Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-12-24 | Page 22 | Joe Tinker Says He'll Win Pennant

JOE TIER 3i!S HE'LL W!P! PEfiiT Former Cub Thinks Columbus Colum-bus Will Carry Off the Championship. Br International News HerAlce. CHK'A'iO, LM-r, a::. .Too Tinker, former Cub manager, now p.-i rt owner of the Columbus Co-lumbus Aineri'-iin asocial Ion flub, today told how he intrreMed Tom Wilaon. millionaire mil-lionaire ChU-HUn pin Iter. Tinker returned today from f.jluinhus with the 1 r;i n'-h ise. Sixty thousand dollars was i aM for the club. Inrulentallv, Joe is golnif to manai. tli club ninl pi.iy third base. I fort Is Joe's story: " know I was out so fur as Hie funs were roncerned, urn! I K--i ruf-'l that the Columbus club wa.s open, lint I needed a man tn a hi me in niifiiir'.iifr the deal. Wlille corning clown on the. car one morn-luff morn-luff I read somethintf about Torn Wilson. It hud a catch and 1 immediately said if I cou Id interest a inan like iliat our sw- ess would be asaun-d. I trot a banker to in trod nee me to Wilson. Ho listened to mv story. J-fe being in the .sporting goods huHiness a well as the peeking business, and a baseball man al heart, he accepted. Toko Cher, his representative and I jour-no jour-no ved to Columbus and the club is ours. And let me tell you, I'll make a pennant-winner pennant-winner of it.'' I