .the big surprises of tho season. Only once sinco tho barrier arose in April has he been exminged from the battle-ground. That was in tho ninth inning of a game and the offense was so slight that no suspension was meted out. No Debating With Ump. "I've asked my boys to let me do the debating with umpires, ' ' said Tinker. "I want them to stay in the game. Every time they have words with an umpire they risk being shooed off j to the clubhouse. If some of the boys are nut out of tho game it means that tho tans, in a way, are being cheated, because they have paid to see all mv men play; not to see them quarrel with umpires or sit on the bench. , .1 am being paid to manage the : team and fight for its rights with the umpires. The fans don 't pay to see mo play, and so if I am put out of the lot the patrons aren't being defrauded of any part of tho anticipated entertainment. enter-tainment. So I am doing the arguing and the boys are doing the playing." Each member of the Cubs was considerably con-siderably exercised while in New York because a sport writer printed a story to the effect that the Cubs were torn by internal dissension. "It's a malicious falsehood, and the man who wrote it knows it," said Tinker, Tin-ker, with considerable vehemence. ' ' That goes double. ' ' chipped in Heinie. "Any report that I am at loggerheads with Joe, or ever have been since he managed our club, is a lie. In all my baseball career I never worked for a manager who has been as fair To his men ns Joe, or who has creared such a feeling of good fellowship. ; ' Every other member of the Cubs echoed Heinie 's sentiments. "The whole trouble in Xew Y'ork is that the sport writers and fans never have recovered from their hatred of the Cubs of other da vs. said Tinker. "Rack in the era' from 19(M to 1912, when the Giants and Cubs were bitter enemies, none of the Xew Yorkers could , sav harsh enough things concerning our ' club. The writers always wore spread - ing reports about dissensions. They thought that such means might really " cause us to fight among ourselves. And I they are aiming such cowardly attacks . at the Cubs of today, just because in Gotham they still hate anything that wears a Chicago National league uniform. uni-form. ' ' " Full of Confidence. Tinker and ins men are chuck full of confidence now, but Josephus isn't uttering ut-tering any pennant remarks. He fears it might jinx tho chances of the Cubs. When asked what he thinks of its prospects pros-pects his only answer is: "We ought to he there, or thereabouts, there-abouts, when the dag drops in October. Octo-ber. ' ' The Cubs, during the tirt two months of the tight, dropped at least a half dozen games because the breaks went against them. They lost a few more because Tinker had to do considerable experimenting around second and short. He first tried out the youthful MuUigan. but the kid hobbled. Then he shoved in Mike Ooolan and Mike promptly convinced con-vinced the folks that he was about through as a regular. Dooian has gone and Mulligan is back. The kid at last is p laving the game that was predicted for him. Without With-out the menace of being relegated to the bench and being replaced bv Doolan, he has lost his nervousness and is performing per-forming in a spectacular wnv. Tinker gave Yerkes a fair chance at second, but Steve's work this season was far under the great showing he made last year, lie skidded all of a sudden. Tinker kept him at second station for a long time, figuring he might come back. But he didn't. And so McCarthy McCar-thy went in and has plugged up the gap admirably. ' ' Second and short were :n v chief worries when the season bean. ' ' said Tinker. "'But thev worrv no longer. 1 'in satisfied with the makeup of the team at the present time. I think the present combination is the best possible. possi-ble. " - |